Poker Movie Shark City Upcoming DVD Release
January 11th, 2010
A new poker movie is headed straight to DVD. Will it be a another bust?
Poker movies seem to have gotten worse over the years. Between the time of the Cincinnati Kid and Rounders, there were decent poker films being made. But, seemingly along with the poker boom and Moneymaker’s WSOP win, that all seemed to change.
Hollywood looked at poker and said, “This is popular. Make some movies about poker. Doesn’t need to be good, people will go anyway.” As a result, I’m still trying to wash the stink of films like Lucky You off.
So it’s with a great deal of cautious optimism that I say, based on the trailer, Shark City might not be terrible. While Shark City saw its debut back in March of 2009, it only hit our radar recently as it was announced to receive its DVD release on this Feb. 16.
If you managed to see this movie somehow, it seems to have only been screened at various film festivals, then let us know how it is in the comments section below since we’d really hate to have to sit through another Lucky You.
