Saturday, September 22, 2007

Best Casino Movies

Las Vegas and its casinos have got always been an inspiration for film makers looking to shoot exhilaration and machination into their movies. One of the most celebrated movies with a Las Vegas background is 1960’s ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, which sees the members of the original ‘Rat Pack’ – Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davys – planning to rob five of the top casinos in Vegas in just one night. Things travel according to program – at least until after the heists.

‘Ocean’s Eleven’ was remade successfully in 2001 by Steven Soderburgh, who project Saint George Clooney in the prima function of Danny Ocean and Brad Pitt, Flatness Damon and Elliott Stephen Jay Gould as pack members, amongst others. The 2001 version updated the storyline while still putting across the same glamourous mental image of Vegas as inch the first movie.

Nicolas Cage visited Las Vegas in 1992 for his movie ‘Honeymoon in Vegas’. This comedy tells the story of Jack Singer (played by Cage) who make up one's minds to marry his long-time partner Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker) in Vegas. However, when they arrive, Betsy is spotted by a high-stakes gambler who make up one's minds he desires to pass a weekend with her. He prosecutes Singer in poker games in an effort to wrestle her from him. With Cage playing his best as the love-struck bridegroom, Jesse James Caan as the baleful gambler, and a figure of parachuting Elvis impersonators, ‘Honeymoon inch Vegas’ offers plenty of laughs.

Matt Damon is Microphone McDermott, one of the world’s best poker players in the 1998 movie ‘Rounders’, World Health Organization have given up the game in order to concentrate on finishing law school. When his old friend Worm (Edward Norton) is released from prison, he carries McDermott to go back to the game in order to pay off some bad debts he’s accrued. McDermott consequently happens himself playing in a series of poker games where the bet are forever increasing and the latent hostility is forever building.

Finally, a listing of casino movies is uncomplete without a reference of the 1995 St Martin Scorcese movie ‘Casino’, which is considered by many to be the unequivocal casino film. This tells the true story of Surface-To-Air Missile ‘Ace’ Rothstein, a gangster who travels to Las Vegas and goes the operator of the Tangiers casino. Henry Martin Robert Delaware Niro do the Pb function his own, as Rothstein headers with matrimony to a drug nut (played by Sharon Stone) and friendly relationship with Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a chap gangster slowly spiralling into a world of violence.


Comments: Post a Comment



<< Home

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?