The Gambler

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Just watched it. it was meh and I found myself fast forwarding parts
 
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This was so bad. The basketball scene may have been the worst scene of the year holy shyt.
 
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Wargames said:
It was a shytty film. Keep in mind outside of Marky Mark everybody in the film was a good to great actor so for this film to be this shytty it speaks volumes on the source material, the director, and the script. The most noticeable shytty feature was the dialogue. it felt like it came from a novel. The second main flaw of the film was that at no point did Marky Mark's character show concern over the shyt he was in nor did they explain why he did what he did in the end.

I mean I guess in some Holden Caulfield teen rebellion type of way this whole film was suppose to be a cool movie about sticking it to the man, but it came off as douchy when you see a 40 year old do it. Especially when the 40 year old is supposed to be a character whose family is rich as fukk.

Not to mention when the main character who has the most lines is played by the actor with the least ability in the film. Its hard to convey why all these people who appear generally smart and capable overall give a fukk about him. They had grade A actors in 2 minute cameos throughout the whole film but they want you overlook Marky Mark (who should never have been casted as college professor again after he made the happening) using word such as obstreperous as an attempt to show how he is smart. Yet, he turns around and does the stupidest shyt ever. These same smart characters around him then inform him that he is stupid as fukk, but still then proceed to offer him even more money to lose. It just didn't make sense.

The only 2 redeeming aspects of the whole god damn movie was the "fukk you money" speech John Goodman gave (who gave a great performance considering the overall bad dialogue in the film) and the editing and cinematography of the basketball game scenes. Honestly I would of liked the movie more if they had focused on the 3 guys marky mark owed money too more than they focused on him.
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The bolded was the biggest foible of this film, IMO. Nobody talks like that (particularly Mark's character) and it's not done in a clever, compelling or engaging way. So, the exposition around the film ends up feeling useless and nonsensical opposed to :ohhh: status. Goodman was great, though.
 
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Just finished watching.

What a waste of good acting this movie was. I some what liked this movie, but just a awful script. This movie could have been so much better..
 
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I have a hard time judging it. The gambling scenes captured tension well and dude stole the show on his classroom rants, they were hilarious. They didn't fill out any of the characters or motives all that well though and the whole plot felt kind of pointless to me. It's like the definition of a 5 outta 10 movie, some good and some bad but in the end it was average as can be.
 
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damn this flick was garbage :scust:

omar & goodman had the only good scenes and that equaled about 10 minutes
 
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I liked it. I totally got Mark's self-loathing, looking for purpose in gambling aspect. I know the feeling, especially since I like to gamble too :yeshrug:
 
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