Why anticipate AMERICAN GANGSTER because it look interesting

I saw an ad for this and thought the lead cop was played by Rowdy Roddy Piper. So.

http://nymag.com/guides/money/2007/39948/

also, you should read the original article. 100000x times more interesting than the movie:

http://nymag.com/nymag/features/3649/

Shit, great interview, thanks for the link!

Frank’s right. It is always about the product. Once I had a fight with a guy named Steve Austin. I had better dope. Steve knew it. He came up and knocked on the window of my car. “Yo, dude,” he said, “we don’t want you over here.”

the RZA!!!

and T.I.!!!!

"FUCK ME LIKE A COP, NOT A LAWYER"

it would have been better if it weren't so boring. so y probably.

-- s1ocki, Friday, October 19, 2007 9:01 PM

it would've been better if you had a flask of stoli in yoru coat

This looks crap.

u so crazy

standing on the verge of liking something!

it would've been better if you had a flask of stoli in yoru coat

-- moonship journey to baja, Saturday, November 3, 2007 8:23 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

probably the only thing that could've helped so ya!

OMG i forgot the best part: STODELMEYER!!!

"standing on the verge of liking something!"

This is true, I suppose! But this film still looks rubbish!

but it's got STODELMEYER

manliest cop ever

http://tv.globo.com/ENT/Tv/Seriados/Monk/foto/0,,6233128,00.jpg

Japanese Automaker

Black Rapper

all of the other ones i can think of are too offensive

this is even worse than I expected from ILX commentary

I've never seen a mainstream/legitimate movie so devoid of drama and characters and pretty much anything of interest. Even the acting was bad.

was it necessary to specify "mainstream"

I've seen far worse made-for-tv and low-budget sci-fi/horror movies, so yeah.

what's an illegitimate movie?

skinemax

photo essay on Frank Lucas
http://www.viiphoto.com/detail-story.php?news_id=625&b=latest%20stories

i thought it was decent.

cuba gooding jr as nicky barnes was kind of o_O

i dont know wtf jordan sargent is talking about upthread ever

anyone who said this looked like it was going to be bad is crazy. that trailer is one of the best film trailers i have ever seen

doesnt live up to the trailer, tho

lol so you like t.i. as an actor or russell crowe with an american accent? or both?

the first time i saw this trailer was in theatres and when 'heart of the city' started playing i got goosebumps.

Maybe the trailers vary by country, but the one showing in UK cinemas is in no way encouraging or interesting-looking. It comes across, like the title, as really try-hard Goodfellas crime epic. Lame in the same way the start of The Departed is lame, actually, right down to "Oi, you can't use that song to set the scene, find another" problem (here, it's Across 110th Street, which Jackie Brown owns too completely).

When did Ridley Scott last make a good film?

deej shook.

(that is not rhetorical quesiton, as I haven't seen any of his films since Thelma & Louise)

Across 110th Street, which Jackie Brown owns too completely

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6b/Across_110th_Street.jpg/200px-Across_110th_Street.jpg

i thought the uk trailer was good. 'goodfellas' came out 17 years ago -- it's closer to 'the godfather pt ii' than it is to us. and gangster epics were not uncommon in the 70s. i think at this juncture it's acceptable to make a film about gangsters in new york without getting too worried that scorsese has done it: and anyway, the subject of 'goodfellas' was a footsoldier and there weren't cany cop characters. this is about frank lucas and his flat-footed nemesis.

cuba gooding jr as nicky barnes was kind of o_O

-- deej, Tuesday, November 6, 2007 11:29 PM (Tuesday, November 6, 2007 11:29 PM) Bookmark Link

WAHT?!

No no, it's not that I think it's going to be too similar to Goodfellas. It's just that straining for that kind of epicness that bothered me, If a film/trailer pulls it off, I've got no problem. But here, there's a real creakiness to it. Epitomised by that "bribery, extortion, money laundering, drug trafficking, murder" anatomising line of Crowe's. It's just felt a bit cringeworthy to me.

jordan sargent i just think that neither one did terribly and its a weird thing to come to a film w/ expectations that its going to be bad based on either actor's presence. t.i. got decent reviews for ATL and Crowe isn't a standout but hes not nicholas cage-level bad or anything either.

cuba gooding jr as nicky barnes was kind of o_O

-- deej, Tuesday, November 6, 2007 11:29 PM (Tuesday, November 6, 2007 11:29 PM) Bookmark Link

WAHT?!

-- The Reverend, Wednesday, November 7, 2007 3:28 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Link

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/mr-untouchable-leroy-barnes.article.jpg

can u see it?

Epitomised by that "bribery, extortion, money laundering, drug trafficking, murder" anatomising line of Crowe's. It's just felt a bit cringeworthy to me.

oh thats totally tacky, i just thought it was kind of awesomely tacky. so much cliche! really good looking film too.

on that note jordan s. once again on that note u were kind of off ... it wasn't a played out jay-z song that made the trailer. you were much closer with this:

they tried to KILL my wife.

-- Jordan Sargent, Friday, October 12, 2007 8:20 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Link

:D

wow wtf Nicky Barnes looks JUST like Bobby Womack

maybe its just the glasses
http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/%A5Artist%20GIF%20Images/Bobby-Womack-Funny.jpg

i know that people say that it's just as lame to defend a movie by saying "it's a genre piece" as it is to tear down a movie by saying "it's just a genre piece" ... except it's not

is russell crowe any than roy scheider? is this a better movie than "the seven-ups"? who gives a shit, "the seven-ups" is the bomb.

ok another best part of the trailer is:

"who's house is this!?"
"this is your house!"
"this is my house!? THIS IS MY HOUSE!"

apologies to ppl who want to talk about the movie instead of the trailer but i haven't seen it. i still hold my hopes high.

George Will: 'more mature' than The Godfather.

This film sucked.

i think a large part of my enjoyment is the energy @ my workplace about it. everybody likes the story + denzel more than the movie tho

hey i liked this movie. good scuzzy nyc stuff going on here. josh brolin makes for a good asshole cop. russell crowe is really good but i noticed he has the weirdest "fast walk" in this movie than anyone since william peterson in "to live and die in l.a.". i forgot until i saw it how much armand assante loves to chew the scenery.

generally awful, obvious soundtrack choices though. and i don't think we needed a single minute of lucas' relationship w/his "beauty queen". AND i realize that while denzel is generally a good actor (and for this film it's not necessarily a drawback), he's turned into a really unlikeable screen presence.

he's turned into such a... nothing.

we own the night was kind of a piece of shit and so badly paced and the dumbest story/ending i've seen in ages but yeah there was some cool stuff and i wasn't ever bored

Just saw this, finally. Not on a par with the movies it wants to be ranked with, but I liked it a lot, don't regret the time spent.

^one for the sticker

this kind of sucks

we own the night was kind of a piece of shit and so badly paced and the dumbest story/ending i've seen in ages but yeah there was some cool stuff and i wasn't ever bored
― omar little, Friday, March 28, 2008 8:42 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

heh I remember being underwhelmed as hell by WOtN

yet We Own the Night is the better film

"and afterwards, lots more stuff that is way interesting than what you've seen here happened. THE END"

I miss slocki