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Offline soleil

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Best mafia movie?
« on: August 15, 2010, 07:37:24 PM »
I can't pick just one. Sorry.

Godfathers 1 & 2
Donnie Brasco
A Bronx Tale
Goodfellas ( I put it last on the list because even though I like it a lot, it isn't all that people say it is. At least to me)


There are several honorable mentions of course.

Scarface
Casino
Bugsy
Road to Perdition
Reservoir Dogs
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2010, 08:24:29 PM »
Godfather is the ultimate.  The Untouchable is another good.

Boondocks saints doesn't quite qualify, but it is my all time favorite movie, so I have to mention it.  :popcorn:
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2010, 09:49:01 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on August 15, 2010, 08:24:29 PM
Godfather is the ultimate.  The Untouchable is another good.

Boondocks saints doesn't quite qualify, but it is my all time favorite movie, so I have to mention it.  :popcorn:

The Untouchables was good, but it is lower on my list. I bought Boondock Saints for my hubby after hearing it was a good mafia movie. I was extremely disappointed. Not my kinda movie. My husband liked it though.

I would add Eastern Promises, but it doesn't quite have that same kind of appeal. It was good though.
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2010, 10:27:35 PM »
Goodfellas...the sheer volume instantaneous acts of violence in the movie are what make it.
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2010, 10:59:19 PM »
Any and all of the Godfather movies
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2010, 11:15:17 PM »
My Cousin Vinny
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2010, 07:02:32 AM »
The Valachi Papers!!!!!!

And as my honorable mention, ANY of the British gangster movies directed by Guy Ritchie. If Jason Statham :bow: was an American, he'd definitely be mobbed-up.
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2010, 07:25:56 AM »
Pulp Fiction
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2010, 08:12:10 AM »
Quote from: HollywoodNeoCon on August 16, 2010, 07:02:32 AM
The Valachi Papers!!!!!!

And as my honorable mention, ANY of the British gangster movies directed by Guy Ritchie. If Jason Statham :bow: was an American, he'd definitely be mobbed-up.

Indeed.  I like you.   :cheersmate:

Snatch.  If I had to pick one. 

American Gangster Movie?

Pulp Fiction.  Purely for the moments of complete shock seeing it for the first time at the theater with my little brother.  Wow.  That was some SH!T!
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2010, 09:30:10 AM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on August 16, 2010, 08:12:10 AM
Indeed.  I like you.   :cheersmate:

Snatch.  If I had to pick one. 

American Gangster Movie?

Pulp Fiction.  Purely for the moments of complete shock seeing it for the first time at the theater with my little brother.  Wow.  That was some SH!T!

Definitely Snatch!!!!  :cheersmate:

As for Pulp Fiction, my girlfriend and I quote that flick at LEAST twice a week!  :rotf:
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2010, 11:48:14 AM »
Quote from: littlelamb on August 15, 2010, 10:59:19 PM
Any and all of the Godfather movies

You include that horrific POS Godfather 3?
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2010, 12:28:45 PM »
Anything James Cagney or Edward B. Robinson was in.
there was one other 40's gangster that I cannot remember his name but any and all b&w 40's gangster film. Was it Garfield ???
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2010, 12:31:22 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on August 16, 2010, 11:48:14 AM
You include that horrific POS Godfather 3?

I hate to agree with you, but you're absolutely right, Sparky. That was so depressingly bad...sorta like seeing your dad unable to get himself to the toilet after having worked 30 years as a high steel worker.  :mad:
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2010, 12:34:02 PM »
Quote from: vesta111 on August 16, 2010, 12:28:45 PM
Anything James Cagney or Edward B. Robinson was in.
there was one other 40's gangster that I cannot remember his name but any and all b&w 40's gangster film. Was it Garfield ???

Oh yeah!!!! Cagney in "The Public Enemy"!!!!

Are you thinking maybe of Paul Muni or George Raft???  :bow:
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2010, 12:51:33 PM »
Well, aside from the obvious picks of Godfather 2 and Goodfellas, I'm gonna throw in a few others I've liked:

-The Departed
-Donnie Brasco
-Mean Streets
-Carlito's Way

(apologies to all the Edward G. Robinson and Cagney movies like Angels with Dirty Faces or Little Caesar.)
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2010, 01:30:18 PM »
Goodfellas

then:

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels/Snatch/RocknRolla trifecta

Reservoir Dogs and True Romance (the Dennis Hopper & Christopher Walken scene is unforgettable!!!)

Usual Suspects

Eastern Promises
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2010, 02:22:24 PM »
As far as I'm concerned, Pacino never made a bad flick. Just watching how his Cuban accent gradually disappeared through Scarface, and knowing that they shot the thing out of sequence, wow. Simply wow.

Carlito's Way is up there. Way up there. And while Sean Penn is a ****face par excellence, he played a great douchebag lawyer in that film.
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2010, 02:53:17 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on August 16, 2010, 02:22:24 PM
As far as I'm concerned, Pacino never made a bad flick. Just watching how his Cuban accent gradually disappeared through Scarface, and knowing that they shot the thing out of sequence, wow. Simply wow.

Carlito's Way is up there. Way up there. And while Sean Penn is a ****face par excellence, he played a great douchebag lawyer in that film.

Was it not Pachino who stared in an early 80's movie called CRUSING.?

Sad movie he played a young married man, police detective who was assigned to stop the Gay action in town.   His charactor knew very little about Gay life and as he delved into it, the bars and bath houses he found he now for the first time in his life question his own sexuality.


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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2010, 05:30:14 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on August 15, 2010, 11:15:17 PM
My Cousin Vinny

That is one hilarious movie!
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #19 on: August 16, 2010, 05:31:19 PM »
Quote from: Mr Snuggle Bunny on August 16, 2010, 07:25:56 AM
Pulp Fiction

I knew I'd forget one. Although when I first watched it, I hated it. After watching it for the 3rd time, I realized how awesome it was. Now I've seen it far too many times.
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2010, 05:01:59 PM »
Quote from: njpines on August 16, 2010, 01:30:18 PM
Goodfellas

then:

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels/Snatch/RocknRolla trifecta

Reservoir Dogs and True Romance (the Dennis Hopper & Christopher Walken scene is unforgettable!!!)

Usual Suspects

Eastern Promises

Did anyone ever understand a word Brad Pitt said in Snatch???
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2010, 05:21:08 PM »
Godfather I and II
Goodfellas
Mean Streets
Resevoir Dogs
The Usual Suspects
The Long Good Friday (with Hellen Mirren back when she was super yummy)
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2010, 07:13:43 PM »
I liked "Public Enemies" with Christain Bale and I also liked all of the rest listed before except I have yet to see any of the Godfather movies.
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2010, 09:11:12 PM »
Quote from: Crazy Horse on August 17, 2010, 05:01:59 PM
Did anyone ever understand a word Brad Pitt said in Snatch???

Nope, and I loved him for that!  Not like in that girly crushy way, it was just super cool. 
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Re: Best mafia movie?
« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2010, 09:13:33 PM »
Quote from: IassaFTots on August 17, 2010, 09:11:12 PM
Nope, and I loved him for that!  Not like in that girly crushy way, it was just super cool. 

"girly crushy way"?!?

Sounds like a disease or the start of one helluva sinus infection.
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