khalid
Unelected Mod
I have never seen the show Hustle, but I hate that saying. It is used by hustlers to essentially justify scamming people. For example, plenty of good, honest people were taken in my Belfort and his ilk. In fact, it is honest people that tend to be more trusting, which makes them easier to scam. They are honest, so it is hard for them to fathom that nothing you are saying is truthful at all.The other thing that comes to mind is the wholecodeof the team in the show Hustle and their Rule #1: You can't cheat an honest man..
As for the movie, I got really bored with it. It isn't fun for me to watch endless scenes of druggies partying, especially when interspersed with stealing and nothing to counterbalance it. The tipping point for me was where they had a really dragging scene of him trying to leave the country club, staring down at the steps, tumbling down them, etc. Just FOREVER spent on a scene that I could have cared less about. After that point, I was just checking the time the entire rest of the movie, hoping it would end.
I also felt very cheated that the movie never touched on the victims whatsoever. Boiler Room is a much much better movie on the same topic, which actually showed families being talked into putting their entire nestegg into this junk and then losing all their money, their house, their family. It also showed the moral conflict also, where some people were perfectly happy to rip people off, but it must have torn others apart. I can't even imagine my reaction after some of the calls back (that were shown in Boiler Room).
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