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If someone in the United States made a movie about pool with no gambling, Would it be of interest...
They made a movie...
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It would have an audience similar to that of pool on TV.
Unless it was something like a junior working their way up to a top level, I just don’t see it.
And even then, it would likely just feel like a remake of so many other sports stories with nothing more than a different game involved.
Put me in the no category…
And even then, it would likely just feel like a remake of so many other sports stories with nothing more than a different game involved.
Put me in the no category…
If it were a movie about pool, then no. But if it were a movie with a compelling storyline and interesting characters with pool as a backdrop, then possibly. When you think about most successful sports movies there is usually some sort of conflict or tension between the characters that has little or nothing to do with the actual sport. For example, a mutual love interest, rich vs working class, racial, gender or religious differences, etc...
well, i thought you're idea was a good. it wouldn't be more remake-y than the queen's gambit was. and pool is a different enough game to many, especially to younger people.
in general i don't think one needs to be afraid of making a movies that feels like a remake, in this weird era of hollywood prequels, sequels, reboots and remakes
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I suppose a remake of the Hustler would expect to make more money than anything new.
I hope they don't do it though
Something that tried to capture Fats' personality could work, if trying for offbeat and interesting, rather than Hollywood blockbuster. Maybe something like Dyer's Fats and Mosconi book (The Hustler and the Champ).
On the original question, if there wasn't gambling you'd have to find a different 'hook' to make the matches feel important or interesting, but in theory you could do it, I think. You could have a league team competing for glory, in the style of Dodgeball.
You probably mean a "short film" rather than a "trailer." The latter is essentially a commercial for a regular-length movie.
The Legend of Kid Delicious book. Was meant to be made into film. I think lions Gate brought the rights, but it got shelved. I wonder what that would have been like!!
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Excellent, Thank you... Guy
How about something similar to the film moneyball. Where its about the success of someone fallen on hard times. Being thought by somebody of great knowledge, knowing he can take you to the top. With out the gambling aspect involved. Just pure pool, doing it for the love of the game.
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With so many people on this earth that care about these games it seems that this movie thing would have to be a plus for all... Young or old, rich or poor, the pool games have taken so many people a high and so many people to a low. These pool games have brought families together and torn families apart. We talk about how weak this game is and then we hear there's a hundred and fifty million people on this earth playing some form of pool. Interest, something must keep the games going and strong, Movie about a life that revolves around pocket billiards... We deserve it... Guy
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Balls of fury or Shaolin Soccer are movies suitable for a young international market.
A pool movie that exaggerates international stereotypes for dramedy. American pool players are bred and raised like prized bulls. Euro pool players endure government sponsored programs. Asian players have to grow up reading billiard diagrams as babies.
The drama and comedy happen
when the players meet and compete.
A pool movie that exaggerates international stereotypes for dramedy. American pool players are bred and raised like prized bulls. Euro pool players endure government sponsored programs. Asian players have to grow up reading billiard diagrams as babies.
The drama and comedy happen
when the players meet and compete.
SVB is a great guy, great story coming up in pool at his grand dads room. His road to success and to his first WC this past year.
However story lines like that just don’t sell. Drugs, murder, crime, super hero’s, sex, action scenes(cars, jets, space ships), chases are the primary elements of most successful non-comedy movies these days. Happy stories like Lassie or sad story’s like Old Yeller just don’t have much appeal.
SVB story is cool for a very narrow market that wouldn’t generate enough $ to hire a location scout to get the ball rolling or writers. There’s just no meat on the bone for broad market appeal. Which is sad. And also why most new movies suck and are similar to each other as they contain the type of content I described above.
Comedy is the exception. But SVB isn’t funny & pool isn’t either. Only Efren laughs when he misses.
Look at the last big pool movie COM, had nudity, cocaine, gambling, cheating people out of $ (2 brothers and a stranger), hustling drunks, dumping your backer(even tho the general public didn’t understand that). Oh yeah and a couple fist fights. And it was a Disney movie-distributed by Touchstone.
And they got Keith, now he could have been a movie-I mean that as a compliment. He was something else in the pool room. But again-narrow market problems.
So if Disney had to do all that in 86, what would a pool mobie need to be about now to draw a audience? God love SVB, but that’s just not strong enough.
Fatboy <———-glad he’s not in the movie biz
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If a movie director has their shorts in knots as much as pool players do about gambling and the image of pool, I hope they NEVER make another pool movie. You folks are sick. Standing around wringing your hands about pools image... pathetic.
This isn't Sunday School folks... people gamble in/at pool.
IMAGE isn't the problem, INDIFFERENCE and IGNORANCE is. It's hitting balls around with a stick, nothing worth seeing there, they don't even tackle, slam dunk, hit home runs, or score a goal in that dumb game. Hell, the only use the tables in most mcmansions get is a hot wheel track for the kids.
What we really need is a Sons Of Anarchy style show about pool. The seedier, the better. We need suburbanites who are bored with life and living a tame life to venture out to play pool with pockets full of cash. They think they can be the next Walter White, and we get their next mortgage payment. It's a win win for pool players. We don't need sponsorship money when any B player can make $500 a week robbing chumps.
Sometimes to win at pool you have to be a dick. Stop wringing your hands at pools image and make some fuggin' bank with it for once.
This isn't Sunday School folks... people gamble in/at pool.
IMAGE isn't the problem, INDIFFERENCE and IGNORANCE is. It's hitting balls around with a stick, nothing worth seeing there, they don't even tackle, slam dunk, hit home runs, or score a goal in that dumb game. Hell, the only use the tables in most mcmansions get is a hot wheel track for the kids.
What we really need is a Sons Of Anarchy style show about pool. The seedier, the better. We need suburbanites who are bored with life and living a tame life to venture out to play pool with pockets full of cash. They think they can be the next Walter White, and we get their next mortgage payment. It's a win win for pool players. We don't need sponsorship money when any B player can make $500 a week robbing chumps.
Sometimes to win at pool you have to be a dick. Stop wringing your hands at pools image and make some fuggin' bank with it for once.
Try this storyline: There once was this orange phenolic orb and he went by the name of 'FiveBall'. For years people left him alone to do his thing and times were good. Then one day this evil witch from an island in the Atlantic decided that FiveBall needed a new suit. Imagine the horror when FiveBall woke up and realized he was now this gawdawful shade of purple. Ok, that's the basics. Figure Tarentino will finish it. 