Originally Posted by Lyle

They are classics for a reason....it gives you a good sense of the times what was ok to do and say and so on....hell you can look at Monster Squad which was made in 1987 and hell you couldn't make that film today, 13 year olds smoking and talking about who's a virgin and who isn't and 4 year olds cursing...no way that could be made today, but I still love that movie.

I love good movies and bad movies but they have to be REALLY bad for me to like them. I like trying to figure out if the people working on that film actually figured they would make some kind of masterpeice or if they totally phoned it in.

As for these gangster movies I ordered, hell those were made during the time of a real big gangster era: Capone, Lucciano, Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, etc. So the films might try to show gangsters in a positive light OR try to be Public Service Propaganda to get people to steer away from lives of crime due to the War On Crime which started around that time. I just think it will be cool to see #1 some badass actors like Bogart, Cagney, and Edward G. Robinson and #2 See what went on in the movies and compare it to today's gangster films.