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The Color of Money (1986)
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Can't Get No Respect
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"The Films:The Color of Money, Star Wars III: Revenge of the SithA back-to-back mentor bitch slap!Just when you think your surly pupils couldn't get anymore ungrateful for all your sacrifices, they betray you and beat you at your own game. And try to kill you. Sons-a-bitches..... One teaches by pool cue, one by light saber, but the story is the same. Where Fast Eddie says, "Money won is twice as sweet as money earned," Vince Lauria and Anakin Skywalker would simultaneously whine, "But it's thrrreeeeee times as AWESOME when you use your mentor’s best moves to trick him, take the easy route through the pool hall/the dark side and THEN win ANYWAY showing all the haters who doubted that I am really SO much better than stupid old meany-pants! That’ll show him not to misunderestimate me again!" These damn kids, so smug about their "powers," letting their egos get in the way of peace, justice, The Force, and pool hustling. A little humility for the greater good, c ... "
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Innocence
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"Moved from one Scorcese oddity the other night (The Color of Money), to another yesterday evening with this period piece. You can still see what drew him to the material - New York of the 1870s, betrayals and intrigue - almost a gentrified version of Goodfellas, where instead of getting 'wacked' you become a social outcast, excluded from invitations, gossiped about in smoking rooms, if you dare cross the line of honor and expected behavior. The opening 'ballroom' scene even reminded me a bit of the 'barroom introduction scene' in Goodfellas where the camera insinuates itself among the guests giving you little snippets of information about various characters.Newland (Daniel Day-Lewis) is such a wishy washy character to be put in the role of doomed lover, he secretly disapproves of the stiff conformity of his peers, yet never dares break from it completely, he longs for forbidden romance, yet can barely bring himself to make even the slightest moves towards ob ... "
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Hustled
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"Finding myself in a 'Paul Newman' mood lately. Recently re-watched 'The Verdict' a few weeks ago, then caught 'Hud' the other night on TCM, and then while shopping at Target the other day, I couldn't resist the 5.50 price tag on 'The Color of Money' in order to add to my Scorcese collection.The first time I watched this I would have been 24 years old, and saw it in the company of a friend 20 years my senior who fancied himself a 'pool afficienado', and I don't think I totally got the movie. It was flashy, it had a lot of great music, but being younger, I think I found myself seeing it as a 'wisdom vs. brash youth' flick with a particularly unlikable young Tom Cruise. But over the years I have come to have a certain fondness for this movie, and perhaps a clearer understanding. Like a fine scotch, it gets mellower with age. At the time I remember Scorcese getting a lot of grief for 'selling out' with this picture, it ha ... "
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