Best Gangster movies?
 

Huh?

Miller's Crossing! :D
Out of that list my fav is probably Goodfellas, not sure that's the best one of the lot, though...

goodfellas and sexy beast get my vote and casino would also if it where there.

I'm gonna rent and watch the movie that wins this poll.. ;)

I can't choose. there are too many I like on the list. :(

if I was threatened with concrete-tennis-shoes, I'd pick goodfellas though.

PS: I haven't seen Ghost Dog, but have been meaning to put it on my netflix queue. is it decent?

Time for a bit of vagueness now: About 10 years ago there were two films released at the same time, by the same director and both starring Christopher Walken, one of which was a gangster movie and the other one a vampire movie. I liked them both (although the vampire one is my preferred one), and the gangster one would get my vote for my favourite gangster movie if only a) I could remember its name, and b) it was one of the options in the poll.

Suicide Kings?

ghost dog is hilarious.

my vote would have to go to "american gangster." even though it's not out yet, i got ahold of a dvd quality bootleg last week and it is a-fucking-mazing. since it's not up there, though, i say "scarface."

Gangster one: The Funeral
Vampire one: The Addiction

voted The Godfather

haven't seen American Gangster

no time for listing at the moment

just a reprint / La Cosa Nostra

some mob comedies (some have some dramedy) worth seeing


Midnight Run
Broadway Danny Rose
Mad Dog and Glory (Murray/De Niro/Thurman)
The Freshman (Brando parodying his role as Don Vito=priceless cinema)
Some Like It Hot (the AFI ranks this as the #1 comedy of all-time...now that's a laugh)
Johnny Dangerously
Bullets Over Broadway
Prizzi's Honor
Family Business
Crimewave
Analyze This (skip Analyze That)
Suicide Kings
Be Cool
Get Shorty

american gangster isn't out until today, but somehow the dude who cuts my hair got a copy and started making copies for folks.

hmm, I picked Goodfellas and Scarface.

Although I think they're both overrated, but I like Goodfellas more, shame that I didn't get to watch the ending (disc fucked up)

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels should have been on that list
Layercake is good too
Snatch wasnt bad

never saw layercake

Actually, to be honest, I think Eastern Promises is the best gangster movie I've seen so far... But if i put it on the list, it'll outshine everything else... :P

I voted Goodfellas. best gangster movie ever

I personally LOVED ghost dog, but I know many who did not enjoy it.
It makes sense to watch it as if ghost dog was mentally ill. There is some seruiously funny shit in that, especially the mafia guy who loves rap

I found Lock Stock to be a bit dull, I don't like seeing movies about wanna-be mobsters.

I liked layercake better thn lock stock. good movie

coen powers activate

no country for old men

to me the Usual Suspects is not a gangster movie. it is a hesit movie, a movie about criminals/thieves. criminals are not automatically GANGSTERS.

To be a gangster movie you have to deal with organized crime families in some way, whether they be italian, japanese, irish, etc.

for that i also do not see Scarface (a movie I love) as a gangster movie

shit, of those, godfather wins.

though goodfellas is pretty fucking great too

now that scarface is it the original scarface or the brian de palma scarface?

you forgot a ton of great shit, for example


branded to kill



much better than "the departed", tssssssssssssssssssssssss.....

I thought the departed was BORING.
I mean, BORING

yeah no shit. mediocre & forgettable.

good with Mitchum
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
(low-budget '70s gold (also features Peter Boyle))

disappointing with Mitchum
The Yakuza (1975)
(written by Paul Schrader just before Taxi Driver, (he did Raging Bull too))

is it really as good as imdb rating suggests?
I know imdb is kinda meh for ratings , but still 9.1 is really impressive ha ha.
I wish I lived in a country were all movies in theathers had the "original language" option to choose. Dubbing sucks. Seeing great movies on dvd with original language is cool, but I wanna see them with the big screeeeeeen argh.

ha ha. thats easy man

HEH!
:D
she's a nice nose.
You lucky hollywoddiancountry inhabitants!

i voted godfather with the public enemy coming in second.

i think Mickey and Nickey should have been on that list.
it is one of the more powerful and different gangster movies that i have seen...

The Public Enemy with Cagney was on AMC or TCM or somesuch the other night and I watched a few minutes. Saw it years ago (White Heat too) on VHS loan from the library; they were pretty good.

is that yr wife??

Seriously.....I mean how many fucking times do we really need a movie about the "undercover rat." The acting was pretty good though.

tha acting was good, but the movie was so slow paced, so tiringly structured.

...pure as the driven snow that way, eh?

(in response to deleted post)

Nic's complimentary comments are what made me wonder.

who knows though. can't really judge a person's age based on photos alone.

*shrug*

Sorry, mines were just generic omniderectional thoughts.

....and predictable

haha no need to be sorry, I just figured you would be more in the know.

I've never seen a pic of his wife, I've only seen one of him, and he has so far managed to deftly avoid OKC.

*shrugs*

*throws hands up*

*goes back to pushing money-flavored buttons*

ha ha no!

i just googled "close to the tv", and bam

--

ps- keep my wife out of this cesspool

well, she did look a little young, but then, I was told today that my facial hair now makes it seem as if I'm "not 12".

related/unrelated: I have a headache and I feel like I'm going to explode. times like these make me want to either disappear like Hoffa or wack somebody.


mine seems to handle it better than I do.

*more e-shrugs*

ha ha. well...


whatever works for her :D
i'm old school...

What came first to my mind: Goodfellas, Casino, Mean Streets (if that counts), Scarface (De Palma, I haven't seen the original), The Godfather, Once Upon A Time In America... and also Melville's Le Samouraï and Le Cercle Rouge, both which I have just seen recently and absolutely loved...

Oh and I really liked Ghost Dog too (which has to many references to Le Samouraï, by the way)...

I am not able to choose one at the moment, though.