Even though you are a pathetic scumbag loser and all you do is watch movies, you should try it you would like it...
Wow what an incredibly informative comment. What do you know he likes the most popular gangster movie of all time. Drone.[/QUOTE] You're trolling is getting worse. _
I can't count myself as a big fan of the Departed. Great cast, but I think the plot gets lost here and there. I probably should see it again soon, though. Maybe a fresh look is in order.
It's actually a remake of a Japanese movie--almost scene for scene. I know Scorsese took flack over the ending but that's how the original ended. _
easily Godfather is the best, but American Gangster has a special place in my heart. "The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room"
I thought they could have expanded more on the story and made it more detailed IMO that was the only flaw of the movie. I thought the characters in the movie were awesome. Denzel did his thing as usual, Crowe was really good.
Also, you guys need to go back some in film history, as some of hte greatest gangster films were made in the thirties and forties. I won't include what are really detective stories with gangsters in them, like The Big Sleep, or a revenge/love triangle film like Out of the Past. But see The Roaring Twenties with Jimmy Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. Awesome film. Angels with Dirty Faces, with Cagney and Bogart again, but also Pat O'Brien and the super hot Anne Sheridan. Petrified Forest, Bogart's breakout film as the gangster Duke Mantee, but also a very young and hot (she was at one time) Bette Davis. Key Largo, another Bogart film, has the excellent Edward G. Robinson as the mobster Rocco. Claire Trevor won the Oscar as Rocco's girlfriend. Also Lauren Bacall. Public Enemy with Cagney imo set the template for gangster films. Arguably they have all been remakes of that one. Little Caesar, also with Robinson. From the sixties you can add Point Blank with an excellent Lee Marvin, and of coure Bonnie and Clyde. The studio that set the mold in the thirties was Warner Brothers. You can find sets of their gangster films on line.
I watch a lot of movies and not every movie can keep the suspense like that one. Great plot, great twists, great cast.
Donnie Brasco Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels/Snatch Miller's Crossing Boyz n the Hood Pulp Fiction Dead Presidents
I might have that one at three but the gap is not large by any standard. La confidential is a great movie. I love snatch too. That's the movie that made me like Brad Pitt. Nothing like hearing about how Tyrone drove a really car.
