American Gangster

by **Indy** on Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:21 am

This movie looks incredible. It has Oscars written all over it.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0765429/trailer ... 33032-10-2

Based on a true story.

Denzel as a mobster, that's like a dream come true.

by **[Q]** on Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:38 am

i agree with you on all points. I love Denzel but he plays too many cop roles. he's the clean cut black man and he gets easily casted into those roles. excited to see him be bad again. reminds me a little of Malcolm X from the 90's that Spike Lee directed & Denzel starred in.

by **Indy** on Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:45 am

Qballer wrote:i agree with you on all points. I love Denzel but he plays too many cop roles. he's the clean cut black man and he gets easily casted into those roles. excited to see him be bad again. reminds me a little of Malcolm X from the 90's that Spike Lee directed & Denzel starred in.

I dunno about playing too many cop roles. He was the clean cut guy in Inside Man and Philadelphia, but other then that he's played a lot of badass characters. When I say badass, I mean badass. Training Day, Malcolm X, The Hurricane, He Got Game, Glory and now this.

That's an impressive list of a huge variety of characters.

by **[Q]** on Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:01 pm

that's true. but you seem to forget how many movies this guy has been in. seems like he's a military guy or a cop in every other movie. Deja Vu, Manchurian Candidate, Man On Fire, Out Of Time, The Siege, and Fallen are all recent ones he's done.

but yeah the movies where he plays a badass are pretty good too. I loved Training Day, Malcolm X, & He Got Game. Especially in He Got Game where he hits LaLa's (Rosario Dawson) man in the throat.

by **Indy** on Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:05 pm

Well that explains why I was a little confused. I haven't seen Deja Vu, Man on Fire, Out of Time, The Siege or the Fallen. :lol:

I know he was a military guy in Manchurian Candidate, but that was still a very different role. He still plays kind of a crazy guy in that one.

by **[Q]** on Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:07 pm

time for you to go to Blockbuster :lol:

in Manchurian Candidate, he wasn't really crazy, but he was the good guy in the military that got experimented on so he was fucked from the beginning.

by **Indy** on Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:11 pm

Qballer wrote:time for you to go to Blockbuster

Man on Fire, Out of Time and Deja Vu all seemed like the exact same movie to me. I'm sure they are all completely different, but for some reason I have no interest in seeing them.

John Q is another one I forgot to mention, that movie has a lot of plot holes, but man does it keep you at the edge of your seat.

by **[Q]** on Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:20 pm

it all seemed like the same movie because he plays pretty much the same character in all three. detective going around trying to solve a case.

plus it was the same director for man on fire and deja vu. those 3 movies probably won't win many awards or be critically acclaimed moves but are all very solid movies

by **BOSS** on Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:17 pm

Plot Outline

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug into the country in the coffins of soldiers returning from the Vietnam War.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOSOYSLDuQE

Asides from myself, anyone else interested in this movie ?

by **[Q]** on Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:53 pm

http://www.nbaliveforums.com/ftopic51296.php

newb. :lol:

by **BOSS** on Fri Oct 26, 2007 1:40 am

Haha it's been awhile man, forgot we had a entertainment section.