Glad the lawyer lost


He sounded like a sore loser the way he was calling the teacher guy a "villain" and a cheater. The lawyer got a team of coaches to help him and never even made it to the final. Haha!

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Just finished this film and totally agree. The lawyer seemed like a jerk.

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I thought it was funny that during the interviews another lawyer says "If your lawyer is not good at Monopoly, it's time to get a new lawyer." Then the film shows this lawyer being the first to go bankrupt again and again. Even in the end credits he's the first guy out. I definitely think this angle was intentional by the director.

On another note: I had to do a double-take early on in the film when I realized that the player whose mom had made him some custom Monopoly shirts from discontinued material, was the guy in the suit talking about the "dark knight" of Monopoly "cheating." I couldn't believe the lawyer was the same guy as the player!

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I agree.

Koury the lawyer got to take a lot of cheap shots at Tim Vandenberg (think that was his name) and we never hear him addressing these attacks, which make them seem all the more baseless and petty. And Vandenberg seems like a decent guy-- look how inventive he was using Monopoly to teach math to kids.

As to what Vandenberg actually did, it wasn't exactly kosher for Vandenberg to call out the identity of a player in the online qualifiers, but it apparently wasn't illegal. I think one facet of Monopoly dealmaking is dealbreaking: convincing a player's that he shouldn't make a deal with a third player.

What he was doing was exploiting an angle, something I think lawyers are paid to do. If the situation were reversed, and the lawyer exploited the same angle to his benefit, somehow not only would it be "OK" but we'd hear him bragging about it. Koury's fixation on Vandenberg's fate was classless and he's a sore loser.

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Glad you all are on the same page about Ken. Ken views himself as the hero of the film. As to the exploitation of the rules, Ken took advantage of loopholes himself and did other things as well that were against the rules, but he wouldn't let us film with him while those were happening.

Similarly, Tim & Matt are both the time not to talk negatively about an opponent as that is not in line with who they are.

-- Kevin Tostado

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