YMMV / The Color of Money

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Stocker, Vincent's favorite video game, was an actual title by the short-lived Bally/Sente.
• Awesome Music: The beyond awesome "It's in the Way That You Use It" by the legendary Eric Clapton, which was the one major hit to come out of the official motion picture soundtrack.
• Consolation Award: In the opinion of a number of viewers, Newman's Oscar win for this was a long-awaited career prize for many other worthy performances, including Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler (where he originally played Fast Eddie), Hud, Cool Hand Luke and The Verdict. The fact that the latter had come out relatively recently and featured what was considered to be one of Newman's best performances probably helped highlight just how overdue many saw him at the time.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Eddie's comments about Vincent being a natural flake are funnier given Tom Cruise's subsequent erratic habits.
  • Similarly, the scene where Vincent is jumping up and down on his hotel bed brings to mind Cruise's couch-jumping bit on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
  • Crossing over with Harsher in Hindsight depending on your point of view, the film, being a decades-later-sequel that follows the original character/s mentoring a "new generation", is prescient of such "legacy sequels" that would become en vogue in The New '10s.
• One-Scene Wonder: Forest Whitaker as Amos.

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