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Jack Sharpe said:
Grady, but not Simmons. Try again...you have two more strikes to go
Favorite Pool Movie
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Grady, but not Simmons. Try again...you have two more strikes to go
How about a hint: Fall, winter, spring summer..... 
I liked the Hustler, I just have trouble watching it because it's in black and white. I get a headache. The Color of Money is probably my favorite because of the characters. Poolhall Junkies was entertaining because of Christopher Walken, but it was an awful movie, horribly unrealistic. Stickmen was worse though. That movie physically hurt me to watch it.
What are you people thinking....
You guys are all missing the boat here...
Any Steven Segal movie, almost all when he plays a cop, has a pool room scene in which he uses cues, balls, triangles, rails to knock the ca-ca out of a dozen people. Now thats a pool movie..
Joe
1- Hustler
2- TCOM
3- PHJ
4- Balt. Bullet
3 could easily be 1a if Allison Eastwood got naked at any given time. But I think Christopher Walken's character was easily better than 90% of the characters in TCOM. If they could make a believeable "The Natural" like pool movie, I think you would have another push in the industry.
You guys are all missing the boat here...
Any Steven Segal movie, almost all when he plays a cop, has a pool room scene in which he uses cues, balls, triangles, rails to knock the ca-ca out of a dozen people. Now thats a pool movie..
Joe
1- Hustler
2- TCOM
3- PHJ
4- Balt. Bullet
3 could easily be 1a if Allison Eastwood got naked at any given time. But I think Christopher Walken's character was easily better than 90% of the characters in TCOM.
If they could make a believeable "The Natural" like pool movie, I think you would have another push in the industry.
I wonder what the Joss cue they called a Balabushka in TCOM brought when it was autioned off. I saw Johnny Cash's cue that he used in the Baron and the Kid auction off a couple of weeks ago for $6600. It was maybe a $500 cue retail and from the looks an I am guessing it was a Viking. I am suprised Baron and the Kid was not on the poll list. If anyone has a copy of BATK on video I would like to buy a copy.
my vote is for the hustler, one of my favorite movies. i bought the dvd a couple months back and from looking at the cover i thought they "remastered" it in color. but come to find out it was still black and white. i dont think that movie would be the same in color, i think it would lose something. as for COM i didnt think it was that great. PHJ i thought was a alright movie, there were parts in it that wernt all that great but i thought it was ok.
drivermaker
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Kerry Impson said:How about a hint: Fall, winter, spring summer.....
Not to take away from the post, but on a personal note...thanks for your suggestion on the recipe we were discussing. Sprinkling that stuff on it sure made a big difference in taste.
BTW, have you ever thought, if through a twist of fate, you'd have met and married John Kerry what it would have been like to never know whether you were being called by your first or last? Just a thought....(lame one at that)
OldHasBeen
Tom Ferry
TCOM - Was Imposssible!
The whole concept of TCOM was that there was a player who could beat almost everybody and NOBODY knew him! - Hellooooooooo?
That’s IMPOSSIBLE!
No player ever became good or great by playing in a vacuum!
To become even mildly proficient at pool, you HAVE to play other good players and compete.
Louie Roberts (aka, St. Louie, Louie) came the closest to this possibility at the age of 16. He had only played on his Dad's 4 X 8 in the family room of their home and when he showed up at the local poolroom he was already very good. But even Louie wasn’t ready or capable of top-notch competitive play until he "Hit The Road"!
TY & GL
The whole concept of TCOM was that there was a player who could beat almost everybody and NOBODY knew him! - Hellooooooooo?
That’s IMPOSSIBLE!
No player ever became good or great by playing in a vacuum!
To become even mildly proficient at pool, you HAVE to play other good players and compete.
Louie Roberts (aka, St. Louie, Louie) came the closest to this possibility at the age of 16. He had only played on his Dad's 4 X 8 in the family room of their home and when he showed up at the local poolroom he was already very good. But even Louie wasn’t ready or capable of top-notch competitive play until he "Hit The Road"!
TY & GL
OldHasBeen said:
I agree with you on the plot irrationalities, but wasn't that improbablilty the very fantasy that pushed novice players to flock to the pool rooms in the 80's and buy cues and join leagues, etc?
Then again, perhaps those same players got spanked too many times and went back to their basements, thus creating the rec room craze we seem to be in now.
Whatever it is, it cannot be denied that TCOM helped pool survive, much as TH did.
Jeff Livingston
I know a guy in my area, that is an easy 8 by APA standards, that I know you have never heard of. The guy only plays money games and a few local tournies. I would say that Vincent in TCOM could have had around the same talent as an 8. As you know there is a wide range of talent in poolhalls and person with that much talent would do quite well on the road.OldHasBeen said:
JV --- Just an assumption.
In the CoM, I think Eddie is supposed to be characterized as a man who has been robbed of his ability to do the one thing he is truly good at, pool. He has had to hustle booze for a living and has become jaded. This made a lot of sense to me and I enjoyed the movie up until the point that Eddie gets hustled by Forrest Whitaker. When he tells Vincent to take the money and go it alone, why does Vincent get so pissed? This scene has always puzzled me. If I would have been Vincent, I would have tried to talk Eddie into re-thinking it but I wouldn't have gotten mad at him. And at the end of the movie, what stings like a bitch? Vincent has supposedly become a good hustler and yet after he evidently hustles the guy from Ohio, and stalls against Eddie to make a bundle, he tells Eddie it stings like a bitch. What the heck is up with that?
The Hustler made sense from beginning to end. Eddie made mistakes but you could understand why he made them. The CoM didn't in my opinion. I'm with you Oldhasbeen.
The Hustler made sense from beginning to end. Eddie made mistakes but you could understand why he made them. The CoM didn't in my opinion. I'm with you Oldhasbeen.
Rickw said:
I also had trouble understanding the last few scenes of the movie. I coudn't understand Eddie when he said, "its even but not settled." He said something else, like, "about that other stuff, I don't put much stock in that." I didn't understand what he meant.
I didn't either Mathew. I think they were probably just trying to figure out how to end the movie and they just started throwing in lines. That quote, "about that other stuff..." sounds like a line from some of Paul's other movies. It's a shame too because that movie really had some great possibilities. I heard the book is great and I'm going to make it a point to read it soon.
Captain,
To each their own. I didn't think she was much to look at but she did do a pretty good job of acting though. As far as the looks department, I would have liked someone like Halle Berry or Michelle Pfiefer. What the heck, we shouldn't all like the same things right?
To each their own. I didn't think she was much to look at but she did do a pretty good job of acting though. As far as the looks department, I would have liked someone like Halle Berry or Michelle Pfiefer. What the heck, we shouldn't all like the same things right?
Rickw said:
Vincent got mad when Eddie quit because of the "father figure" stuff (remember the hug in the restaurant?)---and the fact that Eddie was reneging on his commitment---and Vince gave up his job to go with Eddie, not to go it alone---and Vince was scared.
The "stings like a bitch" means that being on the other end of a hustle hurts. Remember the punch in the face Vince received earlier? All that kinda stuff.
"They're even but not done" has to do with them being even on money, but not on playing ability, which had never been tested by a match between the two. Thus, the ending where the match begins and Scorsese (sp?) leaves that up to the audience.
The biggest problem I had with TCOM was the sound---some scenes were almost inaudible and others waaaaay too loud...ride gain for gawd's sake, Marty!
Keep repeating to yourself: "It's only a movie, it's only a movie..."
Jeff Livingston
Excuse me for so many posts on this thread, but I have to add one more item about a brand new movie that came out last weekend...
I had started a post on this, but it was deleted...sigh.
If you haven't seen Team America, World Police, you might want to go. It's made with puppets, ya know? And near the beginning, the characters are in their lair ( I love that word) and one of them is playing pool. He is shooting the 9-ball, acting angry, and has on these orange wrap-around sunglasses. I swear t's a characature of the one and only, Earl the Pearl. It even looks like Earl.
Did anyone else notice this?
Jeff Livingston
I had started a post on this, but it was deleted...sigh.
If you haven't seen Team America, World Police, you might want to go. It's made with puppets, ya know? And near the beginning, the characters are in their lair ( I love that word) and one of them is playing pool. He is shooting the 9-ball, acting angry, and has on these orange wrap-around sunglasses. I swear t's a characature of the one and only, Earl the Pearl. It even looks like Earl.
Did anyone else notice this?
Jeff Livingston