Find Me Guilty

Meltdown (1995) IMDB rating: 5.70 Plot: After failing to save his wife from ‘The Doctor’, Kit Li is working as a bodyguard and secret stunt double for the cowardly martial arts film star Frankie Lane. Frankie attends an exhibition of the crown jewels of Russia at a Hong Kong hotel, and when the Doctor’s gang take over the building in attempt to steal them, Kit is the only thing standing in their way. Will Frankie regain his courage? Will romance blossom between Kit and the nosy reporter? Who has the best Kung-Fu?

Actors: Action

……..im going nuts….?
a water pipe broke on my street and the are drilling to fix it.its shaking the window the whole house.i got the friggen jitters from the noise and vibration….. anyway sorry for meltdown.

what was something that annoyed you in your day?

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getting out of bed
SSG D | Feb 04, 2010

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It’s cold (46 degrees), raining, cloudy with no chance of sunshine for another 2 days.
guy | Feb 04, 2010

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Major computer problems today
hi | Feb 04, 2010

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Ugh in drawing painting I am like behind everybody else cause I have a broken arm and while I was working my art teacher is like "you are really behind I understand you are crippled but pick up the pace. ! Ugh I hate her!
Live life well my friend. | Feb 04, 2010

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i had to pull things and it was ice raining, and slush all over the concrete.
yeah plus it was VERY COLD.
SushiRules | Feb 04, 2010

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That sucks. I have to work with that crap around me so I know firsthand.

The three hours of driving I did today. Have to do it tommorow and prolly next week too. Makes my 7 AM- 3 PMjob a 5 AM - 5 PM. The worst part is when night comes I have tons of energy and can’t go to sleep so I run on a few hours everyday.
Sal | Feb 04, 2010

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My balls started itching in the beginning of class.
Fluff | Feb 04, 2010

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Nothing so far yet.

Usual Suspects, The (1995) IMDB rating: 8.70 Plot: After a waterfront explosion, Verbal (Kevin Spacey), an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately trying to go straight. The cops won’t leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent “Keyser Soze” is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot.

Actors: Pollak Kevin,Palminteri Chazz,Byrne Gabriel,Baldwin Stephen,Spacey Kevin,Postlethwaite Pete,Del Toro Benicio,Esposito Giancarlo,Hedaya Dan,Bartel Paul,Bressler Carl,Simon Phillip,Shearer Jack,Mystery,Crime,Thriller,

Good Mafia/Mob Movies?
Hi, so far I know off:

1) Godfather
2) Godfather 2
3) Scarface
4) Goodfellas
5) Carlito’s Way
6) Casino
7) A Bronx Tale
Once Upon A Time In America

And a few others like Donnie Brasco, Mobsters and Untouchables, which I didn’t really like. I’m looking for movies made after the 70’s and not before. For the love of god, the only good mafia movie from the 70’s was Godfather.

Movies like The Usual Suspects and Pulp Fiction/Reservoir dogs don’t really count. I’m talking more about Goodfellas/Casino/Bronx Tale type mob movies.

Any advice?
American Gangster? Naah.. I’m looking for more italian then anything… Again, something along the lines of Bronx Tale/Goodfellas/Casino.

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American Gangster?
J | Jan 31, 2010

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Trust me you’ll LOVE this movie "We own the night" - It’s a newer movie, and has to do with the New York Police Department and Russian Mob. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen, I’m sure you’ll appreciate it.
Kevin | Jan 31, 2010

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its a new one but i thought Public Enemies was awesome
crashley | Jan 31, 2010

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The Departed kinda involves that, it’s pretty good. Boondock Saints and Boondock Saints II, also. Gangster Wars is alright, but not one of my personal favs. And then of course there is the Sopranos, it’s not a movie but heh, still good.
~**xXKristenXx**~ | Jan 31, 2010

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The Valachi Papers–real story about mafia+hitman

The Freshman

The Yakuza

Black Rain
marcusjor | Jan 31, 2010

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Once Upon A Time In America
Gangs of New York
The Warriors
Pulp Fiction
Goodfellas
Casino
The Departed
Millers Crossing
Untouchables
Bonny & Clyde
Dillinger
Carlito’s Way
A Bronx Tale
Snatch
The Boondock Saints
Eastern Promises
Four brothers
God Father trilogy

Asian mob movies like:

Internal Affairs trilogy (Asian movie)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338564/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369060/

A Better Tomorrow (1986)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092263/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094357/

Election (2005)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434008/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491244/
6545 | Jan 31, 2010

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In random order:
Road to Perdition, 2002 (set in the 30s)
Miller’s crossing, 1990 (set in the 30s)
The Departed, 2006
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, 1998 (set in England, Heavy Brit accents)
Layer Cake, 2004 (another Brit flick, lighter accents) Daniel Craig, A good Brit mob movie

Cidade de Deus (City of God), 2002 (Brazil, in Portuguese, with English subtitles) A different kind of Mob movie. Based on the child gangs of Brazil. A rise and fall epic tale of 3 young boys. It follows their criminal careers in the late 60s and 70s up to their peak power in early 1980s, when they reach their late 20s. This movie generally makes the top five of almost every mob movie list. Don’t bother with the sequel City of Men.

Heat, 1996 (more of a cops vs robbers, but with some mob elements, De Niro and Pacino together)
The Usual suspects, 1995 (Mob, caper, mystery, thriller)
Blood in Blood out 1993 (epic about Chicano gang wars. 3 teens who grow their separate ways)
American me, 1992 (similar, but better, Chcano prison gangs, mexican mafia)
New Jack City 1991 (Urban mafia movie, black drug lords and undercover cops)
Bugsy, 1991, Famous Jewish mobster of the 1930s Bugsy Siegel, built the first Las Vegas casino.
King of New York, 1990, Chrisopher Walken
American Gangster, 2007, Denzel Washington
Hoodlum 1997, Lawrence Fishburne

Have you seen all the 70s gangster movies or are you just guessing?
Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese’s first Mob movie)
Bonnie and Clyde (An epic about the famous bank robbing couple of the 1930’s)
The Getaway, 1972, Bank robbers, being chased by the mob and the cops
Charley Varrick, 1973, more bank robbers, pursued by vicious mob thugs
Dillinger, 1973
Skyman00 | Jan 31, 2010

Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) IMDB rating: 7.10 Plot: A man calling himself “Simon” begins a reign of terror in the streets of New York: he threatens to detonate bombs around the city unless Detective John McClane cooperates in a game of “Simon Says”. McClane has a bad hangover and a bad attitude, and isn’t in the mood for games, especially this one.

Actors: Jackson Samuel L.,Willis Bruce,Greene Graham,Larry Bryggman,Anthony Peck,Irons Jeremy,Wyman Nicholas,Chamberlin Kevin,Pearlman Stephen,Jackson Michael Alexander,Hodge Aldis,Hausserman Mischa,Action,Crime,Thriller,

Do you have a bias towards what you see first?
Thinking about movies and books and things: (sorry this may get long)

I’m sure potthead fans will be attack me…First I watched the movies and I liked them but I cannot stand the harry potter books. rowling’s writing just doesn’t suit my fancy. Do you think I would have liked it better if I had read it first?

I read the hobbit and some of the lotr (not all unfortunately) but I only liked the first of the 3 movies. Is that a first bias? Or is it just that Elijah Wood ain’t my favorite guy?

I loved Stardust the movie… the book was completely different! I mean the plot was close but the characters. the ending. ugh! so anticlimatic (in my opinion). although the movie ending was silly at least something neat happened. That a first bias or am I just a sucker for happy endings?

Okay. I saw Lethal Weapon 4 before the other ones and I liked it much much better. Then again I was born in the 80’s and don’t remember much of it so I much prefer the 90s. Bias?

Hm.. Die Hard. I saw With a Vengeance first but I liked them all. maybe I just like Bruce Willis but I do like that number 3 the best.

Star Wars. Wasn’t it obvious that Anikan started to wear black all the time? I mean come on. Obviously I saw 4-6 first. I like Leia’s outfits much better than Omidalah. (crap I can’t spell. sorry)

Okay. So I’ve been rambling for a bit. What do you think?

Do YOU like what you see first better?

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I believe what Yenmore wrote. If I saw the film first I like it better, if I read the book first I like it better. It could be considered biased, but not in all cases.

| Oct 17, 2009

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90 percent of the time i like what i see or read first. it does not matter which one i read first i just usually like (my) first one the best.
Yenmor | Oct 17, 2009

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That is why, we have been given two eyes to have a balanced vision. We should see from both the eyes and ensure. Otherwise it may be called partiality.
Naguru | Oct 17, 2009

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Bar none, books are generally better than movies. Just by it’s very nature books are more engrossing, you picture all the characters exactly how you like them, you get so much more detail, more parts they couldn’t fit in the movie, and literature has a power of theme and structure that film just can’t match.
jake | Oct 17, 2009