has anyone seen this movie? i rented the dvd last night only cuz deniro and pesci were in it. i thought it sucked!!! imo. or is it one of those movies u have to watch a few times to like it. i know u can buy it at wal mart for like 7.00 (dvd) just wanted someone elses opinion!! thank you

I liked A Bronx Tale...For an HBO original movie I thought it was very good. Deniro did a good job directing and the acting was pretty good.

Didnt Slick(C's friend) look exaclty like a young Joe Pesci. I think that actor plays the young Tommy in Gooodfellas too.

I guess you should watch it a few times, cause I liked it. Of course it's toned down...it's like a movie for teenagers. I dunno. But I liked it.
There hasn't been a better Mafia movie that takes place in the early-mid 1960's...Dueces Wild tried but failed. The whole Bronx street-corner summer thing really interests me.

I think the movie tried to teach too many lessons, trying to juggle racism, friendship, love, making the right decesions yada yada... all at the same time.

Other than that, I liked the characters (Drakes, Crazy Mario), the music ("I Wonder Why", "Don't You Just Know It") and some scenes (The beating of the bikers, the ending).
Grade: B+

Yes, watch it again, then again and see if it hits you the way most others have after seeing it...then again you may be the type that needs blood and guts in a film...The rest of us like a good story with a mob background with a tale to tell or a truism of real life....

"A Bronx Tale" is one of my favorite movies. I feel it truly depicted the Mob (the guys hanging out at their "club" playing craps, the effect the guys had on their neighborhood, etc.) AND the acting was superb (especially Chazz Palminteri).

The biker gang in the bar was one of the best mob movie scenes I've ever seen.

(And, yes, the actor who played "Slick" was the same one who portrayed young "Tommy" in "Goodfellas").

I agree with SC. PLUS, the bus colors, the lampposts and the street names signs were perfectly re-created.

Even the street names themselves were real. I once was ordered off of a playground bench by a skinny old Italian guy and I was told to "go back to Webster Ave. where I belong(ed)". That's where the Black young lady lived. That's nice and accurate ( Latins live there also).

But then, as Cam said, I'm just a sucker for "a good story with a mob background with a tale to tell".

Oddly enough, those scenes supposing to be Webster Avenue were filmed in Brooklyn (on Neck Road and East 16th Street).

I agree, Bronxie....the movie did capture the true "flavor" of the Belmont section of the 60's, though.

Joe Pesci was in the film. He played Carmine.

This was an enjoyable, well-acted, extremely authentic-looking film. Very fine performances by DeNiro, Palmentieri, and Clem Caserta, as well as the best bunch of neighborhood faces since "Goodfellas." But Tony Zarelli was right on the money when he said the movie tried to teach too many lessons. The moralizing cluttered up the film. The romance between C and the African-American girl was totally unauthentic--never would have happened. They should have kept it simpler.

A great film, IMO. I'm always looking for good father-son movies, and BRONX TALE, along with ROAD TO PERDITION are probably my favorites in that category.

BTW, I believe the kid who played "C" was in THE SOPRANOS. Wasn't he the one of the kids who worked with Chris in the boiler room, held up the poker game where the dealer got shot, and then got whacked himself? I forgot his name.

Lillo Brancato.
The NYTimes Magazine had an interview with DeNiro on the set of "Bronx Tale." DeNiro said Brancato got the job by sending in a videotape of his GF and Goodfellas imitations. This stuff greatly appealed to DeNiro. The article said DeNiro was constantly calling on Brancato to do his imitations: "Lillo--do Al. Lino--do Frankie Pentangeli," etc. Hell, if the qualification for playing C in "Bronx Tale" was based on ability and desire to do GF and Goodfellas imitations, I could have gotten the part hands-down!

I meant the names of the streets were real. The Webster Ave. AND the Belmont and 187th streets look so much different now that they had to film it somewhere else.

Do you know what school they were going to? If they took a bus to it (I think the bus scene was coming from school) it couldn't be Roosevelt HS where there was a lot of racial tension in those days (Fordham Baldies etc) and is right around the corner from the Bronx's "Little Italy".

Dunno, Bronxie. I've seen that school before, but can't place it. I THINK it may have been the same school shown in "The Wanderers".

BTW - If anyone wants to see a great flick about an Italian gang in the Bronx in the 60's you MUST see "The Wanderers"!

A champ! One of the best New York youth flicks ever!

A champ! One of the best New York youth flicks ever! [/quote]It's filmed right there on Fordham and Grand Concourse, on Creston Ave. and many actual streets and backyards (which are not the type of backyards people Bar B Q .

And the Military recruiting centers filmed were actually the ones there. The High School they used was Theodore Roosevelt HS that had a demon of a time trying to intergrate Black and Latin kids with the Italian and Jewish kids in the mid to late '60's, though that wasn't the topic of the flick.

That was a really fun film...I hadn't thought about that movie for a long time until this thread.

The kid who played the lead was the guy who later had the lead in the short-lived TV program, "Wiseguy".