The Married with Children episode was "Cheese, Cues, and Blood", no Joey.
With Tom Cruise, "The Color of Money" which was more for pool players than The Baltimore Bullet or Poolhall Junkies.
Best pool movies
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The Married with Children episode was "Cheese, Cues, and Blood", no Joey.
With Tom Cruise, "The Color of Money" which was more for pool players than The Baltimore Bullet or Poolhall Junkies.
Don't forget the disturbing movie Chalk.
I guess I'm in the minority because I enjoyed Pool Hall Junkies. Not for the pool, but rather for Chaz and Christopher Walken.
I have BB on VHS somewhere but I remember it not to have had much actual pool in it.
Say what you want about TCOM, it always gets me in the mood to play.
The Hustler is great but I agree with the poster above -the love story aspect brings the movie down.
Didn't they make a movie recently called 9ball or was it ever released? I saw ads for it in print but never heard anything else about it.
I guess I'm in the minority because I enjoyed Pool Hall Junkies. Not for the pool, but rather for Chaz and Christopher Walken.
I have BB on VHS somewhere but I remember it not to have had much actual pool in it.
Say what you want about TCOM, it always gets me in the mood to play.
The Hustler is great but I agree with the poster above -the love story aspect brings the movie down.
Didn't they make a movie recently called 9ball or was it ever released? I saw ads for it in print but never heard anything else about it.
Same here.
Also I dont understand why most people dont like the color of money?
for me its a superb movie.. How is it possible not to like a movie with paul newman in it? :grin:
Thank you very much for including the explanation after that statement. With the name of that movie, I was thinking the worst ... it sounds like a porn title.
I agree 100% Rin, and I can't stand Tom Cruise. Any movie with Paul Newman is worth watching. I like Forrest Whitaker too and his scene is good also.
Here are 30+ options!
Here is a link to a list of movies stretching back to 1915 with W.C.Fields in 'Pool Sharks'.
http://www.billiardboys.com/moviegallery/billiardmovies.html
It also has the classic Australian 'Hard Knuckle' which is set in a post apocalyptic outback Australia. The type of game with a table "block" is still actually played in some sleepy country towns but money exchanges hands instead of the gruesome removal of a digit!
This should keep all you insomniacs occupied on nights when a TAR match has finished and you still need a fix.
Here is a link to a list of movies stretching back to 1915 with W.C.Fields in 'Pool Sharks'.
http://www.billiardboys.com/moviegallery/billiardmovies.html
It also has the classic Australian 'Hard Knuckle' which is set in a post apocalyptic outback Australia. The type of game with a table "block" is still actually played in some sleepy country towns but money exchanges hands instead of the gruesome removal of a digit!
This should keep all you insomniacs occupied on nights when a TAR match has finished and you still need a fix.
sandfoot
Sandfoot
I think it is obvious that what is needed is a documentary style independent film chronicles some major tournaments and players, interviews, etc. There are many documentaries of this type these days. For instance recently hbo is showing episodes chronicling the 2008 olympics, with certain events and athletes featured each episode. Anything like this would be great since pool doesn't translate to film very well. Any thoughts on this?[/QUOTE]
Check out some of CaliRed's stuff. He did a nice behind the scene story on the Archer vs Strickland Bad Blood match awhile back. He also did a good interview with Justin from TAR at the DCC a couple years ago.
Check out some of CaliRed's stuff. He did a nice behind the scene story on the Archer vs Strickland Bad Blood match awhile back. He also did a good interview with Justin from TAR at the DCC a couple years ago.
sandfoot...There's already someone doing this. Angel Levine is an independent filmmaker producing a documentary on pro poolplayers. She has been traveling around the country for the past few years acquiring footage. I have no idea when this is designed to be released, but she's been working on it for quite a while. Should be good when it finally comes out.
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com
DrOnePocket
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Pool Hall junkies was a great movie. Chalk on the other hand was awful. I'm watching BB now
DrOnePocket
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I have restarted it twice, the picture and sound don't match up. its super annoying
Paul Newman was nominated for best actor in The Hustler and lost. He won for best actor in 1987 for Color of Money.
I have StickMen on DVD and thought that was pretty darn entertaining.
I agree with James. I don't care what you say about TCOM, it's a spectacular movie. Even non-pool playing friends that I've made sit through it end up enjoying it by the time they hit the road. I watch at least parts of it all the time. Especially when I'm excited about going to play. It just gets my head straight. Just like watching "Rounders" before I go to play poker =)
Pool Hall Junkies is a decent flick but if it wasn't for Christopher Walken it would be a pretty awful movie. Favourite line: "I'm a millionaire! I lose 80 grand here... I go get another 80 grand!"
Now, Shooting Gallery, with fu**in Freddie Prinze Jr. That is a pretty awful movie. I mean it's kinda cool at times but it just feels so cheese ball the whole time. At least it feels more modern than anything else I've seen.
I hear Stickmen is really good but I haven't seen it. Same thing with the Baltimore Bullit but I haven't even had an opportunity to put it on screen.
Above all I have to say that the Hustler has to stand alone as the best movie about pool. It is so gritty and you can almost feel the action in the room. It's definitely THE movie for pool players.
I'd really like to see something new though. The documentary about players sounds cool but the movie 9-Ball sounds even better, though I haven't got a clue about the movie other than the name :grin-square:
I don't agree with that at all. I think the Color of Money captured the feel of the pool scene during that era extremely well, the way the pool halls felt when you entered them, the way the game was presented, the way the people in the game acted and the various types of people that were in the pool scene.
Putting Pool Hall Junkies over top of the Color of Money is absurd. Do you think Pool Hall Junkies was a movie actually made for pool players? That movie was a joke and created a pool scene that was completely unrealistic and situations that just don't happen.
The two best pool movies by far are The Hustler and the Color of Money. The Baltimore Bullet runs a distant third due to the huge number of legends that make cameos at the main tournament at the end.
And the Color of Money was nominated for another 3 oscars, best supporting actress for Mastrantonio, best art direction, and best writing for a screenplay based on another medium.
It was completely robbed for not being nominated for best original song for "It's In The Way That You Use It" by Eric Clapton and original score by Robbie Robertson. I feel the whole soundtrack of the Color of Money was insanely well suited to the scenes and one of the things that made that movie really work.
I totally agree about the soundtrack. They did such a great job with the music throughout the movie. I really like Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" playing during the match vs Mosselle. It was such a good fit, especially the part "his hair was perfect" and Tom Cruise is totally singing along stroking his hair. Absolutely perfect! So much so that I downloaded that song on my phone so I could play it at the table when I caught on fire
1. Color of money - the sound, the pacing, the acting, the directing, the settings, it all blends together nicely. It stand on its own legs despite being a sequel, thats tough.
2. Hustler - some parts (for example the pool scenes) are unbelievable great. Newman is great of course, aswell as his opponent. But I think it has not aged as good as Color of money. And thats why its second.
The rest? Stickman, Pool hall junkies, T B B, and than there is this chinese snooker movie or something - dont quite remember. AND CHALK.... and some other sh*t named 9ball. They all are levels beyond and some of them suck.
So you wanna watch pool movies? Watch the Hustler, than Color of money. And if you wanna watch some more? just rewatch them. It wont get better than that.
But I also like the small 15 minutes movies from that television series, sci fi thing, hmm whats it called. TWILIGHT ZONE. Both the old and the newer are good. I believe you can find them on youtube.
2. Hustler - some parts (for example the pool scenes) are unbelievable great. Newman is great of course, aswell as his opponent. But I think it has not aged as good as Color of money. And thats why its second.
The rest? Stickman, Pool hall junkies, T B B, and than there is this chinese snooker movie or something - dont quite remember. AND CHALK.... and some other sh*t named 9ball. They all are levels beyond and some of them suck.
So you wanna watch pool movies? Watch the Hustler, than Color of money. And if you wanna watch some more? just rewatch them. It wont get better than that.
But I also like the small 15 minutes movies from that television series, sci fi thing, hmm whats it called. TWILIGHT ZONE. Both the old and the newer are good. I believe you can find them on youtube.