American Gangster (2007) Rerelease

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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It's time to revisit a great film. We're rereleasing American Gangster for all the new listeners who have joined us since we released this episode a whole five years ago. Enjoy! Special thanks to our commissioner Josh "Anubus21" from Saxapahaw, NC. This time he has something special to celebrate, his marriage to sweetheart Jessica. Congratulations, you guys! Josh selected American Gangster, the 2007 Ridley Scott crime drama starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. Jim and I have never seen it, but it immediately fit right besides other greats like Godfather, Goodfellas, Casino, and Scarface in the pantheon of films about the criminal underworld. It's a great looking, well written, and extraordinarily acted film, that touches on a lot of Bald Move hot buttons of racism, crime, drugs, and $50k mink coats. Thanks again, Josh and Jessica! Hope it was a great honeymoon five years ago! Hey there! Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts, for just $5 a month! Join the Club! Join the discussion: Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bald Move Prestige and welcome back to the American Gangster Podcast.
0:04.4	It's been 15 years since American Gangster was released in theaters and about five years
0:09.0	since we released our podcast on it. A lot of new listeners have found us in that time so we figured why not
0:14.0	re-release it for their enjoyment. Now we're pretty big fans of gangster
0:17.9	movies but fortunately when we say that we usually mean Martin's Krassezi
0:22.1	gangster movies and he's the only one still making them.
0:24.8	But, you know, of course they're always Italian gangster movies because, well, it's Martin Scorsese.
0:30.5	That's why American gangster was such a surprise for us. It feels like a classic
0:34.6	gangster movie in a lot of ways, but it has a different perspective on the life. With Dinsau
0:38.7	Washington playing the real life Frank Lucas, a Harlem heroin dealer forging his own path in the criminal
0:44.0	underworld. He's excellent as you'd expect. And then there's Russell Crowe who plays a
0:48.2	cop fixated on bringing the man down. Their cat and mouse relationship is a large
0:52.1	part of what makes American gangster such an enjoyable movie.
0:55.5	This is the re-release for the anniversary. You can be the judge. you're going to. Oh, Hey everybody we're back for another commission
1:37.2	podcast this one is another from multiple commissioning commissioner jocks jocks jocks from Multiple Commissionee, Commissioner.
1:46.0	Jocks, Jocks from Shoshpital. J, jeez, Josh from Saxe-Pahah, North Carolina.
1:50.0	You might...
1:52.0	That's it, he just wanted me to say his name in this town.
1:55.0	We're out of here.
1:56.0	Commission accomplished.
1:58.0	You might better know him as a new business 21 on the forums.
2:01.0	He's getting married on May 28,
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