This movie is going to suck. WE don't care about Jeremy Lin anymore, he had his 15 minutes of fame, he sucks on the Houston Rockets. They're marketing this as a 'Rags of Riches' story? He grew up in a middle class suburban family. He went to Harvard, if he didn't go into pro basketball he would still be making tons of money in another job.
pretty much agree with you. when i saw the ad for it on here, i thought 'this has to be a made-for-tv or cable movie. who would pay $$ to see this in a theatre? just my two cents, FWIW, which probably isn't more than two cents, lol.
shareJust my take, but "rags to riches" is more about his status as a player, not about his family's status as he grew up. It would be hard for an NBA player to be more unknown or closer to his chance at an NBA career being over than Lin was right before that Nets game, after all the difficulty he had even getting that far. A few short months later, he was a household name with a multi-million contract. Rags to riches indeed.
And while he doesn't suck in Houston, I think the story of what happened to him last year stands on its own. Lin could have never played an NBA game again after the initial, white-hot Linsanity period ended, and it wouldn't have fundamentally changed or lessened the story, what was amazing/improbable about it, or the reasons why it resonated so strongly.
I concur, it's bout consistency not hype
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I watched this earlier this week on Netflix. Loved it. Don't ask me how, but I live 2 hours from NYC and missed Linsanity.(other concerns, I guess) Wish I was aware of it then
No, I don't follow basketball but did decades ago.