This is an atypical baseball movie. For one thing, there's not very much baseball in it. It's about using superior statistical analysis to build a better team. But there's actually not a whole lot of statistics in the movie either. It's more about the riskiness and culture clash that comes from attempting to reinvent the game. One of the best scenes is just Brad Pitt and some old dude arguing 'politely' in a hallway, with unbearable and hateful tension bubbling to the surface so palpably that the viewer is almost certain that the two will tear into each other at any moment. But they don't. This isn't that kind of movie. Sure, Brad Pitt throws lots of chairs when he's mad, but this movie isn't about the triumph of violence; it's about the triumph of numbers.
