DVD review: The Cooler
You ever just have one of those days?
I mean, really, you wonder what was written in the stars or perhaps your past life decided to recall your charmic debt all at once? Like 18 different bad things happen at the same time? I like to think it’s because I’m Irish that I put so much stock into things like fate and luck, but the fact of the matter is--crap happens--period. There’s very little much you can do about it.
My last trip to Las Vegas was to see what all the hubbub was about. I had heard and seen all the new contraptions there were being built during the boom of later Clinton years. I was very impressed. This was not the world I had seen when I had first turned 21 and disposable cash was becoming a possible option for me. Instead of the ruff and tumble, gangster world from the previous visit, I saw Disney-lite, with a tangible, underlining of sin thrown in, in case the family wasn’t looking.
It’s from these two standpoints that the movie The Cooler was created. The old Las Ve...