Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Originally Posted by monet View Post
Across 110th Street (1972) Anthony Quinn - Yaphet Kotto
"If you steal 300,000 from the mob, it's not robbery. It's Suicide!
Now that was some brutal shit. One of the main takes I got from this movie was that if you can get a hold of an automatic weapon, you can prolong your life for a few more minutes. Also, Campbell Soup can get you from being sick in bed, to running around rooftops, climbing fire escapes and taking out mobsters and cops with an automatic weapon in no time flat. Plenty of realistic elements too, like how a cop can be on the take, but also still have an interest in getting criminals. Great scenery of 70's New York City.

I appreciate the reco.
lul, well it wasn't Campbells Soup even though I know you were kidding.
He was an epileptic, and his girl brought his medicine to him.
I get the feeling that he had some time to take a few doses, rest and eat a little bit.
Anyways, I enjoyed the movie too.
Very Raw with a lot of real life derogatory language.

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I watched Oppenheimer today and my gut feelings about the movie were wrong.
It's highly entertaining at times.
Good Musical Score.
Nice Cinematography with some nice wide-angle shots.
I do not see the reason for the sex scene on the chair in the backdoor court room.
I get it though.
Sex Sales.
That scene is just a bit uncomfortable since everyone else is dressed in the room and his wife is right there.
I get it.
Shock Value.
Another problem with the movie is the ongoing music.
They don't need to run 3-hour long music constantly during the film.
It would be more impactful in many of those scenes if it was just dialog and no music.
Nolan really went cray cray with never-ending pulse pounding epic music.
It's good but it also gets annoying after a while, being that the movie is 3 hours long.
I held out a long time but glad I finally viewed it.
I think that if you watch the Paul Newman version Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) first that it compliments what Nolan was doing here.
It kind of reinforces this newer version.
In my opinion, Oppenheimer is the better version of this story.
But I don't mind long winded movies.