A Bronx Tale (1993) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2023-01-02 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Another great movie is A League of Their Own. You'll recognize Geena Davis from The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Jon
2023-01-12 21:20:01 +0000 UTCHave you seen The Irishman? Scorsese, De Niro, Pesci, Pacino - right up your street!
Odd Thomas
2023-01-08 11:11:16 +0000 UTCGreat movie, I first saw it when it came out. It is almost a cross between Goodfellas and West Side Story.
Lana Gorgeous
2023-01-07 03:14:43 +0000 UTCSo glad you guys finally got to this one. I knew you’d love it. Although it takes place long before my time, but, from try first viewing, it rang so true in every detail just being raised by people who’d repeated similar stories so often it began to feel like they’d actually happened to me and my siblings through osmosis. Needless to say, this is an obsessively adored movie in my family, as it hits close to home, especially with my parents/aunts/uncles generation. My ma refers to it as “our best lit home movie”. I mean, up until the 90s, at least half of the male members (and some of the females) always kept a baseball bat on the floor of the backseat of their cars. Anyway, De Niro is a god in my family. I’m named after him, for chrissakes! I’ll always remember my Uncle Aldo told me he was so proud of Bobby D for directing this, like he kew him, or something. BTW, from what I recall, Katherine Narducci, who plays C’s mom (and Charmaine Bucco in the Sopranos), wasn’t an actress and got this movie when she brought her son in to an open casting while they were looking for little boys to play the younger Calogero. The casting people didn’t think much of the kid but fell in love with her and she’s basically worked ever since. Not so fun fact, Katherine Narducci’s father was a connected guy from Italian Harlem named Nicky Narducci who got zipped when Katherine was a kid. Interestingly, her two most famous roles are for women who want no part of that life.
Robert Livingood
2023-01-05 10:50:57 +0000 UTCAs others have suggested.......I also suggest Donnie Brasco next
Mr. Chumpus
2023-01-04 10:33:13 +0000 UTCThe person that planted the bomb was the kid who killed Sonny. But it’s crazy that C almost died in two different cars on the same day.
Richard
2023-01-04 08:56:26 +0000 UTCthe good Shepherd 2006 and this movie are the only 2 movies directed by Robert De Niro
Terry Lee
2023-01-03 14:23:27 +0000 UTCOh yeah!! I absolutely loved "The Good Shepherd" Can totally see De Niro was using a lot of what he learned from Coppola in the film.. did it fall a little short of the mark for the casual crowd?? Sure.. but I love what he was trying to achieve with it.. I mean, let's be real.. he was really trying to make the next "Godfather".. personally, I thought he did an amazing job.. and I also love Leone's "Once upon a time"... it's been a while since watching it but the film still pops in my head every so often.. and Scorsese's "Cape fear" sooo good...
PastaDon
2023-01-03 13:31:10 +0000 UTC100% Get Shorty
kbobravo
2023-01-03 07:36:32 +0000 UTC"Numbers" is the illegal lottery, you hear them mention the numbers racket in a lot of mob movies. As I understand, it's a simple lottery, three numbers, but because the government doesn't operate it or get a cut it's technically illegal. People from the neighborhood would kick in their bets to the pot and pick their three numbers and whoever won would get the pot. And I think a percentage of each bet went to the crew running the game. That's why Lorenzo's wife wasn't so hesitant, although illegal, it is just gambling after all, not the worst racket the mob operated.
Joe D. MacGuffinstuff
2023-01-03 05:04:56 +0000 UTCThis was Robert De Niro's first film and he did a fantastic job. De Niro's only made two films in his whole career and his second one (The Good Shepherd) wasn't his best but it was certainly an ambitious one and confidently done. It's a huge film with an all-star cast(Matt Damon, De Niro, Pesci, Alec Baldwin, Angelina Jolie, William Hurt, John Turturro etc) an espionage thriller and a well-acted drama about the genesis of the CIA and the zealous patriots who made it into a powerful agency animated by fear and paranoia about our enemies and distrustful of everyone. Not a film everyone will like. But those who do will appreciate De Niro's insistence on accurate detail and he displays an experienced eye willing to let his actors work. here are more De Niro films I recommend... "Awakenings" with De Niro and Robin Williams, "Cape Fear" with Nick Nolte and Jessica Lange and "Once Upon a Time in America" Director's cut with De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci , Tuesday Weld and Jennifer Connelly Directed by Sergio Leone
Joe Lazarus
2023-01-03 03:38:31 +0000 UTCThank you! I really want to see Chazz Palminteri perform his one man show of A Bronx Tale. He does all the characters. Here's a clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCPhnYYh8y8
Ellie Miller
2023-01-03 00:35:53 +0000 UTCSonny is an interesting character because he understands and accepts the transactional nature of his relationships. I think the scene where he's explaining how to be feared without hated is great. He knows that any "loyalty" his people have to him is just fear balanced with the right amount of generosity. Sonny didn't want C in the gangster life because he knew how shitty it really was not being able to trust anyone. Sonny knew it was too late for himself. He knows he made the wrong choices when he was young like C. I think it's safe to say Sonny knew it was very likely that he'd be murdered by the many enemies he had made in the life.
Jeffrey Miller
2023-01-02 21:03:31 +0000 UTCGreat reaction! Another good mafia movie is Donnie Brasco (1997). It starts Johnny Depp and Al pacino.
Carlos Hurtado
2023-01-02 20:31:20 +0000 UTCYou gotta react to some mobster comedies 😎 1) Harlem Nights (1989 Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor) 2 & 3) Get Shorty (1995 John Travolta, and the sequel "Be Cool") 4 & 5) Analyze This (1999 DeNiro and sequel, "Analyze That") 6) Mickey Blue Eyes (1999 Hugh Grant, James Caan) 7) Made (2001) Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau
Jonathan Patrick
2023-01-02 19:40:23 +0000 UTCThey've done Scarface 👍
dieselbeast
2023-01-02 19:40:12 +0000 UTCThis movie is so sad in retrospect. The movie is about wasted talent, and the protagonist is a young guy who had all the talent in the world but blew it because of drugs. In fact, he was high in some of the scenes in this movie, like the scene where he asks Sonny about being loved vs feared. I've mentioned before that Lillo Brancato got in trouble because of his addiction and ended up in prison for 8 years when a cop got killed. He's turned his life around since and is doing smaller movies, but man, what could have been Chazz Palminteri plays the detective in The Usual Suspects. He wrote A Bronx Tale as a play before De Niro made it into a movie. The only other film De Niro directed is The Good Shepherd, which also features quite a stacked cast. The movie itself is a bit underwhelming though, imo. So I'd say continue going through the films he acted in.
Shehab Dawoud
2023-01-02 19:27:17 +0000 UTCWould love to see a Scarface or Carlitos Way reaction! Both great films!
UNC
2023-01-02 18:26:11 +0000 UTCThis is actually based on Chaz Palmintieris real childhood. He took the role of playing sonny in the film. He should have been at least nominated for an Oscar for this. He still does this as a one man show to this day.
Night King01
2023-01-02 17:13:20 +0000 UTCI put this right up there with Scarface, Carlito's Way, Goodfellas etc amazing film!
dieselbeast
2023-01-02 17:04:34 +0000 UTCI don't think I've seen this in a few decades. Thanks for giving me the reason ☺️
ShadowVessel π
2023-01-02 17:03:11 +0000 UTC
