Hard Eight

I don't-- I've never seen Blood Simple, but the other two are amazing.

Uh, P.T. Anderson had Hard Eight, loved it.

Boogie Nights, Magnolia.

Monstrous.

I never seen Magnolia or Hard Eight.

Scorsese, he had Boxcar Bertha, Mean Streets, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

Didn't see any of those.

Must have been.

I mean, he was young when he did Hard 8.

Young for Boogie Nights, and then it was a one after that.

Yeah, young as hell.

Wow.

Paul Thomas Anderson had Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia.

Yeah.

Then this one was maybe the ultimate one that made me go, okay, where do I have this? You got me.

I'm taking that as a sign.

And here's something else I like about choosing hard eight this week.

A hard eight in craps is when the two dice come up four and four.

Two dice showing the same number.

So not only did we find a movie about gambling that fits our dice dimple spotlight, the title itself comes from a roll of the dice.

... see in Coffee and Cigarettes, you're like, "Oh, fuck.

This guy's gonna be an absolute mo- like, he's gonna be a movie machine." Um, Hard Eight comes out in, I think, 1995 or 1996, and Hard Eight is getting, like, all these accolades.

It's a decent movie.

It's not a great movie, but it's a decent movie, and then that leads into, um, 1997's release of Boogie Nights, and it is a, like...