when did silver spoons boy learn to play pool?
 

i just watched pool hall junkies...that boy can play! did he always know how or was he trained?

as for the movie, not bad. not what i expected though. i thought it would be FAR more serious and dark. instead it almost made fun of itself at times.

bad acting but i liked the story (although the side stories were lame).

btw; whats the rules? i know how to play 8 and 9 ball but how does the betting work? e.g they say 500 per game, and then you see like 10 games before they pay up. that part wasnt explained well.

IMO you can show someone how to play pool like a pro in less then a day really, week max. As far as how to stand, aim, hold the cue etc etc.. The skill set of "making" the given shots all the time takes years of course but you can fake that with muti-takes on film and so on.. Same for setting up the flow from shot to shot.. Might take 50 breaks to get one that looks good on film..

Most of the time pool betting is per a game with the idea of you trading games back and forth as far as win / lose.. So if we play $5 per a game odds are you will win some and I will win some and those cancel each other out.. so you settle at the end to speed it up.. That is if your with friends.. Many of the pro games are first to win say 7 games.. so in that case you would settle at the end too.

Unless your playing rotation or a longer games that are a race to points.. then it's 1 point per a ball, race to 61 points (or whatever).. then the pay off is the range of points one wins by.. 61 to 50 = 11x whatever the per a point cost was..

Of course my friends I only played "loser goes down the stairs to get the drinks" being the pool table was pretty far from the kitchen :)

yeah but in the movie thats not how they played (or at least thats not how they showed it). they would make a bet, then play many games. i suppose it was best of something, like 7 but it wasnt made clear.

and if you saw the shots rick shroeder made (as well as other people) you could see how good he is.

if I were a rich orphan, I'd learn how to play pool.

I'd have a small train running through my house.

I forgot all about this movie; I'll have to rent it--sounds interesting.

It's hard to tell from a movie but the actors probably do many takes before they get the shot perfect and at times professional pool players perform some of the shots as well. Mars Callahan who is the lead and director and who also could pass for Christopher Walken Jr is actually an "accomplished" pool player.

From the imdb (About Christoper Walken's trick shot:

Hmm, what boy are you talkin' bout?

If I was a rich orphan, I'd get lost in the Australian Outback and have William Holden save me. He could teach me about survival and then die on me when I need him the most.

whoa thats cool to know!

mars callahan was the main dude? yeah he was good!

there were a few pros players in there that i recognized from tv but everone else i didnt.

the one thing i hated was

http://www.wchstv.com/abc/nypdblue/rickschroder.jpg

um, Rick Shroeder? Resurrected his career successfully on NYPD Blue for 2 or 3 years. He did an excellent job. He also has done a handful of episodes of Scrubs.

yeah i know...i just wanted to call him silver spoons boy :)