Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Screening: American Hustle

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Screening Date: December 18, 2013
Time: 7:00 PM
City: Silver Spring, MD
Theater: Regal Majestic


One of the most anticipated movies of this year (and already on many people's top movie lists for 2013), American Hustle follows a con man, Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), and his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams).  They are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso (Bradley Cooper), who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.
We will be notifying winners on Monday, December 16th. To qualify, you MUST be a fan of Watch or Pass on Facebook, so if you haven't "liked" us yet, please go there and do so now. After that, please comment on this blog post (using Disqus, so we have an email address to contact you at) with your answer to the question: 

Have you ever been conned? No need to go into embarrassing details, unless you want to!

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86 comments:

  1. Yes, I was conned into buying season tickets to the Washington Wizards one year with a buddy, they won maybe 5 games. Never again

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  2. When I was in the Navy and hit a port we were always targeted to be conned sometimes it worked sometimes it didn't.

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  3. Yeh, Many years ago in NYC, it involved a guy saying "Wait right here, I'll be right back"....of course he never came back!!

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  4. A friend once talked me into going to a Kings of Leon show with her --it was the worst concert I had ever been to...

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  5. Yes I have. But only once. I've learned my lesson.

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  6. Yeh, Many years ago in NYC, it involved a guy saying "Wait right here, I'll be right back"....of course he never came back!! Repeating because other post logged GUEST!! Don't know why!!!

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  7. i got conned out of $300 trying to get a $1000 payday loan

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  8. I was totally conned by a douche bag ex boyfriend!!! Rather not get into details : /

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  9. A quick-change artist almost got me once, when I was a teller in a bank.

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  10. Yes. Worst experience of my life.

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  11. Yes. I bought a package of underwear from a fake website for $20.00. Never came and two weeks later the site was taken down.

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  12. Yes I have been conned, when I was younger trying to get something cheat

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  13. Yes, when I was a freshman in college.

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  14. Yes, I've been conned by lying people !

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  15. Yes, perhaps when I was young and dumb.

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  16. Do taxi drivers count as con artists? I think so.

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  17. Wellbar, I thought buying this girl drinks would make her more inclined to go home with me. After a $200 tab, I ended up the drunk one, and she was nice enough to carry me to a cab and send me on my way.

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  18. Yep, I've been conned. But, I hunted him down........

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  19. Father-in-law was and it lead to his early death. The SOB is still out there conning other people and no one really cared.

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  20. Yes got conned into thinking Redskins were on the up and up and got season tickets...ouch!!!

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  21. I was conned into buying women's cosmetics to be entered into winning a trip.

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  22. Intentionally, like in the movie? No.

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  23. Yes, definitely...and most times by people you least expect.

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  24. Yes a guy stole my a few of my checks and I didn't know it

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  25. Too many times. Sadly, mainly by family members haha.

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  26. Uh, HELLO!! I have grandkids, need I say more? They con me into getting them toys all the time. They tell me they'll die without them lol!

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  27. Haven't we all in some way or another?

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  28. yes -- by an out of town "work contractor"

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  29. The closest I've come to being conned is a sales person talking me into buying something I was on the fence about. My cheapness helps me avoid cons in general.

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  30. I entered a contest at beer festival to win a trip to Florida. (Had to chug a beer as quickly as possible.) Out of the thousands of people who entered, I won! Free airfare and hotel stay, plus $500 of extra spending money. All I had to do was pay a "small" winner's fee. A measly $2000 later, I realized it was a scam. Luckily, I cancelled all transactions. Still, the beer was pretty damn tasty.

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  31. Yup! Out of money! But that's what I get for not doing any research before moving forward with my plans :/

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  32. Yes, out of football tickets after paying someone for them.

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  33. No, and I'm happy about that :)

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  34. No, but I've done some conning :)

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  35. Yes, but now I champion against it. The is a con in mostly everything we do so we must be vigilantly on the look out for all schemes and scams.

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  36. If I have, I haven't realized it yet.

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  37. been conned one time...def not mentioning details lol

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  38. I wouldn't say conned, but I can be very gullible and sometimes made to feel very dumb!

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  39. I have never been con =) Thanks

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  40. I have never been conned as far as I know. *knocks on wood*

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  41. I was conned by a job posting to sell vacuums when I was a teenager... It sucked

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  42. Yes. During the early days of online auctions. Thanks, Yahoo!

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  43. Yep. I have been conned. It sucked.

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  44. Nope. Not that I know if anyway!

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  45. Yep, bought some gift cards on eBay and never received them.

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  46. My family and I once bought tickets to a Broadway show... they were fakes and didn't work!

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  47. I bought tickets to an NBA game only to discover they were fake.

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  48. If i've been conned, I don't know about it!

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  49. I have been conned and conned myself.

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  50. Unfortunately, I HAVE been conned. Conned throughout my life, on both a big and small scale. I pray for everyone who was entrusted of something and got NOTHING in return.

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  51. I haven't really been conned, unless you count being charged clearly a foreigner mark up when traveling!

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  52. nope, but pranks have been pulled on me!!

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  53. Yes. I try not to let it happen again.

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  54. A guy on the street once confused me into giving him ten dollars. Not the best experience.

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  55. Not yet unless you count my marriage!

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  56. Indeed I have. Smh. Once was just for a trip on the Metro. You could have just asked, bro.

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