New sports movie

This Friday, an independent movie called "Big Fan" opens in Philadelphia and New York.

It's a "dramedy" that mines what happens when a 35-year-old parking garage attendant with a pretty bleak life and an unhealthy obsession with the Giants has a chance encounter with the team's fictional star. Things don't go well.

If you aren't this guy (thank the Lord for that), then you have likely encountered him.

The movie is the directing debut of Robert Seigel who screenwrote "The Wrestler" and (even more impressively) is a former editor of The Onion. The movie stars comedian Patton Oswalt.

Inevitably, pointy-headed movie critics are going to get ahold of this flick and broad-brush anyone who happens to own a jersey with a player's number on it as being a replica of Oswalt's character.

And then they'll explain sports fandom in general as being a terrarium for all sorts of societal ills.Then they'll go back to explaining to us the brilliant social commentary made in Zoolander.

Check out the trailer here.

Salty's Thoughts: That movie looks awesome. I will surely check it out.