And as the two stars play a pair of friends who travel the poker circuit attempting to pay off a debt, they build an engaging chemistry that bolsters the film’s quality through and through. Brian De Palma has always been the eccentric rogue among his more famous squad of friends: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford. Ultimately, the lessons that we can learn from gambling and casino-themed movies are that gambling can be dangerous and that casinos are not always trustworthy. In both of these movies, the casinos use various tricks to cheat the players out of their money. That is how cult classics tend to work, after all. However, crime thriller movies showed an amazing world of casinos at that time, and Martin Scorseses Casino is one of them. Carlito's Way (1993) Universal Pictures / YouTube. This is highlighted in movies like 21 and The Sting. And that’s in spite of Matt Damon - fresh off his critically acclaimed screenwriting and acting efforts with Good Will Hunting (1997) - starring alongside Edward Norton, who just had an incredible string of films a few years prior, which included an Oscar-nominated performance in Primal Fear (1996).īut, again: Rounders (1998) is held in high regard today even with those initially negative numbers in mind. It received lukewarm responses from critics upon release, and didn’t even double its $12 million budget when playing in theaters throughout the world.
Directed by John Dahl, this is the only film on the list that has gone down as a true cult classic. 1995s Casino is still recognized as one of Martin Scorseses best films, as well as one of the best films set in Las Vegas since it captures the essence of.