Heist movies

[thepaulo]

Everybody loves them.
Danny Boyle just made one called Trance.
Kubrick did one.
Hitchcock
Spike Lee
Tarentino
Woody Allen
Sidney Lumet
Ben Affleck
David O. Russell
David Mamet
Bryan Singer
Michael Mann
Sam Peckinpah
Wes Anderson
Soderbergh made a bunch

They make us happy because it makes us believe any of us can make our dreams
come true with a little gut and muscle.

I'd like to make a list of some titles

So I can start with these guys

Reservoir Dogs
True Romance
Jackie Brown
The Killing
Inside Man
To Catch a Thief
Ocean's 11 (12 & 13)
Three Kings
The Usual Suspects
House of Games
The Spanish Prisoner
Heist
Thief
Heat
Dog Day Afternoon
The Anderson Tapes
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
The Getaway
Take The Money and Run
Small Time Crooks
Bottle Rocket

I'm not sure if anyone cares but this is just scratching the surface.
Somebody must like them.

[realmenhatelife]

I object to Res Dogs and Usual Suspects. Obviously there is a heist there but it's really just a macguffin for the actual story.



I love the kidnapping sequence in Way of the Gun.

[Gutter]

The Score.

DeNiro, Norton, and one of Brando's last movies. I love this film and I think it's highly underatted and I don't actually know many people who have seen it.

[realmenhatelife]

Big Trouble in Little China

[thepaulo]

I object to Res Dogs and Usual Suspects. Obviously there is a heist there but it's really just a macguffin for the actual story.



I love the kidnapping sequence in Way of the Gun.

Many heist movies are about something else.

I agree. kidnapping movies are always a mess.
One of my favorites is this truly fucked up Marlon Brando movie
The Night of the Following Day
Speaking of Brando, The Score was a great final performance.

The Wild Bunch starts with a bank job.
I say if there is a heist in the movie it's a heist movie.

[A.J.]

Goldfinger.

[realmenhatelife]

Many heist movies are about something else.

I agree. kidnapping movies are always a mess.
One of my favorites is this truly fucked up Marlon Brando movie
The Night of the Following Day
Speaking of Brando, The Score was a great final performance.

The Wild Bunch starts with a bank job.
I say if there is a heist in the movie it's a heist movie.

In that case my favorite supernatural murder porno is Barton Fink.

[sailor]

The Italian job - both of them.

[thepaulo]

In that case my favorite supernatural murder porno is Barton Fink.

Now you're talking.

Speaking of which
Raising Arizona

[realmenhatelife]

A Simple Plan

[Pitdoc]

Topkapi
Bob Le Flambeur (and its remake w Nick Nolte, The Good Thief)
Who's Minding the Mint?
The Thomas Crown Affair( both of them)
11 Harrowhouse
The Driver

[thepaulo]

A Simple Plan

Speaking of Billy Bob
The Ice Harvest
One False Move
Bad Santa
Bandits
Faster


and speaking of Kurt Russell
5000 Miles to Graceland

Speaking of Bond
It seems like there is always some kind of heist in a way, either some master criminal or Bond stealing to get even. Same with Batman or those other superhero guys and gals.

[thepaulo]

speaking of Stevn Soderbrgh,
I forgot
The Underneath
Out of Sight

[realmenhatelife]

Speaking of Billy Bob
The Ice Harvest
One False Move
Bad Santa
Bandits
Faster


and speaking of Kurt Russell
5000 Miles to Graceland

Speaking of Bond
It seems like there is always some kind of heist in a way, either some master criminal or Bond stealing to get even. Same with Batman or those other superhero guys and gals.

What about Slingblade when he stole our hearts.

Hackers

[thepaulo]

What about Slingblade when he stole our hearts.

Hackers

Gone in Sixty Seconds


and she also raids tombs

[pennington]

The Ladykillers (the Alec Guinness and Tom Hanks versions).

[thepaulo]

The Ladykillers (the Alec Guinness and Tom Hanks versions).

Like the previously mentioned
The Thomas Crowne Affair
The Italian Job
Bob Le Flambeur

so nice did it twice

[pennington]

I say if there is a heist in the movie it's a heist movie.

I guess we then can include It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

[sailor]

Like the previously mentioned
The Thomas Crowne Affair
The Italian Job
Bob Le Flambeur

so nice did it twice

ALL 6 previously mentioned...

[thepaulo]

I guess we then can include It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.


I was initially limiting myself to name directors but
I so, so, so, so wanted to include IAMMMMW.

[fezident]

The Score.

DeNiro, Norton, and one of Brando's last movies. I love this film and I think it's highly underatted and I don't actually know many people who have seen it.

Awesome movie!
Love it.
Seen it a couple of times.


I thought that Frank Oz was gonna be a hugely successful director after that picture. The performances were great, and the plot was airtight. Even the ending holds up.

Great movie indeed.

[Gutter]

Awesome movie!
Love it.
Seen it a couple of times.


I thought that Frank Oz was gonna be a hugely successful director after that picture. The performances were great, and the plot was airtight. Even the ending holds up.

Great movie indeed.

Ed Norton definietly blew the eff up after that movie.

[realmenhatelife]

Paul O, what's the deal with reviewing limited releases?

I get why it used to exist but I've noticed especially in the last few weeks there has been just an aggressive stream of limited release prestige movies what get written up by every website I check. AVclub, gawker network/ibang. Now these websites are way more visible than the movies, so even if I did get interested in what they're writing up it's going to be months before I can see it. Then when the movie does come to netflix/on demand these websites aren't writing up shit about them to remind you.

I feel like the model has shifted from educating people about what was coming out to just gloating about getting to form an opinion on a movie months before your readership. It doesn't seem to serve anyones best interest. Actually it makes me kindof annoyed and it's got to fuel piracy. Hey check us out, we're going to make you interested in a movie 95% of you wont be able to pay to see if you wanted but is freely available for unscrupulous downloading at a degraded experience. Slutever, we got our hits.

[thepaulo]

Paul O, what's the deal with reviewing limited releases?

I get why it used to exist but I've noticed especially in the last few weeks there has been just an aggressive stream of limited release prestige movies what get written up by every website I check. AVclub, gawker network/ibang. Now these websites are way more visible than the movies, so even if I did get interested in what they're writing up it's going to be months before I can see it. Then when the movie does come to netflix/on demand these websites aren't writing up shit about them to remind you.

I feel like the model has shifted from educating people about what was coming out to just gloating about getting to form an opinion on a movie months before your readership. It doesn't seem to serve anyones best interest. Actually it makes me kindof annoyed and it's got to fuel piracy. Hey check us out, we're going to make you interested in a movie 95% of you wont be able to pay to see if you wanted but is freely available for unscrupulous downloading at a degraded experience. Slutever, we got our hits.

as you say, the model has shifted from giving a shit about movies to watching them on I-pads
Some movies are on demand before they're in theaters. Independents have very little leverage
to get people in theater seats.
The big chains have to be more proactive to give timeto the little guy but that means
GI Joe can't get six screens in one theater.

[keithy_19]

Snatch.

The movie's pretty good too.

[realmenhatelife]

as you say, the model has shifted from giving a shit about movies to watching them on I-pads
Some movies are on demand before they're in theaters. Independents have very little leverage
to get people in theater seats.
The big chains have to be more proactive to give timeto the little guy but that means
GI Joe can't get six screens in one theater.

It's bullshit is what it is. No one reviews books or records you cant have. If I was putting something out it only seems damaging to advertise it when people dont have access to it or any avenue other than illegal ones to gain access to it.

[thepaulo]

It's bullshit is what it is. No one reviews books or records you cant have. If I was putting something out it only seems damaging to advertise it when people dont have access to it or any avenue other than illegal ones to gain access to it.


You can't yell bullshit in a crowded theater.



(I'm not sure if that's true but they discourage it.)

Look when Brian Wilson gave concert in England to premiere his legendary album Smile, people traveled from all over the world.

I guess if it was important enough we'd travel.
The fact is there is too much. Just going to any of the big festivals is a feat of endurance .
There is only so much our frail human bodies and brains can take