Great film,boring and frustrating but a great melodrama. It's not a gangster film like they are promoting it but more a drama about a man who faces potential fianancial ruin. Frustrating because you want the big gangster film but the film,costumes,backdrop of New York 1981 are stunning on the eye.
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#826913 02/03/1503:00 PM02/03/1503:00 PM
Are they?How come they don't make gangster movies anymore,good gangsyer movies.I watched Iceman it sucked,saw Blood ties not bad.Are there any good NEW mafia/mobster/gangster movies?I have a fealing it all ended with the Sopranos.
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#826936 02/03/1505:20 PM02/03/1505:20 PM
Black Mass appears to show some promise along with the confirmation of the Scorsese take on the book "I Heard You Paint Houses", but I have a feeling that we'll be waiting a fuckin long time for that one.
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#838277 04/19/1507:23 AM04/19/1507:23 AM
Just finished watching this movie. It only took me 14 days over two months to see it all.
I wish I had the star of this movies hair. He lets a high jacker go in the subway when he could have shot him the sound muffled the shot by the train passing. What a fucking idiot for not doing it.
I knew people who used to make part of their living by high jacking fuel oil trucks.
only the unloved hate
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#857303 08/23/1509:01 AM08/23/1509:01 AM
I’m inclined to believe that Michael Franzese was the inspiration for bourgeois gangster Paul Forente (portrayed by Alessandro Nivola). Handsome and well dressed, involved in the gas business, had a father who was mobbed up and decided to follow a different path as he says quote: “I decided to act differently than my father.” Also the last name “Forente” is a pretty clear references.
Fantastic movie, btw, one of my favorites.
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#1035481 06/05/2201:31 PM06/05/2201:31 PM
I agree that the marketing campaign failed (or just lied to attract more people) when it sold it as a legit crime/mob film while it was a business and family drama with crime elements. They few action sequences and chases were pretty good though.