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. 1
   Casino

   Scorsese's 1995 epic about the mob running a Strip casino.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Last Vegas

   2013 comedy sending four old friends to a Strip bachelor party.
   646pts
3. 3
   Rain Man

   1988 Best Picture winner with a card-counting detour to Caesars Palace.
   607pts
4. 4
   Honeymoon in Vegas

   1992 comedy of a poker debt paid in fiancée.
   577pts
5. 5
   Ocean's Eleven

   Soderbergh's 2001 heist across three Strip vaults in one night.
   577pts
6. 6
   Vegas Vacation

   1997 Griswold trip where the family loses everything at the tables.
   564pts
7. 7
   21

   2008 film about MIT students counting cards on the Strip.
   516pts
8. 8
   Diamonds Are Forever

   1971 Bond film that put 007 on the Strip.
   516pts
9. 9
   Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

   Gilliam's 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's drug-soaked road trip.
   515pts
10. 10
    The Hangover

    2009 comedy about a bachelor party nobody can remember.
    329pts
11. 11
    Bugsy

    1991 biopic of the gangster who dreamed up the Flamingo.
    329pts
12. 12
    Ocean's 11

    The 1960 Rat Pack original, shot while the cast performed at the Sands.
    329pts
13. 13
    Showgirls

    1995 flop turned cult object about a Strip dancer's climb.
    154pts
14. 14
    Indecent Proposal

    1993 drama built on a million-dollar offer made in a casino.
    154pts
15. 15
    Viva Las Vegas

    1964 musical pairing Elvis Presley with Ann-Margret.
    154pts
16. 16
    The Cooler

    2003 drama about a man paid to bring gamblers bad luck.
    154pts
17. 17
    Swingers

    1996 indie about two friends driving from LA to the tables.
    154pts
18. 18
    Leaving Las Vegas

    1995 drama that won Nicolas Cage the Best Actor Oscar.
    154pts

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