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  • #16
    Originally posted by Peter View Post
    The Godfather is ****ing amazing......
    I don't much like Yanks or gangsters so I wouldn't have any emotional connection with any of the characters. The thing about Roger Moore's Bond was that it was self-mockingly tongue-in-cheek. A car chase where he's driving a 2CV, for example, the slowest production car on the market.

    The Spy Who Loved Me was about the first film I saw as a kid. My mum helped me write a fan letter and I got a signed photo of him in black tie with the gun pose. I must have been about 6.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
      I don't much like Yanks or gangsters so I wouldn't have any emotional connection with any of the characters. The thing about Roger Moore's Bond was that it was self-mockingly tongue-in-cheek. A car chase where he's driving a 2CV, for example, the slowest production car on the market.

      The Spy Who Loved Me was about the first film I saw as a kid. My mum helped me write a fan letter and I got a signed photo of him in black tie with the gun pose. I must have been about 6.
      The Godfather isn't about yanks or gangsters. It is about a Sicilian family

      I don't like mafia movies either. The Godfather is different......

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Peter View Post
        The Godfather isn't about yanks or gangsters. It is about a Sicilian family

        I don't like mafia movies either. The Godfather is different......
        Goodfellas and Godfather 2 are also both excellent

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        • #19
          Originally posted by PSRB View Post
          Goodfellas and Godfather 2 are also both excellent
          Goodfellas is the best of the mob movies.

          I kind of just count Godfather 2 as part of the Godfather.

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Peter View Post
            The Godfather is different......
            Sixties paranoid hippie nonsense, imo. Star Wars too, in fairness.

            And Bond
            "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

            "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

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            • #21
              Originally posted by Peter View Post
              Goodfellas is the best of the mob movies.

              I kind of just count Godfather 2 as part of the Godfather.
              But Casino is better than Goodfellas.
              "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

              "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

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              • #22
                Originally posted by redgunamo View Post
                Sixties paranoid hippie nonsense, imo. Star Wars too, in fairness.

                And Bond
                70s. And I wouldn't have called Vito a hippy to his face

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by redgunamo View Post
                  But Casino is better than Goodfellas.
                  Casino is a bit..... daft. I do like it.

                  I really like the idea and the plot. But there are too many devices taken from Goodfellas and it is too violent.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Peter View Post
                    70s. And I wouldn't have called Vito a hippy to his face
                    The novel was published in the late sixties. But in any case, all FFC's films are sixties paranoid hippie nonsense. Bloody good though sometimes, but there it is.

                    And Vito was a smart bloke, he could see what was happening; he understood.
                    "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

                    "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by redgunamo View Post
                      The novel was published in the late sixties. But in any case, all FFC's films are sixties paranoid hippie nonsense. Bloody good though sometimes, but there it is.

                      And Vito was a smart bloke, he could see what was happening; he understood.
                      He said this drugs business would come to destroy us in the future. And he was right. Hence Goodfellas....

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Peter View Post
                        Casino is a bit..... daft. I do like it.

                        I really like the idea and the plot. But there are too many devices taken from Goodfellas and it is too violent.
                        Right. Had it been released first ..

                        I saw a brilliant anecdote about Joe Pesci's character. Michael Mann, the Miami Vice chap? Well he says he was at school with the real Anthony Spilotro, portrayed as "Nicky Santoro" by Joe Pesci in Casino, and years later, when he (Spilotro) heard that Mann would be making a television show about Chicago's underworld (Crime Story, starring Dennis Farina), he tried to lean on him, make him back off, keep stumm.

                        But what Spilotro didn't appreciate was that even then Michael Mann was an extremely well-respected non-underworld, underworld figure; he knew everybody on all sides of the law and was well liked.

                        Anyway, one day on the set, Farina, recently an actual Chicago detective, says to Mann, that guy over there wants to talk to you. Big fat mafia chief waddles over and says, you know that thing with that guy? You won't be hearing anything about that anymore. They found Spilotro's body the next day, buried in a cornfield with his brother, as was later depicted in Martin Scorsese's film.
                        "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

                        "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Peter View Post
                          He said this drugs business would come to destroy us in the future. And he was right. Hence Goodfellas....
                          Yes, he failed. Failed to instruct his sons in family values; all that violence, all that killing. Absent fathers, see.
                          "Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.

                          "But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by redgunamo View Post
                            Right. Had it been released first ..

                            I saw a brilliant anecdote about Joe Pesci's character. Michael Mann, the Miami Vice chap? Well he says he was at school with the real Anthony Spilotro, portrayed as "Nicky Santoro" by Joe Pesci in Casino, and years later, when he (Spilotro) heard that Mann would be making a television show about Chicago's underworld (Crime Story, starring Dennis Farina), he tried to lean on him, make him back off, keep stumm.

                            But what Spilotro didn't appreciate was that even then Michael Mann was an extremely well-respected non-underworld, underworld figure; he knew everybody on all sides of the law and was well liked.

                            Anyway, one day on the set, Farina, recently an actual Chicago detective, says to Mann, that guy over there wants to talk to you. Big fat mafia chief waddles over and says, you know that thing with that guy? You won't be hearing anything about that anymore. They found Spilotro's body the next day, buried in a cornfield with his brother, as was later depicted in Martin Scorsese's film.
                            That scene is horrific.....

                            You know the Godfather had to get the Mafia's permission to film in new York? And had to agree to remove the word mafia from the film entirely...

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by redgunamo View Post
                              Yes, he failed. Failed to instruct his sons in family values; all that violence, all that killing. Absent fathers, see.
                              Oh no, not at all. He was forced to agree to it to make the peace and swore HE would not break the peace they'd made. Which is why Michael waited until he was dead before he killed the other families and moved to Vegas

                              The. Corleone family were reluctantly and distantly involved in drugs and got out as soon as they could.

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Peter View Post
                                Oh no, not at all. He was forced to agree to it to make the peace and swore HE would not break the peace they'd made. Which is why Michael waited until he was dead before he killed the other families and moved to Vegas

                                The. Corleone family were reluctantly and distantly involved in drugs and got out as soon as they could.
                                My favourite steakhouse in NY is Sparks. You walk into the place and you feel like you might get whacked at any minute.

                                Gotti had Castellano killed as he was getting out of his car to have dinner at Sparks. The old boys there will also show you the room where Sinatra always ate his steaks. Signature sirloin medium rare, hash browns and creamed spinach. Good dayz.

                                Can't believe none of you c*nts like Bond. Bond is ace, and about as non-hippy as you can get, red. Packed with overt sexism and subtle racism.

                                Wonderful stuff.

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