A Bronx Tale

spartacus53 · May 16, 2011

Watching this movie for the umpteenth time on Spike. A great movie about my old stomping grounds as a kid. I thought this scene is really one of life's best lessons to learn :thumbsup:

hombre_de_plata_flaco · May 16, 2011

That's the dude from the Sopranos that actually killed a cop in real life.

edit: He was acquitted, but his buddy was convicted. That guy just got a burglary conviction.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/23/lillo-brancato-sopranos-guilty

Still never seen this movie, but I would like to someday. Saving it for a rainy day, I guess. Worked at a movie store when it came out VHS.

pat-tekker-cat · May 16, 2011

hombre_de_plata_flaco said:
Worked at a movie store when it came out VHS.

hombre we keep running into each other, whassup with that?
I used to work for many various video producers and distributors, from Calif and Florida, we were selling to you guys, when, back mid/late '80's, early 90's? I had a distributor outta Athens, brothers, owned a carpet business, outta an old gas station. I'll try to rememeber name later. They used to deliver to you stores in the vans. World keeps getting smaller. hehehehe

spartacus53 · May 16, 2011

hombre_de_plata_flaco I'll bet that you won't be disappointed with this movie, so rent it, buy it on DVD, or steal it :laughing9:

hombre_de_plata_flaco · May 16, 2011

My store was located 45 min north of Athens. I worked there 2 years while getting a worthless Agriculture Degree. We were the only store in NEGA that had "Blue Movies" so we would get all sorts of folks stopping by for their porn fix. It was like being a drug dealer or something. A few would come in and wait for the new arrivals so they could check them out as soon as they hit the store inventory database.

Once, this guy came in with his wife and two kids. They brought a Disney movie up to the counter and wanted to check out. I start to ring them up, and the guy has a late fee of like $20.00. He starts denying he has a late fee and gets really rude and starts raising his voice. I insist he does have a late fee, so he demands I tell him the name of the movie. I tried to avoid the subject, but he keeps on wanting to know the name of the movie. Finally, I was like "OK, it was Buttmasters 5". His wife scowls at him, he turns red in the face. They pay the late fee and leave with their Disney movie. Turned out the guy was a local Baptist minister.

hombre_de_plata_flaco · May 16, 2011

spartacus53 said:
hombre_de_plata_flaco I'll bet that you won't be disappointed with this movie, so rent it, buy it on DVD, or steal it

I might just do that lol! I would like to see the non-edited for cable TV version. Taking cuss words out of mob flicks just isn't right.

hammered · May 16, 2011

This film is in my top 10, DeNero's directing debut. A great film :icon_thumleft:

, I like it so much I bought it, spartacus has great taste :thumbsup:

hammered

pat-tekker-cat · May 16, 2011

hombre_de_plata_flaco said:
My store was located 45 min north of Athens. I worked there 2 years while getting a worthless Agriculture Degree. We were the only store in NEGA that had "Blue Movies" so we would get all sorts of folks stopping by for their porn fix. It was like being a drug dealer or something. A few would come in and wait for the new arrivals so they could check them out as soon as they hit the store inventory database.

Once, this guy came in with his wife and two kids. They brought a Disney movie up to the counter and wanted to check out. I start to ring them up, and the guy has a late fee of like $20.00. He starts denying he has a late fee and gets really rude and starts raising his voice. I insist he does have a late fee, so he demands I tell him the name of the movie. I tried to avoid the subject, but he keeps on wanting to know the name of the movie. Finally, I was like "OK, it was Buttmasters 5". His wife scowls at him, he turns red in the face. They pay the late fee and leave with their Disney movie. Turned out the guy was a local Baptist minister.

We did it all, cartoons, to, not cartoons. But we were hooked into Chatsworth and Thousand Oaks, VIP, Permiere Ent., few others, was doing good, till someone found Ms Lords High School book, had to re-org. Outta fla we were Atlantic Video, King Video, Marcy Distributors, we only dealt with store owners though.
I never watch that smut though, I gotta better imagination, than their images. Sure sold alot of it though. I find the name of theose Athens fellows, I'm sure you know them, they were all over.

spartacus53 · May 16, 2011

hammered you have to admit Sonny's bar scene was one of he best mob scenes ever filmed. Loved it when Chaz told the biker's "well now you can't leave" :laughing7:

The movie is chock full of classic scenes, a great movie as a whole, and is almost all but forgotten today.

DeNiro really caught the essence and flavor of that era too. Good old Belmont Ave, home of Sonny and the music group Dion and The Belmont's.. I also remember the feasts every September on Arther Ave, with the smell of sausages filling the air. As for the violence, yes, there was a great deal of that too :tongue3:

hombre_de_plata_flaco · May 16, 2011

pat-tekker-cat said:
We did it all, cartoons, to, not cartoons. But we were hooked into Chatsworth and Thousand Oaks, VIP, Permiere Ent., few others, was doing good, till someone found Ms Lords High School book, had to re-org. Outta fla we were Atlantic Video, King Video, Marcy Distributors, we only dealt with store owners though.
I never watch that smut though, I gotta better imagination, than their images. Sure sold alot of it though. I find the name of theose Athens fellows, I'm sure you know them, they were all over.

I'm not a smut fan myself either, but I assure you plenty of people out there are. We would also have ultra-religious people come in and raise sand about us selling the stuff. We dealt with some distributor out of California IIRC. Newer VHS tapes released early for the rental market cost as much as $75.00

There was also a way you could tell which tape in the store had generated the most profit - Video 2 Go's store champion was Billy Bob Thorton's Sling Blade!

hombre_de_plata_flaco · May 16, 2011

spartacus53 said:
I also remember the feasts every September on Arther Ave, with the smell of sausages filling the air. As for the violence, yes, there was a great deal of that too

I may be from Georgia, but I cook one mean Sunday Gravy. The trick is to use REAL San Marzano tomatoes imported from Italy. I use fresh parsley and basil. Meatballs are a mixture of 90% lean pork and 75% lean ground beef. I would forward you the recipe, but I'm sure you have your own.

spartacus53 · May 17, 2011

I'm Greek/English/Irish, but I do eat Italian :tongue3:

In NY meatballs were made with ground beef/pork/veal.. Just add some chopped veal and you'll see the difference :thumbsup:

hombre_de_plata_flaco · May 17, 2011

spartacus53 said:
I'm Greek/English/Irish, but I do eat Italian In NY meatballs were made with ground beef/pork/veal.. Just add some chopped veal and you'll see the difference

Will do.

Dano Sverige · May 17, 2011

hammered said:
This film is in my top 10, DeNero's directing debut. A great film , I like it so much I bought it, spartacus has great taste

hammered

Spartacus doesn't have great taste, he just happened to live there! Like me saying "shameless" is a classic, as it was filmed in Manchester! :laughing9:

Wouldn't surprise me if he was an ex mob enforcer lucky enough not to have been caught and many of the scenes in these films were based on his exploits as a thug!

diggummup · May 17, 2011

Dano Sverige said:
hammered said:

This film is in my top 10, DeNero's directing debut. A great film , I like it so much I bought it, spartacus has great taste

hammered

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Spartacus doesn't have great taste, he just happened to live there! Like me saying "shameless" is a classic, as it was filmed in Manchester!
Wouldn't surprise me if he was an ex mob enforcer lucky enough not to have been caught and many of the scenes in these films were based on his exploits as a thug!

As long as he didn't turn snitch then he's alright in my book. :thumbsup:

spartacus53 · May 17, 2011

I never ratted anyone out, that was the code of the street :tongue3:

I wonder why most of the movies filmed in the Bronx were mob/gang related :dontknow:

The one good thing is that I knew these areas where they filmed like the back of my hand, and I have witnessed much worse than any movie could conjure up :laughing7:

Dano, not sure if you have seen this film, but I would recommend it.. Even Siskel and Ebert gave it :thumbsup:

Well actually they gave it 2 thumps down, until Jimmy Two Times & Tommy No Nose had a little talk with them :tongue3:

They even had all the old street signs right, but the lampposts is another story. All the lampposts changed somewhere in the earlier 60's to the ones depicted in the film, so there can be a debate on that issue :laughing7:

Dano Sverige · May 17, 2011

Think it's passed me by for some reason, but will look it up and give it a go mate.

spartacus53 · May 17, 2011

Honestly, I think you will enjoy it.. It did have a real flavor for that era, just a little toned down :tongue3:

raustin · Jan 17, 2012

I remember being a part of the play set in the Bronx area headlined Bugsy Malone. I didn't play any of the major roles but was rather cast in a number of small characters that proved to be vital in the movie, or that is how people saw it.

My favorite would be Doodle which is a part of the "gang" who is most of the times not able to keep up with his peers.