MovieChat Forums > Sugar (2009) Discussion > Dissapointed

Dissapointed

posted 15 years ago by SNYanks3162000
3 replies | jump to latest

Was looking forward to seeing a realistic baseball movie ... can't complain about the realism, but I found this film to be incredibly slow and dull.

Not much sympathy for the main character, that was my biggest thing(no has basically no personality, language barriers aside) . He gives up so easily - he doesn't deserve to succeed! There are guys in baseball who have failed and failed and failed and then finally made it after years of hard work. Just look at Jack Cust of the A's, made it when he was 30 or so. Where is the hunger? The love of the game? He gets knocked around in single-A ball and quits, just like that? I guess that what separates winners from losers, the drive and determination to get back up after being knocked down. And you could make the argument that he didn't make it because he wasn't as good as the others, but it doesn't work, because there are guys who arejust average talent but STILL play MLB today(David Eckstein?). They are willing to do what the other guy won't do. This movie was successful more as an immigrant story and less as a baseball one. Not the worst film ever, definitely a breath of fresh air from other sports movies, but a little dissapointing.

6/10

[–] magmus247 14 years ago

I totally agree with you there SNYanks. At times it felt slow, i mean there was a scene where he walked through the lobby, an arcade, a casino, and then into a bowling alley... why mr. director/editor? I mean it just felt slow at times. Apart from that i was rooting for him and was definitely involved in the story but then all of a sudden he's on the bus to nyc WTH?? I started to think why would he do that? He was just in a slump for a few weeks? why quit? the only reason i could think of was maybe he didn't like baseball that much in the first place, idk. I don't think that was set up properly, and doesn't seem to fit with his character. I mean you never really saw his love for carpentry until he got to nyc. Yea he twiddle a bit with his knife but that doesn't tell me that this guy really loves carpentry. So when he leaves the chance of a lifetime to go and do carpentry in nyc I am like WTH happened there. Also I thought it was very selfish of him to just get up and leave like that with the people back in Iowa looking for you. It was like all of a sudden poof he's gone if I was those folks I would feel a bit upset about it. I don't know i think the first 2/3 of the movie was decent but the end did not fit at all. Seems as if someone was trying to do something really different without setting up the pieces in the first 2 acts.

[–] kingcarcas 14 years ago

This coming from a Yanker fan, sorry we're not all winners like you bro!

If you don't believe in Jesus Christ and are 100% proud of it, put this in your sig.

[–] Ken1260 10 years ago

Jack Cust wasn't living in a Country where he has no family and can't speak the language.