10 Years Later, Is Dark Knight Still The Best?

Is Dark Knight Still The Best?

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Yes, it's the GOAT comic movie but I don't think it's necessarily in my top 20 movies all time.. I like crime dramas and shyt The Dark Knight was like that but not on the level of Heat, Goodfellas, Casino etc :manny:

It’s in my top 20. I’d put it above casino. But not above goodfellas or dark knight. Might have it even with Heat because Nolan has a better handle on all of the characters he’s juggling.
 

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The first Godfather was the best, the second was pretty good but it got kinda melodramatic with the whole "I had an abortion!", and the "Vito's a deaf kid that miraculously escapes from Italy even with guards shooting at him, and his mom kind of sacrifices herself for no reason and doesn't even stab the evil Don" although fleshing out Fredo's role was great, because John Casavetes was an amazing actor.

Still, the whole "Fredo's so stupid he basically admits to setting up Michael in front of him" is kinda sketchy, I mean shyt, if Fredo is this fukking stupid he would've died before Sonny. Especially since stupidity and incompetence plays the major role in so many characters downfall in the Godfather, meanwhile Sonny was just a violent, aggressive prick - which I mean, all the characters are kind of like that, so it's sort of weird that Sonny got merked before Fredo if being stupid is far more of an liability in the mafioso world.

And DeNiro was a good, but it wasn't nearly as an iconic role as Brando's older Don Corleone.

The best parts of Godfather pt II were already present in Godfather pt I. But all the drawbacks of pt II aren't in pt 1, that's why pt 1 is a better movie imo. And then pt III is like all the bad parts of pt II with none of the redeeming qualities. :manny:
 

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The first Godfather was the best, the second was pretty good but it got kinda melodramatic with the whole "I had an abortion!", although fleshing out Fredo's role was great, but the whole "Fredo's so stupid he basically admits to setting up Michael in front of him" is kinda sketchy, I mean shyt, if Fredo is this fukking stupid he would've died before Sonny.

And DeNiro was a good, but it wasn't nearly as an iconic role as Brando's older Don Corleone.

The best parts of Godfather pt II were already present in Godfather pt I. But all the drawbacks of pt II aren't in pt 1, that's why pt 1 is a better movie imo. And then pt III is like all the bad parts of pt II with none of the redeeming qualities. :manny:
My thoughts exactly :salute:
 
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It’s in my top 20. I’d put it above casino. But not above goodfellas or dark knight. Might have it even with Heat because Nolan has a better handle on all of the characters he’s juggling.

That's fair I still prefer Casino it's one of the most "rewatchable" movies ever in my mind but so is The Dark Knight. I just watched Heat the other night again.. It's hard for me to place most crime dramas in that class. It wasn't De Niro's best ever performance but he was still very good.. Pacino put in a classic performance and all the side characters... that cast man :whew:

Michael Mann directed his ass off them shots of Los Angeles and the action sequences especially the bank robbery we was all discussing the other day.. shyt is a masterpiece to me. :ohlawd:
 

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