http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/american_gangster/

Saw the trailer before Bourne this weekend. Looks like it could be pretty damn good with Ridley Scott directing and Denzel playing another bad guy role.

8/6/2007 11:27:43 AM

Yeah it caught my attention too. The trailers definitely hooked me.

8/6/2007 11:29:42 AM

I'm totally stoked.

I'm not normally into crime films, but this one caught my eye.

I'm unusually excited.

10/7/2007 10:42:48 PM

interesting how there are two sets of trailers, one targeted towards white people and the other to black people.

I know this isn't uncommon, but I find them easier to distinguish with this film.
What kind of music they play in the trailer, who gets the most screen time Crowe/Danzel, even the story line is a bit different in them...

Either way, they are looking for some oscar attention. This could be Ridley Scott's "Departed"
That's what they are thinking at least.

10/8/2007 1:43:36 AM

when's the release date?

10/8/2007 7:57:52 AM

looks promising

10/8/2007 10:56:26 AM

i love ridley scott

am i the only one who can't stand denzel washington though

10/8/2007 11:02:20 AM

movie looks gansta

10/8/2007 1:20:00 PM

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"when's the release date?"

Unless they moved it, the date I saw was Nov. 2.

Some of the early reviews have said it is fantastic and that even though it was a little over two and a half hours, they were left wanting much more.

10/8/2007 2:23:13 PM

This movie is gonna be all kinds of awesome.

10/8/2007 3:12:39 PM

I'm more excited about the Jay-Z album of the same name.

10/8/2007 6:00:51 PM

fuck jay z
and can't wait for this movie

10/8/2007 6:20:42 PM

this movie should be great. can't wait till it comes out.

10/8/2007 7:30:00 PM

At first I was excited. "How could a movie with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe not be awesome?" I asked myself.

Then I remembered seeing

on cable.

10/8/2007 8:53:36 PM

Quote :

"ViolentMAW: am i the only one who can't stand denzel washington though"

I'm not a big fan of his.

My female friends think I'm crazy.

10/9/2007 12:51:32 AM

the NYT has done incredible pieces on both Frank Lucas and Nicky Barnes recently. I suggest reading them both before seeing the movie.

10/9/2007 12:15:14 PM

10/9/2007 5:24:12 PM

American.Gangster.DVD.SCREENER.DVDR-DREAMLiGHT

10/24/2007 12:33:06 AM

i'll be seeing it opening weekend

10/24/2007 1:43:56 AM

movie is at ssupload for anyone interested. Looks to be in good quality too.

10/24/2007 5:45:17 PM

yeah, yesterday's leak was huge. About one or two screeners that far in advance a year.

10/24/2007 6:05:31 PM

anyone have a torrent link?

10/30/2007 10:35:52 AM

I can't fucking wait to see this movie.

And it seems like a lot of you guys do too. So why aren't you willing to wait and see it in the theater environment, where its meant to be seen?

10/30/2007 12:41:06 PM

^ There are plenty of reasons not to see big movies in a theater environment. Most of the time, there will be those two or three assholes that yell stuff the whole time to get the crowd to laugh. Also, money.

10/30/2007 1:14:19 PM

^^ i didn't watch it on ssupload. I just posted that for anybody interested. I too like the theater experience.

10/30/2007 1:40:17 PM

i'll see it in the theatre with my friends too, i just need to watch this movie because the previews are killing me.

10/30/2007 7:23:43 PM

the album is...alright

there's some great songs on there, for sure
but for me, they're not ALL great songs


but still a good album

10/30/2007 7:50:41 PM

Its a ok movie. Expected a little bit more.

[Edited on October 31, 2007 at 10:10 AM. Reason : hmm]

10/31/2007 10:09:28 AM

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/3649/

THIS is a DAMN good article

my GOD i had no idea how much he made

10/31/2007 6:13:31 PM

i cant wait to see this... and i rarely go see movies.

10/31/2007 10:00:40 PM

me either

i want to see it

11/1/2007 2:28:40 AM

Quote :

"the album is...alright there's some great songs on there, for sure but for me, they're not ALL great songs but still a good album"

i think this guy posted in the wrong American Gangster thread

11/1/2007 7:04:40 AM

haha. Yeah just grabbed the dvdrip. Crazy leaks.

11/1/2007 4:31:01 PM

^hell yea, EXCELLENT copy too

good movie

11/2/2007 6:54:10 PM

well i was going to see it with this girl then she turned into a bitch over night

so where is the best leak at.

11/2/2007 7:18:05 PM

Quote :

"There was also "Frank Lucas's Paradise Valley," a several-thousand-acre spread back in North Carolina on which ranged 300 head of Black Angus cows, including a "big-balled" breeding bull worth $125,000."

11/2/2007 8:19:37 PM

good movie. not as good as i expected from the previews, but still good.

11/2/2007 8:46:31 PM

werd, anyone have an operational torrent link?

11/3/2007 1:05:29 AM

i enjoyed it and thought it was a really well made movie, but i do think the previews are somewhat misleading

11/3/2007 10:28:20 AM

PM ME FOR A TORRENT LINK


Screens of video quality:




[Edited on November 3, 2007 at 10:35 AM. Reason : ]

11/3/2007 10:34:51 AM

saw the torrent

it was good

11/3/2007 10:44:03 AM

yea torrent is great quality.

need VLC player to play it though but that's no problem.

11/3/2007 1:17:24 PM

awesome movie

and I actually went and saw it in the theater

11/4/2007 8:21:20 AM

Good movie. On par with every other rise to power, gangster action flick.

11/4/2007 2:36:29 PM

A+++

definitely will be having this one on my shelf

solid flick

11/4/2007 8:15:38 PM

http://nymag.com/guides/money/2007/39948/

11/5/2007 11:23:22 AM

havent seen it yet...give it a 8.25/10

11/5/2007 11:27:49 AM

ive been gushing about this movie all weekend

A+++

totally badass

Quote :

"It couldn't have been any other way, Lucas insists, after the Ku Klux Klan came to the shack where he grew up and killed his cousin. "I couldn't have been more than 6. We were living back in the woods near a little place they call La Grange, North Carolina. These five white guys come up to the house one morning, big rednecks . . . they're yelling, 'Obadiah . . . Obadiah Jones . . . come out. Come out, you nigger . . .' They said he was looking at a white girl walking down the street. 'Reckless eyeballing,' they call it down there. "Obadiah was like 12 or 13, and he come out the door, all sleepy and stuff. 'You been looking at somebody's daughter. We're going to fix you,' they said. They took ropes on each hand, pulled them tight in opposite directions. Then they shoved a shotgun in Obadiah's mouth and pulled the trigger." It was then, Lucas says, that he began his life of crime. "I was the oldest. Someone had to put food on the table. I started stealing chickens. Knocking pigs on their head . . . It wasn't too long that I was going over to La Grange, mugging drunks when they come out of the whorehouse. They'd spent their $5 or $6 buying ass, head jobs, then I'd be waiting with a rock in my hand, a tobacco rack, anything." By the time he was 12, "but big for my age," Lucas says, he was in Knoxville, Tennessee, locked up on a chain gang. In Lexington, Kentucky, not yet 14, he lived with a lady bootlegger. In Wilson, North Carolina, working as a truck driver at a pipe company, he started in sleeping with the owner's daughter. This led to problems, especially after "Big Bill, a fat, 250-pound beer-belly bastard" caught them in the act. In the ensuing fight, Frank hit Bill on the head with a piece of pipe, laying him out."

[Edited on November 5, 2007 at 11:47 AM. Reason : wow]

11/5/2007 11:28:21 AM

I also really enjoyed the movie. it is nearly 3 hours long, but doesnt feel that way.

11/5/2007 11:35:18 AM

another interesting bit from that article

Quote :

"Checked into the Dusit Thani Hotel in Bangkok, Lucas soon hailed a motorcycle taxi to take him to Jack's American Star Bar, an R&R hangout for black soldiers. Offering ham hocks and collard greens on the first floor and a wide array of hookers and dope connections on the second, the Soul Bar, as Frank calls it, was run by the former U.S. Army sergeant Leslie "Ike" Atkinson, a country boy from Goldsboro, North Carolina, who happened to be married to one of Frank's cousins, which made him as good as family."

11/5/2007 11:55:28 AM