New gangster movie "Live By Night".

[Wyatt Burp]

This film bombed at the theaters losing 75 million bucks. Ben Affleck as a cop killing 1930ish gangster with a heart of gold. He directed it and is a really good director. Some modern PC preaching injected momentarilly (hey, its Ben Affleck) but no big deal. It has a great look to it from Boston to early Tampa, Florida. Fantastic bad guys (cop killer Affleck is the good guy, remember?) and excellent shooting scenes with guns of the era. Affleck using a BAR with a cut down buttstock at one point. The plotline doesn't follow usual formulas and has unpredictable turns which is always good. Fine acting, and one bad guy shoots what I think is a 2nd Model hand ejector .44. My review: 3 trigger fingers up. Keep it in mind when you don't have to pay for it like I didn't have to.

 

[Bajadoc]

Ben does not want American citizens to be able own firearms. I don't watch his silly cartoons.

 

[retiredbadge8091]

I have a hard time with movies that glorify criminals and their criminal behavior. Take "your little friend" and stick it, so to speak.

 

[the ringo kid]

Ben does not want American citizens to be able own firearms. I don't watch his silly cartoons.

I stopped watching him after I saw him in: Next of Kin-at the theater.

 

[the ringo kid]

I have a hard time with movies that glorify criminals and their criminal behavior. Take "your little friend" and stick it, so to speak.

Ditto, I dont watch the trash on two cable stations - which glorifies drug dealers - Nat Geo? and the other that glorifies punk gang-banger wannabes-spike tv???

 

[M1A]

Nice hats. Made in Chicago. Start at $600.00.
No matter. Hats or guns, I'm done.

 

[Watchdog]

Ben does not want American citizens to be able own firearms.

I believe you are mistaken. Quoting Ben Affleck from an interview he did with Bill O'Reilly:

"I would say I'm a moderately liberal guy. I mean, there are things that I agree with the Democratic Party. There are things I don't. For example, I'm not a big gun control guy. I believe in all the bill of rights, including the Second Amendment. I'm not a party guy one way or another. I don't believe in subscribing to that. I still believe in people more than I believe in parties per se."

I don't watch his silly cartoons.

He probably couldn't care less.

 

[Onomea]

Nice hats. Made in Chicago. Start at $600.00...

Optimo, I'll guess?

 

[Watchdog]

I have a hard time with movies that glorify criminals and their criminal behavior. Take "your little friend" and stick it, so to speak.

They're just movies. They aren't real. All films tell a story. All stories/films about criminals don't "glorify" them and their criminal behavior.

You can't tell a story about crooks without showing the bad along with any good they might have.

Even westerns, one of the most beloved film genres, tell stories about bank robbers, gangs, and assorted criminals. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid comes to mind. So does The Wild Bunch. They're both stories told very well, but there's no glorification that I can see.

 

[CCantu357]

I do not mind watching a movie about a bad guy if it is just that, a story about a bad guy. Like The Sopranos or some old school crime flick. But I hate when they try to paint the bad guy as having a "good heart" or some nonsense. Robbing people and killing police is not good hearted it's just being a Grade-A DB.