Free Pool Movies: Rewatch

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justnum

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Turn the River is an emotional journey. The broken family structure and the lack of career opportunities in a town drive a woman mad when she doesn't have financial freedom. Pool is one way to cash out but the price is high and the sacrifice takes a toll. A nice family movie about being dysfunctional and its outcomes. Famke plays skill shots well.

Shooting Gallery provides a variety of cinematic experiences. Each character is distinct and on film it shows. Roselyn Sanchez was featured in many of the scenes with a pool table. The movie had enough acting bits to make it fun but not overbearing. Many shots were filmed without showing the shooter. A fun movie for the player who likes to underplay their skill.


Turn the River: Famke Jenssen

Shooting Gallery: Freddie Prinze, Roselyn Sanchez, Ving Rhames, Bill Romanowski (NFL vet/actor)
 
xX-Wizard-Xx said:
The Hustler and The color of money is about as good as it gets with pool movies
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Based on FPJr Wiki his dad was likely a source of inspiration for the movie. His dad was a NY comedian and died at an early age. Comedians are a research interest because they were around when the first broadcast cameras were given to the public.

I consider the movie a significant amount of well researched pool culture for hustlers his dad may or may not have known.

Imagine your dad died before you knew him, The Hustler and TCOM are good for their time period.

In today's world a larger community is visible and people can be part of it. The Hustler and TCOM were more about stake horses.

Shooting Gallery is showing pool players as a way to remember a lost one. Jr was born 1976, his dad died 1977.
 
I rewatched Sharks Episode 1, its entertaining.

Snowstorm of love is the Netflix billiard drama. Sharks is a bar drama with billiards.

The entire cast is mostly WPBA players. It holds up to today's podcast world: the storyline, the timelessness of a bar and the human emotion.

Does anyone know the video with Jenn Barretta showing a Canadian how to stroke the cue for like an hour? It was very comedic.

Put Jenn in some new content.

 
straightline said:
The real players are way short on stage ability.
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The target market is foreign governments so they can imagine what their youth will act like.

Asian countries only like baseball. Billiards is already a historic and traditional sport in major Asian countries.

Indonesia and Australia has been heavily investing in wholesale table sales. Hopefully the old marketing can be recycled.

This is not a casting couch.

Its WPBA official.
 
straightline said:
Sorry the population is long acclimated to fine art.
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To be a touring WPBA, its like being a protected member of dictatorship while in domestic or foreign countries.

If any thing happened while those women travel, the price of fine art does not compare.

9 ball with Jenn Barretta could translate into other languages as:
American Men Miss
Women finds Independence
Bar Women
Pro Pool Women
Women's Industry Agency

 
straightline said:
It's usually intolerable as cinema.
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I rewatched 9ball and it is full of inspirational and motivational lines for young children specifically young women that are learning to deal with challenging men and finding their own support group through billiards.

The pool world is oversaturated with people with stories that need to be told, retold and told more

If this was a promo for why countries should create pool training centers for touring WPBA pros, then 9ball is it and it has all the pros that might show up.
 
What they should try is advertising pool. If real pool players can't sell it, it's unsaleable. If real pool players wanna be movie stars, they should get in line and learn how.
 
straightline said:
What they should try is advertising pool. If real pool players can't sell it, it's unsaleable. If real pool players wanna be movie stars, they should get in line and learn how.
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Pool stars that do movies for promoting the sport is more than most men have ever done.

Jenn Barretta and Jeanette Lee are likely the two most filmed players for billiard promos outside of tournament film.

Women in places neighboring Afghanistan can gain a lot from sports development relations with the diverse WPBA touring roster.

These touring women are the equivalent of what MLK and civil rights activists did in America, mobilize, organize and politicize.

WPBA pros don't have to be movie stars, they are Human Justice athletes. They even played in the Middle East bypassing the head covering requirement during play. The rise of female pro players in the Middle East started with snooker, it looks like its golden age will be Heyball or Matchroom nineball.
 
straightline said:
If any of that from - selfless pool stars on - was true, pool would be in every home in the world.
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Billiards has come a long way from being promoted in exclusive clubs. The main difference today is the growing population of women playing billiards.

Women create products for their markets.

In the past men wrote news stories. They still do.

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straightline said:
This has what else to do with pool movies?
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The aspirations of the old movies have been outgrown. Looking back at history its clear women were not steering. History did not remember the women in those news articles.

Emily Frazer is proving her live, podcast and theatrical content is the new direction.

New pool movies are about women, problematic men, and have replay value.

When Allison Fisher coaches Gale in 9ball, I rewatch that scene over and over. Its pool coaching in a pool movie.
 
O.K. 14.1 continuous pool is known as straight pool. What the heck is a 14.2 tournament? ;)

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You know what? I skimmed through Shooting Gallery. Wasn't the usual terrible. Not half bad. The pool was the worst part. So it's still a crappy promotion.
 
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