favorite gangstah movies....
 

i love gangstah movies, from the most artsy fartsy, to the pointless violennt shoot em up in the hood flicks...

on the waterfront
godfather 1
godfather 2
mean streets
menace to society
clockers
goodfellas
dead or alive 1
ichi the killer
dont me a menace to south central while ya drinking ya juice in the hood
departed (say what u will, im from boston and nicholson forever)

cant forget dead presidents, the vietnam and gangster double violent spectacular!

mean streets is by far my favorite gangster movie.

Godfathers (I even like 3)
Goodfellas
Friday (?)

1. the sopranos
2. goodfellas
3. who's that knocking at my door
4. mean streets
5. casino
6. the godfather: part II
7. the godfather
8. the departed
9. lock, stock and two smoking barrels
10.snatch

the sopranos aint a movie, but if it were to count, it wud be my favorite BY FAR! i was sickly obsessed witht that show since i tuned in season 2, i own all 7 dvd sets, watched every episode religiously, watched all the special features, ive read all the critques of the show, and truly believe that tony soprano is the most captivating fictional charachter of modern times. people bitched about the last episode, but smart people knew that i show as brilliant as the sopranos could not go out with an infuriating and brilliant ending (the people who paid attention knew what happened anyways, *cough bang cough*).

exactly.

I could only watch a part of the Sopranos through Netflix but what I saw really dug. Sucked that I couldn't keep it coming.

i looove the sopranos

never watched the sopranos.... Mean Streets is so boss... Godfather is possibly the greatest flick of all time

i did not like boondock saints. so many people i know love it. so many film students... are you irish/catholic kegmama?

Departed, Godfather

<---- belgian/colombian/catholic

why else would anyone be that into gangster movies...?


this reminds me of two things:

1. i like that scene in scarface with the colombians
2. i still haven't bought a chainsaw yet

I've said it before I'll say it again "Brotherhood" > "The Sopranos", just my opinion.

Honorable mentions: "The Untoucables"
Kubrick's "The Killing"
oh, and a Hong Kong movie that came out last year or two called "Exiled", really good.

Willem was the lone bright spot

so i guess if i say 'yuck' thats an automatic non-entry for the slumber party right?

infernal affairs.
various miike yakuza films.
goodfellas.

Mean Streets
Casino
Scarface
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrells
The Business
Sonatine
Brother

Never liked Goodfellas or The Godfather(s).

1) The Public Enemy - the definitive Cagney gangster flick, so intense that a disclaimer was added to it and it was edited for re-release because it was "pre-code"

2) Bullet in the Head - John Woo's masterpiece about friendship and betrayal set against a backdrop of 60's Vietnam

3) Goodfellas - so entertaining, funny, shocking and amazing that it's based on real people

4) The Killer - Woo and Chow Yun Fat in a film that shows that sometimes the cops and the gangsters aren't too different from each other

5) Angels With Dirty Faces - a couple of punks grow up together and one takes the fall for the other which sends him down the path of a life of crime while his buddy becomes a priest. Lots of feelings of honor, responsibility, and the intro of the Bowery Boys

6) Hard Boiled - The Pinnacle of John Woo's style. Things blowing up, doves flying, paper cranes, and a hospital full of babies in the midst of a crazy firefight.

7) White Heat - "Top of the world, ma!" Cagney is the ultimate mama's boy and a complete fucking psycho. You never know when he's going to snap.

8) The Godfather - I feel obligated to mention this. Leave the gun, take the cannolis.

9) The Maltese Falcon - I feel like I didn't give Bogart enough love on this list. This movie is all-out fun. A colorful cast and an asshole protaganist that just oozes cool.

10) Little Caesar - here's the reason why everyone thinks of Edward G. Robinson as the image of a gangster. He's totally badass.


honorable mention: most everything directed by Ringo Lam, or Johnny To. Dozens of films starring Simon Yam. Most everything by Seijun Suzuki.
Be sure to check out A Better Tomorrow 1-3, Full Contact,
Branded to Kill, Snatch, Lock Stock, Casino, Mean Streets, Pistol Opera.

And don't forget that most Samurai films have heavy gangster elements especially Lone Wolf and Cub, and Zatoichi.

I totally forgot to add Leon: The Professional. That would be up towards the top.

^I love that movie.

I was going to put that but I didn't think it qualified as "gangstah"

thats clearly an assassin movie

I feel exactly the same way. I can't for the life of me figure out why so many people are obsessed with it.

As for my own favoret ganster movies, they've all been mentioned already. But I would still like to bring up Analyze This. Good stuff.

bros. we totally forgot CITY OF GOD


boondock saints is just an entertaining movie about a couple of irish lads keeling italian lads for no fucking reason, it is no acheivement in cinema whatsoever. and it does NO justice to my home city of boston, ma. the departed however did. i love the beginning of the departed when the screen says, "boston, some time ago" and its a full oin brawl in the streets. boston was completley run by violence for a long time, south end was whitey and the irish, north was all italian. its cleaned up but it still aint great.

orson welles's "heart of darkness" was my favorite film-noir. first movie to graphically depict heroin abuse and rape and all sorts of dark shit. welles's performance as a hero cop turned sociopathic madman is amazing. such an underrated film.

oh yeah, City of God is one of my top 5 movies ever... i forgot its a 'gangstah' movie... it just transcends the genre

5.heat
4.return of the jedi
3.casino
2.godfather ii



























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BLLAAARRGGHG

heats some goodshit too, definitley not a gang flick though, more of a heist film. brilliant though.

has he done anything else good? i saw City of Men... it was good, but not nearly as awesome.



sorry for the repost but i need to make some changes to my list

1. the sopranos
2. goodfellas
3. who's that knocking at my door (the pizza man?)
4. mean streets
5. casino
6. the rodfather: part II
7. the rodfather
8. the departed
9. lock, stock and two smoking barrels
10.snatch

11. resevoir bitches
12. pulp friction
13. the professional (starring natalie portman)
14. city of goddesses
15. city of men

scarface is my favourite gangsta movie ever
and pulp fiction

fuck i forgot pulp, probably the best movie to watch while doing coke lines (or best movie ever, or def best movie of 90's).

It's worth watching that movie just to see Cagney kill a horse. That's the one where he kills the horse, right?

(I just passed my post count for the old board. RIP old board)

Bit of an obscurity here, but has anyone ever seen a movie called Small Time?

i liked city of men... it was good, though yer right, not on the same level...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/
this is Fernando's next one... looks interesting... only other thing he did was Constant Gardner, which was ok.

Yup yup - I was just double-checking the trivia and came up with this tidbit too:

DAMN, they used real bullets in movies back then? Those guys were hardcore!! I'm totally re-watching this tonight.

The era before squibs was a dangerous time.