What would a movie about pool look like to you?

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Some of the more recent movies about pool or the up-coming 9ball the movie, which looks like some awful acting if you ask me, has not been something that would spark the interest of the masses out there.

Just curious, what are some thoughts on how a "billiard" movie could be made where it would actually get people interested in pool and increase the popularity of the sport?

I do not think that the tax evading money playing will ever be a real big winner here. What do you all think?
 
chefdrew said:
Some of the more recent movies about pool or the up-coming 9ball the movie, which looks like some awful acting if you ask me, has not been something that would spark the interest of the masses out there.

Just curious, what are some thoughts on how a "billiard" movie could be made where it would actually get people interested in pool and increase the popularity of the sport?

I do not think that the tax evading money playing will ever be a real big winner here. What do you all think?
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A movie with a lot of me! I have the charisma, looks, charm and not afraid to call a tard a tard :). Who needs to shoot when you have all those traits.
 
chefdrew said:
Some of the more recent movies about pool or the up-coming 9ball the movie, which looks like some awful acting if you ask me, has not been something that would spark the interest of the masses out there.

Just curious, what are some thoughts on how a "billiard" movie could be made where it would actually get people interested in pool and increase the popularity of the sport?

I do not think that the tax evading money playing will ever be a real big winner here. What do you all think?
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It would look like "The Hustler" or "The Color of Money". Good acting, good story, good pool.
 
pool alone doesn't get it

A movie about pool would look like a documentary to me and to the general public. You don't see many documentaries making big dollars. A movie can be built around pool, pool can even be the device that determines the outcome of the movie like movies about horse racing and such but for a movie to really sell it has to be a good movie without the pool and then the pool makes it a little better or is just along for the ride and gets some good from the association.

Few pool players watch much pool, movies, streaming, or video, viewed as a percentage of all pool players. Unrealistic to think that the general public is likely to without a major other hook.

Hu
 
I've written a fiction novel centered around the game of pool, Right on Cue, that I believe would make a very good movie.

It has all the ingredients to make a movie. Lead roles, supporting roles, and a good plot.

I know I'm partial to my story but I honestly believe in it.

I'm also an accomplished player. I know what the games about and I wouldn't let my story be told any other way than the way, I told it.

The actors and actresses would also be taught to hold the cue the proper way. I can't stand watching them butcher the simplest part of the game, while pretending to be experts.

I know all this sounds like bragging, because it is. Again, I honestly believe in my story.

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http://tommcgonaglerightoncue.com
 
I'm In!

tom mcgonagle said:
I've written a fiction novel centered around the game of pool, Right on Cue, that I believe would make a very good movie.

It has all the ingredients to make a movie. Lead roles, supporting roles, and a good plot.

I know I'm partial to my story but I honestly believe in it.

I'm also an accomplished player. I know what the games about and I wouldn't let my story be told any other way than the way, I told it.

The actors and actresses would also be taught to hold the cue the proper way. I can't stand watching them butcher the simplest part of the game, while pretending to be experts.

I know all this sounds like bragging, because it is. Again, I honestly believe in my story.

________________________________

http://tommcgonaglerightoncue.com
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This "Product Description" might be of help here:

Hope springs eternal in this debut literary fiction that is filled with both billiards and vice. Right on Cue by new author Tom McGonagle is a good old-fashioned heartwarming love story filled with integrity, a keen wit and gets to the heart of what makes a family tick. A novel that proves stunning in its prose and witty in its manner, the drama begins in the arms of young and foolhardy passion during the tail end of the Vietnam War. Later, when a woman makes a paternal connection to a pool shark on the professional circuit, her son will seek out his father and attempt to forge a relationship from a connection that was initially built on a hustle. After a tumultuous beginning, the father and son begin to bond over a shared love and natural talent for the game of billiards. With strong roles for both male and female players, the plot keeps its eye on the ball at all times and goes to show that truth and goodness will prevail when there is a will within. Yes, it is true—right on cue—love will conquer all.

About the Author and Fellow AZer :thumbup:

Inducted into the New England Pool and Billiard Hall of Game over a decade ago, Tom McGonagle has thrice been the All New England Nine-Ball Champion and has written a number of articles for All About Pool. He and his wife have two grown sons and live in Billerica, Massachusetts. This is his first book.

With that, I'm in!
 
Take a step away from pool for a moment and think about it from a normal viewers perspective.

Do you have to know the ins and outs of golf to watch Tin Cup? Or does it make you a little more interested in golf?

Because people like to nitpick let me just skip the, "well he played this wrong", or, "that was impossible", and, "well there was gambling in that movie" kinds of rebuttal. No I don't care if you like or dislike Costner. I'm talking about it inspiring people to go play, good, bad, or ugly.

Now take that approach to a pool movie. Player enters the US Open after a rough qualifier, has their, "oh no, it's over!" climax moment and comes back to play well. Maybe it's a girl who used pool to escape her double-timing abusive boyfriend and in the end he's the jerk she has to beat in order to win. Maybe he's in the stands, yells something and screws up her shot and Michaela Tabb has to throw him out, but her opponent uses that mistake to take a huge lead. Come on, we can think of non-technical and yet interesting ways to plan it out. Costner got the Shanks, remember. Same thing happens to players; all kinds of distractions await.
 
Well I think with the right backing I could probably put together my "Dixie Does A Diamond" project. Think Debbie Does Dallas but in a pool hall. Final scene Mr. Simonis Greenfelt keeps dropping quarters into the Diamond one pc slate smart table for table time with Dixie..........uhm...never mind.:outtahere:
 
A 35 year old retired road player that lives on a 40’ boat with his 24 year old pro pool player girl friend docked next to his small poolroom. He is a private investigator now and only matches up when players come to him. His cases are from very wealthy people that have had something or someone taken from them that they can’t go to the police to have recovered. Pool action 20% of the movie split between him and her, the rest a case or two. The girlfriend helps him on the cases. She was a Marine for 4 years and has a black belt in one of the martial arts. It's very hard for him to control her on the case. He likes to solve them with his street smart ways and she would rather just kill the bastards. Johnnyt
 
Well it seems every time I bother to turn on the TV these days there is someone being, kidnapped, beaten, stabbed, shot, dismembered, raped, belittled, tortured, blown up, rejected, insulted, robbed, or ripped off so I would say it needs to have all of the above.
 
The perfect pool movie would be of Jack Cooney and his wife Barbara, that would be one of hell of a story, she got shot, she punched him one time in his face and broke his glasses to get him to quit, he laid down for a long time to trap someone into a game. Call it something like American Hustler. :smile:
 
Except for the part about playing pool, it sounds like Burn Notice. :-)


Johnnyt said:
A 35 year old retired road player that lives on a 40’ boat with his 24 year old pro pool player girl friend docked next to his small poolroom. He is a private investigator now and only matches up when players come to him. His cases are from very wealthy people that have had something or someone taken from them that they can’t go to the police to have recovered. Pool action 20% of the movie split between him and her, the rest a case or two. The girlfriend helps him on the cases. She was a Marine for 4 years and has a black belt in one of the martial arts. It's very hard for him to control her on the case. He likes to solve them with his street smart ways and she would rather just kill the bastards. Johnnyt
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Dang It!!!

Tbeaux said:
Well I think with the right backing I could probably put together my "Dixie Does A Diamond" project. Think Debbie Does Dallas but in a pool hall. Final scene Mr. Simonis Greenfelt keeps dropping quarters into the Diamond one pc slate smart table for table time with Dixie..........uhm...never mind.:outtahere:
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Now I have this image of a vibrating pool table jiggling in my head.

Hu
 
Sadly, the kind of pool movie I would want to see would do nothing to help the sport at all, because it would just be pool nuts like myself that would watch it. The Jack Cooney story sounds awesome... to me and you 12 other weirdos on AZB, LOL.

The most successful sports movies I can think of were the Rocky movies, and I guess the reasons they were so popular with the general public (who for the most part don't care about or follow boxing) was because they had a whole bunch of drama in them that had little to do with boxing, and they found an actor that was popular and convincing in the role.

So, to apply that to a pool movie while mixing in currently popular themes, here's how you make a popular pool movie:

1) Walk into any 14 year old girl's bedroom and pick two or three of the guys hanging on her wall. Those are the ones you need swinging the cues, even if their strokes look like epileptic seizures.
2) Cast one guy as a blue alien and the other two as vampires, and make sure one of the vampires gets a shaft through the heart at some point.
3) Create a 90 min. film with a thin, predictable plot, and make it about a 80/20 ratio of BS drama to pool action.
4) Collect profits, and give Aaron_S some jelly for devising the plan.

Aaron
 
Johnnyt said:
A 35 year old retired road player that lives on a 40’ boat with his 24 year old pro pool player girl friend docked next to his small poolroom. He is a private investigator now and only matches up when players come to him. His cases are from very wealthy people that have had something or someone taken from them that they can’t go to the police to have recovered. Pool action 20% of the movie split between him and her, the rest a case or two. The girlfriend helps him on the cases. She was a Marine for 4 years and has a black belt in one of the martial arts. It's very hard for him to control her on the case. He likes to solve them with his street smart ways and she would rather just kill the bastards. Johnnyt
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Gee John, that sounds just like the book you wrote! :grin:
 
i would try to bring in the next generation of shooters so i would start with say a teen kid bored during the summer,no real friends,new in town.
you got the old man,just retired,wife has passed,lost his best friend.
he was a good growing up,best around...still has the old cue and today he goes to the billiard parlor.
kid looks in the window,cool whats this,door creeks closed,wow this place even sounds awesome
ever play billiards kid, no sir.
world champions where just like you once
 
Aaron_S said:
Sadly, the kind of pool movie I would want to see would do nothing to help the sport at all, because it would just be pool nuts like myself that would watch it. The Jack Cooney story sounds awesome... to me and you 12 other weirdos on AZB, LOL.

The most successful sports movies I can think of were the Rocky movies, and I guess the reasons they were so popular with the general public (who for the most part don't care about or follow boxing) was because they had a whole bunch of drama in them that had little to do with boxing, and they found an actor that was popular and convincing in the role.

So, to apply that to a pool movie while mixing in currently popular themes, here's how you make a popular pool movie:

1) Walk into any 14 year old girl's bedroom and pick two or three of the guys hanging on her wall. Those are the ones you need swinging the cues, even if their strokes look like epileptic seizures.
2) Cast one guy as a blue alien and the other two as vampires, and make sure one of the vampires gets a shaft through the heart at some point.
3) Create a 90 min. film with a thin, predictable plot, and make it about a 80/20 ratio of BS drama to pool action.
4) Collect profits, and give Aaron_S some jelly for devising the plan.

Aaron
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HAHAHAHAHA My laugh of the week-end
 
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