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City of God

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:20 am
by lasalle
Holy shit. Godfather meets Pulp Fiction meets NY Times.

Outstanding.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

Re: City of God

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:24 am
by Fat Cat
KIf you enjoyed that, you may also like Tropa de Elite, sometimes called Elite Squad. It's on netflix and excellent.

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Re: City of God

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:30 pm
by Shaun B. O'Murnecan
I would kill the Pulp Fiction comparison. City of God is a way better movie and can't really see many similarities.

Great film.

Re: City of God

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:17 am
by lasalle
Norm-it reminded me of Pulp Fiction in the way one thread of a story wove around another and then headed out in a unique direction-the momentary overlapping of perspective and characters and then off on another story. That said, it was miles better than Pulp Fiction.

Fattie, thanks for the Tropa de Elite recommendation. I added it to the queue, along with City of Men.

Re: City of God

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:24 pm
by lasalle
Fat Cat wrote:KIf you enjoyed that, you may also like Tropa de Elite, sometimes called Elite Squad. It's on netflix and excellent.

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Meh. Maybe my expectations were set too high from City of God, but Tropa de Elite didn't do that much for me. Felt like it never really got going. City of Men is coming up in the Netflix queue, we'll see how that goes.

Re: City of God

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 8:38 pm
by Fat Cat
Really? Sorry you didn't like it, I liked it much better than City of God. I thought Nascimento was a great character; at the end with the dealer is begging not to get shot in the face so he leaves pretty corpse for his mama, so he busts out the shotgun and spreads him out like jelly. That's core.