Lucky You movie review (spoilers)

[Bulldog]

I saw it and while it wasn't good, I didn't think it was horrible. I thought there was some poker content that was subtly done. Examples:

Money goes all in on the turn. Hero has a set vs kings and jacks and has to fade K and J on the river. Before the river came off I said "queen" to my fiancee, and sure enough, it was a queen. You know, for that moment of suspense you get when you have to fade one or two face cards and a brick face card comes off instead.

The final hand for the "hero", the AA v KK. Down to three players, blinds 20000/40000, hero on the button, dad in SB, internet donk in BB. Internet donk looks at his cards right away. Hero sees that, and also sees that his dad sees that. Knowing that his dad will raise any two against the BB who clearly doesn't love his hand, he limps with AA and lets his dad make the raise to 100,000 for him.

I knew what I was in for after the eight chick flick previews and the fact that patrons in my theater were all either couples or groups of women.

My fiancee liked it well enough, but she is just starting to get an interest in poker.

The highlight for me was when the "hero" peeked down at aces, the 65 y/o lady a couple rows up lets out a loud "OH MY GOSH!"

[HP]

I liked how the movie captured the spirit of degeneracy at least

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You soak that up much better at your local casino than via a movie.

[cero_z]

Hi DD,

2nd everything in your review, though I'm sure she only gave him $100 to gamble with or something (he stole the $1000 later). Truly an abysmal film; the pretty good first scene suckered me into dropping my guard.

This must be commented on again, though:
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Also the actor who played him did a great job (I'm too lazy to look up his name),

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