The Sting (1973) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2025-01-08 19:35:05 +0000 UTC
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Love your reactions. You both bring so much.
Korny
2025-02-06 02:55:22 +0000 UTCI love this movie!
Korny
2025-02-06 00:25:37 +0000 UTCHi TBR and Samantha! So glad you loved this film, and I loved you loving it. But there's a whole genre of con movies to be enjoyed -- technically, con movies are a subgenre of crime movies, but still. Just to get you guys started on others, here are 3 of my fav's: Matchstick Men -- Nicholas Cage and Sam Rockwell, modern day if 2003 can be considered modern day, lol. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels -- Steve Martin and Michael Caine, great con movie AND crazy balls-out funny! And Paper Moon -- made in the 70s and takes place in the 30s (like The Sting), but lowest level grifters there are. Captivating, at times funny, and a times it just may make you want to cry, but in the good way. Hope that helps.
jeff
2025-01-17 23:53:54 +0000 UTCYes it is!
jeff
2025-01-17 23:44:40 +0000 UTCOverall agree, ED. Yes, Slapshot was the best hockey movie of all time, until Miracle with Kurt Russell came around. That said, The Sting is probably the best con movie of all time, and set a new standard for all con movies that followed -- similar to what The Godfather was to gangster flicks. And yes, the original Sinatra Ocean's 11 was weak, fun but weak.
jeff
2025-01-17 23:44:16 +0000 UTCDirector George Roy Hill worked one more time with Newman and Redford separately. With Redford he did the 1975 aviation period drama The Great Waldo Pepper. With Newman he did the greatest hockey movie of all time: Slap Shot (1977). Crystal was the dancer that Redford took on the date where he blew his money on the roulette. She's the character played by Sally Kirkland. PS: The original Ocean's 11 was from the early 60's and his a much weaker film than The Sting or the 2001 Ocean's Eleven.
ED209
2025-01-13 09:59:24 +0000 UTCSneakers is a wonderful movie.
Michael G. Munz
2025-01-13 04:36:20 +0000 UTCSneakers, definitely!!
Michael G. Munz
2025-01-13 04:36:02 +0000 UTCMatchstick Men is a great con movie
Odd Thomas
2025-01-12 20:44:03 +0000 UTCThank you so much! I'm so happy you enjoyed the reaction! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:24:33 +0000 UTCWow, thank you so much! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:24:04 +0000 UTCHonestly, hadn't even thought about the conversion to today! $3k felt like a crazy amount alone! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:23:47 +0000 UTCI don't think I realized Newman was in a Coen's Brother movie! Thank you for all the recommendations! We have so much more to explore! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:23:19 +0000 UTCThis makes me so excited, there's so much more to watch! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:21:58 +0000 UTCThank you, John! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:21:44 +0000 UTCIt was incredible! The "con" movie is much fun! Thank you for the recommendation! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:21:33 +0000 UTCThanks so much! It really could have gone either way and I would have been like, that makes sense! Oh man, it's been so long since I've seen MIB but I love that! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:20:52 +0000 UTCThis makes sense, but I still wish they would have! I'm sure it just wasn't the same when it was meant to be Newman! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:07:58 +0000 UTCWe clearly don't know anything about poker hahah but I can see how that would be annoying since it played a pretty large part of the film! Thanks for the recommendations! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:07:13 +0000 UTCSo cool! Thank you for sharing, James! I recall the song as my cell phone ring tone haha -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:05:04 +0000 UTCYessss, love it! Love when our shows and movies collide haha -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:02:47 +0000 UTCLOL pure surprise! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:02:19 +0000 UTCThey could have done a million movies together and I would watch them all! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:01:44 +0000 UTCLOL! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:01:05 +0000 UTCThank you for the recommendations! Definitely can't wait to check out more Newman and Redford! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:00:47 +0000 UTCI hope you enjoyed it! I think I remember that song on like my first cell phone's ring tone haha -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 02:00:17 +0000 UTCDaniel was so mad at himself for not calling that out when he thought it haha -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 01:59:40 +0000 UTCAh, thank you! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 01:59:12 +0000 UTCHappy New Year! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-12 01:58:58 +0000 UTCSince you really liked this, I also recommend checking out, The Grifters (1990).
Ron
2025-01-10 21:55:12 +0000 UTCThe music brings me back to my childhood!!!
Chris Bruneau
2025-01-10 21:29:41 +0000 UTCSam and Daniel's reaction to this one made me smile. I'm tickled that this may be Sam's new favorite movie. Smart script with great dialogue, well paced, tightly made movie with a ton of great character actors of the day. Glad you guys are ok and I hope friends and family are safe too
Smooticus
2025-01-10 20:20:50 +0000 UTCThree Days of the Condor needs to be seen also
Smooticus
2025-01-10 20:16:52 +0000 UTCDon't forget The Great waldo Pepper - another collaboration with George Roy Hill
Smooticus
2025-01-10 20:16:17 +0000 UTCNothing to feel bad about!
Smooticus
2025-01-10 20:15:17 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, and it’s great to hear that all of you have managed to avoid the fire so far. The movie is a true classic, and well represents the end of old style Hollywood productions. The 70s were more or less the last hoorah. The gist of the story kind of reminds me of my grandfather. He got involved with street schemes in Nashville during the mid 20s to mid 30s. Those were tough times. I have a picture of him wearing a snazzy suit and a wide brim fedora in 1932.
David Wilkins
2025-01-10 05:05:29 +0000 UTCSuch a fun film to watch. The Newman/Redford pairing is so perfect. One of your finest reactions. Hoping you are safe and out of harms way.
James Rogers
2025-01-10 04:27:09 +0000 UTCAnother great reaction to a great movie. I would love it if you guys would eacted to another great Paul Newman movie, "Slap Shot" (1977)!
Vidal (BillyG!) Gomez jr
2025-01-09 22:34:40 +0000 UTCThanks, David! Will come back and respond to more comments on the film later but we’re okay! The winds are still raging so we’re keeping a close eye on the fires. Absolutely devastating. -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-09 19:46:01 +0000 UTCThanks, Paul! We’re okay right now and keeping a close eye on everything. It’s devastating out there and the winds are barely letting up. -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-09 19:45:14 +0000 UTCHaven’t watched the reaction yet, but let us know how you’re getting along out there with all the fires. Your location has me worried.
David Wilkins
2025-01-09 19:18:06 +0000 UTCI'm old enough to remember when Mad magazine did a send-up of The Sting when it was in theaters. At one point a character is in a hallway near an office door. The names and titles on the door are "Scott Joplin -- Composer" and just below that "Marvin Hamlisch -- Exploiter." In fairness to Hamlisch he did write some of the pieces from the movie, and he did put the score together and choose Joplin's music. But to say he wrote the music for The Sting when it was all built around Joplin's songbook always struck me as an overstatement.
james repka
2025-01-09 15:53:13 +0000 UTCHope you guys are safe where you are. Every time I look online, the fires are getting worse! Take extreme care, because we all love you!!
Paul Cox
2025-01-09 15:42:38 +0000 UTCJust for the record, $3,000 bet that Hooker lost is roughly equivalent to $68,092 in today's money, an insane bet by any standards (except for very high rollers - billionaires and such)
Alec S
2025-01-09 09:04:25 +0000 UTCAnother really great Mamet I would love a reaction to is Spartan (2004), which deserves to be remembered alongside Kiss Kiss Bang Bang as one of Val Kilmer's great final performances.
Tyler Foster
2025-01-09 08:21:58 +0000 UTCAnd for those of us relics, Ray Walston played the Martian in the TV series "My Favorite Martian" back in the distant past.
David Martin
2025-01-09 08:09:55 +0000 UTCSpanish Prisoner features Steve Martin in a dramatic role, and he nails it. Having David Mamet as the Writer/Director helps a lot, too.
David Martin
2025-01-09 08:08:02 +0000 UTCCan't stop mentioning one of the next movies on your Coen journey: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), which co-stars Newman in one of his greatest roles. He's so funny in it, and the movie is extremely underrated. It's a New Year's Eve movie, which, your timing would be a little bit off, but I sure hope it comes up on the channel soon. You can't get another Redford/Newman pairing, but you could also double it up with Robert Redford in Sneakers (1992), which would let you see the pair of them in the '90s. Other Newman and Redford movies I'd enjoy seeing on the channel, both those I've seen and those I'd love an excuse to watch for the first time: • All is Lost (2013) [Redford] • All the President's Men (1976) [Redford...I think last I checked this was winning a poll!] • Cool Hand Luke (1967) [Newman] • Hot Rock, The (1972) [Redford] • Hustler, The (1961) [Newman] • Slap Shot (1977) [Newman; as well as Butch Cassidy/The Sting director George Roy Hill] Note that, in addition to the person who mentioned that Ray Walston played Mr. Hand in Fast Times, you've also seen Jack Kehoe, who got his nose smashed, in Midnight Run, where he played the guy in the bail bond office snitching to the bad guys and kept leaving to "get donuts" as a cover, and Eileen Brennan, Gondorff's wife Billie, as Ms. Peacock in Clue. Some other great con artist movies that I recommend: • Brothers Bloom, The (2008) dir. Rian Johnson (Knives Out) • Matchstick Men (2003) dir. Ridley Scott • Paper Moon (1973) dir. Peter Bogdanovich (I hope you someday also watch his screwball comedy masterpiece What's Up, Doc?, but for now you'd be most familiar with him as an actor, playing Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, Dr. Melfi's own therapist, on "The Sopranos") • Spanish Prisoner, The (1997) dir. David Mamet
Tyler Foster
2025-01-09 07:23:47 +0000 UTCThey've already watched Role Models on the channel, but: "Naysayers tell me 'You should be embarrassed. You should not be fighting. You look like Marvin Hamlisch.' You know what I say to the naysayers? I say nay! I am not embarrassed. I will fight. Who the fuck is Marvin Hamlisch?" "He wrote the music for The Sting." "That's a good movie."
Tyler Foster
2025-01-09 07:22:23 +0000 UTCdont feel bad Sam, its probably one of my all-time favorites too!!
Chris Bruneau
2025-01-09 06:48:25 +0000 UTCPaul Newman movies that are MUST watches: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Hustler Hud Cool Hand Luke The Towering Inferno Slap Shot The Verdict The Color of Money Nobody’s Fool The Hudsucker Proxy As for Robert Redford: The Candidate Jeremiah Johnson The Way We Were The Great Gatsby All the President’s Men The Natural Out of Africa Sneakers Indecent Proposal Spy Game
Jason Dolan
2025-01-09 06:17:56 +0000 UTCExcellent Review - it's one of my favorite movies, too.. You two are so much fun. If you want another movie with lots of twists and turns, check out "Maverick" with Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner and James Coburn.
John DiGiantomasso
2025-01-09 05:08:54 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, guys. I was not expecting Sam to say this is her new favourite, so I'm glad you guys enjoyed it so much. The thing about "con" movies is the audience is expecting everything to be a trick, nobody can be trusted, and anybody can stab anybody else in the back for their own gain. So the fact that you guys were going back and forth like "OK the FBI is a con... OK no, this FBI thing is definitely real" just means that the movie did it's job really well by conning the audience. Another really great Con Artist movie I'd recommend is 'The Grifters' with John Cusack, Angelica Huston and Annette Bening. It's different and quite a bit darker than The Sting, but I think you guys would like it. Oh, and Ray Walston played the History teacher Mr. Hand that tangles with Sean Penn's character in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Brandon
2025-01-09 05:03:08 +0000 UTCHe also did an excellent job aa groundskeeper Boothby ar Star Fleet Academy - ST TNG "The First Duty."
John DiGiantomasso
2025-01-09 05:02:21 +0000 UTCAlmost every movie and TV show does poker wrong, so I've gotten used to it at this point. Personally, the worst movie I've ever seen about gambling that gets most of it wrong was "21".
Brandon
2025-01-09 04:53:39 +0000 UTCGreat Reaction. I loved how you went back and forth on whether the FBI were real or not. I’ve probably seen this movie a 100 times and know how it turns out, so it’s great to watch someone else be genuinely in suspense about what is going to happen. I remember watching a documentary about this movie- they were interviewing Newman. He said he was reading the script and got,to the part where his and Redford’s character shoot each other. He wrote in the margin of the script “No! They can’t do that!” (or something like that). Then of course he turned the page and found he was “taken in by the larceny of the story” as he put it- just like everyone else who would watch it (well except Dan, who figured it out as soon as they were shot!) Bit of trivia, the punchline of the joke the vaudeville comedian is telling at the beginning (after Hooker’s girlfriend comes off stage) -“But this one’s eating my popcorn” - is referenced in the first Men in Black movie.
Samolina Pilchard
2025-01-09 03:45:54 +0000 UTCGREAT reaction, guys! Newman and Redford, lifelong dear friends after this and Butch & Sundance always wanted to make more movies togethers but were kinda paralyzed by the incredible and lasting commercial and critical success of these two movies--they didn't want to make one that didn't meet the same standard. For thirty or so years, until Newman got sick in his mid 80s, they tried to come up with something but never managed to do so. As mentioned in another comment, they did finally settle on something, A Walk in the Woods, but then Newman was ill and died, Redford ended up making it later with Nick Nolte. It's okay.
VivendoBem
2025-01-09 02:23:02 +0000 UTCThe Song came from Scott Joplin. It's called The Entertainer.
Kyle Baker
2025-01-09 01:46:35 +0000 UTCThis is a great movie. When it was being promoted to the public the tag line was "Maybe this time they will get away with it". One thing I wish they would have accurately portrayed poker correctly/ You don't bet poker that way. You either fold call or raise. you can't verbally say call then say you're going to raise. It would give you a valuable read on your opponent if you could say call then see there reaction and oh by the way I'll raise now. When you raise a bet the raise amount has to be equal to or greater then the bet. Side note The number of high quality movies made in this late 60s into the 70s is outstanding. The 2 these guys made together Patton, True Grit, Kelly;s Hero. I'd hate to admit how many times Ive seen these 5 movies. Fun reaction take care
Pacmule
2025-01-09 00:51:17 +0000 UTCIt's a helluva film. Won 10 Oscars noms and 7 wins, and yes that familiar song came popular from this film.. Loved watching you both seeing it for first time.
Robert Smith
2025-01-09 00:34:55 +0000 UTCThe music won an Academy Award for Marvin Hamlisch, who adapted much of the music from the catalogue of Scott Joplin, a Ragtime piano player and composer from the turn of the century. The title song, The Entertainer, was written by Joplin in 1902. It reached #3 on the Billboard pop chart after the movie came out -- the fact that you are familiar with the tune is directly because of this movie. Other Joplin compositions in the movie (many are played over the title cards) include The Maple Leaf Rag, The Pineapple Rag, The Easy Winners, The Ragtime Dance, and Solace. Interesting factoid: Joplin's music would have been as ancient to listeners in 1937 as contemporary music in 1937 would have been to listeners when the movie was released in 1973. And of course the movie is now more than 50 years in the past (I feel very old).
james repka
2025-01-09 00:34:50 +0000 UTCLove this film so much, love getting an excuse to rewatch it!
Allen S.
2025-01-09 00:11:40 +0000 UTCThe con that opened the movie SHOULD remind you of Better Call Saul. The BCS scene was an homage to this movie. If you watch that scene, Jimmy's partner Marco even carrys an ID card in his wallet that identifies him as Henry Gondorff. The con is called the Pigeon Drop, and it is designed to convince the "mark" to give up his money in order to gain a larger sum of money or something of greater value (the fake Rolex watch in BCS).
james repka
2025-01-09 00:03:19 +0000 UTCDefinitely one of the best movies ever. Great watch along with you guys. Nobody ever sees the Salino angle. Your reaction to her getting a bullet between the eyes is priceless.
Trader Joe
2025-01-08 23:37:25 +0000 UTCI've seen the movie at least 5 times and never realized that!
Opie Wan
2025-01-08 23:30:39 +0000 UTCCrystal was the burlesque dancer at the start that Hooker took out and lost his 3 grand.
Opie Wan
2025-01-08 23:29:15 +0000 UTCGreat reaction! Another great duo is Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Please check out "Silver Streak", their first movie together. Their first movie would have been "Blazing Saddles". Pryor was supposed to play sheriff Bart but it didn't work out.
Mr. Writhms
2025-01-08 23:25:37 +0000 UTCSally Kirkland was the show girl/stripper Hooker takes out after he scores the 11 grand
thomas king
2025-01-08 23:17:59 +0000 UTCThey were working on a third, but Newman passed before it could be made. Redford made it anyway, in 2015, with Nick Nolte (A Walk in the Woods).
Tyler Foster
2025-01-08 23:16:59 +0000 UTCIs one of my top 5 favorite movies. Its a shame they never did another movie together. They each have another 10 movies to watch.
thomas king
2025-01-08 23:14:27 +0000 UTCSally Kirkland played the stripper with the tassels that Hooker takes out in the beginning.
Jen Barnes
2025-01-08 23:05:23 +0000 UTCMe too, but I figured that would be ancient history around these parts! lol
Paul Cox
2025-01-08 22:58:19 +0000 UTCThis movie is perfect. So, so great. This was one of my mother’s favorite movies when I was growing up but I didn’t appreciate it until I watched it as an adult. Just brilliant. It also doesn’t hurt that Robert Redford and Paul Newman are quite easy on the eyes, lol.
Aimee
2025-01-08 22:57:58 +0000 UTCI know him as My Favorite Martian from the 1960s TV show.
Opie Wan
2025-01-08 22:26:17 +0000 UTCAfter this Beating Robert Shaw hunt a Big White Shark in Amity ;) Guys what a Gotdamn Classic !!! 7 Oscars !!! Sam i had the same feeling, this is also one of my favorite Movies of All Time !!! This is one of the Films you can watch 20 Times and you love it Even more !!! Please check out more Paul Newman and Redford ... "All The Presidents Men" is Winning a Poll so you can see the Team of Redford and Dustin Hoffman, which is also Amazing ;) ... For more Paul Newman Please watch "The Hustler" from 1961 and The Sequel "The Color of Money" from 1986 with Tom Cruise ... Also you must watch " Cool Hand Luke" from 1967, Nobody's Fool from 1994, "Slapshot" from 1978, "The Verdict" from 1982 and "The Hudsucker Proxy" from 1994 ... For More Redford watch "Sneakers" from 1992, "The Natural" from 1984, "3 Days of Condor" from 1975
Florian Meier
2025-01-08 22:25:19 +0000 UTCBeen looking forward to this Great Reaction
christopher brown
2025-01-08 22:08:02 +0000 UTCI also have never watched this movie, but I'll wonder if you know the title song? I remember my Grandma having a song box in her living room that played it when you opened it.
Mike Medaugh
2025-01-08 21:53:51 +0000 UTCHope everyone in your circles are ok out there in SoCal.
Mike Medaugh
2025-01-08 21:40:03 +0000 UTCOne of my top 20 all time favorite movies. Nothing beats that ending.
Athos Count de la Fère
2025-01-08 21:28:42 +0000 UTCThe old man in the beginning (Luther), working the con with Redford was Robert Earl Jones. That's James Earl Jones' father.
Mr. Writhms
2025-01-08 21:07:49 +0000 UTCPlease check out 1977's "Slapshot" Paul Newman reteamed with director George Roy Hill in that. Also a favorite Paul Newman film of mine the Oscar nominated 1994's "Nobody's Fool" he is backed up in that with a great supporting cast that includes Bruce Willis !
Keith Brown
2025-01-08 20:33:40 +0000 UTCbtw, Ray Walston, who you were trying to place during the outro, was Mr. Hand in Fast Times.
Paul Cox
2025-01-08 20:02:35 +0000 UTCWoohoo! Now to just get through the workday...
Tyler Foster
2025-01-08 19:58:34 +0000 UTCThis was a great movie, happy to watch it again! Thanks - and Happy New Year!
Amper Sand
2025-01-08 19:51:05 +0000 UTCNo worries, I was just excited for your reaction. I know you guys have busy lives and you are SO appreciated!
Jen Barnes
2025-01-08 19:45:22 +0000 UTCEek, hope you enjoy! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2025-01-08 19:38:18 +0000 UTCFinally! 🤩
Jen Barnes
2025-01-08 19:37:50 +0000 UTC
