NEXT UP: From the makers of "Rounders", the classic "21" (2008); one thing's for sure, these jokers are definitely wild!

We'll be tweeting using the hashtag #watchin2121

#TwentyOnein2021 #BDLive #Love2Count #LetHimBeFrank

Hi, I'm Hervey and I will be commenting on this movie tonight #watchin2121

Hi, I'm Alan and I'll also be commenting on this movie tonight. #watchin2121

Lovely poker chip sounds when navigating within this rockin' menu screen #watchin2121

Yes yes yes yes, Vegas time baby! #watchin2121

We open with a ton of CGI cards, this evokes an era #watchin2121

We've just been taken through the plot of the film. Now the film can begin. #watchin2121

We're in the era of squeaky indie rock and Josh Gad, I'm feeling a time warp #watchin2121

I'm loving this leisurely paced credits sequence. #watchin2121

We're seeing tony Harvard offices and crewmen rowing, this feels like part of the Social Network extended universe, hope we see Mr. Larry Summers at some point #watchin2121

I don't think a dramatic conversation about university subsidies ever happens in a cinematic office like this, it always happens in a series of boring phone calls and beige HR buildings #watchin2121

"I'm designing a system." -Likely protagonist #ClassicMovieLines #watchin2121

You know it's the protagonist because it's played by Jim Strurgess (star) #watchin2121

We got Gad #watchin2121

I hate to jump to conclusions, but I believe these boys may be very smart. #watchin2121

The abstruse, geeked-out references they're making in their jokes is making me think we're dealing with a couple "eggheads" here #watchin2121

Maybe if they weren't blowing all their money on beer and birthday cakes they'd have the $300k to pay for Harvard Med. Damn millennials. #watchin2121

*looking at code for .5 seconds* "This is good" #watchin2121

These are very smart people. #SmartPeople #watchin2121

It just sucks that life isn't cut out for geeks; as we just heard "our lives suck"

I think they should stop working so hard and crushing tests and studying so much #watchin2121

We hear the title of the film mentioned, but it's in relation to a birthday. A twist! #watchin2121

I really don't want to watch these people be in a class scene. #watchin2121

Spacey is not a very good lecturer, we're wasting time on bad bits and irrelevant details #watchin2121

He'd be at home alongside the other teachers in "Cocktail" (1988) #watchin2121

"My answer is based on statistics. Based on variable change." #LifeLessons #watchin2121

Really hate the four minutes we spent setting up the Monty Hall problem (without saying the name "Monty Hall"); audiences will either know what's going on already or will not follow the details

But punched up with a lot of goofy, bad riffing #watchin2121

What does the Monty Hall problem have to do with blackjack?

It shows that you need to have courage to employ statistics

Simple statistics. Free of emotion. #LifeLessons #watchin2121

I don't understand what we're doing here, it feels like it's trying to persuade a skeptical audience that nerds exist #watchin2121

Getting big Baby Driver vibes from this math club. Kevin Spacey leads one hell of a heist prep meeting. #LetHimBeFrank #watchin2121

Spacey was more offputting there

Here, Kevin Spacey is simply the coolest teacher #watchin2121

"Ben, I said Google, not Sizzler" #classicmovielines #watchin2121

"Ben I said Google, not Sizzler." #ClassicMovieLines #watchin2121

Confusing that Ben knows what card counting is, but conveniently does not know what blackjack is, allowing Spacey to explain the game to the audience #watchin2121

Spacey equally invested in his team members' personal lives here. #watchin2121

Damn, this guy loves numbers even when he's merely selling clothes! #watchin2121

"I'm pretty good with numbers." #ClassicMovieLines #NobodySaysThis #CinemaVerite #watchin2121

Every night after dinner she played blackjack against her father? What the hell. No. That does not happen. #watchin2121

Almost as much fun as playing catch #watchin2121

The movie does indeed look the part of 2008, a bunch of scenes that look very sharp and with heavily-saturated color toning #watchin2121

The protagonist's incredible proficiency is so terribly unearned. #watchin2121

He stayed late studying, he *crushed* those tests #watchin2121

It's fun to argue about arithmetic with your nerdy friends #watchin2121

About 70% of this movie so far has been technical exposition #watchin2121

Very scary alleyway. #ScaryAlley #watchin2121

"Rounders" (1998) is a masterpiece compared to this, this is such a bad time and so hacky #watchin2121

I have to agree. Rounders (1998) has a lot more merit on multiple fronts. #watchin2121

Rounders is also about a billion times more accurate to the realities of poker (despite taking a lot of liberties) than 21 is to blackjack

BIG WIN. He needs to do a better job of pretending to be irresponsible, though. He's not playing his role correctly. #watchin2121

I did not enjoy hearing "winner winner chicken dinner" 15 times in the first 3 minutes, and I'm not enjoying hearing it now #watchin2121

This is the most Kevin Spacey initiation ritual ever. #watchin2121

Jim Sturgess is not a very charismatic screen presence, one of many reasons I'm not really having a good time #watchin2121

"Act casual. Think casual. Be casual." #ClassicMovieLines #watchin2121

This is a BUMPIN soundtrack for the TSA line. I love it. Best scene so far. #watchin2121

Who doesn’t love to sit around the kitchen table and play blackjack, maybe some craps

This whole movie has been scene after scene of peevish, entitled nonentities constantly whining about inconveniences of their own making #watchin2121

WE IN VEGAS. LET'S GO. #watchin2121

We are seeing the lights of the strip, bathed in some choirish indie band, this movie simply rawks #watchin2121

Finally this movie is about to get going. I'm expecting big things. #watchin2121

Everything about this movie is reminding me how unpleasant an era 2008 was, I really admire it in a lot of ways #watchin2121

They even had an eye in the sky #watchin2121

Tonic water and lime. #MovieDrinks #watchin2121

Spacey is the only actual actor in this movie, and so he's mugging broadly in every scene; this is really no way to construct a movie #watchin2121

Touching the cards. Rookie mistake. #RookieMistakes #TheRookie #watchin2121

Love the extremely broad foley work tracking his eyes, never missing a chance to be as hacky as possible #watchin2121

He needs to be acting way more drunk. #watchin2121

We've lost the ability to innocently enjoy a scene of Kevin Spacey cheekily smiling at a young man across a room #watchin2121

Is he required to pay upfront for medical school? #watchin2121

Yes, we've established this #watchin2121

Protagonist evokes the naivete of a young Tobey Maguire, but with a constant puffy inattentiveness #watchin2121

Some Eagle Rare on the rocks. Nice. #watchin2121

Laurence Fishburne seems by far the most sympathetic character we've seen so far #watchin2121

We are now drinking Eagle Rare on the rocks. #watchin2121

Hell yeah, Fishburne

Fuck these people up #watchin2121

Fishburne being cool in understated ways instead of grating, high-effort riffing, I like this character #watchin2121

Going down the road of lying to the mother. I'm sure this will end well. #watchin2121

Uhhh. You're going to have to put it in a bank at some point if you're going to pay for med school. I don't think they're going to accept the cash from your ceiling. #watchin2121

The casinos will catch wind that this guy somewhere has opened a savings account #watchin2121

There's no great reason to have Josh Gad shoveling Twinkies into his mouth on-screen. #watchin2121

If I watched this before "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist", I think I would have enjoyed it far more in comparison #watchin2121

Two Bud Lights. #MovieDrinks #watchin2121

I may not be enjoying this movie most of the time, but the scenes featuring Gad are helping me appreciate the Gad-less scenes more #watchin2121

This guy is so smart, he gave the lecture of combinatorial algorithms that nobody understood #smart #watchin2121

He's smart when it comes to schoolwork, but I think his street smarts need work. #watchin2121

Hard to express just how viscerally I'm reacting negatively to this movie, in the running for an all-time worst movie-watching experience #watchin2121

His disguises are all betrayed by his devotion to the same mop-headed hairstyle. #watchin2121

A sort of anti-art, a movie that decreases one's fondness to the fellowship of man #watchin2121

The tonic & lime has betrayed him! #MovieDrinks #watchin2121

Josh Gad approaches. #watchin2121

The medical school money is going right into Louis Vuitton. #watchin2121

I'm shutting down, this is such a bad time #watchin2121

The scenes with EDM are by far the best scenes. We're back in the casino and things are BUMPIN. #watchin2121

I sincerely don't understand why we're supposed to be rooting for these unpleasant people, instead of the dignified, capable, modest casino employee #watchin2121

I do like that they've finally stopped assaulting us with a blaring flashcard every time they say a count keyword. #watchin2121

We have been educated to some degree, but we'll need a refresher later

This movie never overestimates the audience's intelligence #watchin2121

I'm really angry at Fishburne's co-worker, who chews him out for saying "rewind the tape" when it's digital

Jesus christ dude, you know what he meant #watchin2121

He does look a bit like Tom Cruise. #watchin2121

Jacob Pitts is really not a fun actor to watch #watchin2121

We escalated from a dumb squabble to a pointless gunshot, mostly to interject some energy and stakes #watchin2121

I'm not entirely clear on why there was a gunshot. #watchin2121

They have a vacancy on the team, fingers crossed that #Gad fills in #watchin2121

Nice Spacey jacket. #watchin2121

The klepto guy is doing klepto stuff, classic script #watchin2121

He's a genius with numbers, but as soon as he gets his hand on hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash, he stashes it, earning zero return. #watchin2121

This guy's code is embarrassing, what happened to him #watchin2121

Protagonist (I think Ben?) is falling apart. #watchin2121

He's lost the friendship of Josh Gad, the most precious thing in the world #watchin2121

YES POUNDING EDM AGAIN. LET'S GO. #EDMScenesBestScenes #watchin2121

Kate Bosworth and Jim Sturgess make such a perfect couple, I hope their characters make this work #watchin2121

He's irresponsibly gambling now. What happened to the protagonist (Ben?) we knew and loved? #watchin2121

Same classic haircut, but he's lost the magic #watchin2121

Oh no, Ben has lost the respect of Kevin Spacey, this is crushing #watchin2121

They're getting greedy now. I don't think this will end well for them. #watchin2121

"What happened to 'means to an end'?" #classicmovielines #watchin2121

Just better hope they don't end up at a Fishburne casino! #FishburneCasino #watchin2121

I now like Kevin Spacey's character, insofar as he's ratting out to Fishburne #watchin2121

Hell yeah, fuck this guy (Ben) up #watchin2121

This is great, Ben is getting pummelled #watchin2121

This is very cathartic. #watchin2121

His money was stolen, hell yeah #watchin2121

This is real good. Real real good. #MoneysGone #watchin2121

"You should get that eye looked at." #ClassicMovieLines #watchin2121

What a useful lecture about Cauchy #watchin2121

He just lost everything, and he may be in danger of losing the love of his life... will he possibly risk it *all* and try to win it all back? #watchin2121

There's no way we're supposed to be rooting for Ben here, right? #watchin2121

His old friends are succeeding without him, this rules #FuckBen #watchin2121

Josh Gad is vindicated! #GadVindicated #VindicatedGad #watchin2121

That woman did not drink any of that wine she just pretended to sip. #FakeSip #watchin2121

She is clearly a con artist as well #watchin2121

This is all so arbitrary and unearned. #watchin2121

"This game is about the past and the future" #SoTrue #classicmovielines #watchin2121

FINALLY an actual disguise for protagonist. #watchin2121

I have no memory of him wearing a disguise at any point until now #watchin2121

He wore some sunglasses once. #watchin2121

Kevin Spacey is wearing a disguise!!!!

He's no longer in retirement!!!!

#epic #soepic #watchin2121

Finally they are actually acting drunk and irresponsible. They should've been operating this way from the beginning. #watchin2121

I'll admit, this scene was actually sort of fun, the first time I'd say that of the entire movie so far #watchin2121

First thing you do after getting out of the disguise is get the mop-top hair look back. #watchin2121

Oh no, we have a twist, this sucks #watchin2121

I think it's safe to say they absolutely own3d that prof. #watchin2121

Fishburne working with Ben makes me dislike Fishburne now #watchin2121

Josh Gad with them in Vegas! This is probably the ultimate feeling right now. #watchin2121

I enjoy how self-parodically excessive this closing is, I hate it so much but it really did not hold back #watchin2121

I like this funky remix of You Can't Always Get What You Want over the credits. We made it. #watchin2121

What a journey #watchin2121