A second 1998 screening for this evening: "Rounders" (1998)

What kind of hijinks will these poker players get into?

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#GottaBeRound #RoundandAround #RoundersLife #PokerFilm

Hi, I'm Alan and I'll be commenting on this film. #Oers19

This is bull

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A Miramax joint #metoo

Title design preserves a lot of early '90s OK-Soda style minimalism #Oers19

This is setting up a world. I love it. #Oers19

This movie makes *extensive* use of surround sound channels thus far. #Oers19

The world they build is a crappy rec room in which a bunch of middle aged men sit on folding chairs #Oers19

This reminds me of Quarks bar #Oers19 #DS9

But rendered in perfect surround sound. That's ambience. #Oers19

Malkovich's character has two funny quirks so far:

1) Russian accident

2) LOVES Oreos!

What will we see added to this before the movie ends #Oers19

I love the idea of eating mint Oreos and playing poker. What a beautiful scene. #Oers19

Oreos look like poker chips. I imagine that this will create a funny comedy routine at some point

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A lot of exposition to explain poker to non-poker players

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I like that this movie was made before hold'em poker got huge. The Cadillac of Poker. #Oers19

I like the world of Damon delivering supplies to convenience stories on his two-wheelers far more than I enjoy the world of poker

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That's the compelling duality this movie presents. #Oers19

We now enter the legal world.

My ranking of how compelling this is:

1) Delivery logistics

2) The legal world

3) Poker

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Matt Damon is psychic #Oers19

I want to get deep into the world of Matt Damon poker. #Oers19

"What kind of job is that going to be? Writing an opinion paper on high-stakes poker?" #ClassicMovieLines #Oers19

For a girlfriend ribbing her boyfriend (if he's a law student who's also obsessed with poker), this is the *ultimate* burn #Oers19

Upside-down horseshoe on Matt Damon's door. A sign of bad luck? Nice detail. #Oers19

Edward Norton on-screen. We're in it now. #Oers19

From the lowliest convict to the highliest judge, poker is beloved by all

#wow #woah

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$220 = 11 bets. Everyone knows this. #Oers19

I have concerns that, with just 11 bets, that Worm won't be able to get a table here. And he's already behind! #Oers19

Matt Damon has even less. Here we go. #Oers19

A disagreement has arisen in the room: some people enjoy the minimalist, crappy film-noir dialogue that Damon does

Others (myself) enjoy the rambling, repetitive, pointless and tedious dialogue scenes with Worm

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Drink on-screen! We have a... grenadine and soda? #Oers19

People now call this a "Rounders Cocktail" #Oers19

Damon is totally whipped by his girlfriend, who doesn't understand how cool poker is, what a shrew

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"You can sheer a sheep many times, but skin him only once." #ClassicMovieLines #Oers19

The city has a good ratio of underground poker dens:residents, roughly 25:1 or so #Oers19

"Now I know what real work is." #ClassicMovieLines #Oers19

I think Worm is going to end up dead if he keeps this up. #Oers19

But if he keeps up this winning streak, he may end up ... rich! #Oers19

Every frame a painting. #OnePerfectShot #Oers19

[originally embedded a frame of the film, a crowded bar scene including a guy with an orange and brown sweater. -ed.]

The 1990s: a golden age for brown-and-orange clothing #Oers19

This movie makes a strong case that poker is a skill game. #LegalizePoker #PokerIsNotACrime #Oers19

Good demonstration of the importance of extending credit to subprime applicants #Oers19

"What are you drinking?" "Gin, always gin." #Oers19

Martin Landau has a fifth of gin and is pouring drinks in the middle of a bar. Curious about the logistics here #Oers19

Matt Damon lost his poker-hating girlfriend, as well as his bedsheets. Ouch

#Ouch

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"You know what they always say, in the poker game of life, women are the rake!"

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Good cameo by the @RealDonaldTrump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City #Oers19

We're off to Atlantic City! Hell yeah! #Oers19

Worm enjoying a comped meal, including plentiful soy sauce. Hell yeah #Oers19

Texas v Johnson? What the fuck is Matt Damon talking about

Stick with cards, pokerboy

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And watch Rounders (1998)

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[quote-tweeted a serious legal tweet saying "Read Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)." -ed.]

Matt Damon is watching some mid-80s poker broadcast somehow, and is now visited by Barbara 2

Okay, it's the 1988 world series

This movie sucks

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Edward Norton is really good in this

The grind of tedious exposition is extremely bad

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We haven't had any good delivery scenes in about an hour #Oers19

An Earful of Rounders. I can see it now. #Oers19 #EarfulofRounders

I'd rather do Antz #EarfulofAntz #Oers19

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I think we're on the verge of something big. It's all been character development so far. Now it's time to go for the big score. #Oers19

This film does a commendatory job of making poker seem really unsexy, just absolutely boring #Oers19

If there's a poker game happening anywhere in the city, Matt Damon is there. #Oers19

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The stakes of Worm cheating at cards is more compelling than the grind of just playing poker

More cheating, please

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Worm is probably dead. RIP Worm. Very sad. #Oers19

I do not like this movie #Oers19

Prediction: he's going to lose the $10k, going to buy back in with his remaining $5k, and make back the $15k he needs to pay the debt. #Oers19

He's going to parlay the $15k into a cool million, which he will use to buy a private island

Then his ex-girlfriend will show up, and he'll be like, "jealous?" and it'll be so cool

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What Barbara number are we on?

The movie's lesson is that your best bud, is the Ultimate Barbara

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I really want to get some Oreos and play some poker now. #Oers19

It's been a while since we've seen Worm. #Oers19

Matt Damon is so good at poker, that everybody respects him now

Damn, just like a boss

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Hell yeah, Counting Crows in the closing credits.

What a fucking movie

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It wasn't a great movie, but it sure did include some great poker. #Oers19