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Mon, Sep 03, 2001

: Fever Pitch

This British film is based on the book written by the same author as football, in world parlance). The main guy’s a huge soccer fan and his new girlfriend isn’t, and that’s the core conflict of the film. Nothing too much happens, but basically the guy learns to put sports in perspective in his life. Overall, pretty good, but a little light in substance. The one thing I found strange was that the girl was interested in the guy since she ostensibly hates everything about him. There wasn’t much explanation of why she liked him. The soccer fan in me appreciated all the football references, but even there the film seemed to try to be a bit mainstream and didn’t include enough soccer. Not outstanding, but interesting. The book’s supposed to be better and funnier; the film’s a bit too serious.

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Name: Marc Zeedar
Location: USA (Oregon)

I'm Marc Zeedar, writer and dreamer. I'm interested in writing, technology, programming, soccer, philosophy, engineering -- pretty much anything creative.

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Why is this blog all movies and books?

 

In college I was given an assignment to write a mini-biography. Rather than do the traditional, I wrote mine as a chronological list of the influential books in my life, explaining what they meant to me (both at the time and later). This turned out even better than I expected -- the saying "you are what you eat" really ought to be "you are what you read." So I decided to do that with my blog: it's a journal of what I'm reading, seeing, thinking, with the occasional unusual event thrown in. Feel free to add comments!


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