Eight Men Out

Pros: period look, Straitharn, Cusack, Mahoney, Alexander, Lerner
Cons: a bit diffuse with some cardboard roles

Having been mildly disappointed by John Sayles's most recently released film ...

Pros: cast, story, music, costuming
Cons: a few changes in history, tries too hard to make the players look good

The game of baseball back around 1919 was quite a bit different from the game we know now. There were the aesthetic differences, of course. Equipment wasn't nearly so sophisticated as it is now, nor was safety a big concern. Spitballs were routinely ...

Pros: The great cast, the acting, the story
Cons: that the facts were altered or thrown out.

Eight Men Out is the story of the 1919 World Series, and the Chicago White Sox who end up deciding to throw the World Series. After an entire season of penny-pinching by the White Sox owner, Charles Comiskey, a group of gamblers see a spot where they ...

Pros: Excellent, entertaining movie!
Cons: Lackluster, "bare-bones" DVD

Here’s a question to ponder: What would possess two spectators at a major league baseball game to sit in the stands having a serious discussion about which ballplayers on the home team would be willing to "throw" the World Series?

Eight...

Pros: Interesting historical topic. Acting. Cinematography. Costumes/period props.
Cons: Huge cast is hard to keep straight.

When the Chicago White Sox won the 2005 World Series they shook off 88 years of frustrations and bad memories. Many of those bad memories started in the year 1919, when the infamous Chicago "Blacksox" bumbled away a World Series Championship they should ...

Pros: realistic baseball scenes; good performances by John Cusack, David Strathairn, and D.B. Sweeney
Cons: rest of ensemble relegated to good guy/bad guy roles; narrative somewhat predictable

You need nine players to field a baseball team. But eight is enough to throw a World Series - and in 1919, eight of them did. "Eight Men Out," John Sayles' take on the "Black Sox" scandal, is not the best sports movie I've ever seen. As far as ...

Pros: Solid historical piece: the attention to detail is tremendous
Cons: Sometime lags like a seventh inning stretch

There seems to be a strange sort of alchemy that occurs when Hollywood mixes with the national pastime, one where gold almost always certainly gets turned into a putrid, syrupy mush. I'm reminded of films like Pride of The Yankees, The...

Pros: Wardrobes, sets, some of the performances
Cons: Only a fair script, historical inaccuracies, lacks some emotion

This is the true story of one of the biggest scandals in the history of Major League Baseball -- the 1919 Black Sox Scandal which helped cement the legend of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (DB Sweeney) If you ask me, this movie is three balls, no strikes. ...

Pros: story, direction, characters, costumes, sets, cinematography
Cons: sometimes lacks credibility, historical inaccuracies

"Eight Men Out" tells the story of the Black Sox scandal, the 1919 Chicago White Sox baseball team that threw that year's World Series. The film has the over-riding message that greed is the root of all evil. Stingy owners, corrupt players, and...

Pros: Excellent direction, cinematography, acting
Cons: Not much

The myth of the corrupt Chicago White ( renamed the Black ) Sox was probably the first great sporting scandal of the 20th century ( although most of us on the European side didn’t realise it till much, much later )

This is the tale of...