Did we just watch the same clip? That movie has every pool cliche and even has some drug use thrown in. Should make a parent really happy their kid wants to learn to play pool. Lets just hope no city commissioner or mayor who is voting the next day on a variance allowing a pool room in their town sees it. Crap like this movie has real world consequences on the sport and they often are not good. Of course that is just my opinion.
Based on this it sounds like you don't think any of the popular movies featuring pool should have ever been made.
I hope this movie is better than shooting gallery. I got 20 minutes in to Shooting Gallery and had to shut it down. Turn the River was awful as well, I only made it 15 minutes in to turn the river.
In these movies there seems to be an inordinate number of masse shots, bank shooting and shots with a ton of power.
I wonder what florians role is in this movie. Is he the bad guy ringer?
Based on this it sounds like you don't think any of the popular movies featuring pool should have ever been made. They all have some form of drinking, drug use, gambling, and violence. That is what makes them dramas. There is a reason that 95% of the poker games in Rounders happen outside of a casino. Seedier locations and sketchy people equals higher drama. These are adult movies made for adults and I doubt that they have any bearing on a city commissioner or a mayor making any decisions.
What does affect a city commissioner or mayor are pool halls already open that are a thorn in their side or the side of someone they know who also holds office. They don't want the hassle of having the police repeatedly called to any business. If you had a city that had nothing but pool halls in it and they were all well run, making money and crime free you would have a happy mayor and city commissioner.
Back to the movie, I'm looking forward to it. It doesn't look like it will be winning any academy awards but I'm always excited to see any movie that features pool.
Very cool. Buffulo's. JoeyA also made an appearance. JoeyA is now a famous movie star. :thumbup:
You're entitled to your opinion.
However this thread is supposed to be about the release of pool-related movie. If you really want to beat a dead horse about pools so-called 'negative image', then please do so in one of the other countless threads on the topic (not intended to sound rude).
I'd much rather discuss the movie itself, such as the people who worked on it, its release date, and how JoayA and Florian are enjoying their new-found fame.![]()
Huh???....so which one is JoeyA???
You didn't read my other posts on this thread.
The training montage with the music is an essential component of any sports or fighting movie. Have the main character where a sweat band, tube socks pulled up to his knees set to "Eye of the Tiger." For the purposes of this movie you would have to have shots of the protagonist snorting lines of coke off of the stomach of a hot chick throughout the montage. Can't wait to see this movie. :grin:Maybe he plays a Obi Wan Kenobi-like character who trains the main protagonist in a montage with 80s rock music in the background.
To the gentleman who thought I was arguing the trailer wasn't full of cliches, that wasn't what I was trying to say. It obviously is full of them as basically every pool movie is. Same thing with poker movies. It always comes down to a big dramatic showdown where a seemingly unbeatable hand gets beat by a straight/royal flush.
I challenge anyone to show case the real professional players, who don't act like jerk offs, who don't do drugs, and get involved in illegal activity.
While I know how much you enjoy playing a round of soggy crackers as you opine about pool in your "this will be huge for pool" circle jerk, I'd much rather save my shiny comments for things that will actually have an impact.
Oh wait, I forgot to include the obligatory pidgin language. Let me see... lol, u r rite kewl dood. I r stupood and dont no nuthin bout pool or the film biz. I jst got pwned.
I didn't think you were arguing that the trailer was not full of cliches, I was disagreeing with your point that if you think of these ideas as cliches now you must think that all of the previous films should never have been made. A cliche is not a cliche first time out, it becomes one after it's repeated over and over again. My point is...why repeat it one more time? Again, I obviously haven't seen the film yet but if it adds nothing new, what's the point?
Have you ever hung out with any of the worlds top players? Or know much about their backgrounds? A lot of these guys have been in jail for some pretty shady stuff. On top of that, it's pretty much customary to get out of control at the bar, not just after an event, but each night during it.
I'm not talking about one bad apple here either. I could riddle off ten names of the best players in the world within a single minute that clearly do not match how you clearly envision 'professional pool'.
It would require a completely fictitious and unrealistic representation of pool to make a movie without anything shady in it.![]()
Did we just watch the same clip? That movie has every pool cliche and even has some drug use thrown in. Should make a parent really happy their kid wants to learn to play pool. Lets just hope no city commissioner or mayor who is voting the next day on a variance allowing a pool room in their town sees it. Crap like this movie has real world consequences on the sport and they often are not good. Of course that is just my opinion.