I guess it's been out for a long ass time but the battered bastards of baseball documentary was ****ing excellent.

+1 to this. Awesome doc.

Peep Show I believe to be one of the all-time great comedies so I'm trying Back, it's pretty good.

Battered Bastards of Baseball is ****ing awesome, and so is Kurt Russell come to think of it. I'd say he's an underrated living legend at this point.

Deadwood I found unwatchable for the showy look-at-me-I'm-a-great-writer dialogue. More wild west, less David Milch.

Buncha savages.

i also enjoyed it very much and also agree it's not elite...must be the cajun blood in me

absolutely fantastic movie.

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Speaking of the Mavericks, I watched Maverick last night and that movie holds up! I've been on a poker movie kick, so Maverick came after Cincinnati Kid and Rounders.

I saw a lot of love for CK online, but I don't really get it. It was a decent movie, but there just wasn't anything spectacular about it for me. Some of the plot points were even quite bad, imo. CK spoilers...

Come to mention it, Maverick's final hand was way worse. But oh well, Maverick takes itself less seriously, anyway. And Rounders' final hand - well, there's nothing wrong with that imo.

I'd say Rounders>>Maverick>>>>>>>CK with the caveat that they're not really in the same genre.

I hereby request any and all poker movie recommendations. I already saw Win it All btw, and it sucked.

California Split is old school good.

They play poker in The Sting and its one of my t5 movies, but I wouldn't really call it a poker movie.

Yea, California Split, especially the beginning and then when they go to Reno. It's still available on Prime.

I always like Lucky You, but some don't. Yea, I like Maverick.

The Grand has its moments.

Yes this was fun, tough to imagine anyone not enjoying this.

I mean, California Split is amazing and probably my 2nd favourite gambling movie ever (after The Hustler), but moreso of a gambling movie than a poker one (despite draw poker being part of it). I would have to say Mississippi Grind has to be the most interesting poker movie after Rounders, with perhaps Molly's Game... In the next tier, High Roller : the Stu Ungar story is fine.

City on a Hill is finally back for season 2 on Showtime this Sunday after 1.5 years. It's good, with Kevin Bacon.

Season 1 is on Prime only until the end of this month, and also Showtime on demand.

The Music of Chance is another "not a poker movie" that features poker pretty prominently.

I watched Mississippi Grind semi-recently on a rec from this thread I think. Thought Ryan Reynolds was good, but just found myself unable to root for the degen POS character playing opposite him. Just found his character to be a scumbag with no redeeming quality or values and not even really likable.

I think there could have been a much better story in that movie with more of a schlubby degen on his last chance to pull himself out of the fire or something. One man's tepid opinion.

Read the book but never got to see the movie, unfortunately...

I love Mississippi Grind. I wouldn't call it a poker movie but the poker shown in it comes off as authentic to the characters and the acting is quite great. Ben Mendelsohn plays that type of degenerate character really well. I loved him in the first season of Bloodline as well in which he plays a similar character. It's definitely one of my favorite movies with gambling shown at the forefront.

The other two great gambling movies I'd recommend would be The Hustler and it's sequel The Color of Money. Alot of similarities to Rounders in The Color of Money. The Hustler is just great and more similar to something like Mississippi Grind. A bit more about the characters. Overall definitely worth the time is you haven't caught them yet.

I'll have to look. thanks for the advice

seriously? Every hand in that movie is atrociously bad.

How do you figure? McDermott's table talk in the first hand is super bad - "I don't think you got the spades" on a paired board... - but the action itself seemed fine. Same with the last hand. I think McDermott raised or called a raise preflop with 89spades, checked his straight, then let Teddy bet into him all 3 streets. What's wrong with that?

Exactly. He knew his man well enough to check it the whole way.

I think Rounders realized from CK/Maverick/etc that the big hand at the end had to be a trap, not some dumb, outlandish hand.

Extra bump on California Split, George Segal gone now.

I dunno if mikes table talk is worse than teddy smugly calling and walking off with only the second nuts.

Tho his table talk on the last hand definitely is, putting him on a draw and then massively overshoving because mike couldn't have gotten there.

1) Rounders is a movie for the general public, not people who've played millions of hands of poker. If you were a flight attendant, would you get pissy about every scene in a movie that doesn't really nail the reality of your job?

2) It's from the 90's, when people knew nothing about poker compared to today.

Yeah. It's like an MMA fan complaining about the inaccuracies of Bloodsport.

Bloodsport is basically a documentary.
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