Rounders the film

semibluff

Rounders the film is starting on film4 +1 at 12.15 if anyones interested.

i for one have never seen the full version


mods delete this in few hours if you want

Mr.Plough

used to love that movie.

alot of it makes me cringe now though

hotspur

semibluff wrote: »

i for one have never seen the full version

Ban please

semibluff

lol - well unless you eat oreo's at the table, i dont see the relevance!

Pride Fighter

Long live Theodore FSB:D as he likes to be called now!!

Basq

I love Rounders..

Still more accurate than most poker films!

Mellor

basquille wrote: »

I love Rounders..

Still more accurate than most poker films!

And at the same time less accurate.
The reading ability of the scene with the Judges is funny,

semibluff

" in the poker game of life - women are the rake!"

would this be time for my first qft? lol

Mr.Plough

semibluff wrote: »

" in the poker game of life - women are the rake!"

would this be time for my first qft? lol

lol. think someone has that as their sig around here

Ste05

hotspur wrote: »

Ban please

Seriously considering it.. :rolleyes:

cooker3

I think it is pretty poor tbh, way overhyped

Unfortunately one of the victims of when me and Karlh stopped being flatmates...
Hate loosing dvds and stuff when you out of a gaff...

m83

Mr.Plough wrote: »

used to love that movie.

alot of it makes me cringe now though

So true. Oh to be a fish again.... wait a sec, I still am

zuutroy

Watched it just the other night...Its OK...but not brilliant.

El Stuntman

Rounders is OK but I far prefer 'Rounders123 - The Cash Game'

loads more action, more realistic and a convincing performance by the lead who gives a sensitive portrayal of an innocent abroad, an autistic idiot savant who somehow gets lured into a cash game in Drogheda with some very shady characters (Big City Banker makes a great cameo appearance). The hapless hero stumbles thorugh all sorts of hilarious trials and tribulations, he then falls in love with a beautiful Polish dealer who rebuffs his clumsy advances but it all comes good in the end when he seduces her with his encyclopedic knowledge of movie trivia and then beats the villain out of a monster pot, slowrolling a straight flush for good measure.

A true classic!

coolhandc

i think its an excellent under rated movie.ive watched it dozens of times,just the other night was my last time&i was playing on stars at the same time.after it was over i watched it again with the commentary on it!haha!

Washout

The moral of the movie is BankRoll Management is the heartbeat of the your game.

DeadParrot

I suppose someone had to post it



EuroRounders

Michel (voiceover): "If you can't find the boorish American hold'em player at the table within half an hour, you are the boorish American hold'em player."

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TITLE/CREDITS. This entire movie is in black and white, with subtitles.

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Michel (voiceover): "This game is really scummy, and well above what I can afford to play. My entire bankroll is riding on this one session going well. This is Teddy CIA's place, where they only play Pot Limit Omaha, the most sophisticated game in Europe."

- Michel knocks on the window -

Teddy CIA: "You want poker, or whore?"

Michel: "Poker. Give me three stacks of high, elitist society."

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Michel: "I raise."

Teddy CIA: "It's a position raise. I call."

- The flop comes 5-7-A, with two diamonds -

Michel: "I bet the pot."

Teddy CIA: "I raise the pot."

Michel: "I reraise the pot."

Teddy CIA: "I reraise the pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel (voiceover): "I sit back and think. I have three aces - the best possible hand. I want him to think I'm debating a call, but really I'm just thinking about Monte Carlo, and whatever the **** is in Monte Carlo."

Michel: *shrugs* "Okay, well, I re-pot it, I'm all in, because I don't think you have a pair." *winks at the camera*

Teddy CIA: "Who are you winking at? It doesn't matter, I call."

Michel (voiceover): "I know before he even says it."

Teddy CIA: "I have 8-6-4-3 with two diamonds, for a wrap straight draw and a flush draw, which is a favorite over your top set."

- Turn is a King. River is a 2 which gives Teddy CIA an ace-to-five straight for the win. -

- Michel sits there, shell-shocked. -

Joey Croissant: "Come on, I'll get you a whore."

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Michel (voiceover): "Well, that sucked. Since then, I've sworn off of poker and made my living as a roadside prostitute for boorish American tourists. Hopefully, I can pay my way through law school that way. I can always find games, though. I could turn this truck onto the road and be at the Taj in 19 and a half hours."

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Michel (voiceover): "I'm here to pick my friend Worm up from prison."

- Worm walks out of prison -

Michel: "Worm! It's wonderful to see you!"

- They kiss each other passionately on the mouth -

Michel: "How was prison?"

Worm: "I was brutally sodomized on a regular basis."

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Michel: "Look...Croissant, I never told you this, but about a year ago, I was playing poker at the Casino des Atlantes, and Marcel Luske walks in. He sits down at the 50/100 pot limit game. And, I mean, the whole place stops, right? Just watching this guy play. After a while there isn't a retarded European gambling game going, because everybody's just, you know, watching this guy."

- Joey Croissant nods -

Michel: "So you know what I did? I sat down."

Joey Croissant: "No way, you need at least 300,000 euros to sit down at a game like that. Such bad financial management is typical of a boorish American!"

- Joey Croissant and Michel laugh for twenty-six minutes -

Michel: "Right, okay, but seriously, I played for an hour, doing nothing but folding. Then I won a huge pot."

Joey Croissant: "Aces? Kings? Ace-King doublesuited? Suited aces? High connectors? Middle doublesuited connectors? Two big pair?"

Michel: "Rags."

Joey Croissant: "That's probably fine too, you're only like a 48/52 dog."

Michel: "I raised. And he came over the top of me, like I was a boorish American. I re-popped it. He potted it again. I think for like two seconds and then I re-pot it."

Joey Croissant: "Jesus ****ing Christ, how much money did you have?"

Michel: "After I bet I would quietly slide my chips back toward my stack, nobody noticed. Anyway, he thinks for a while, looks at me, checks his cards again, and he mucks. I take it down. And then he looks at me and says, 'I have to know. Did you have it?' And I said, 'I'm sorry Marcel, I can't remember.'"

Joey Croissant: "Face!"

Michel: "I know, totally. Anyway, based on that one hand, I felt confident gambling for all the money I had, at one time."

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Law Professor: "I am a Jew."

Michel: "I hate you."

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Teddy CIA: "We play, heads up, Pot Limit Omaha, 25 and 50 blinds, until one of us has it all?"

Michel: "Out of sheer curiosity, you realize you're giving up like boat loads of equity by agreeing to gamble for money that's effectively yours anyway, right? That you could just not let me play, and then kill me and take what I have?"

Teddy CIA: "I know, but I am a boorish American!"

- Michel and Teddy CIA laugh for seventy-two minutes -

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Michel (voiceover): "I pick up Ace-Ace-Jack-Ten doublesuited."

Michel: "I raise the pot."

Teddy CIA: "Very aggressive. But, I reraise the pot."

Michael (voiceover): "He's representing Ace-Ace-King-King doublesuited, the only hand better than mine. I can't call, and give him a chance to catch. I can only fold...if I believe him."

Michel: "I reraise, I'm all in."

Teddy CIA: "Take it down."

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- The flop reads 10-9-5, with two spades -

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot."

Teddy CIA: "Pot."

Michel: "Pot. I'm all in."

Teddy CIA: "Alright, I call. What do you have?"

Michel: "Jack high flush draw and middle set."

Teddy CIA: "Wrap, with a king high flush draw."

Michel: "Boy, I sure hope my 5:4 edge holds up, otherwise I am going to die."

- Turn is an off-suit 5, giving Michel an unbeatable hand. But the river is the ace of spades anyway, because it's always the ****ing ace of spades. -

Teddy CIA: "He beat me. Pay that man his money. His silly, silly-looking European money."

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Cab Driver: "Where are you off to?"

Michel: "Monte Carlo."

Cab Driver: "Good luck."

Michel: "Shut the **** up."

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FIN

Washout

Lol DP. one of the funniest things Ive ever read.

shrapnel222

http://www.teddykgb.org/

strewelpeter

At the risk of getting a lifetime ban:
I thought this was the most overrated movie ever.
The acting is appalling - I mean really stinky bad. Damon, Mol, Malkovich and Norton compete for the hammiest most cliché ridden performance. Norton just edges out Malkovich for the Raspberry, his completely unconvincing effort at playing Damons reckless friend was so bad as to outshine Malkovich's (was it a comedy performance ?) accent.
The plot is paint by numbers and the outcome of each scene is wholly predictable. The entire plot is hung an a premise that the rest of the movie contradicts.
Just because the portrayal of poker in a movie wasn't complete and utter drivel, because it had some relation to the reality of the game does not make it a great movie.

cardshark202

I still enjoy this film. Ed norton is the man! Mods please ban strewelpeter.

ghost-snot

strewelpeter wrote: »

At the risk of getting a lifetime ban:
I thought this was the most overrated movie ever.
The acting is appalling - I mean really stinky bad. Damon, Mol, Malkovich and Norton compete for the hammiest most cliché ridden performance. Norton just edges out Malkovich for the Raspberry, his completely unconvincing effort at playing Damons reckless friend was so bad as to outshine Malkovich's (was it a comedy performance ?) accent.
The plot is paint by numbers and the outcome of each scene is wholly predictable. The entire plot is hung an a premise that the rest of the movie contradicts.
Just because the portrayal of poker in a movie wasn't complete and utter drivel, because it had some relation to the reality of the game does not make it a great movie.

shup up u idiot, its a great film the best poker film you will ever see, i hate all these people talking s**t, you won't see a better poker film!

strewelpeter

cardshark202 wrote: »

I still enjoy this film. Ed norton is the man! Mods please ban strewelpeter.

I Swear to Jaysus, its only cause I don't know you personally that I didn't make the line read:
...his completely unconvincing effort at doing a Cardshark202 impression was so bad as to ...

zuutroy

Malkovich was a joke in fairness. It sounded like he had a ping-pong ball in his mouth every time he spoke.

Ardent

Good film. Apart from the scene with Johnny Chan though. Bluffing off your entire bankroll on one hand doesn't validate your ability as a poker player, regardless of who it was against..!

Seeing this film got me more into poker when it came out but I hate it now. When you know how to play in a competent way this film is garbage if you dont it attracts you to the game. Thats my view.


If you all want to see a good hand in a poker movie then watch 'The Sting'' . Its an oldie but theres a very funny hand when Robert Redford out-cheats Robert Shaw.

Mr.Plough

yeah didn't he sit in a 200/400 game with 6k and 5bet chan off a pot pf.

lol chans a fish

semibluff

limit? but then you cant 5bet afaik (which is fuk all)

also whilst playing heads up, at one stage he "doubles the big blind" ie min raised - cringe!!

belgo27

If you want to see a good poker film, watch "lucky you", very good...

no im kidding, its a big load of bollox

semibluff

loved the bit were they are all sitting at the table in atlantic city, joking about why the fk did they all travel this far to play each other, and then the fish walk over, everybody shuts and and goes to work . . .

ever will admit theyve been in that situation before . . . and if you havnt, then perhaps it was you who was just sitting down

brilliant

busted flush

this movie is like a bad wine opened on a monday night , just about drinkable but by wed night pure vinegar! still though you cant help but drink it.

Lazare

What's with all the strangers in this thread?

Basq

Lazare wrote: »

What's with all the strangers in this thread?

Isn't it obvious?

Movie fans (who aren't necessarily big into Poker) who just saw the thread title pop up on the main page decide to voice in their opinion on 'Rounders'

Lazare

basquille wrote: »

Isn't it obvious?

Movie fans (who aren't necessarily big into Poker) who just saw the thread title pop up on the main page decide to voice in their opinion on 'Rounders'

I know, I was just being a smartarse.


Now feck off out of my forum. Make sure you knock the next time.

DeadParrot

Lazare wrote: »

I know, I was just being a smartarse.


Now feck off out of my forum. Make sure you knock the next time.

He wont let you watch TV now
no more Heroes or Prison Break etc for you sunshine

Basq

Lazare wrote: »

I know, I was just being a smartarse.


Now feck off out of my forum. Make sure you knock the next time.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooohhh.. handbags at dawn!

cooker3

DeadParrot wrote: »

He wont let you watch TV now
no more Heroes or Prison Break etc for you sunshine

He needs something to write about now there is no tv thanks to that writers strike, give him some hope

Pride Fighter

shrapnel222 wrote: »

http://www.teddykgb.org/

Cool website LOL!

m83

Washout wrote: »

Lol DP. one of the funniest things Ive ever read.

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hahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!! Brilliant!

Captain Tom

DeadParrot wrote: »

Michel: "Right, okay, but seriously, I played for an hour, doing nothing but folding. Then I won a huge pot."

Joey Croissant: "Aces? Kings? Ace-King doublesuited? Suited aces? High connectors? Middle doublesuited connectors? Two big pair?"

Michel: "Rags."

Joey Croissant: "That's probably fine too, you're only like a 48/52 dog."

lollll this never gets old

hotspur

I watched Rounders again last night, you just can't resist it. I love the colour in that film, I don't know anything about cinematography but every scene looked good thanks to a vibrant sheen.

What I started doing earlier to post but got bored and stopped was using Youtube footage of the final hand with an audio overlay of Tony G in the Intercontinental Cup.
So this footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFF3E0Aqdlc

With this audio:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvCn_KbLpLY

murdog!

hilarious

Fatboydim

Rounders is a poor Movie.

It had Malkovich , Norton and Damon - All good actors. It was about poker a subject I love. But it still stinks. Poor plotting. Cartoon characters lacklustre dialogue.

I have no doubt there will be better films made about poker.

It's fine for people to like it - because it's about poker - but as a movie it is full of contradictions and flaws.

It's like claiming this is the best film ever made about football.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083284/fullcredits#cast

a-k-47

how did he sit there and take that abuse?!?!!?

RoundTower

Fatboydim wrote: »

It's like claiming this is the best film ever made about football.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083284/fullcredits#cast

lol I was going to post "if it's not Escape to Victory then of course it's not the best film ever about football", then I checked the link.

POKERKING

rounders is a decent film, at least it was ahead of the time. If you want to see a bad poker film as someone already mentioned check out 'lucky you' i seen it in cinema a while back and quite possibly worse film of all time about anything!!:)