Nor am I here to talk about the evil genius's first film, Reservoir Dogs.
Nor am I here to talk about the third best sports movie to be filmed in the great Hoosier state (note that Indiana has never been referred to as the "Boilermaker state"). And really, why would I be? Sure, Rudy's a good movie, but come on. Notre Dame is a joke. Hell, last week I even beat a recent former player of theirs in more than one pickup basketball game. (Never mind that there were other people involved, a win is a win baby!)
What I AM here to talk about, however, is a very important movie in the lives of we young Snobs. You see, in any given 7 day week in high school, Nix and I, and a rotating cast of hooligans played poker at least 8-10 times (including 3-4 games each semester during finals week). First we'd show up with our own bags of quarters and play "you call it" games. Pass the Trash, In-Between, a little gem called Night Baseball. Then we graduated to clay chips and no-limit Texas Hold 'Em, the Cadillac of poker. This was a good move for my financial well-being in high school. I needed money to take my girlfriend to see The Notebook, after all.
And while playing poker for hours and hours, we watched one of two movies. Either Old School, or...
This poster is confused about which guy is Matt Damon and which is Ed Norton.
Nothing over-inflates your sense of how good at poker you are...than watching this movie while playing poker. I guarantee every one of us at the table considered ourselves the game's own Mike McD. Or Worm. Or Joey Knish (looking at you, Mike "grind it out" Novitski). Me? I wanted to be the mad Russian, Teddy KGB. John Malkovich himself!
And nothing is cooler/more annoying than quoting a poker movie while playing poker.
In the poker game of life, women are the rake,
Colin
(Nix's "R" Pick: Reservoir Dogs)
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