Favourite line from Rounders?
Mine is not exactly the most famous line in the movie, but I love the way Worm asks "With those Versace shirts and sh**?" when Mike tells him that Maurice and his friend are "Russian outfit guys."
What is yours?
What is yours?
Comments
Knish: "I was actually gonna try and make some real money tonight, but in honor of Mike's Ali-like return to the ring, I'll sit with you all for a while."
I originally saw Rounders when it was *in theatres*, which was right around the beginning of my poker-playing life. It took me a long time before I got the double meaning of that particular line.
ScottyZ
Man, now I feel like an idiot;)..."double meaning" as in him implying that he will still win money from them, just not as much as against other players? Or is there something else?
Ali fought in a boxing ring. Poker games (specifically cash games) are usually called ring games.
ScottyZ
maybe that's something we should have .torrented
It actually works better with that whole segment...
Knish: "This is what I like to see, huh. Mike McDermott where he belongs, sittin' with the scumbags. Tellin' jokes, draggin' the occassional pot."
Scumbag1: "Occassional? Yeah, like my ex-wife occassionally went out with other men."
Knish: Ali line... (which is spelled Alley on the subtitles...)
Petra: "Hey, don't do us any favours, Knish. They're about to go to the board to fill these seats."
Personal Favorite lines...
Worm: "It's just like the saying says, you know? In the poker game of life, women are the rake. They are the f***in' rake."
Worm: "You know what cheers me up when I'm feeling shitty?"
Mike: "What?"
Worm: "Rolled up aces over kings."
Mike: "That right?"
Worm: "Yeah. Check raising stupid tourists and taking huge pots off 'em."
KGB: "He beat me. Straight up. Pay zat man his money."
KGB: "You're right. I don't haff spades. Aces full Mike."
Knish: "Maybe this is a game can be beat, but you know you can beat the 10-20 at the Chesterfield and the Hi-Low at that goulash joint on 79th Street..."
And many more, but enough for now.
The whole movie is a sound bite as far as I am concerned.
Mike
"..in the poker game of life, women are the rake." lol
Also, in the diner, "Does this look like a man can be beaten by jacks?"
Regards,
all_aces
Best part of that quote: Mikey wasn't even in the room on 4th street. :cool:
ScottyZ
Mike: "You see all the angles. You never have the stones to play one."
Knish: ""Stones"? You little punk.
I'm not playing for the thrill of f***ing victory here. I owe rent, alimony, child support. I play for money. My kids eat.
I got stones enough not to chase cards, action, or f***ing pipe dreams of winning the World Series on ESPN.
You want me to, uh, call some people, try and buy you some time, I will. Place to stay or the truck. No problem.
But about the money I gotta do this. I gotta say no."
Great summary about the life of a true grinder. It's not about anything but money and safe bets.
Mike
then when Mike questions him on the meaning Worm has no idea!
Laughed my assoff!
By the way I was barely playing poker when I watched Rounders the first time and was talking to a buddy about it and poker in general. I remember saying to him that the game from "Rounders" where you only get two cards face down would be a 'neat' game to learn.
Fast forward...still learning and spending a large chunk of my free time playing ... lol.
Jamie.
Uhhh..wait, we're talking favourite lines..okay. I'll get back to you on that one.
Goes almost like that:
Mike: I dont understand, how did you know i would come back.
Wurm: Its easy, who's youre favorite actor.
(mikes look at him with a smile)
Mike: Eh
Wurm: Thats right its Clint Eastwood, the man with no name, he always double back for a friend.
(thats when Wurm get out of prison and Mike find himself again playing poker.)
Im not sure about the exact words, been a while, a friend as my copy.
The Frog King
But that is his flaw, which is his tell......that's what makes the movie. With out that aspect of his character there would be no point to watching the movie.
You can't make me believe (or any descent poker player) that a guy who can spot every (tell) almost every chance he get could be that gullible.
Let it go man, its still a good movie... just as a few flaws in it.
There would be no point of watching a Rambo movie if he was not killin everything on sight. But if is main reason for killin would be that someone steped on is pet cat, then it would be a flaw, and whed still like to see him kill everything.
So you rather sit back watch a movie about Knish? It wouldn't be an interesting movie
Thats not what im sayin at all. Just sayin that for this to be a great movie, you dont have to contradict the main character. Theres other way to make a movie interesting not that this one is not interesting. (I did say it way a great movie anyway didnt i)?
(What would have change in the movie if Mike add knowned from the start that Wurm was in trouble, comon just watch the movie and think about that. (The movie is still the same just more believable)
"Where'd you get the scratch for that?... You been rollin' f**s in the village again."