Moneyball, the movie

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The trailer is out:

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Featuring Jonah Hill as "Peter Brand" who is based on/sort of like Mets VP Paul DePodesta

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ti-depodestamoneyball080510

[Vic Sage]

a friend of mine produced it. He let me read early drafts of the script, which i gave him notes on. the later drafts were polished by Aaron Sorkin. I didn't see those. But a mutual friend saw an early screening and was disappointed in it.

i'll reserve judgment and hope for the best.

[Guest attgig]

i loved the trailer. pretty eager to watch it now... should i read the book first?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

You should have read the book when it was your assigned CPF homework assignment!

Looks kinda OK to me

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[Vic Sage]

attgig wrote: i loved the trailer. pretty eager to watch it now... should i read the book first?

you could just read the book INSTEAD. its a great read, regardless.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

It's such a quick read, too. (Liar's Poker and most other Michael Lewis books are similarly quick, engaging reads, and worth a look.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

With Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Art Howe!

[metirish]

Vic Sage wrote: attgig wrote: i loved the trailer. pretty eager to watch it now... should i read the book first? you could just read the book INSTEAD. its a great read, regardless.

loved the book , I learned a lot I think about the game, or at least a side I never paid attention too, reminds me I loaned it out and have never got it back.

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John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: With Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Art Howe!

He really lights up the film...

[Ceetar]

Good book. #1 thing you learn is that you're thankful Strawberry dropped in the draft, because if the Mets had gotten stuck with Beane over Strawberry..yikes.

I'll see the movie. It'll be particularly interesting to see which parts of the movie are taken out of context and twisted to mean something completely wrong about what Moneyball is/was.

[Frayed Knot]

I'm not so sure if they'll twist and/or misrepresent the facts so much as they'll over-simplify things. Even in the brief trailer there are a few of those apparent.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: I'm not so sure if they'll twist and/or misrepresent the facts so much as they'll over-simplify things. Even in the brief trailer there are a few of those apparent.

well considered that the book is basically doing the same thing about an organizational philosophy, and the movie is based on the book, not on Oakland, it'll be quite interesting.