Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 1)

GooseHinson · January 25, 2022, 3:07am

Italian job was fun

Trolly · January 25, 2022, 3:14am

Ronin

zikzak · January 25, 2022, 3:51am

Original, yes. Remake… nah.

SirOsis · January 25, 2022, 3:55am

Get the Cobra Kai writers on this. They did a good job early on convincing me Daniel was the asshole.

suzzer99 · January 25, 2022, 3:59am

Remake was great while they were in Italy. Then it turned into forgettable LA crime movie.

ctr123 · January 25, 2022, 10:41am

“Le cercle rouge” by French 60s master Melville, starring Alain Delon, is a pretty great classic Euro heist movie.

Also worth checking out Melville’s other movies especially “the samurai” (hugely influential noir with Delon as a quiet killer) and “army of shadows” (about the French resistance in ww2) if you haven’t seen them.

StrontiumDog · January 25, 2022, 1:48pm

Certainly the best car chase imo. Tough to beat Bullitt but it does.

edit: to add

Trolly · January 25, 2022, 2:13pm

Le Samurai is great, I watched it recently.

mosdef · January 25, 2022, 2:48pm

I would add Dog Day Afternoon to the list if great films that people usually wouldn’t consider a “heist film”. But it’s at least heist-adjacent.

For a more traditional heist movie, this is one of my favorites that is a little obscure.

dlk9s · January 25, 2022, 2:51pm

Rick and Morty Season 4, Episode 3

DUCY · January 25, 2022, 3:09pm

The heist movie with Ed Norton, Deniro and Brando was pretty good. Not best ever or anything but I remember liking it.

eyebooger · January 25, 2022, 3:16pm

…was not good. (Like a lot of the first half of that season)

mosdef · January 25, 2022, 3:26pm

Ah yes - The Score, directed by Cookie Monster!

zikzak · January 25, 2022, 4:12pm

Have to agree. Individually, all 3(!) of the car chases in Ronin are some of the best ever filmed, and having them all in the same movie puts it solidly at the top. I’d also rate it one of the best overall Euro-thrillers.