well if anything, it might bring some business in to the 21 tables.
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If you want to learn something read a book. If you want entertainment without effort watch a movie.
Holly Wood has no civic duty to be accurate, or tell the real story. They are in the business of making money. The real MIT story would make a lousy movie. If you think this one was slow, just imagine how slow the real thing was. Sitting at a table for 7,8,9, or 10 hours playing through countless shoes until you finally get one that is +12, only to signal your partner in to get hammered by the dealer anyway. Just because the deck is heavy with faces, it doesn't mean you are going to get them and not the dealer. Just like any other business it is about the all mighty dollar. |
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Horn Hi go see the movie and you'll see that the scene you just described would be more entertaining than what they put out. They had a 5 minute scene of
the guy following a deck in his head like "okay a face card, thats -1, now the count is -1, okay another face card, now its -2, here is an eight, the
count is still -2, a deuce, which is +1, now the count is -1" and on and on and on. I understand they want to get the idea of counting across, but it was
like they were trying to put you to sleep. Hollywood doesn't have to be accurate, but they should atleast try to entertain. All of the most entertaining
aspects of the MIT students story weren't even included in the movie. They actually changed the story to be more boring.
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My wife is not in the business and she liked the movie. I read the book a few years ago and I thought the movie would be boring. It was watchable. Better
than No Country for Old Men.
Do you think their target market was table games employees? I think not. It plays very well to the uninformed public. Ask race car drivers if Days of Thunder was accurate or even entertaining, or police officers if the hunderds of movies are accurate. The movie will do ok in the box office. My only problem with the movie is that people are going to think that casinos still take people in the back room and beat the shit out of them. |
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My daughter, also not in the business (and never will be but we've had that conversation) liked the movie and was intrigued by the whole card counting
thing. Her friends liked it too and they all had lots of questions about what it was really like. They knew it wasn't realistic but didn't care.
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My only problem with the movie is that people are going to think that casinos still take people in the back room and beat the shit out of them. Its too bad that they DONT beat the shit out of players anymore......I think that if they made a few of them "examples", we (the dealers), would not be abused as we are.... |
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