I like some, like Godfather 1 and 2 and Casino, Carlitoās Way. Others leave me cold like Goodfellas, the Irishman, and Scarface.
Do you like mob / gangster movies? š„
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 19, 2025 8:49 PM |
Hate most of them. They portray a suffocating lifestyle off no interest to me and the misogyny and violence are turn offs.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 19, 2025 7:30 PM |
Some good ones, a few great ones, but there was a time when there were too many. Scorcese is a talented director but he went to the well too many times.
But I'll take them over super hero movies.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 19, 2025 7:35 PM |
If Goodfellas leaves you cold, you donāt like gangster movies, OP.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 19, 2025 7:40 PM |
R3 Right? Goodfellas is a masterpiece.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 19, 2025 7:42 PM |
I liked the studio era gangster pictures: Little Caesar, Public Enemy, and the original Scarface with Paul Muni. They portrayed gangsters as creepy and nasty and not very bright. I was never comfortable with the Coppola-Scorsese-De Palma approach that made them into glamorous badass antiheroes.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 19, 2025 8:07 PM |
No, that's a genre I actively avoid.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 19, 2025 8:40 PM |
I like āThe Departedā (despite a weirdly awful Jack Nicholson performance.)
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 19, 2025 8:43 PM |
I like The Godfather 1 &2 and Goodfellas. I read the Nicholas Pileggi book first and I thought the film did a good job. The first Godfather was a masterpiece in filmmaking.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 19, 2025 8:49 PM |