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I thought it was good overall but I agree that for about the first hour, it seemed like it was headed for being a great one and definitely lost some momentum and altitude before recovering somewhat at the end.
I liked it (7/10) but there’s no doubt the plot is convoluted. Some people are probably better than I am at remembering names of characters talked about while they are offscreen, and would have an easier time.
Meh, I think you were right in your middle paragraph about both men having bad and good characteristics. Which makes it hard for me to see them as night and day.
It’s not bad, but have you seen those others?
Fairly sure it’s satire.
Yes.
There was some stuff like that (also some of the later scenes with Piper Laurie) where they got stuck in that more stilted, old-fashioned kind of preachy, overly obvious moviemaking style. Whereas earlier in the picture it was more modern and naturalistic.
Agreed.
This.
I thought maybe it was all a hustle, that Eddie only pretended to lose and beg to keep playing.
I thought Bert and Eddie were hustling Findlay, pretending Eddie was unable to compete in this kind of game until Findlay upped the ante.
It’s funny anyone would even have to ask. They made it as obvious as the censors would allow in those days.
Because it’s good but not THAT good. 8/10
He didn’t owe Bert money. Bert got his $9K, 75%.
She was great until he told her about Louisville, after which her character became an overwrought mess.
I thought their relationship was a highlight of the film until a little past halfway, when she became maudlin and melodramatic and dragged the movie down. Her emotionally troubled nature could have been portrayed more subtly.
Ha, great INTERSTELLAR callback! Well played.
Good points.
Yeah, it was weird. Where were the enemies? Was their aim as bad as stormtroopers?
Agree 100%. So the beginning of INTERSTELLAR was really stupid, and the ending was BTW very stupid in a completely different way. There was some cool stuff in between though.