Mafia or Western
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Topic: Mafia or Western
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: Mafia or Western
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 08:18
chose you favourite type of movie of two IMO most characteristic american movie styles, (thoug you have spagetti western), but overall what is your favourite style of these two types, types of movies you might have watched,   -------------  
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 18:47
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 19:07
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If you include all those great gangster movies of the thirties under mafia, then it's no contest. I have never been much of a western fan.
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 19:32
Western, easily. |
Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 19:43
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dwill123 wrote:Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 21:49
| Prefer mob movies in general, but Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone is one of the best combos in filmmaking |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 23:05
| Oh, s$%t, I like them both equally ... as long as the movies are decent. |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 23:10
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I prefer to repeatedly jam a fork into my forehead than either of those two.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: October 20 2012 at 23:23
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the problem with mob movies is there are so few really good ones, I'm not a big Western fan but I think it wins easily |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: October 21 2012 at 11:22
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Love both genres. There are more good westerns than good mafia movies, but the very best of the latter (Godfather, Goodfellas) aren't equaled by the best westerns (Good Bad and Ugly, Unforgiven, The Searchers). ------------- 
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Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: October 21 2012 at 21:27
Mafia movies, even though I haven't seen too many of them. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels is excellent, if that counts? Maybe not a gangster film, but a top notch crime story. The use of irony in the film is quite unique.  The Good, Bad And The Ugly is a milestone in film. CLINT FLIPPIN EASTWOOD.
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Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: October 21 2012 at 23:15
I don't know if prohibition era gangster movies really count as mafia, but there are tons of great ones. Little Caesar, The Public Enemy, Angels With Dirty Faces, The Roaring Twenties, White Heat, the list goes on and on. -------------
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: October 22 2012 at 15:11
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Mafia movies would remind a bit too much what's happening in my hometown of Marseille. So, Western. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 04:52
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Not a huge fan of either, but marginally prefer Mafia movies.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 04:58
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Not a big fan of either genre. But as with every genre there are some brilliant examples in both. Unforgiven for examplke is a brilliant film. Not really a genre fan i guess. I'm a good film fan. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 04:59
Not even Unforgiven!  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 05:11
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Neither, although I enjoy a Western a bit more. ------------- 
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 06:06
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Never been a huge western fan, other than Unforgiven, the remake of True Grit & The Proposition (if that counts), but so far as Mafia/organised crime films are concerned, I'm a big fan.
Incidentally, the Coen brothers (big favorites of mine so far as directors are concerned) made 2 of my favorites for both genres: the remake of True Grit & Millers Crossing. ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 06:45
I'm ashamed to say, I've never seen it. If you think it's worth watching I'll borrow the DVD off my friend and give it a go. He's got a whole library of westerns. He's obsessed! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 07:21
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Unforgiven is an excellent film (Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman... need I go on?); thoroughly recommend The Proposition, too - a curious Australian western-style movie (Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone & written by Nick Cave) -------------
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Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: October 23 2012 at 09:26
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is there any mafia western movies, and western mafia movies, Sin City have a sort of themes from both Western and Mafia, and Desperado, and Rodriguez type mvies are sort of Western/Mafia/mob crossover movies -------------
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