The Christopher Walken Lion Monologue automatically keeps this movie out of the bottom.
Finally watch POOL HALL JUNKIES, man what a stinker.
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Dude's alive and well, what do you mean by "he's gone already"?
You can Google it, but I like how the director scammed a bunch of people with his fake follow up movie “poker junkies.” I think a movie about that scam would be better than pool hall junkies.
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Poker, Poolhall "Junkie" Mars Callahan Sued For Fraud, Allegedly Makes Death Threats
If you are a WSOP on ESPN junkie (like we are) then you might remember the name Mars Callahan.
The article is over 8 years old. I wonder what the resolution was.You can Google it, but I like how the director scammed a bunch of people with his fake follow up movie “poker junkies.” I think a movie about that scam would be better than pool hall junkies.
Poker, Poolhall "Junkie" Mars Callahan Sued For Fraud, Allegedly Makes Death Threats
If you are a WSOP on ESPN junkie (like we are) then you might remember the name Mars Callahan.
I've seen worse pool movies...
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Agree this is bad. But what this has and the other one doesn’t is Jennifer Barretta!! Which makes it watchable for me
Jaws is not on that list. No movie with Robert Shaw in it could ever be on a worst movies list.
I went to SLC first time in the later nineties I believe. I stumbled across a pool hall in a big concrete block building. It was very tempting but a friend in Salt Lake who wore out his clothes from the inside first advised me not to go there. My first impulse was to ignore his advice but I was a stranger in a strange land. When the local advised leave it be I decided to do so. He had a bit of a reputation just because he scalped somebody and hung the scalp from his truck antenna for a couple years! I figured he was bad enough to bear listening to.
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I probably should have been more explicit. I really underplayed what "weird vibe" meant. It was a cross country trip to California circa 2003. Someone needed their car moved to the Bay Area from Ohio and I and a few friends agreed to drive it over there for the price of free gas and meals. SLC is beautiful with the mountains in the background and all that.
The Mormons there, however, are insane. I was a smoker at the time and caught major flack for smoking a cigarette outside of the pool room on the sidewalk. Like physically threatened. Not sure if it's still as "straight-laced" now as it was then. We stayed in some cheap motel. The people who gave us flack for smoking tobacco followed us to the motel and kept knocking on the door to the room. They eventually left.
Woke up and someone smashed the driver's side window of the car in with a rock.
Don't smoke in SLC I guess. If you do, check for Mormons first.
Even before the Incident the more we wandered around town at night, the more we got the sense that we didn't belong there. One of the strangest places I've been to.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Sharknado, or any of the 5 sequels. Evidently a financially successful franchise, but absolutely the worst! My wife and I watched it when it first aired on the Scify Channel, and after it was over we guiltily agreed not to tell anyone we watched it all the way through.
I was traveling by Greyhound bus from California to Chicago back in 1979. When we hit the Nevada-Utah state line the driver announced there was no smoking allowed until we got to Wyoming. About a half hour later a guy lit up, and the driver repeated his warning. The guy refused to put it out. The driver radioed someone and shortly afterward we were pulled over by Utah State Troopers and the guy was actually taken off the bus and into custody. So, yeah, I guess they take smoking seriously in Utah.
My friend and his wife were both heavy smokers at the time, locals though. At a guess, the real flack was for being a stranger, the smoking just an excuse. I wasn't in the area to play pool and couldn't see any plus side to maybe interfering with the real purposes of my trip to do a little shooting on a pool table.
I was very pleased with all of my dealings with Mormons, Indians, Mexicans, whomever and whatever. Made about eight or ten trips up there, enjoyed them all! My friend had owned his home for many years and it was in the edge of an area that was definitely getting rougher. Another trip, my brother and I were rolling in from the rougher direction and stopped at a convenience store. Parked on the side and jumped out to grab a couple cokes so as to not show up at my friend's parched.
As I headed for the door I saw a group of six or eight youngsters in what looked like gangster attire and it was about dark thirty. "Might get interesting" just a thought to myself. Instead as I got to the door a young man jumped to open it. I thanked him politely, received a similar greeting in return. Got my cokes, got the same treatment going out the door.
By and large Utah is one of my favorite places in the lower 48.
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There is what seems to be a poolhall listed in the credits -- Mama EO's Billiards. Hardtimes is also listed but I don't think there was ever a Hardtimes in SLC.
There is a website that tries to list all known movie locations but it is missing PHJ.
Edit: I have been told by garczar that this is the place, which lines up with the credit line in the movie, more or less. It seems to have gone out of business in 2015 or so. It had one of the most bizarre websites I've seen...
Kearns is a town in the SLC metropolitan area south of the city proper.
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And its still overvalued.
I think the movie had potential (unlike most pool movies) and its failure to reach that potential is aggravating. I think it could have been a good movie, but the director (Mars) was new, didn’t have any money, and didn’t know what he was doing.
Heading to SLC this weekend and was going to check it out. Looks like it's permanently closed.
What made Poolhall Junkies so awful was how bad it was relative to the hype that preceded it. In the last 50 years, just three pool movies had some real hype when they were about to be released: 1) The Baltimore Bullet, 2) The Color of Money and 3) Poolhall Junkies, all of which had big name actors associated with them.
Of these three movies, each of which was deemed to be the one that would bring pool out of its doldrums, only The Color of Money delivered. The other two, from my vantage point, did nothing for the game.
I remember nearly skipping Poolhall Junkies just because of its title. With countless image problems to overcome, pool hardly needed a movie with this title to help it catch on.
Of these three movies, each of which was deemed to be the one that would bring pool out of its doldrums, only The Color of Money delivered. The other two, from my vantage point, did nothing for the game.
I remember nearly skipping Poolhall Junkies just because of its title. With countless image problems to overcome, pool hardly needed a movie with this title to help it catch on.