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The Spectacle Blog
My roomie Christopher and I saw Trouble With The Curve starring Clint Eastwood earlier this evening.
When I heard that Eastwood would be in another acting role, I was excited. I thought Gran Torino was going to be it. So I welcomed another chance to see him on the silver screen. Clint should have quit while he was ahead.
Trouble With The Curve had a lot of trouble with the plot which was clunkier than a baseball glove that hasn’t been broken in. You could see everything coming as if it were a straight fastball. The plot barely had any twist much less a curve.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s nice to see John Goodman get work again and the baseball trivia sections were cool. Amy Adams reciting the starting rotation of the 1971 Baltimore Orioles was downright sexy.
But as far as baseball movies go, give me Bang The Drum Slowly, The Natural or Field of Dreams.
All things considered, it was fitting that the theater had a lot of empty chairs in it.
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JmsA| 9.25.12 @ 10:17PM
Thank you, Mr. Goldstein, you just saved me a couple of bucks. I'll have my twelve-year-old nephew, who had been asking to take him to see it, read your post, and we'll wait for the flick to come out on cable.
Cobalt| 9.25.12 @ 10:40PM
"I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad."
Clint Eastwood
Dsudlik| 9.26.12 @ 8:13AM
Aaron, love your blogs and columns. Saw Clint last night and loved the movie. No murders, explosions, crazy car chases or graphic sex. Call me old fashioned if you will but love a love story, especially one with baseball thrown in. Maybe some of the macho guys would rather see Girl With the Dragon Tatoo but I will take Trouble With the Curve. And yes there were not many curves in the story but neither were there many dead bodies.
Occam's Tool| 9.26.12 @ 4:25PM
Last night, I watched, "The Bermuda Triangle," a class Z flick that starred John Huston. Yes, the John Huston, who directed his daughter and father, decades apart, to classic Oscar wimnning performances. John Huston of "The Maltese Falcon" and "The African Queen." John Huston who gave a magnificent star turn in "Chinatown." John Huston, whose list of Oscar nominations ran into the double digits (15), and who won twice. John Huston, whose FIRST FILM DIRECTED was "The Maltese Falcon." What the hell Huston was in this primo POS I have no idea, except that it was a paycheck. Further, Huston was calling in his performance (not as bad as Brando called his in The Island of Dr. Moreau, as Huston was still on Planet Earth with the phone call, but pretty bad).
So, I think we can cut Clint a little slack. Of course, Clint WAS in "Revenge of the Creature," as a lab assistant. So, that's TWO dogs.
Mick Lee| 9.27.12 @ 10:07AM
Look. Any film that has Amy Adams has a lot going for it. In this one, Adams carries most of the weight to home base. What you all don’t mention is that Curve is funny. Is it that a story about the slow loss of eyesight for an aging man strikes a little too close to home?
Ol' Will| 9.27.12 @ 3:48PM
It wasn't a baseball movie, "expert". It was about a father-daughter relationship.
Predictable plot? Would you have had them remain estranged? Or should it have ended in a double suicide? Those would have been satisfying endings, eh? I'll bet you liked "There Will be Blood".
Sometimes it's not the destination but the journey that's enjoyable and this was an enjoyable journey indeed.
Occasionally, you reviewers should simply relax and enjoy.