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Moneyball: 9/10
Now, I normally can't stand movies about sports. Doesn't matter if it's about football, baseball, MMA, dancing, etc. They all annoy the fuck out of me, mainly because they all follow a pretty damn formulaic plot line and have a hugely predictable ending regardless of if it's based on a true story or not.
Moneyball, while still managing to follow the basic formula for a sports movie, surprisingly managed to avoid most of the pitfalls that I can't stand. Sure, it's about a baseball team that's doing shitty and one man's attempt to make them a better team. However, the fact that the movie focused almost exclusively around Brad Pitt's and Jonah Hill's characters more than made up for anything else. I love Aaron Sorkin's writing style and the fact that he could make an Oscar worthy film based almost only two people talking is fantastic.
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