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Jun 27, 2014
Representations of card counting range from the rousing to the ridiculous so we take a look at 7 of the very best.
Earlier this year those nice people over at the Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino had to ask that Hollywood hunk Ben Affleck to stop playing blackjack at their tables citing the fact that he was counting cards…too obviously.
The Hangover: The Movie That Shows The Fun Of Vegas. First of all, what you need to know about The Hangover (2009) is that this movie is awesome. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should be ashamed of yourself It’s just about 100 minutes of one laugh after another.
Do these lucky 7 get portrayals of card counting right?
• What else do Kevin Costner and Kevin Spacey have in common? • Which actor has the best casino table manners? • Where will Affleck take his affliction next?
Hangover Casino Scene
Well what did they expect from Mr. Affleck? Acting? He’s never shown any ability in that regard before so why did they think he’d manage under pressure at the blackjack tables?
Mr. Affleck should stick to online blackjack tournaments if he can’t keep it on the down low. Of course Hollywood has always had a fascination for gambling.
From “The Sting” to “The Hangover” gambling is a big part of the dramatic repertoire and whilst not every movie can reach the dazzling heights of “Casino” with Robert De Niro and Sharon Stone, there are plenty of others to choose from.
But in tribute to Mr Affleck’s lack of thespian prowess let’s look at some of the portrayals of card counting that have graced the silver screen in our Top 7 Card Counting Movies.
Stacy’s Knights
Starring Kevin Costner, and the distinctly foxy Andra Millian, this 1983 classic concerns Stacy, a young novice, who our Kev teaches to count cards in order that she has that edge necessary for winning at blackjack.
Unfortunately corrupt casino bosses (don’t you just hate ’em?) not only set cheating dealers on her but actually have Will killed leaving Stacy with no absolutely no alternative but to put together a team of players and get her revenge. Most popular gambling games.
Holy Rollers
When someone tells you there’s a 2011 movie about committed Christians counting cards in casinos it can be tempting to make sure they’re not holding any sharp objects and that you know precisely where all the exits are.
It sounds so implausible, and yet Holy Rollers is that movie. Is it a documentary or a badly scripted drama? Are they hypocrites or heroes? Is prayer a blackjack strategy? You decide. If nothing else it’ll leave you wondering, “Where would Jesus gamble?”
The Hot Shoe
This 2005 documentary by the Director David Layton charts the history of blackjack card counting. Mixing interviews with gambling authors, casino employees and card counters themselves (including that bunch of guys from MIT) and reviews the math behind these smart strategies.
He then goes on to practice what he’s been preached by learning to count cards and gambling $5000 of the films budget. How did he make out? You’ll have to see it to get the answer to that one.
The Last Casino
A professor recruits three bright students, teaches them to count blackjack cards then sets out on a spree. Sound familiar? It should.
Excellent performances in this 2004 film from Charles Martin Smith, Katharine Isabelle and Kris Lemche more than make up for a slightly made-for-TV feel and a card counting system that probably wouldn’t work anywhere anymore.
Breaking Vegas
Although a 2004 dramatic recreation of the MIT teams now legendary pursuits this documentary styled film doesn’t overly egg the theme with good performances from the “actors” and a nice pacing that lends itself to the mood.
If they don’t explain the blackjack tips in enough mathematical detail for many it’s still an excellent watch for a movie that could have done with a slightly larger budget and perhaps just a little more substance to add to the quite piquant atmosphere.
Rain Man
Couldn’t leave everyone’s favorite card counter out of the list, could I? Of course I couldn’t. With four Oscars, two Golden Globes and an Eddie award to its credit there’s no good reason to sit down and watch this.
A 1988 classic about an autistic savant and his less than perfect brother and their helter-skelter journey across the USA with an inheritance in the balance it has it all. Dustin Hoffman is superb, Tom Cruise is actually watchable, and the card scenes are so fabulous they’re now part of blackjack history. A must see.
21
The 2008 incarnation of that now age old story sees Kevin Spacey train a bunch of bright MIT students in blackjack tricks and card counting. A lavish production with some excellent cameos from the likes of Lawrence Fishburne, this movie bounces neatly between high energy casino scenes and the emotional drama behind cunningly created facade.
Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess handle their complex roles with suitable professionalism for their age and if the dramatic license taken with real life events means there’s not much of the original true story left, it doesn’t spoil the effect. Worth a watch.
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teddys
Most of them suck. Here are the ones I hate: -21. 'Nuff said. Gets just about everything wrong about card counting. -Rain Man and The Hangover for the same reason, except worse. ('Nobody can count into a six deck shoe!') -Casino Royale (2008 version) and The Cincinnati Kid, for their ridiculously improbable final poker hands. -Maverick, for the same reason. -The Bounty Hunter. Really, you are the world's greatest gambler and the best way to make 5K is to stack it up on the pass line? The one scene that I did like was in the first reel of Indecent Proposal, where Demi Moore and Robert Redford play craps and baccarat at the LV Hilton. That actually made sense. ('What we want--what we need--is a nine.' 'Just throw a seven. Eleven works too.') Most of the earlier James Bond movies get it right, too, and the original Casino Royale has a great baccarat scene.
'Dice, verily, are armed with goads and driving-hooks, deceiving and tormenting, causing grievous woe.' -Rig Veda 10.34.4
NicksGamingStuff
How about all the Vegas Vacation scenes with Rusty being Mr. Papagorgio? Those were fun yet highly unlikely to ever happen!
FleaStiff
Most of them suck. Here are the ones I hate ..
I think most gamblers are quite realistic in their views and any 'hated' gambling scene would be one that is absurdly improbable and annoyingly unrealistic. Unfortunately, Hollywood directors want something memorable, not realistic. What would a realistic gambling scene really be? A drunken player? A bored dealer? An obnoxious security guard? A room key that doesn't work? A slatternly woman reeking of beer and sweat instead of a 'Pretty Woman' type hooker? Or would a realistic gambling scene simply be an unremarkable montage featuring routine dice rolls without anything special? An average player at BJ losing twenty-five dollars? An average looking girl at a different type of twenty-five dollar BJ? A Tray Lizard from Kentucky massaging her sore feet while on a break and then going home to screaming kid in a trailer? A waitress getting stiffed? A lonesome loser going to a Narcotics Anonymous 12-step meeting? A boxman who falls asleep? A dealer who gets hit by the dice and just stands there at his minimum wage job? I think the best Hollywood scenes about gamblers are the ones not shot in casinos or any gambling situation.
Mosca
Best: The scene in Casino when Sharon Stone clips the guy's stack, then throws the chips in the air when the jig is up. The final gambling scene in The Cooler, not for its realism but for the way the film puts the guy's entire life on the line as the stakes, and makes you feel it. I was sweating that roll just as if I had my own life on the table. Great job, Macy.
Nareed
Funniest gambling scenes: 1) On a cruise, Bender sets the dice inside his hand and throws. He loses, and says, 'My cheating unit malfunctioned! I want a do-over.' The dealer answers, 'House limit is two do-overs.' 2)Homer Simpson on the phone: 'Vegas? Put ten on black!' Short time passes, then: 'D'oh!.. Yes, I'll send you a check.'
FleaStiff
-Maverick, for the same reason.
Johnny Cash on camera for five seconds? Some real gamblers in cameo appearances I understand, but don't think I saw the movie. There was some movie of long ago about a newspaperman in Los Angeles assigned to write about compulsive gamblers when unknown to his editor he himself is compulsive gambler. I can't recall the film but its got to have something since it was nominated for FOUR awards for bad films. The Grifters: I don't recall much of the film. Some horse racing stuff in it. Some dice cheats. I don't recall any scenes as being particularly good but supposedly the final scene made one star vomit uncontrollably. An earlier scene involved a Bookie burning his tout with a cigar to her hand for having saved her son's life instead of laying off the bookie's bets on time. A film I can't recall the title of, but it involved compulsive gamblers one of whom would bet with cab drivers for the fare and who got driven to a rough part of town just so he could have the thrill of taking on a pimp armed with a knife when he himself was unarmed. The one good gambling scene was when a Bookie came round to collect some funds and the muscle accompanying the Bookie just stood there in the background and said nothing. Good casting. He looked threatening by just standing in the background but was not some musclebound heavy. Film about the MIT folks who trained by dumping about twenty pounds of ice cubes over a card counter to see if it would break his concentration. I laughed at such nonsense. How many casinos are going to dump twenty pounds of ice on a blackjack player? Next, with Nicholas Gage as a psychic magician playing Blackjack and getting caught within about ten seconds of entering the casino because he won his first hand.
AZDuffman
I like most of the scenes in 'Rounders' though sometimes on TV the card playing scenes are edited out for some reason. Also like Nicky Santoro's 'hit me again' rant mostly because that one actually happened.
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mkl654321
'21' is a farce, and a wildly inaccuarate one, at that. 'Rain Man' is absurd, for several reasons. The stupid final hands in the Cincinnati Kid and Maverick shoot those films in the foot. 'Casino' is just, well, stupid ('fact-based', my ass), though it does show how an otherwise shrewd and perceptive man can have his brain shorted out by his dick. I liked the scene in 'Starman' where Jeff Bridge's character tweaks a slot machine to get a jackpot. People tried this with magnets for years :) I also liked the casino scenes in 'National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation' because the way Clark Griswold got treated every time he stepped up to the table seemed, in some way, brutally realistic. As far as poker scenes go, I love the railroad car poker game in 'The Sting'. The battle of the cheats--and you NEVER see the result coming. And not that it's a gambling movie per se, but the people who wrote and produced 'Leaving Las Vegas' should be boiled alive. Characters such as those have never existed, and never will exist, in human history.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.---George Bernard Shaw
teddys
AZ -- I forgot about the Casino scene with Joe Pesci at the 21 table. That has to be my absolute favorite gambling scene, because it shows somebody losing, and getting angry! Now THAT'S realism. The Sting is an all-around terrific movie. Nothing in that movie is bad -- probably one of the best movies of the century and definitely the best gambling movie. A often-forgotten scene in that movie is in the first reel when Robert Redford's character is cheated at roulette in the back-alley casino. Another good movie that shows the losing side of gambling is Owning Mahoney. There is not a lot of actual gaming action in that film, though, except for the last couple scenes (which were changed from the book/real story, btw).
The Hangover Gambling Scene
'Dice, verily, are armed with goads and driving-hooks, deceiving and tormenting, causing grievous woe.' -Rig Veda 10.34.4
Hangover Gambling Scene
EvenBob
The final card scene in Casino Royale, where Bond and everybody get the best hands possible. Yeah, right. I thought the Hangover was hilarious, I saw it twice.
Hangover Gambling Scene
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