Best Gangsta Flick!

It's a tie between Pulp Fiction and Snatch, so I'm not gonna vote. There are some really awesome gangster flicks out there though. I dont know about you peeps, but in my opinion- nothing beats da gangster movies!

Ones that I forgot to mention were-


Jackie Brown
Blow
and Heat

I love all three of those movies.

I'm voting for the Godfather of all gangster flicks.

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Goodfellas all the way!

I have to go with The Godfather too…

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i voted "other". it would have to be leone's classic 'once upon a time in america', which i havent seen in too long a time to tell you why i liked that film so much other than: james woods, james woods, james woods, robert deniro, james woods. yeah, james woods is cool...

though i must admit i've a mind to go all out and place 'tokyo drifter' on that pedestal known as 'best gangsta flick evah' (evah' added for emphatic intonation)...but it's just too dern wierd.

Once Upon a Time in America was good, but better than the Godfather? And to think I used to think you were cool. My image of you is absolutely shattered.

heh, well, sorry slayton, but maybe this will redeam myself a little bit: the godfather: part two is the best of the godfather trilogy.................on second thought, maybe that wont redeam your image of me at all....

If we're talking gangster flicks, then I gotta say Goodfellas is the all time best. If we're talking gangsta flicks, Nothing beats Menace II Society....

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I'd have to go with Boys N' the Hood. Damn good.

Right Now....

01. Bob Le Flambeur
02. Once Upon a Time in America
03. Miller's Crossing
04. The Godfather Part II
05. Youth of the Beast
06. Prime Cut
07. Casino
08. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
09. Broadway Danny Rose
10. Sonatine

I went with GoodFellas.

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I went with Pulp Fiction.

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Godfather Part 2
Goodfellas
The Untouchabes
The Godfather

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ok who did it? WHO DID IT!?
mmmm you dirty rats YOU DIRTY RATS
no James Cagney
well he is the greatest gangster of all time in the greatest gangster movie of all time Cody Jarrett in White Heat

Finally made it ma! TOP OF THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also kudos goes out to Bogart in the Maltese Falcon and Cagney and Bogart in Angels with Dirty Faces.

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Yeah, but The Maltese Falcon ain't a gangster movie. Kudos are due just the same, just not in this particular thread.

But I'm with you, man, kickin' it Old School. An even better Cagney/Bogie pairing (well, their only other pairing not counting the Western The Oklahoma Kid) is The Roaring Twenties (1939 - Raoul Walsh). It also has one of the great closing lines of cinema: "He used to be a bigshot". Indeed. Great protoypical Gangster flick, belongs right up there with the original Howard Hawks Scarface (1932) and Wild Bill Wellman's The Public Enemy (1931).

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Yo whats up cool someone else like Bogart and Cagney too anyway I havent seen the Oklahoma kid or Roaring 20's might have to check em out, anyway you didn't think the Maltese Falcon was a gangster movie? It sort of was but not in the traditional sense, but it felt like one, even though Bogey was a PI, the fat man and the kid sure acted like gansters though.

No, The Maltese Falcon is not a Gangster picture. It's a detective flick, a crime picture, one of the earliest shifts toward Noir, but not in the Gangster genre at all. Kasper Gutman and his associates, including the skittish Wilmer Cook that Bogie's Sam Spade has to take the guns away from, they're all criminals to be sure, but not Gangsters. They're high-rolling thieves who will kill to get what they want, but no true Gangster would ever devote so much time an energy and expense to acquire a rare antiquity. There's no percentage in it. The rackets are a much simpler and more profitable business.

Definitely track down The Roaring Twenties ASAP. Any decent independent video store should have it in stock, but you'll likely be S.O.L. looking for it at Blockbuster (*GAG*) and the like.

Yeah like I said I can see how it can be seen as a crime film, but dude the line between a crime film and gangster film is very very thin, for example Bonnie and Clyde is categorized as a gangster film, and we always think of them when we think of gangsters but they just robbed banks. Do gangsters rob banks? No not really they deal in merchandise ok but no big deal, im cool with calling Bonnie and Clyde a gangster flick just like im cool with calling the Maltese Falcon a gangter pic, i know that its film noir, but in my book its a gangster flick, and in yours its not its all a matter of opinion.
The same thing can be applied to other genres like war movies. Apocolypse Now and Platoon are war movies, but is Grand Illusion, Bridge on the River Kwai, or the Great Escape a war movie, well yes i think so, but even though there are no battles and hardly no gun play. Basically the same thing so im sticking with it callin it a gangster flick.
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Bonnie & Clyde is not a Gangster pic either, nor have I ever heard it referred to as one by anyone over the age of twelve. "We rob banks" and controlling criminal empires are simpy not the same thing, as should be clear. Detectives mixed-up with fancy-pants thieves should also be just as clearly not Gangster enterprises.

And of course The Bridge on the River Kwai and Grand Illusion are War Pictures. They're even in my personal top ten (click HERE).

WOAH! dude lets just agree to disagree, you seem so intent on disagreeing with me for some reason, actually I've heard Bonnie and Clyde called a gangster pic and by people over the age of 12 too and walk down the street and ask someone to try to name 10 depression era gangsters and I bet 19/20 will say Bonnie and Clyde. Oh and earlier you said that no gangster would ever spend time trying to go after one object, well on the list to vote on Snatch is up there and they were going after a diamond, but I consider Snatch a ganster movie. You can subgenre films to death but dude I just mentioned the Maltese Falcon and you jump all over it. Im perfectly happy calling Maltese Falcon a gangster film. Actually check out this link http://www.filmsite.org/crimefilms.html
they categorize gangster and crime films basically into the same bunch as it is such a thin and gray line. You say Ta-mato I say tomata. Same deal yo no big deal.