Monday, November 5, 2007

Movies - American Gangster

So I was lucky enough to attend a Producer's Guild screening of "American Gangster" this weekend followed by a quick Q&A with Producer Brian Grazer.


In 1970s America, detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) works to bring down the drug empire of Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling drugs into the country from war torn Vietnam.


Click HERE for the trailer.

I could say alot about this movie and ALL of it would be good. Most of the movies I see always have a caveat, like the acting was great, but man did the script suck. Well this movie is all around fantastic. Every aspect of the film is amazing, the writing, the acting, the directing, everything is well crafted. Both Denzel Washington & Russell Crowe are outstanding and although they only share 1 scene on screen they both give great performances. Do yourself a favor and go check this out.

I give this flick a 4 of 4 Ass Monkey


On a side note, I was gonna go see the new Coen Bros movie, "No Country for Old Men", but it turns out the screening was actually the BIG HOLLYWOOD premiere. So we went, walked down the red carpet, and found our seat. Our seats turned out to be poop so we left. I would rather pay for the movie and see it from a good seat, then sit through the premiere in an un-watchable seat, but that's just me.

1 comment:

SpyMonkeyCreations said...

Quite the Adventure! That "No Country for Old Men" Premiere! LOL!

Hey, walking the red carpet was cool and walking out showed real character on our part, if I do say so.

It's about the movie not the glam, yo.