I caught almost all of Rounders on HBO last night (missed the first 15 mins or so). Still a great flick, one of my favorites really. But I've obviously seen it too many times because I found myself picking nits about shit I've never given much thought to before. I feel like there were a few others that I caught myself questioning while watching, but the 2 completely pointless things that really stuck in my craw on this viewing were:
Basically the whole 'municipal workers' game. First of all, Worm says they have "2 full tables" and then they show up and it's like 5 small round card tables with 4-5 players at each table. There's no reason anyone should notice or care about this, but it bugged me. But more than that retarded detail, just the very existence of this game is absurd. There's 16-20 state cops in and around a town of 40K people in upstate NY, who all get their paychecks and immediately drive to a $1,000 buy-in card game, many of them still in uniform because apparently they all work the same shift? What a ridiculous premise.
On what fucking planet is a 70 year old Jewish judge/law school professor not able to come up with more than $10K on a moment's notice?
Anyway, excellent film. Will watch several more times this month.
regarding point 2 - he is jewish. i think we can assume he has the scratch but is unwilling to give more than $10k to the idiot gambling addict he's taken a shine to. imo the part about it that's unbelievable is that he actually gives Damon any money.
Last Edit: Nov 29, 2021 12:17:04 GMT -5 by SouthernYokel
I caught almost all of Rounders on HBO last night (missed the first 15 mins or so). Still a great flick, one of my favorites really. But I've obviously seen it too many times because I found myself picking nits about shit I've never given much thought to before. I feel like there were a few others that I caught myself questioning while watching, but the 2 completely pointless things that really stuck in my craw on this viewing were:
Basically the whole 'municipal workers' game. First of all, Worm says they have "2 full tables" and then they show up and it's like 5 small round card tables with 4-5 players at each table. There's no reason anyone should notice or care about this, but it bugged me. But more than that retarded detail, just the very existence of this game is absurd. There's 16-20 state cops in and around a town of 40K people in upstate NY, who all get their paychecks and immediately drive to a $1,000 buy-in card game, many of them still in uniform because apparently they all work the same shift? What a ridiculous premise.
On what fucking planet is a 70 year old Jewish judge/law school professor not able to come up with more than $10K on a moment's notice?
Anyway, excellent film. Will watch several more times this month.
regarding point 2 - he is jewish. i think we can assume he has the scratch but is unwilling to give more than $10k to the idiot gambling addict he's taken a shine to. imo the part about it that's unbelievable is that he actually gives Damon any money.
I do agree that it’s absurd he gives him any money at all. But the way he phrased it bugged me. “If it must be tonight, 10 is the best I can do.” Like he has no problem just writing the dude a check based on this sketchy ass story, and he’s be willing to give him more if the bank was open.
also he’s not a gambling addict. It’s a skill game, Jo. Why do you think the same 5 guys are at the final table every year?
I didn't care for his tale about how beating johnny chan at a single hand of poker, let him know he belonged at the table. He just got done saying he played tight for an hour and folded most hands. Now all of a sudden, he's 3 betting, of course chan is going to put him on something. If chan had a marginal hand, that's an easy fold. Am i right IMS? If he played w the guy all night, he was going home a loser.
I'd been meaning to rewatch for a couple years now and this finally prompted me to it. John Malkovich is straight fiyah in this movie. And there is just no way he turns down sex with Famke Janssen especially since she says like old times or wahtever meaning they've banged before. Dude needed a good fuck to clear his head.
I didn't care for his tale about how beating johnny chan at a single hand of poker, let him know he belonged at the table. He just got done saying he played tight for an hour and folded most hands. Now all of a sudden, he's 3 betting, of course chan is going to put him on something. If chan had a marginal hand, that's an easy fold. Am i right IMS? If he played w the guy all night, he was going home a loser.
Watched The Last Boy Scout on Netflix after they did it as a Rewatchable. Really holds up well, Wayans & Willis are great in it. Wayans should have been a much bigger star than he was, he's tremendous in this flick.