What is the best movie set in Las Vegas?

The city has been a heist, a hangover, a slow suicide and an Elvis musical. Some of these films love the place, some use it as a warning, and a couple only needed the neon for a backdrop. Rank the ones that earned the setting.

1

Casino

Scorsese's 1995 epic about the mob running a Strip casino.

1000pts

2

Last Vegas

2013 comedy sending four old friends to a Strip bachelor party.

646pts

3

Rain Man

1988 Best Picture winner with a card-counting detour to Caesars Palace.

607pts

4

Honeymoon in Vegas

1992 comedy of a poker debt paid in fiancée.

577pts

5

Ocean's Eleven

Soderbergh's 2001 heist across three Strip vaults in one night.

577pts

6

Vegas Vacation

1997 Griswold trip where the family loses everything at the tables.

564pts

7

21

2008 film about MIT students counting cards on the Strip.

516pts

8

Diamonds Are Forever

1971 Bond film that put 007 on the Strip.

516pts

9

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Gilliam's 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's drug-soaked road trip.

515pts

10

The Hangover

2009 comedy about a bachelor party nobody can remember.

329pts

11

Bugsy

1991 biopic of the gangster who dreamed up the Flamingo.

329pts

12

Ocean's 11

The 1960 Rat Pack original, shot while the cast performed at the Sands.

329pts

13

Showgirls

1995 flop turned cult object about a Strip dancer's climb.

154pts

14

Indecent Proposal

1993 drama built on a million-dollar offer made in a casino.

154pts

15

Viva Las Vegas

1964 musical pairing Elvis Presley with Ann-Margret.

154pts

16

The Cooler

2003 drama about a man paid to bring gamblers bad luck.

154pts

17

Swingers

1996 indie about two friends driving from LA to the tables.

154pts

18

Leaving Las Vegas

1995 drama that won Nicolas Cage the Best Actor Oscar.

154pts