Why doesn't Once Upon A Time in America get more props?

[beenz]

I have tried to watch this a couple times, but anytime it's on, it will be starting at like 11pm, and I gotta work the next day. then it's never on netflix, nor is it on demand so I can watch it when I'm free. one of the few gangster genre movies I have never seen.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Yes it is. Godfather 2 is better, but it's close imo.

Not in my opinion. It's Road to Perdition status, good movies, but unequivocally below Godfather 1&2. Hence you having to make this thread.

 

[bigrodthe1]

He faked his own death and killed his partners so he could take all their money, get out of the street game and start a new life as a legit businessman.

You do realize that was ALL a dream right

 

[nieman]

I think because depending on which cut you saw, it became an entirely different movie. AMC and the Turners used to play this all of the time in mid-90's. Each time, I thought I was going crazy...like are scenes missing? One time the Turners put it on at 12M, and it didn't go off until 5am....that still wasn't the complete. The OG cut if I remember correctly, doesn't have the whole shootout in the beginning.

 

[boskey]

From what I remember it was long and slow without any standout characters. Need to watch it again tho...

 

[nieman]

You do realize that was ALL a dream right

One cut takes the opium parlor out at the beginning and end...movie ends with him seeing the garbage truck & young Max..

 

[WaveGang]

Maybe better than all God father's

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

You do realize that was ALL a dream right

 

[bigrodthe1]

the whole Max as a senator storyline was a hallucination.The opium scene is really BEFORE that...surprised y'all didn't know that

As for the final scene, the one with De Niro's enigmatic drugged up smile (which has been compared to Leonardo's Mona Lisa smile), it is open to the viewer's interpretation. It might mean that everything that happened after Max's death (the faked one) is just an opium induced dream/hallucination by Noodles

 

[BXKingPin82]

From what I remember it was long and slow without any standout characters

 

[Mr. Manhattan]

Its an overrated underrated movie

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

the whole Max as a senator storyline was a hallucination.The opium scene is really BEFORE that...surprised y'all didn't know that

Eh, I think it's left so you could possibly interpret it that way.

That would be a pretty detailed intricate hallucination.

 

[bigrodthe1]

Eh, I think it's left so you could possibly interpret it that way.

That would be a pretty detailed intricate hallucination.

you ever taken mind altering drugs

 

[Mowgli]

Not one clip posted. Its shyt.

 

[ZEB WALTON]

you ever taken mind altering drugs

I was. Opium wouldnt do that lol