The Color of Money

The Color of Money delivers on a lot of fronts: hot young Tom Cruise, old (but still hot) Paul Newman, and enough great pool shots to fill the two hour runtime. Still, it’s perhaps an outlier in this miniseries, in the sense that it’s the least “like” a Martin Scorsese movie. Also, did Marty Supreme and Top Gun: Maverick both rip off this movie? Did Scorsese have other things on his mind while making this? Does this compare favorably as a sequel to the stone-cold classic The Hustler? How is this all connected to first person shooters?