At the time, most movie goers would have no idea. That's still true today. At least they gave a nod to the legendary maker, and used cues custom made by another.
Imagine if they didn't care at all and used some K-Mart cues.
In the end "Doom" took on a life of its own, it was a character in the movie. Look at us still talking about it today.
There was a guy on Facebook making exact replicas of the case. I don't know if he's still doing it.
It would be cool to have a Joss COM cue in a replica case. I'm not prepared to throw money at that, but if I found that set under the Christmas tree I would giggle like a school girl.
I might even take it to the pool hall, play the sound track, and twirl that thing around like Vincent. LOL!
I'm more likely to say "I'm back" when I break. Which I actually did after taking 5 years off. I'm the old guy now...
The Color of Money is my favorite movie. I remember watching it with my dad when I was a pool playing kid. I remember him buying it when it came out on VHS. I have probably watched this movie 1000 times.
Who didn't love it when the best player in town (Moselle), who Vincent had been told to avoid, comes over asking, "Hey, what you get in that case?"
Cruise, looking down with a huge grin opens up his case to show off the beautiful "Balabushka" and looks up at him while simultaneously responding with, "Doom."
Moselle, looking down at Vincent and "Doom" in disbelief, seemingly unimpressed, says, "Come on, boy. Lets play."
Vincent, with a big grin still stretched across his face, replies, "Yeah, let's play. We're gonna have a lot of fun."
Queue "Werewolves of London", Queue Samurai Sword antics. In the 80s, this was AWESOME (especially to a 9 year old kid).
For all of the cues I've bought I've never owned a COM cue, and I'm probably the biggest fan of them. It's just that none of them have been quite "right". It would be really neat to have a correct replica of that cue, case (in a shadowbox) along with the movie poster displayed in my billiard room.
