![]() Confidential/Wonder Boys/8 Mile/In Her Shoes run with this mostly hackneyed story of a superstar poker player (Eric Bana) with a complicated relationship with his even bigger superstar poker-player father (Robert Duvall). Made in the heat of the now-mercifully-cooled World Series of Poker craze, the late Curtis Hanson put an immediate halt to his terrific L.A. It’s maybe the most honest possible card game. The idea that such a game would exist basically sums up Las Vegas, and gambling in general. Clark is so bad at gambling that, at one point at a “discount” casino, he forks over $20 to play a game called “Pick a Number Between 1 and 10?” He guesses “4.” The dealer says “nope, 7,” and … just takes his money. Basically, Clark Griswold develops an addiction to gambling and is tormented by a card-dealer named Marty played - awesomely - by Wallace Shawn. But you’ll have to just indulge us on this one, because it has perhaps the single funniest, dumbest casino joke of all time. Luckily, a whole lot of them happen to be great movies all on their own.Īll right, so we know this isn’t a very good movie: It’s probably the worst Vacation movie, with the possible exception of that terrible reboot with Ed Helms. We veered more toward movies about the gambling. Few would argue that Rounders is better than Casino, but Casino is less about the gambling and more about the world in which that gambling takes place Rounders is definitely about the gambling. A note on methodology: We tried to make sure we emphasized the gambling over the movie. So, with the release of Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, we decided to take a look back at some of the best movies about gambling. They usually don’t end up with a calm home life upstate, counting their winnings. It’s not fun to watch someone be prudent and cautious, but to see someone constantly putting his well-being on the line in desperate, irrational hope for that One Big Score … well, gamblers in gambling movies are in many ways just like that veteran cop who takes One Last Case before retirement. Movies about gambling have an inherent drama because, by definition, they’re about risk. With two seasons of Outer banks out, this is enough to keep you patient as we wait for Dive Club season 2.This article originally ran in 2020 and is being republished ahead of the release of Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter. Since the series is based on the same premise at Outer Banks, you can also check it out on Netflix. The first season and its trailer are streaming on Netflix, and you can check it out. The trailer will be released once we have a set premiere date. Neither a trailer nor a teaser of the Australian series is yet to be released. Dive Club Season 2 Trailer: When can we watch it? Her decision will be a major drama to the story’s plot. Anna is at a tough spot she either chooses her fallacy legacy or supports her friends. Will he cut the ropes with a storm brewing over, or do the swimmers have to look for other alternatives to save themselves? The second season will see the girls reveal Volkov’s real identity to the community. When Stevie is handed a pocket knife just before they are left stranded, the series does not reveal what he does next. The first season did not reveal his fate, but we could expect to see him in the second season, still trying to save the girls. In the first season of ‘Dive Club,’ we saw Leonid help the girls find their friends despite being poisoned by Viktoria.
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