A friend I know who has a history of being addicted to gambling once told me the purest he ever felt was finally paying off his debts, leaving him completely broke... But happy.
@@kalgarca compulsive gambler, yes. But the reality is 70% of compulsive gamblers can be cured. Sometimes a clean slate is enough. When the bookies want to break your neck you dont have a choice but to go full degen
Out of anyone that would have been giving him another loan shark go, he would have been the most "honest" about it. The fact that said money was turned down like it was means that there is actually a chance of avoiding the debt spiral again. I don't feel like Goodman's character didn't "like" Mark's, but rather saw it as straight business. Once Mark's character settles up on ALL the debt and denies taking the loan, he is no longer the problem of the loan sharks. Not being a problem for the loan sharks is the closest the Mark's character will be to a position where any criminal remotely favorable towards him would want, since it means that they can write him off without having to worry about chasing for money as a matter of principle. Actually honorable(to a point) criminals are the first ones to want to cut business ties with anyone that they have personal feelings for. Personal feelings gets in the way of the money, and the last thing any criminal power players wants is word on the street saying that they won't do what is necessary to protect their business.
John Goodman is literally ALWAYS the best part of any movies he is in. He just steals the spotlight all the time. Did it here, did it in Big Lebowski, did it in Flight, etc.
I just lost my gratuity in options,u should know when to get out......every morning I just rush out of bed....so that I dont think of committing suicide....
Sounds like a loser to me...a real gambler wins doubles up and wins again then walks away enjoy his winnings...that line u stated is the most ridiculous thing I heard
The pros ate him up, I dealt Poker for 15 years, 2 years in Vegas; WSOP, young kids having over 500k in knapsacks walking around playing cash and in big tournaments. I loved dealing poker watching people sweat and pulling off big bluffs. Watching players lose 15k like it was 25 dollars, reaching into their knapsacks pulling out another 15k.
I learned my lesson from gambling the first time I tried it over a dice game. Lost a few bucks because a lucky streak fucked me over, could have wagered again, but a friend pull me away and said no. After that, I had a long walk home and swore to never gamble again. It's the one part where you shouldn't fuck around and find out.
@@seanscott7070 Quite often. I gamble on college football. I have to cut through recruiting hype on players and SID propaganda on college teams. This allows a dispassionate critical analysis which informs my betting. Overrated is a word I often use during this process. Sports books at casinos make a killing on this one word alone. So, what’s your point?
@@kingtremaine6232 Wasn't it obvious? Apparently not. My point was of how tiring that it is to see the "underrated" delineation made, ergo given in every comment section.
Entire fucking room went silent when the man took out that money. Just the face expression and eyes of everyone there O.O O.o o.O speaks volumes. Money talks man! And when money talks, everyone shuts the fuck up!
As a gambling addict 3 years sober from gambling, the greatest high was winning and the hardest pain was walking away, but your greatest victory is feeling high from no more pain.
Better than the original. Best film Mark Wahlberg was ever in. Best film Brie Larson was ever in. 3rd best film John Goodman was ever in. 1) Fallen 2) Flight. I give this a solid A.
Flat broke, but without any debts, clear of his gambling addiction... and also got the girl. I'd say he won more than any money in the world could've got him.
I actually did this, in real life, but on a video game. an Mmorpg type game, the game that broke the guiness book of world record for most accounts ever created on that type of game. I walked in, put two BILLION coins down. won the stake. Gave all my friends and best mates everything I ever owed them, AND MORE, and I personally walked away with two hundred and thirty million. PLUS an additional two hundred and thirty million, paid out to myself over the course of 3 months so as to not blow all the money straight away. god it was amazing, that feeling of getting a full dick and a heart race was indescribable
He wasn't just betting money, he was betting his life and the lives of his entire family. Once he won, he could quit. He could never match that risk again and the shear terror of the bet helped break his addiction. Now he just has to keep from falling back, but Goodman gave him the best advice in the world: Get free and just say "Fuck You!".
Son sahnede siyahı beklerken yaşanan duygu, başına silah dayanması ile ayni etki ve adrenalini yaratan bir duygu. Ölüm ve yaşam. Nefesini hissediyorum dostum. Artık özgür bir insan gibi umuda koşabilirsin.
Of course, he's running because anybody with the balls or insanity to put 80-large on black or red at a roulette table (when he's already deep in debt) will never get that lucky again.
The movie isn't about gambling, he's not a gambling addict. It's the only way he can feel alive & after he's broken free of it, well then that's when he runs to her because like he said, he wanted a real fuckin love & a real fuckin thing to do. He gets that with her.
Correction buddy, he was never a real gambler. He was Stuck with his Grandfather’s Gambling Debt that HE couldn’t figure out how to pay off, so playing “gambling” was the only way for him to get cleared off of that debt. So, anyone who’s gambled before ( like myself ) knows EXACTLY how he felt and was FEELING in those seconds the ball was spinning. He either was Walking out Alive or Ending Up dead. But betting that amount on Roulette’ is just INSANITY 🙆🏻♂️.! DEFINITELY HUGE BALLS ❗️
***Spoilers Ahead of the original film*** This is a remake of the 1974 film starring James Caan. While the ending of both films has the main character paying off all his debts, in the original it's a much more brutal conclusion. James Caan convinces his student to shave points in a basketball game which the mob bets heavily on and relieves him of his debt. He then goes to the bad side of town and cheats a hooker whose pimp beats him up and the woman slashes his face. His behavior all through this film is a way of him punishing himself. A much darker outcome than the remake where Mark Wahlberg wins all his debt money back and walks away. A tacked on happy ending. The original film is so much better than this remake.The original writer of the first film absolutely hated this remake. In real life so few predicate gamblers have happy endings. James Toback wrote the first film screenplay based on his life experiences (with some filmic license). It's currently playing on Pluto TV if you want to catch it. In the original, James Caan professors salary is given as $1500/month. Even in the early 70's it would be almost impossible to live in NYC on that income.
$1500 a month in 1970 is about $11k in todays dollar. It would most certainly be possible to live in NYC on that. It was even cheaper to live there in the 70's/80's as a lot of NYC was a crime ridden shit hole, times square even was filled with prostitution and drug dealing.. Not anything like it is today.
Did anyone notice that he wasn't calculating the extra 100 thousand in the end? That was suposed to be the tenis kid's money. He intended to be completely broke but clean of dept since the beggining. Such phenomenal writing...
Whats funny about the whole "he paid back his debts and is free" is true and all, but he actually paid back his debt and had a little extra, but didn't want it for some reason. When John Goodmans character says "good boy" was that just a test to try and get him back under his hand by oweing again or was that actual profit that Mark Walberg's character just didn't want ?
He owed him whatever it was he borrowed him plus some juice then he owed the Asian guy also so he broke even. Goodman was saying he could borrow money from him juice free
Umm.. No.. I'd imagine that he would take one last drink and then step out of that gambling den. Only then to be man handled by the goon and taken to a field to be killed or possibly be beaten up to a point just shy of death then be extorted for money from his mom..
Wellp this happens to be a true story even if it isnt mentioned. This movie was a literal painting of my life . I was in a gambling debt 672k dropped it all on black won paid the terrible violent dangerous people I owed that DROVE ME there if I lost I was going to die silently that was the deal . and walked home . And that was the morning I said no I am done.
I didn’t make the soccer team my freshman year. I joined a semi-competitive team to help myself get better, & worked out all the time, ran all the time and the song at the end of the scene was one of the songs that I listened to the most to help me get through it and it turns out my sophomore year after all my hard work I made the team and I partially credit this song to that. love this scene, love this movie.
All the plebs in the comment talking about gambling addiction understood nothing about this movie, hence why it is so underrated. At least 80% of people (if not more) don't understand what this movie is truly about. I genuinely believe it is one of the most underrated movies of all time. The gap between its imdb score and where it should be if more people had working brains is huge.
You might if your adrenaline has rattled you more than it ever has in your entire life. Not saying that he wouldn't be blistered to oblivion, but the sensation would mask the pain. Along with wind doing it's thing
Unfortunately, gamblers dont ever stop until they're broke. And once they are useless, they are usually beaten to death, or family threatened to pay off. It isn't about money, its a drug, and they can't stop.
Never understood people that are addictive to gambling.....I'll buy a $500,000 property in two seconds....and people think that is gambling &/or risky.....but I don't....I get mad if I lose .05 cents if I was to gamble....
you know some people make millions gambling . poker is more skill that luck so it does take years of experience . i dont gamble but i know a guy that does . and he is a millionaire
