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Originally Posted by Phildo
i dunno if it's even possible to look up book sales but i'm pretty sure moneyball sold really well.
And The Blind Side did gangbusters at the box office so studios will greenlight any Michael Lewis book.
I saw Moneyball Saturday at a TIFF screening and posted this in OOT.
Moneyball: I have two major problems with Moneyball a lot of the expository dialogue is cringeworthy and feels like it was copied right out of Baseball Between the Numbers. The second is they paint Billy Beane as this intuitive genius who shoots from the gut and is right, which is anti-thetical to the strategy they are trying to show Billy implement. It's very uneven, but is definitely worth seeing, I think non-baseball fans will like it more than baseball fans. The script is good, but outside of a couple scenes it doesn't feel very Sorkiny, which is nice. They have nice little touches for sports fans re: using actual player names and stuff.