Or maybe Cruise could play a pool playing private detective who gets hired by a California room owner named 'OSCAR'(major hint) to go track down a notorious FORMER player/stiff-artist named 'JOHNNY(hint #2) in order to recover $$ owed. Call it 'Maverick, Hired Gun'. Would be EPIC.
The Hustler > The Color of Money > ???
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How about a Filipino's journey from there to here -- in the manner of Slumdog Millionaire?
I am in CA (SoCal) as well and can comment the decline of pool here has very little to do with interest in the game vs the economics of running a pool hall in a very high priced commercial real estate environment. We have the Mezz LA 9 Ball Series which is a monthly series capped at 32 players. Enties sell out in minutes a month before the event(s). There are quite a number of rooms in the greater LA area including OC: The Cue Ball, Good Times Billiards, Aloha Billiards, VIP Billiards, Danny K's and several others. There are also many DIY streamers on FB streaming action matches. Leagues are doing good as well. I don't play in a league but I have a buddy who is the local APA LO and he runs a very successful franchise and I have another buddy who is the LO of a local BCA League and his league is doing well.
Again, not sure where you are looking, but pool seems to be doing quite well from my perspective. I'd say there are more opportunities to play now than there was, say 5 years ago.
better than a Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, for sure
My favorite pool movie of all time.
Ask justnum.
I wish you were happier.
Some co-workers and I have to do a 5 minute skit at our national sales meeting and we used it to write our script. It needed a few tweaks but overall did a good job and saved us a ton of time.
ChatGPT puts out waaaaaay more coherent stuff compared to that guy.
I agree pool is niche, but way more popular than shuffleboard.
Born LOOOONG before 2000, I bet I know where you got your shoes.....you got'm on your feet.Born post 2000 i assume??Actually considering the budget(i heard it was around $5,000 and free beer) its pretty funny.
I'm 79 and I also prefer The Color Of Money, although Gleason's performance in The Hustler was the nuts, as was the Ames location. But The Hustler would've needed a few Earthquakes and Forrest Whitakers for me to really warm up to it.
The Hustler used pool as a vehicle but was not about pool. One of the darkest movies made at that time. The undercurrent was meant to be dark as shit. And it was but this part was so well blended in with the pool it takes a couple views to get just how tragic the whole thing is.
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A lot of talk about bringing Cruise back as Vincent in this thread but I really think it would be a mistake. I want to see a limited series that is faithful to the novel by Walter Tevis. Fats is a huge part of the novel in helping Eddie find his game again. Netflix did Queens Gambit, also by Walter Tevis...the same for The colof of money would be really good
Cruise remains one of the biggest box-office draws in the world. No way it would be a mistake to include him.
IMPO, the Hustler could give TCOM the 5 out as far as, storyline, actors, locations, personalities and believability.
Maybe he prompts it to write in the manner of an autistic, mid-30s, attention-seeking, and socially-awkward hebephiliac who rarely leaves his mom's basement.
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