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Sat Feb-21-04 01:32 PM
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Poll question: What is your favorite gangster movie? |
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Sat Feb-21-04 01:37 PM
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1. Carlito's Way wasn't bad either |
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"You think you're big time? You're gonna f**king die big time!"
I had a Scarface flashback from that line.;-)
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Sat Feb-21-04 02:03 PM
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2. Once Upon A Time in America.... |
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Blasphemy for a Coppolla fan like me to say, but all other things being equal, Once Upon A Time in America is my fav.
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Sat Feb-21-04 10:03 PM
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33. I wanted to like that move so much I watched it twice. |
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Sat Feb-21-04 02:20 PM
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Edited on Sat Feb-21-04 02:20 PM by Lefty48197
with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. Great, great movie.
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Sat Feb-21-04 02:30 PM
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I voted "The Godfather", love "Goodfellas", and want to throw in my 2 cents for the Coen Bros' "Miller's Crossing"
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Sat Feb-21-04 02:31 PM
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Sat Feb-21-04 02:37 PM
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I guess that great minds think alike! :toast:
I also remember a good one (at least I thought it was good in my teens) with Kirk Douglas called "The Brotherhood".
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Sat Feb-21-04 04:06 PM
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12. Yup - Miller's Crossing was very good |
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Sat Feb-21-04 02:43 PM
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Sat Feb-21-04 08:06 PM
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Sat Feb-21-04 03:40 PM
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8. I clicked on the wrong one by mistake. |
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I clicked on Godfather, which I love, but meant to click Goodfellas, which is my all-time favorite movie. I LOVE gangster movies. The old ones are great too.
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Sat Feb-21-04 03:43 PM
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9. "I'm on top of the world, ma".... |
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A lot of the old gangster movies are great, Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, Bogart. etc. The orignal "Scarface" is excellent. There's "White Heat," "Little Caesar"--so many it's hard to think of them all at once.
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Sat Feb-21-04 07:13 PM
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19. "White Heat" is a classic -- talk about film noir! |
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Cagney is still very underrated, IMO. He did some outrageous turns and bits of business. His Cody Jarrett in "White Heat" is terrifying.
Who else but Cagney could blow away a guy locked in the trunk of a car, while eating a sandwich, no less?
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Sat Feb-21-04 03:58 PM
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Sat Feb-21-04 04:02 PM
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11. Once Upon A Time In America -the original version of 3+ hours |
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the condensed version sucked.
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Sat Feb-21-04 04:35 PM
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"I want what's coming to me Chico, the world, and everything in it".
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Sat Feb-21-04 05:42 PM
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14. HEAT--Don't know it qualifies as a gangster movie... |
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"You know, for me the action IS the juice."
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Sat Feb-21-04 06:54 PM
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15. Public Enemy w/ Jimmy Cagney |
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Sat Feb-21-04 07:00 PM
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Sat Feb-21-04 07:10 PM
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17. Yes!!! Imagine the *jolt* that it caused in its time! |
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My mom saw "The Public Enemy" in the theater as a kid -- she told me that the scene where Cagney (all bound up like a mummy) falls through the front door absolutely horrified everyone.
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Sat Feb-21-04 08:07 PM
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24. Yeah. Another great old one. |
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Edited on Sat Feb-21-04 08:08 PM by notmyprez
Is that the one where he smashed a grapefruit in the woman's face? I think that itself was shocking at the time.
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Sat Feb-21-04 07:11 PM
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18. You forgot "The Godafther, Part 2." |
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Even better than the excellent original, IMHO.
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Sat Feb-21-04 07:21 PM
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20. King of New York ~ because I always dig Walken as a bad guy. |
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Sat Feb-21-04 08:03 PM
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Edited on Sat Feb-21-04 08:06 PM by The Democratic Kid
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Sat Feb-21-04 08:29 PM
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26. The Untouchables is fun, if not very historically accurate. :-) (nt) |
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Sat Feb-21-04 08:53 PM
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27. You think I am funny? |
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:) Funny how Goodfellas man
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Sat Feb-21-04 09:27 PM
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28. kick for the late night crowd. |
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Sat Feb-21-04 09:47 PM
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Pacino rocked in that movie. But the others are all worthy of praise.
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Sat Feb-21-04 09:52 PM
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I like all the rest, but scarface is my favorite.
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Sat Feb-21-04 09:59 PM
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32. the first time I watched it |
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I was so high and it just blew me away. So many good parts, the end when Pacino has all the coke on his face, a madman at his boiling point. Classic!
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Sat Feb-21-04 09:59 PM
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31. godfather, 'cause it has given us so many cool sayings |
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GF is imprinted on the culture by the use of its dialogue in common speech.
there are too many of them to list.
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