OT: Good Mob movies

[CL82]

What's the other?

For me? Casablanca

 

[temery]

Never watched a mob movie. Do not like glorification of crime. No different than city street gangs.

It's not about crime, it's about family.

 

[temery]

Not a movie, but "The Offer" is a short series worth watching.

 

[Conndog]

Bound is interesting- saw it years ago.

 

[superjohn]

Bound is interesting- saw it years ago.

I saw like 6 minutes of it back in the day, I was satisfied.

 

[Swoop]

The Departed.

this is such weird coincidence this topic was brought up. i literally woke up this morning, wanting to watch the departed or the town and decided on the departed.

"Yeah, I got a problem. I run rat f like you, okay? I don't like 'em."

 

[DCHuskyFan]

If you thought Bound was interesting, then you would definitely like Mulholland Drive (David Lynch neo noir, with some mobsters). There’s about 6 minutes in this movie that is a cut above of the rest.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

For me? Casablanca

Awesome movie. I can't even imagine how much more dramatic it would have felt watching that movie in the early 1940's.

I'm not sure I would put Casablanca above Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind (as politically incorrect as the subject matter is) but those three ans the Godfather all belong on an extremely short list.

 

[formerlurker]

Bugsy Malone

 

[mauconnfan]

New series Mob Land - Tom Hardy, Eastern Promises, Legend, Mean Streets.

The mafia is fascinating always was for me.

 

[TRest]

The Pope of Greenwich Village is mob adjacent.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

The Godfather may be the best movie ever made.

The Godfather is not even the best Godfather movie ever made.

 

[NH Husky]

Not exactly mob movies but close or similar style are some Quentin Tarantino movies.
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Also dig Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Hateful Eight.

Also Coen Brothers Fargo and No Country for Old Men. American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street

 

[Lanphoon]

Johnny Dangerously

 

[superjohn]

The Godfather is not even the best Godfather movie ever made.

Agreed, The Godfather Part III is the greatest movie ever made.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

I don’t know why I forgot about this one bc it’s one of my favorites:
The Untouchables. Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert DeNiro, Andy Garcia.

 

[Deepster]

Agreed, The Godfather Part III is the greatest movie ever made.

I've never seen Godfather 3. I've seen 1 and 2 countless times and never, ever felt like I wanted to watch it.

 

[storrsroars]

I've never seen Godfather 3. I've seen 1 and 2 countless times and never, ever felt like I wanted to watch it.

Much as I'm tempted to convince you it's great in order that you waste three hours of your pathetic life, I just can't do it It pretty much sucks.

 

[FreeKlaiber]

I've never seen Godfather 3. I've seen 1 and 2 countless times and never, ever felt like I wanted to watch it.

I remember seeing godfather 3 in the theater and still remember the feeling in my stomach when i saw that consiglieri Tom Hayden (Robert Duvall) had been replaced by Father Guido Sarducci and Friggin tan George zorro the gay blade Hamilton. Casting atrocity

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Much as I'm tempted to convince you it's great in order that you waste three hours of your pathetic life, I just can't do it It pretty much sucks.

It was far from good, but it wasn't as horrendous as the critics made it out to be.

Andy Garcia's character was entertaining and Eli Wallach, as what should always have been expected, did a great job.

All in all however Coppola should have left it on the scrap heap.

 

[ZooCougar]

If there was a such thing as the Godfather Part III then I wouldn’t even acknowledge it.


My list in order.

Godfather
Godfather Part II

Ties

The Departed
Goodfellas

Next tier

Casino
The Usual Suspects

 

[superjohn]

I've never seen Godfather 3. I've seen 1 and 2 countless times and never, ever felt like I wanted to watch it.

I thought part 2 was better than the first and was then blown away when I watched part 3 and it was significantly better than the first two.

It's so rare that a sequel is better than the original, obviously Caddyshack 2 was the better of the two but you rarely ever see part 3 being better than the first two.

 

[dbmill]

For me? Casablanca

I never really thought of Casablanca as a mob movie, I think of it more as a type of war movie, even though it does not really contain war battles in it. Whatever the case of what type of film it gets classified as, Casablanca is one of my favorite movies of all time.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I never really thought of Casablanca as a mob movie, I think of it more as a type of war movie, even though it does not really contain war battles in it. Whatever the case of what type of film it gets classified as, Casablanca is one of my favorite movies of all time.

Well the shutzsaffel behaved like gangsters.

 

[CL82]

I never really thought of Casablanca as a mob movie, I think of it more as a type of war movie, even though it does not really contain war battles in it. Whatever the case of what type of film it gets classified as, Casablanca is one of my favorite movies of all time.

That was a little topic drift. Someone said that the Godfather was the best movie of all time. I responded "It's in the top two anyway." and then someone asked me what was the other one and I responded "For me? Casablanca."

It's one of my favorite movies of all time as well. It's beautifully made without a wasted scene. Everything in there has a purpose.