Mob Boss Reviews Mafia Movie Scenes

Hilarious. He said Pesci plays a better mob guy than a real mob guy. Lol.

 

Ok I refrained from watching at first but I have to say it was interesting.

He said Pesci sort of lived around that environment. Does anyone know the story behind that?

 

There's no real "story" behind it that I'm aware of. He's trying to say that Pesci grew up as a kid in Newark in the 50s and 60s at a time when the mob was at its peak, especially in NY (and Newark is only a stones throw from NYC).

He's just accurately stating that Pesci grew up in the environment of mobsters.

 

Both Pesci and Pacino played mob guys well - just different types of mob guys.

Some were in fact controlled, calculated, "business first - killing as a last resort" types like Michael Corleone (Angelo Bruno, Paul Castellano, Carlo Gambino being real-life examples), and others were impulsive, unhinged psychopaths like Pesci's character Tommy DeVito (Nicky Scarfo, Joe Gallo, John Gotti being real-life examples).

 

One of the worst mob guys I've ever seen is John Travolta - everytime he's played a mobster it's been forced as Hell.

Travolta wasn't raised in the gritty, mob-infested neighborhoods that Pacino and Pesci came from.

 

Yup that Gotti movie he did a while back....one of the worse movie I have ever watch.

Armand Assante played Gotti beautifully 20 years ago....actually he put too much class into that low life thug Gotti...



Tom Sizemore played him better(more like the actual person) in Witness To the Mob I very underated mob movie IMO...

 

Travolta just can't play bad guys. Period. His best 'bad guy' was in Pulp Fiction and he was more funny than menacing.

 

Travolta wasn't much of a "bad guy" in Pulp Fiction.

He and SLJ were more anti-heroes, and Jackson played the far more menacing role.

Travolta played a decent villain in Faceoff when he and Nick Cage switched places.

But generally, no, he doesn't do well as a bad guy.

 

He can be hit or miss. When he’s bad it’s usually because he’ll come off as too over the top like in Face Off or Broken Arrow. I didn’t like him in The Taking Of Pelham 123 but that just felt more like a miscast issue. At the same time I liked him in Swordfish. Travolta is definitely a quirky type of actor and his particular style of quirkyness doesn’t always work.

 

He was terrible in Taking of Pelham 123, but he had big shoes to fill. Robert Shaw was great in the original.

The original blows the remake away in every way.

 

That remake was a fucking disgrace

 

It really was.

Even Denzel couldn't make any impact - Walter Matthau was much better in the original. Matthau brought a level of sarsatic humor and charisma to the role, while Denzel was just dull and overly-serious.

Denzel looked totally disinterested the entire film - definitely one of his weaker performances.

Just a bad movie.

 

Denzel looked like he didn’t know how the story begins or ends, like he never bothered with the script

Travolta was horribly bad ... his character’s psychopathy a bad joke of movie cliches

Robert Shaw’s portrayal of the same character involved only the rarest raising of “the volume” if you will... that made his rare outbursts far more chilling and ominous

Travolta on the other hand was a cartoon turned up to 10 from moment one

Fucking trash

The original has a special place in my heart ... I grew up watching it ... that remake made me want to hurt people

 

Yeah, Travolta was a total caricature for sure. I have no fucking clue why he was chosen.

 

Casting director was probably a Scientologist

 

How often does this happen to you?

 

As often as the Browns win

 

I've said this numerous times, too.



It's a great movie.

 

Plus my whole family were New Yorkers and were right there in the thick of that grit in 1974 ... like a weird feeling of nostalgia but for something I myself didn’t experience