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  • What are your favorite crime sagas?

    To parallel the western thread with a paralleling genre. What are your favorite crime sagas and which ones best parallel the western, my pic being Heat.

    My god, what a ****ing movie that is.
    It's the eye of the Tiger, it's the thrill of the fight

  • #2
    Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

    Heat is extraordinary. However, I also greatly admire Thief, The Gambler, and of course, The Godfather.

    Once Upon a Time in America is pretty terrific, too.

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    • #3
      Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

      City of God is pretty awesome.
      Reservoir Dogs
      LA Confidential
      American History X
      Gangs of New York
      Miller's Crossing
      The Usual Suspects
      Eastern Promises

      The Man from Nowhere
      Memories of Murder

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      • #4
        Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

        I'm a huge fan of Refn's Pusher trilogy.

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        • #5
          Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

          Nothing in terms of a crime saga has moved me more than GoodFellas. I grew upon NYC and felt I knew those guys.
          "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
          -Maya Angelou

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          • #6
            Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

            Originally posted by absolutepower View Post
            Once Upon a Time in America is pretty terrific, too.
            And the Sun is mildly warm.


            Here's my list:

            The Godfather 1+2
            Once Upon A Time In America
            Drive (if it counts)
            Pulp Fiction
            Scarface (1983)
            The Killer
            The Town
            Heat

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            • #7
              Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

              The Godfather(s) 1 and 2 (I don't acknowledge 3) and Goodfellas are undeniably fantastic and I love them, but the French Connection is my favorite.
              Seven years dungeon --- no trials!

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              • #8
                Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

                Casino ( might be Scorcese's best) Loved the relationship between Pesci and Deniro.

                SCARFACE
                Godfather 1+2
                LA Confidential
                Usual Suspects
                Eastern Promises
                Traffic
                HEAT (f*ckin incredible)
                Miami Vice
                Carlito's Way
                Sugar Hill (slept on film)
                Mobsters
                The Untouchables
                Goodfellas
                The Animal Kingdom
                The Town
                True Romance
                BLOW (why do people not talk about this movie? Depp killed it)
                Donnie Brasco (another film Depp killed. Pacino was killed)
                Road to Perdition (criminally slept on)
                Once Upon a Time in America
                Gangs of New York (a masterpiece in my eyes)
                The Departed
                New Jack City
                American Gangster
                Boyz N Da Hood
                Menace II Society
                King of New York (long live Frank White)
                CITY OF GOD (so gritty, violent, and heartbreaking)

                People sleep on Johnny Depp, he can act in serious films, he's been over shadowed by Captain Jack.

                Crime Dramas are my favorite films, I hate that Hollywood doesn't make as many anymore.

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                • #9
                  Five Favorite Crime Sagas That Might Not Otherwise Be Listed Here...

                  ...that might be parallel to some westerns, (such as SHANE, THE OX-BOW INCIDENT, and HIGH NOON):


                  John Sturges' BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (a confrontation @ YouTube)

                  Alfred Hitchcock's BLACKMAIL ("talkie" version @ YouTube)

                  Akira Kurosawa's STRAY DOG (parts 1 and 2 @ YouKu)

                  Fritz Lang's FURY (part 1 of 6 parts @ YouTube)

                  Jules Dassin's RIFIFI (trailer @ YouTube)
                  JEKYLL & CANADA (free .mp4 download @ Vimeo.com)

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                  • #10
                    Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

                    High and Low
                    Heat
                    Sonatine
                    Infernal Affairs
                    Brat (Brother)

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                    • #11
                      Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

                      Originally posted by tucsonray View Post
                      The Godfather(s) 1 and 2 (I don't acknowledge 3)
                      Three...?

                      No idea what you're talking about. There are only two Godfather films.

                      And Goodfellas...it's a well-made film, but every character is a completely unlikable asshole that I wish died violently within one minute. I don't enjoy spending two hours with assholes.

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                      • #12
                        Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

                        Originally posted by Biohazard View Post
                        And Goodfellas...it's a well-made film, but every character is a completely unlikable asshole that I wish died violently within one minute. I don't enjoy spending two hours with assholes.
                        I totally agree with your view regarding the characters in Goodfellas except I did enjoy the film. It's a rare film that has only unlikable characters yet which is near universally lauded. It's gritty realism is what makes it great to me, and in my writing it's a reminder that rules are meant to be broken --- if I ever learn to write as well as Scorsese and Pileggi.
                        Seven years dungeon --- no trials!

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                        • #13
                          Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

                          To Live and Die in L.A.

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                          • #14
                            Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

                            Originally posted by Biohazard View Post
                            Three...?

                            No idea what you're talking about. There are only two Godfather films.

                            And Goodfellas...it's a well-made film, but every character is a completely unlikable asshole that I wish died violently within one minute. I don't enjoy spending two hours with assholes.
                            I wouldnt say the protag, Henry Hill, is an unlikeable *******. The film had a sense of humor to me that kind of evened out the despicable nature of most of the characters. But, maybe it's a New York thing. Of Martin's classics, TAXI DRIVER is the film I find off putting. Watching a man going nuts from loneliness is not entertaining to me.
                            "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
                            -Maya Angelou

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                            • #15
                              Re: What are your favorite crime sagas?

                              Year Of the Dragon
                              Infernal Affairs
                              Miller's Crossing
                              HEAT
                              Pope of Greenwich Village
                              He who laughs last is mentally slow

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