A Bronx Tale (1993)

Best Films of 1993 (100 movies items)

"A different take on the mob turned out well, plus I like to roll dice now."

Male Characters Driving Bus - Movies (11 movies items)

" Robert De Niro"

Movies the giraffe watched in 2018: September (31 movies items)

"First viewing - Sept. 10th Back in the '90s it felt like gangster movies were everywhere, so I skipped a lot of them. This choice was consistently reinforced by the fact that in my view Tarantino's gangster movies were light years beyond the competition. But I've long heard good things about A Bronx Tale, so I figured I'd finally give it a look. And it's a really good movie. I liked the story and the characters well enough, and the music was decent too. It's like a time capsule, and they do a g"

My movie year 2017 (682 movies items)

"17.12. (DVD/Kirjasto) Luulin katsoneeni tämän joskus penskana, mutta joko muistin väärin tai vaihtoehtoisesti en muistanut mitään. Robert De Niro saattaa olla aikamme merkittävimpiä näyttelijöitä, mutta ohjauksesta hän ei näytä tietävän mitään. Jäähyväiset kummisedälle on kamala kompastuminen korkeissa kierreportaissa, mikä aiheuttaa vaivaantuneisuutta saarnaavuutensa ja ennalta-arvattavuutensa ohella hahmoillaan, näiden kehityksellä, dialogilla, tarinankerronnalla ja m"

2017: Films I've Watched in April (25 movies items)

"First Watched 4/26/2017"

A good movie

“To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this movie and maybe I should re-watch it at some point. Still, I remember it very well when it was released. Indeed, back then, Robert De Niro was still one of the best, even probably the very best, actor in the world and this movie would be his directing debut so the whole thing sounded quite intriguing to me. Of course, you might argue that the guy didn’t take any risk as he went for another gangster feature rather similar to the stellar work he has done before with Martin Scorsese but it didn’t bother me, on the contrary. Indeed, it was a classic tale but it was really well told. Lillo Brancato was also a great choice to play Robert De Niro’s son as he really looked like him. Even though this movie was critically successful, it” read more

30 From 93: My Favorite Films From 1993 (30 movies items)

" What do you get when you take a kid from an all Italian neighborhood, have him torn between two father figures (his natural dad who drives a bus and a mob boss who runs the neighborhood) and then falls in love (against the beliefs of his crew and his kind) with a pretty girl from the black side of town? You get a story of how a young boy has to learn how to be himself in the midst of a backdrop of expectations that seem to often run against his own path of self-discovery. In other words, you g"