Boulevard Nights

goodfellas...godfather1-2..casino...all classics


man that scene on casino where joe pesci's character and his bro get beaten with the bats and then thy bury him when hes still alive....fuckin sick..lol

city of god is also a favorite...

Yea thats the craziest wacking in any mob movie, when they get buried still breathing..lol..and it was based on the true story.

I also like The Sopranos. Its was a tv show but its really like a long ass movie if you watch every show.

Yeah I liked the Sporanos too. There is a few/was a few good shows on there like that. The wire was pretty good as well.

DICERxOVSBA*BMTLs wrote:I JUST SEEN FREEDOM WRITERS ON CABLE IT WAS DANEROUS MINDS FOR THE NEW ERA PURE SHIT...SCARFACE WAS COOL CUZ IT SHOWD A DUDE KINDA LIKE ME COMING UP N MAKING A NAME FOR HIMSELF ALL THE TIME GETTIN PAYD....AND COLORS WAS SOME FUNNY ASS SHIT I WAS YOUNG WHEN THAT MOVIE CAME OUT AND EVEN THEN I WAS BUSTING UP ABOUT 21st. SOME SAY THEY WHERE BASED ON 18th STREET OR ROCKWOOD CUZ THEY WHERE IN THE BELMONT AREA OF LOS.

isn't there a scene in colors where they talk about white fence and how it's the oldest varrio in the city of LA and yeah 21st ST is based on 18th ST i think

Huero wrote:someone needs to take the time...and make a real "varrio" movie that aint based on stereotypes and cornballed the fuck out...

No shit! Most these films get way too preachy and if they don't get preachy they get too Hollywood actiony.

American Me did a pretty good job but the acting is spotty and fantasy bits were way over the top like Santana/Cadena juvie raping and subsequent repressed homosexuality/sexual impotencies, the homosexual raping and assassination of the Mafioso bosses son, Cadena/Santana getting killed by his La Eme underlings when in reality he was killed by Nuestra Familia members, Morgan/JD getting his leg blown off by a local shop owner when in reality it was the cops shot his leg off, and I don't believe Cadena/Morgan came from the same hood IIRC, they weren't young homies on the streets i could be wrong on this last point. But that's Hollywood, they butcher history. I believe the writers and Olmos' intentions were to give the film cautionary dimensions a la "heavy handed crime doesn't pay message because this can happen or that can happen to you!" La Eme of course didn't take this lightly and some deaths were involved.

Oh btw, I found Boulevard Nights on the YT

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But as mentioned by other posters, Scorsese's biopic Goodfellas murdered all other gangster films for pure grittiness and realism. I love his other gangster films Mean Streets and Casino as well.

GOOD FELLAS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST GANGSTER MOVIES PUT THERE ALONG WITH THE UNTOUCHABLES ITS MORE OF A COPS POINT OF VIEW BUT STILL A CLASSIC. ANYONE SEEN JOHNNY DEPP'S (PUBLIC ENEMY) NEW FLICK??

BLUEDEVIL wrote:GOOD FELLAS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST GANGSTER MOVIES PUT THERE ALONG WITH THE UNTOUCHABLES ITS MORE OF A COPS POINT OF VIEW BUT STILL A CLASSIC. ANYONE SEEN JOHNNY DEPP'S (PUBLIC ENEMY) NEW FLICK??

Yeah, its good stuff, I liked it.

BLUEDEVIL wrote:GOOD FELLAS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST GANGSTER MOVIES PUT THERE ALONG WITH THE UNTOUCHABLES ITS MORE OF A COPS POINT OF VIEW BUT STILL A CLASSIC. ANYONE SEEN JOHNNY DEPP'S (PUBLIC ENEMY) NEW FLICK??

I have been meaning to, directed by Michael Mann "Heat", "Manhunter", "Thief" and television's Miami Vice. Tho it looks absolutely Hollywood it is a Michael Mann action film afterall.

Raza Soldado wrote:

BLUEDEVIL wrote:GOOD FELLAS HAS TO BE ONE OF THE BEST GANGSTER MOVIES PUT THERE ALONG WITH THE UNTOUCHABLES ITS MORE OF A COPS POINT OF VIEW BUT STILL A CLASSIC. ANYONE SEEN JOHNNY DEPP'S (PUBLIC ENEMY) NEW FLICK??

Yeah, its good stuff, I liked it.

They left a lot of stuff out & changed some things. If they had stayed true to the real story, it would've been better. Read the wiki on Dillinger and you'll see what I mean.

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