... is just stupid.
To lose to the "best money player around" by only one ball would not mean an "astronomical payoff at the end". If word would get to the players in the big tournament about this match, word would also get to the players in the tournament about how Vince almost beat him. Doesn't make any sense at all. This has always bothered me.
Yeah but that was not the intention remember? Eddie wanted him to lose badly but Vince ignored that advice again and wanted to win until his gf told him to lose, so he just lost narrowly in the end
shareWhy should we believe Eddie was such an expert on pool halls and pool players when he didn't even know that the first place he took them was a furniture store? The whole movie is dated and flakey - to use Eddie's term. The dialogue doesn't make sense half the time like which twin has the tony and Vincent taking about the guy in the bible with the many colored coats. I had to ask on the forums to have that line about the Tony explained. I grew up in he 80s and never saw the ad which Eddie was apparently referring to and Vincent's dialogue is just bizarre. The fact he is nuts on Stalker video game is also weird. I played a lot of arcade video games and never saw that. Right next to it was Tron a far more iconic game. And why is Carmen content to sit holding Vincent's coat and money watching him do nothing but play video games and pool? And he does not even know how to hustle people. He just goes full on and runs the table like six games in a row and does the baton twirling with his stick and then wonders why nobody wants to play him? What's the matter with this guy, as he said if Julian?
shareThe video game is Stocker. Vincent had to make the dump obvious to the movie crowd.
shareThat's a really good point, lost on these other dolts.
shareAlso he did it in too obvious a way putting high English on the cue ball and causing a scratch. Grady Seasons would have noticed it unless he was asleep or drunk - not paying attention. The whole idea of Eddie to make the odds lower isn't very plausible. How does he know what pool halls or players it would be safe to hustle or beat badly? he had been out of circulation for decades and didn't even know that his favorite pool hall a short drive away was now a furniture store or thrift shop.
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