Directors Gangster Movie Tournament (1 Viewer)

[Ric Bagoly]

Second-

A Bronx Tale

 

[Jim_K]

okay

third
Analyze This*
Bugsy*
Dead End*
Deadly is the Female (Gun Crazy)*
The Enforcer '51*
Force of Evil*
The Glass Key*
The Krays*
Married to the Mob*
Mona Lisa*
The Narrow Margin '52*
Sexy Beast*
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead*
Tokyo Drifter*

Second
Branded to Kill
Dick Tracy
Fingers
Gangster No. 1
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Leon
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Mad Dog and Glory
The Pope of Greenwich Village
The Seven-Ups
True Romance

There are a couple I could have advanced but thought better of it.

I can't help these but it'd be a shame if they miss out.
Angels With Dirty Faces*
Big Combo*
City on Fire*
Dillinger
The Hit*
The Petrified Forest*
The Road to Perdition*
The Roaring Twenties*
Thief
The Yakuza*

 

[Nick Sievers]

Third:

Branded to Kill
Leon: The Professional
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Mad Dog and Glory
True Romance

 

[SteveGon]

Okay, we have 64. Nick's final nom, True Romance, didn't make the cut so I started a wild card list. To that I thirded A Better Tomorrow, A Bronx Tale, and The Pope of Greenwich Village.

I'll leave the noms list open and hopefully some of the deserving noms will be seen in the near future. I'd like to get at least four more on the wild card list to make it viable.

Be right back with the first brackets!

 

[SteveGon]

Round 1 - Bracket 1

Analyze This

"I'd like to see a movie, but it's nothing but this shoot-em-up action bullshit. I get enough of that at work."

vs.

Married to the Mob


"Oh, there's a big difference, Mrs. de Marco. The mob is run by murdering, thieving, lying, cheating psychopaths. We work for the President of the United States of America."





Round 1 - Bracket 2

The Krays

"Who loves you, eh? That's right, Mummy loves you, you little monsters. Mummy loves you more than anything - more than all the cakes, more than all the jewellery, more than all the chocolate in the world."

vs.

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

"When one has made a decision to kill a person, even if it will be very difficult to succeed by advancing straight ahead, it will not do to think about doing it in a long, roundabout way. One's heart may slacken, he may miss his chance, and by and large there will be no success. The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong."

 

[Brook K]

Probably a recurring pattern

double abstain, no MTTM or Krays

Guess I'll third City on Fire

 

[george kaplan]

Analyze This

 

[Nick Sievers]

Analyze This - meh.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

 

[Walter Kittel]

Have to abstain on both, no The Krays or Married to the Mob

- Walter.

 

[Jim_K]

Married to the Mob


The Krays

 

[Ric Bagoly]

MEGA-ABSTAIN

 

[Bill McA]

Married to the Mob
The Krays

 

[SteveGon]

Analyze This and Married to the Mob are tied 2 - 2.

The Krays leads 2 - 1.

New brackets tomorrow.


Remember: you can still second and third noms for the wild card list.

 

[SteveGon]

Married to the Mob advances on my vote.
The Krays advances (abstained to avoid a tie).


Round 1 - Bracket 3

Atlantic City

"Don't touch the suit."

vs.

Carlito's Way

"You think you're big time? You gonna fuckin' die - big time."


Round 1 - Bracket 4

Kansas City Confidential

"What's waiting for you, Harris? The chair, the gas chamber, or just a rope?"

vs.

Reservoir Dogs

"All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you aren't going to get."

 

[Brook K]

Carlito's Way (tough)

Le abstain, no KCC

 

[Jim_K]

Carlito's Way - Atlantic City put me to sleep

Reservoir Dogs - I like KCC but no contest

 

[Walter Kittel]

Carlito's Way (tough)

Kansas City Confidential - Like both films quite a bit. IMHO, Reservoir Dogs has more energy and (typical of Tarantino) a solid soundtrack, but KCC has a better gangster aesthetic that isn't undermined by self-awareness, and a superior storyline. I'll be happy with either film advancing however.

- Walter.

 

[Bill McA]

Carlito's Way
abstain

 

[Ric Bagoly]

Carlito's Way

abstain (no KC)

 

[SteveGon]

Carlito's Way advances.
Kansas City Confidential advances on my vote (agree with Walter).


Round 1 - Bracket 5

King of New York

"From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn."

vs.

New Jack City

"Drugs ain't a black thing, or a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color."


Round 1 - Bracket 6

Gangs of New York

"Everything you see belongs to me, to one degree or another. The beggars and newsboys and quick thieves here in Paradise, the sailor dives and gin mills and blind tigers on the waterfront, the anglers and amusers, the she-hes and the Chinks. Everybody owes, everybody pays. Because that's how you stand up against the rising of the tide."

vs.

Heat

"You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow, brother, you are going down."


Sunday Bonus Match!


Round 1 - Bracket 7

This Gun for Hire

"Who trusts anybody?"

vs.

Get Carter '70

"You know, I'd almost forgotten what your eyes looked like. Still the same. Pissholes in the snow."