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Pete

Pete

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I'm at the match between Eddie and Vincent.

Vincent is on the 8 gets position on the 9. Eddie is in the line of sight and Vincent "misses".

Poor etiquette by Eddie of course but it was a "teaching moment” that bangers thought was professional.

Just one more strike against the movie. And yes I know, it's a movie for the general audience. But they had World Class Pros on set...
 
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Pete said:
I'm at the match between Eddie and Vincent.

Vincent is on the 8 gets position on the 9. Eddie is in the line of sight and Vincent "misses".

Poor etiquette by Eddie of course but it was a "teaching moment” that bangers thought was professional.

Just one more strike against the movie. And yes I know, it's a movie for the general audience. But they had World Class Pros on set...
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Without watching it again, was Eddie seated in a chair or standing close to the table and did Eddie intentionally make a move during Vincent’s stroke or did he remain statue still and quiet?

Personally I feel it’s up to the shooter to request of his opponent to move out of his line of sight before going down on a crucial shot. Yes, it is excellent etiquette on the part of the opponent to foresee he’s going to be directly in line of sight on a key shot and move on his own. But as long as you remain statue still until the shot is played, most feel that is good enough etiquette.
 
Movement in line of sight is one thing, but what about standing by, or against, the table while opponent is shooting? (A real pet peeve of mine.) See 48:00 and 54:08 where Vince is "on top of the table" during opponent's inning. A point of etiquitte, among others, that I was thoroughly schooled on before I was 10. Think Vince continues with this elsewhere . . . Bad movie, bad.
 
Biloxi Boy said:
Movement in line of sight is one thing, but what about standing by, or against, the table while opponent is shooting? (A real pet peeve of mine.) See 48:00 and 54:08 where Vince is "on top of the table" during opponent's inning. A point of etiquitte, among others, that I was thoroughly schooled on before I was 10. Think Vince continues with this elsewhere . . . Bad movie, bad.
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I agree that standing anywhere next to the table by the opponent is a no-no during a tournament match or $ game in any players poolroom. Fact is though that 99.9% of viewers watching this movie would certainly never pick up on this as we would. I wouldn’t be so harsh to judge the movie based on that alone.
 
ChrisinNC said:
I agree that standing anywhere next to the table by the opponent is a no-no during a tournament match or $ game in any players poolroom. Fact is though that 99.9% of viewers watching this movie would certainly never pick up on this as we would. I wouldn’t be so harsh to judge the movie based on that alone.
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Yep, I doubt they shot scenes based on what proper pool etiquette was but rather who and what they wanted to see in the frame. I mean they called a Joss cue a Balabushka when they probably could have dug up the real thing to use, total realism is usually not the main point of movies or TV shows. There are other far worse movies that butchered pool, in fact just earlier to day I was watching an episode of Supernatural, they were at a seedy biker bar, and of course there had to be a shot of a pool table and rack breaking sound. In the back-ground while the bikers were playing, one of them hit at an object ball directly instead of the cueball. And don't think he even hit a rail. I did not see anyone call a foul on him in the show.
 
Pete said:
I'm at the match between Eddie and Vincent.

Vincent is on the 8 gets position on the 9. Eddie is in the line of sight and Vincent "misses".

Poor etiquette by Eddie of course but it was a "teaching moment” that bangers thought was professional.

Just one more strike against the movie. And yes I know, it's a movie for the general audience. But they had World Class Pros on set...
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its just a movie man. It’s not a documentary or a training video LOL relax
 
trob said:
its just a movie man. It’s not a documentary or a training video LOL relax
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Yeah, man, it is only a movie, but people, especially young folks, take instruction from what they observe in movies. Pool etiquette is a very special aspect of our sport which deserves to be observed, or honored, in every instance, unless nonobservance is essential to advancing the storyline.
 
Biloxi Boy said:
Yeah, man, it is only a movie, but people, especially young folks, take instruction from what they observe in movies. Pool etiquette is a very special aspect of our sport which deserves to be observed, or honored, in every instance, unless nonobservance is essential to advancing the storyline.
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I guess Happy Gilmore wasn't your favorite movie either...
 
I do not golf, so I had nothing invested. Offhand, however, I would observe that one movie was a farce while the other attempted an accurate portrayal. In other words, generally compare and contrast Sandler and Cruise and what one usually expects from their movies. Try again.
 
Biloxi Boy said:
I do not golf, so I had nothing invested. Offhand, however, I would observe that one movie was a farce while the other attempted an accurate portrayal. In other words, generally compare and contrast Sandler and Cruise and what one usually expects from their movies. Try again.
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Lots of hookers probably had complaints about Pretty Woman. Very few movies try to make every single detail true to the real world, and even if it's not nice to stand in line of a shot, there are probably 100 players, that are good players, doing it this very second across the country. So it in fact may be a more accurate depiction of what happens in reality.
 
Thanks to this thread, I checked out youtube and found I was able to watch it for free, complete and without any ads (adblocker may have helped).

I hadn't seen the movie since the 80's (was but a wee lad), and now see that I didn't miss much.

*spoiler alert*

A lot of the drama seemed forced, and for cold-hearted hustlers they still seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time literally throwing money back and forth to each other, both sides refusing to take it. Also, the movie had a lot of build up to this big tournament but then the ending was just Eddie declaring he's "back." Ho-hum. I appreciate that the ending wasn't some Disney feel-good tournament victory, but for a character-development arc I was still left thinking, "that's it??" There are a lot of hustles, personal victories, etc, that would have been much more satisfying. I'll stick to The Hustler next time I want a movie fix.
 
Rocket354 said:
Thanks to this thread, I checked out youtube and found I was able to watch it for free, complete and without any ads (adblocker may have helped).

I hadn't seen the movie since the 80's (was but a wee lad), and now see that I didn't miss much.

*spoiler alert*

A lot of the drama seemed forced, and for cold-hearted hustlers they still seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time literally throwing money back and forth to each other, both sides refusing to take it. Also, the movie had a lot of build up to this big tournament but then the ending was just Eddie declaring he's "back." Ho-hum. I appreciate that the ending wasn't some Disney feel-good tournament victory, but for a character-development arc I was still left thinking, "that's it??" There are a lot of hustles, personal victories, etc, that would have been much more satisfying. I'll stick to The Hustler next time I want a movie fix.
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The ending to COM completed the ending of The Hustler when he was left shut out of big action and had to quit pool. COM is as much about Eddie coming back into the game as it was about anyone else, his "I'm back" was his return to action. What action in the future he will be in, that is left up to the unknown and would have been another movie at the end of this one.
 
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