Your favourite gangster movie?

[Citizen66]

For me its Godfather 1 and 2. 3 should be quietly forgotten about.
Sexy Beast
Long Good Friday.
Scarface
Donnie Brasco
Goodfellas
Gomorrah
Mesrine 1 and 2...cassels was just excellent in both.
Performance had its moments, in the midst of all the surreal shit. James Fox put in a good turn there. Went totally doolally afterwards mind.

I honestly wasn't aware of this post when I mentioned people who get a bone on over gangster movies.

 

[Bakunin]

Is Casino the one where…

Spoiler: horrific scene

there's a guy who gets his face shoved into a commercial deep fat fryer?

Because if so I plan to never see that film ever again, purely because of that scene. *shudder*

No casino was the one with the chap's head in a vice and this truly vile scene involving baseball bats:

 

[D'wards]

I'm looking forward to Legend - the Kray twins film. It seems to capture that 60s London glamour quite well.

 

[Pickman's model]

 

[krtek a houby]

Two Days in the Valley - mayhem and murder in Mullholland Drive. A respectable ensemble piece.

 

[Santino]

I'm looking forward to Legend - the Kray twins film. It seems to capture that 60s London glamour quite well.

I despise the glamourisation of 60s London gangsters but I am quite gay for Tom Hardy.

 

[krtek a houby]

I despise the glamourisation of 60s London gangsters but I am quite gay for Tom Hardy.

 

[Santino]

My only problem with Peaky Blinders was that it needed more Batman villains.

 

[Pickman's model]

I despise the glamourisation of 60s London gangsters but I am quite gay for Tom Hardy.

 

[D'wards]

I despise the glamourisation of 60s London gangsters but I am quite gay for Tom Hardy.

I sort of meant the "carny glamour" of the affluent working classes at the time - those fancy nightclubs and Diana Dors and all that.

I think the film may have a melancholy air about it - the song over the trailer is "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore", which seems perfect for a pretty tragic tale of murder, suicide and pretty terrible behaviour by a pair of bullying cunts. I too hate the worshipping of criminals. I doubt if you ran a small business in east London in the early 60's you would have viewed them as folk-heroes when they demanded 20% of the profit or else the place would have been firebombed.
Makes interesting reading though.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm looking forward to Legend - the Kray twins film. It seems to capture that 60s London glamour quite well.

We'll see if its better than the martin kemp version

 

[friedaweed]

Bugsy Malone

 

[Orang Utan]

Is Casino the one where…

Spoiler: horrific scene

there's a guy who gets his face shoved into a commercial deep fat fryer?

Because if so I plan to never see that film ever again, purely because of that scene. *shudder*

That's an episode of Spooks and it happens to a woman

 

[DotCommunist]

this is a thread is a bump so for a couple gems since it was first posted:
A Walk Among The Tombstones

Killing Them Softly (Gandolfinis last film I think- not checked imdb. Supporting role to a suprisingly good brad pitt)

 

[SpookyFrank]

this is a thread is a bump so for a couple gems since it was first posted:
A Walk Among The Tombstones

Killing Them Softly (Gandolfinis last film I think- not checked imdb. Supporting role to a suprisingly good brad pitt)

I think The Drop was the last Gandolfini film to be released, and it's also worth a look if you're a fan of gangster movies. It's fairly understated, more about tension than violence. Possibly Tom Hardy's best performance IMO, and Gandolfini is great as well.

 

[Sprocket.]

Mesrine 1&2
L'immortell
Infernal Affairs
Borsalino
Wrong Arm of the Law.