Fever Pitch was good. The last movie I saw what’s his name in, I didn’t really like it. (Taxi). He just seemed to WHINE through out the whole movie, and it got annoying. This movie was a bit different - the whining helped bring the character to life. Plus, I’m from Massachusetts, so I can say whatever the fuck I want.
It was inspiring (for Sox fans AND single people) it was basically the theatrical release of the 2004 Sox season. Of course, like “Titanic”, they took a real event and put a love story behind it. It was cool seeing Boston all over the place in a movie. Kind of made me feel good, like when I saw the movie MIRACLE about the Hockey team. Anyway, DON’T ask me if I cried! I wasn’t! It was all the debris from the windy sand all flying around my face from the walk in Wakefield. Leave me alone, cut it out! Ill spit at you so watch out!
This movie starts Just after Christmas 2003 I think, because of all the shitty snow. Fallon is pretty normal at this point. Being a school teacher, and plus the 2003 season hasn’t started yet. He has lifetime season tickets or something, which is braggable, and people try to buy them off him a few times, and once almost succeeds. LOSER! All his friends want to go to the games, even though historically the Sox always blow it in the end. It’s about something else. "FAMILY" Oh brother.
There is a conversation at Fenway that makes me crazy. Fallon meets his "family" there and there is a blonde girl with a wicked Boston accent (what did you expect) and it’s so annoying. It’s not just a Boston accent; for example - she pronounces the word "forty" as "fawty". God I fucking hate that. But, at this point it’s rather comical because it’s about US: MASSHOLES. Fuck me if you don’t care!
Every now and then there is a flash of the 2003-2004 season, which is cool. Makes you remember all the cool shit that happened. Also, the game with an 8 run comeback. Also the one when she woman runs onto the field. A lot of the Sox players have cameos in this, which add to the realism. Even Jim Rice and some others are there for the scene when Fallon was young. Damn his uncle was fat and annoying. But I guess if it wasn’t for him, bla bla... you get my point.
The other story here (which is the less interesting one) is the love triangle between “Winter Fallon and Summer Fallon" and Drew Barrymore. You can figure out the difference between summer and winter if you like, most of the rest of us know what the fuck I’m saying. At first things are fine, and she knows he’s a sox fan. But when the games start taking on a life of their own - and they really do, the relationship starts to shit itself. Drew seemed to make of the sacrifices in the relationship, since most guys are self centered assholes. But what are you going to do? Is the friggin Sox, and we all know what we came here to see: a gooey love story based on a real event that was NEVER supposed to happen. And the WAY it happened. Make your boobs and balls get all tingly - doesn’t it?
I like the part (and who wouldn’t) when drew gets slammed in the head with a ball. She was on her laptop. It was a Mac. I think that explains things right there, if you ask me. MAN, her head looked funny. Like the ball was embedded into her skull. AWESOME. You know what’s weird? At certain angles, he nose looks like its been scalloped by a shoe horn. Man it’s fugly. She goes to shitloads of games, and he only misses a few. This is his life, and his diet consists of peanuts and ball park franks. Oh, and beer. At one point he gets so depressed, he locks himself in his apartment and watches all the times the Sox came close but BLEW it all for some dumb play. He was smelling and looking like shit. And with the power of 3 boneheads, they break into his place, take his stash of VCR tapes, and toss him in the shower. This is funny: the Dr. friend starts shaving his ballsack. I spit out my diet~coke at that point for several reasons. But, you don’t need to know any of them! FUCKA!
It’s cool, when in Fenway, some of the other people start explaining the curse and all that shit. It’s interesting if you don’t know the story. In real life (not that this isn’t real) some other things occurred that weren’t mentioned in the movie. The last year the Sox won the series, the group of people who used to sing "Tessy" or whatever is called stopped singing it. Plus I think some other gay things happened. Well this year local band Dropkick Murphy’s, recorded it with some new feel to it, and it became one of the most popular songs that summer. Some say this attributed to the formula of the curse-breaker. Oops, my balls are starting to tingle again - sorry. You know that Lennon song where he sings "everyone’s a winner, when there's nothing left to lose". Well this doesn’t apply here - ok? (I’m not even sure of those are the lyrics, so whatever) If the Sox lose yet again to the Yankees like they did in the 2002 playoffs, Boston will never hear the end of it. Well Imp not going to paraphrase the fucking games for you. BUT we all new it was a full moon, and some witch probably shoved some toad eyes up an owl’s ass, or something. Whatever - the Yankees LOST in the worsed way possible, and the Sox won that series with the most insane comeback in the HISTORY OF EVERYTHING, which, really, was even more important than the World Series. The series is just a technicality! After inventing new assholes for the Yankees - it was just a matter of the Sox showing up. ANYFUCKING WAY... about the movie...
Of course, Fallon and Drew see hard times as to a result of the games, getting in the way and Drew trying to work for a promotion. Drews' friends all wishy-washy, and one of them is hot, but seems to have a TINY southern accent, that she can’t hide. Pissmeoff! Then she punches another in the face, and that’s funny, because girls fight weird. They apologize after! Anyway, it was funny. I don’t even know where the fuck I am at this point in the storytelling, but some pretty boy dealing with Drews’ work is at her place, and Fallon comes over (after she thought she was pregnant, before she went to Paris (a mistake in itself) ATTENTION, No One Go To Paris Anymore! She wasn’t pregnant, and the audience goes "aaaaaaaawe" because he bought little Red Sox stuff for the baby. Cute? GAG. You know they show that friggin' CITGO sign a lot in this movie - I think it’s a national Historical monument at this point. I know when I’m in Boston and I can’t remember where the fuck I am, I just head for the CITGO. If you are visiting here, point your shit in that direction and you will never get lost, OK?
Well, Fallon almost sells his tickets to some asshole. The same price Baby Ruth was sold for to the Yankees, and started the Curse and all that. Well, this is when Drew runs out into the field (remember that?) She grabs Daemons ass or something, and tears up the contract for the sale of the life time season tickets. I don’t care what it is or who you are. When you have lifetime season tickets to anything you don’t sell them! YA BIG PUSSY FACE! Get yourself together! *SLAP*. So she gets arrested, and of course, they win the game. There is a lot of other shit I didn’t cover, but this isn’t a damn novel here. Go see the movie and give a big middle finger to the Yanks for me.
OVERALL: 8
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