\"Two For the Money\"
 

Took in the matinee today and boy did this movie blow. Walked out close to the end (I guess). Less than zero content on sports betting. Matthew McConaughey picks games staring at the morning paper lines for most of the movie. The good news is that this movie is no Rounders and nobody is going to give up poker for sportsbetting.

Re: \"Two For the Money\"
 

dam i was really hopin it would be good. i'd bet a poker movie will come out soon.

indy

Re: \"Two For the Money\"
 

Rounders wasnt so great either.

Re: \"Two For the Money\"
 

Heard an interview with McCaugghney on the Rome show. He said there are pick lines where they take a percentage of your winnings. Dont think this is true, how would they ever know how much you bet. Anyway he sounded like a moron and the movie sounded pretty dumb.

Re: \"Two For the Money\"
 

Well I see it for free so I think I'll check it out anyway. The only movie I've seen that wasn't worth seeing for free was Honey...Oh and Glitter.

Also, I actually liked Rounders.

Re: \"Two For the Money\"
 

True; what was so bad about Rounders? It wasn't a perfect reflection of the scene, to be sure, and it exaggerated, but I loved the poker content, and pretty much everything else.

Re: \"Two For the Money\"
 

Movie was -EV.

Re: \"Two For the Money\"
 

Yeah, the whole basis for the movie was supposed to be about touts and they didn't understand how they function, at least to my knowledge, maybe I'm missing how some work.

They would call Joe Sixpack. Give him a pick and tell him to bet a shitload on it, and if he won... haggle him into giving them 10%... so he could keep getting picks. And so they would talk the guys into betting way out of their league... MM would go 109 out of 112 for the weekend and they would tell the customer to up the bet... blah blah. MM would get his picks by staring at the morning paper for most of the movie.

Rounders wasn't Oscar worthy, but it had quite a bit of depth of the subject of poker for the common audience, this movie didn't.

Stu Unger?
 

I thought they were making a movie about Stu Unger. Is that still in the works?

Re: Stu Unger?
 

High Roller: The Stu Unger Story. It was released on cable about 6-8 months ago. It wasn't so good although not totally awful.