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I get it. But eliciting an emotional response is just one component of good filmmaking, and that piece of shit was sorely lacking in everything else. Crappy dishonest work elicits emotional responses also. It's easy to elicit an emotional response if you count emotions like anger, annoyance and indignation. Yeah, I felt peeved seeing the filmmaker ignore the real story and instead feed us a sappy Yankee organization infomercial dishonestly portraying a notoriously tyrannical, vindictive and irrational bully and his silver spoon son in such an overbearingly syrupy and sentimental manner. But I'm not seeing what that proves.

But I will give you that the interview with Hal was the best part. And you raise some good questions regarding the brother in law and why Hal, instead of Hank, ended up in that chair (questions the filmmaker never bothered to address). But that part was hardly enough to save that mess. Not sure what there was in that hour for anybody other than Yankee fans.

 

You can't talk comprehensively about Georgie-Porgie without acknowledging how often -- when he was faced with the toughest choices -- he took the low, dirtbaggy, steerage-class road.

Convicted. What a shock.

The post-passing whitewash should have embarassed many of the people
who happily sent their brains through the carwash.

Should have. But didn't.

 

Watching the Red Sox rally vs. the Yankees from '04. The reaction of Red Sox fans were more than I anticipated. It was absolutely a hoot to watch.

And I can't believe I forgot about the A-Rod slap at the ball.

 

Would have been a much, much better documentary without Simmons and his bar buddy's bullcrap.

Also wasn't too sure about the title "Four Nights in October" considering the sports-related documentary that had a similar name . . . .

 

That was excellent, except for the oratory simultaneous masturbating of Simmons and Clarke.

 

A-fucking-men.

 

Seriously?

Were you alive in 2004?

 

Denis Leary would've been fine by me. But those two? Not so much.

 

If Jimmy Fallon wasn't in it, I'm not watching it.

 

How can you take sides?

 

Agreed - that was shockingly entertaining. As a non-Sox/Yanks fan, I'd forgotten about some of the little details of that series. While Simmons (who shouldn't be on camera, and that's not a slam - dude just looks uncomfortable) and Clarke were annoying, that was worth watching. It wasn't the Two Escobars or the Fox doc, but it was fun, because for the most part, it let the great source material do the work and got out of the way.

 

I really enjoy the way the film was told.. primarily through player videos and fan videos and the like. it really captured the essence of the team, particularly Kevin Millar.

It also took me back to a point in time where the Red Sox fan base was somewhat likeable. After they got their titles, they became a slightly -- just slightly -- watered-down version of Yankees fans.