The Poker Club Movie Bombs
Written by RogerCP | Sunday, February 15th, 2009
“The Poker Club” is the latest movie based on poker. It has bombed even before being released. It is expected to be so bad that its producers, Sony, are not releasing the movie in the theatres but only on DVDs for home viewing. The release date is April 21, 2009, but do not mark it on your calendar.
“The Poker Club” has a cast of Jonathan Schaech, Johnny Messner, Loren Dean and Lori Heuring. Normally the word used instead of ‘has a cast of’ is ‘stars’ but since no one has heard of these actors the word ‘stars’ would have been inappropriate. The press release by the producers outlines the plot of the film and the synopsis is being produced in its entirety.
“For years, Aaron Tyler has been getting together with his three best friends Monday nights to play poker. But tonight, everything is about to change forever when the men accidentally kill a burglar who’s broken into Aaron’s house. Fearing the consequences, Aaron and his friends dispose of the corpse and agree to take the secret to their graves. However, they soon discover someone knows what they’ve done and is now playing a murderous game of revenge with them in this horrifying thriller.”
The unraveling of the story is a secret as of now but it would not be a surprise if the avenger is a member of the poker club. The movie loses credibility because it forgets one of the basics of American law. Homicide in perceived self defense against someone who has broken into your home is not murder. It is not even illegal.
A better packaged poker movie than “The Poker Club” bombed in April last year. At least with “The Deal” one could say that it ‘starred’ Burt Reynolds and Shannon Elizabeth. And it also ‘starred’ a galaxy of poker pros as themselves. They are much bigger names than the cast of “The Poker Club”. They include Mike Sexton, Vince Van Patten, Courtney Friel, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker and Isabelle Mercier. The climax of the movie is set in a recreation of a World Poker Tour championship. Despite this the movie bombed. The movie grossed an embarrassing amount of $31,000 in box office receipts for the first three days.
There was another poker bomb in 2008. The musical show “All In: The Poker Musical” purportedly written by Phil Hellmuth was previewed during WSOP 2008 but what happened thereafter escapes the memory. All that can be recalled is that it was set in a WSOP event (some people do not learn from others’ mistakes) and it had sleazy lyrics.
The moral of the story is to leave poker where it really belongs, that is at the tables.
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