Molly's Game (2017)

Ya'll are sleeping on Count Chastain.

Looks like shit.

Jessica Shitstain, you mean.

Yes, OP I saw it this weekend. Great writing by Sorkin and extremely entertaining. Loved Jessica Chastain.

Is it realistic? Or do they portray a woman (Molly) who doesn't exist in real life? Like they did with that horrible Miss Sloane?

Shit movie

She's so old and ugly.

I think it's time for her to retire.

How does she look old, gramps? She looks like she’s in her 20s in the film which is the age of the real life Molly she’s portraying

Looks like crap.

How come this Jessica Chastain now all of a sudden is A-list? Who did she blow or fuck?

I watched it last night. I turned it off and went to bed without watching the last 5 minutes of it. I didn't care what happened to the character

This movie is about a woman who thinks she is such a smart person for setting up these poker games. She thinks she's gorgeous. She's not either of those things. Idris Elba had an annoying accent. I did like Kevin Costner (although he was only onscreen about 10 minutes total). And Jessica's character spends about 30% of the movie saying she will not name names or tell who was involved. She's willing to go to jail for it too. These are a bunch of degenerate gamblers. Who the fuck cares if she is covering for them? We're supposed to think she's some noble person for doing this. She's not

And in real life, Molly Bloom covered up and was willing to go to jail to protect scumbags like Ben Affleck, Toby Maguire, Leonardo Decaprio, Rick Saloman (guy in Paris Hilton's sex tape & married to Pamela Anderson), A-Rod, Bret Ratner and a bunch of other filthy dirtbags who would have turned her in without a second's thought. She got millions of dollars seized by the government for these men who could give 2 shits about her. She's very noble

And in real life Toby Maguire was Player X. She shouldn't have covered up for that piece of shit

I thought it was the right thing to do. I know those pieces of crap didn't deserve it , but the point is, I have my own set of cock eyed ethics. And squealing is not in the cards (ha!) for me. I can meet my Maker with a steady gaze and a clear conscious.

Jessica stood for Kirk.

The OP is Jessica Chastain.

R10, Megan Ellison and Kathryn Bigelow!

Gal Gadot and Jessica are new BFF,

One of the best of 2017.

Omg I thought it was about the other Molly Bloom.

R10she fucked the oracle money bull dyke

[quote] It has Aaron Sorkin's trademark sharp-tongued, rapid-fire dialogue that makes you sound smart watching it but know nobody in the real world really talks like.

To put that sharp-tongue dialogue in some context:

He is A list. You know what? Actually let us make him A+ list. It is very possible he could win some Oscars this year. Not for anything in front of the camera, but behind. For someone who is behind the camera, all of you know him anyway, so that shows just how A list he is.

He has been on an award show binge this winter. To every show he has brought a different escort or stripper. He has a loooooooong history with escorts and hookers and strippers. Anyway, at a recent event he introduced the woman he brought as, "My b**ch for the night." At about award show number four with different bottle blonde escort someone asked if he ever dated anyone of color. He said, "If they are not pale white, I am not touching that s**t."

There was the award show where one of the women dared to speak and he said the only speaking she was allowed to do was in bed and if he had wanted someone smart he would have stayed home and masturbated.

He is back on drugs in a big way and is doing all kinds of coke and pills. He has been sweaty and messy and is not doing his movie any favors. It shocks me that his lead actress would work with him. It shocks me she still smiles and takes pictures with him every night at these award shows knowing what she knows. I would think she at least would skip some of these events. Catch a cold or pneumonia or something. I know he makes her skin crawl. No one says anything to this guy.

Saw the trailer for this last night when seeing The Post.

I thought it looked kinda good and wanted to see it. Partner wasn’t interested - and a female friend with us was completely ‘nope’.

Wonder how it’ll do at the box office...?

Well, R22, it's been out for over 2 weeks now. It's done fine.

Ah kewl. Hadn’t opened in Oz yet I dont think - but very soon

Just saw it. Should have been 90 minutes tops.

The premise is so uninteresting.

It was pretty dull. Costner was terrible and the scenes between Molly and her attorney weren't nearly as sharp as they were supposed to be.

Very much wanted to know who Chris O'Dowd's character was in real life, the downtrodden guy who introduced her to the Russian mob. THAT seemed like a far more interesting story.

[quote] "... a clear conscious."

I see this substitution/misspelling a lot lately. Do people really not hear or understand the difference between "conscious" (an adjective meaning "aware," or a noun for the active mind) and "conscience" (noun, one's inner ethical ledger)? Huh.

I enjoyed this movie.

Sorkin is the wort writer of all time.

He’s a joke.

Worst

Wikipedia says "Wort is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky," so if that BI up thread is correct, Sorkin may very well be wort.

It's such a weird story - Molly didn't want to hand over her hard disks because messages from her clients reveal shit like "I love poker - it gets me out of the house and away from my fucking kids"?

Ten minutes of Sorkin dialogue is all i can stand. He's smart and all, but i actually feel bad for the actors, desperate to look smart as well, and terrified of those 35 pages of dialogues per scene.

[quote]Sorkin is the [worst] writer of all time.

Are you kidding? Nowhere near.