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Originally Posted by Unfaithfully Metalhead
Pointless to you perhaps because casinos or gambling is of no interest to you. And it's based on a true story so perhaps if you read the book you would appreciate it more (though the movie is almost entirely different from the book). Anyways the point in this movie is you should take risks in life or else you don't have a story to tell (remember that in the movie when he is interviewing for the scholarship?). Anyways i suggest you read the book Bringing Down the House and you'll like the movie better. It was not meant to be a academy award movie type, just a entertaining movie.
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No, I get that. And it definitely was entertaining, it just wasn't good.
Everything I've heard seems to be that if you like the book, you'll hate the movie.
And I'm sorry, but no one is getting a full-ride med scholarship by walking in to a dean's office and saying: "so, I basically risked my money, life, friends, and family so that I could get shitfaced, play games, and bang Superman's baby-mama."
The performances were funny, the script was atrocious. I've heard the book is ten times better, maybe I'll give it a shot.