Ocean's Eleven Sucked

I wanted to walk out right after the ridiculous poker scene, but I decided to stay. I wish I would have walked out. If you leave within 20 minutes you can get your money back. What a joke.

I was going to protest but I thought you meant the card club, which is very well run and about my favorite mid-sized room.


Have you heard anything about "Croupier" (sp?) I think it's out on video and had a gambling theme.


Regards,


Rick

I haven't seen it, but a friend of mine who is a gambling movie afficianado, says it's only OK. He said I might like it.

Its not bad, but not really much of a gambling themed movie, other than the fact that its set in a casino.


It does provide a pretty mixed message about becoming a casino dealer; on the one hand, you'll have troubles with your happy relationship. On the other hand, you'll become a successful writer and get to bag lots of women. Hmm...maybe the message isn't so mixed!


But then again, I liked Ocean's 11 too. And if anyone doesn't think that's what a bunch of idiot young hollywood punks would be like to play poker with, then they are wrong.

I told you it sucked on Thursday, 27 December 2001, at 10:25 a.m. Forget about the poker scene, you missed the point. The whole movie was ridiculous.


SPM...nightmares...

In another post I've already talked about the silliness of getting upset at the poker scene. Those guys are supposed to not know what they're doing and people complain that they don't know what they're doing! Pitt gives bad advice and Clooney ends up with a great hand--hmm, Pitt couldn't be leading sheep to the slaughter, could they? Or do you actually think the filmmakers were implying that Clooney caught those four nines fairly? If so...egads. I guess we better go back to movies where every little thing is explained, "Hey, Brad, thanks for slipping me those nines and getting the suckers to call. I needed the dough!" Would that have made you happier?


As for not liking the movie as a whole, well, I guess I just wonder what you were expecting. I'd never call it great cinema but it was perfectly enjoyable fluff, and more intelligent by half than 90% of the fluff that gets made. What were you hoping for?

In the movie Clooney later says to Pitt something to the effect of "I can't believe you are spending your time cold-decking hollywood nitwits"


I liked the movie. It never claims to be a serious flick. It's just a light hearted "lets go rob the casino" fantasy that anyone here in Vegas can relate to. Sure it couldn't happen like it did, but thats what suspension of disbelief is about, especially in a movie that never ever claims to be a realistic film.

Alot of remakes of movies are the EXACT same thing as the original LIke the remake of "Phycho" a few yrs.ago. Why make it Exactly like the first one. But I do think If they would have done it in black and white with really OLD well known actors, you might have liked it.

I can tell you are a ratpack fan and wanted to reminice about the "good ol days' in the city of sin (and warmth,and awesome sunrises,and mornings like no where else in the world)