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Gangster Movies

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by docgundy, Jul 20, 2006.

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  1. docgundy

    docgundy Member

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    Wanted to get everyone's take on great gangster films so I can add them to my collection. So far I have Menace II SOciety, Road to Perdition, Godfather, Scarface, Dead Presidents, Boyz N the Hood, Juice, Gang Related, Gridlock'd, Basketball Diaries, Baby Boy, Above the Rim, Poetic Justice, and White Men can't Jump. What are some classics and fairly new ones I should add?
     
    #1 docgundy, Jul 20, 2006
  2. Master Baiter

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    White Men Can't Jump?

    I watched Goodfellas last night. I love that movie.
     
    #2 Master Baiter, Jul 20, 2006
  3. LonghornFan

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    I've always thought Scarface was a little overrated. Pretty good flick, but Pacino's fake accent was very distracting to me. I don't think it's the classic that a lot of people think it is.
     
    #4 ima_drummer2k, Jul 20, 2006
  5. Master Baiter

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    I totally agree. Maybe it was great for that time but since I saw it for the first time only a couple of years ago, I have to say I wasn't impressed at all.
     
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  6. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    Donnie Brasco, Carlito's Way.
     
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  7. Lil Pun

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    What makes most of these gangster movies?
     
    #7 Lil Pun, Jul 20, 2006
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    Dead Presidents is gansta? not only is it not gangsta, but that movie was boring.
     
    #8 macalu, Jul 20, 2006
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    Thank you! I'm glad I'm not the only who thinks this; I just don't understand what people's love affair with this movie is. GTA: Vice City was a better Scarface!
     
    #9 JunkyardDwg, Jul 20, 2006
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    Drop what you're doing right now and go pick up Goodfellas. No further movies required.
     
    #10 AntiSonic, Jul 20, 2006
  11. Austin70

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    I have Goodfellas on video, but everytime it comes on tv, I watch.
     
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  12. A-Train

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    I guess any movie with a black person in it counts as a gansta movie. :D
     
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  13. Austin70

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    But Goodfellas had Samuel Jackson in it, is it a gangsta movie? :)
     
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    Or the Mexican or Colombian Drug Dealer... ;)

    Definitely Goodfellas...I love that show...
     
    #14 rrj_gamz, Jul 20, 2006
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    "Vatos Locos Forever, HOMES..."

    :mad: WTF, man... where's the love for BOUND BY HONOR: Blood In, Blood Out, man? :mad:
     
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    City of God
     
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    Gangsters?
     
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    "go get your shine box"
     
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    Well, Billy Hoyle in White Men Can't Jump WAS being chased around by a couple of low rent mob type guys, so I guess that kinda sorta counts as a gangster movie...Of course, Vestuccio Brothers just fixing college basketball games, not exactly Don Corleon type stuff...

    When Billy was set up by Sidney and his boys in that pick up game by the train track, that might be considered gang activity. Then, there was that guy that was about to rob that pawn shop to get some cash for his pickup game...I'm sure he was involved in some kind of gang activity. Yes, White Men Can't Jump is DEFINITELY a gangster movie...
     
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    A better tomorrow.
     
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