The Untouchables

[SoSueMe]

Is on CityTV up here in Canada.

It's one of my favourite movies.

Connery is awesome in this.

I almost cry every time he dies.

 

[Birdscribe]

This was the first date with the future Mrs. Birdscribe. Love this movie, except the part where Charlie Martin Smith and Connery die.

Of course, that's redeemed by Costner (as Eliot Ness) throwing Frank Nitti off the roof and crashing into the parked car, then telling the inquiring Andy Garcia "He's in the car."

Phenomenal cinematography, especially in the train station.

 

[Lone_Star_Speed]

David Mamet script as well. This one gets a yearly viewing as part of the "Dammit, Mamet" festival.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Some nice set pieces . . . especially the shootout on the bridge at the Canadian border . . . but
Costner looks more and more wooden, every time I peek at it . . .

 

[Duane Postum]

Some nice set pieces . . . especially the shootout on the bridge at the Canadian border . . . but
Costner looks more and more wooden, every time I peek at it . . .

No more wooden than Robert Stack in the tv series. And Eliot Ness was actually a party animal.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

They send one of your people to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the MORGUE. THAT's the ChiCAGo way.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

This was the first date with the future Mrs. Birdscribe. Love this movie, except the part where Charlie Martin Smith and Connery die.

Of course, that's redeemed by Costner (as Eliot Ness) throwing Frank Nitti off the roof and crashing into the parked car, then telling the inquiring Andy Garcia "He's in the car."

Phenomenal cinematography, especially in the train station.

I'll be impressed if someone here can identify the film to which the latter was an homage of sorts by De Palma.

 

[SoSueMe]

They send one of your people to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the MORGUE. THAT's the ChiCAGo way.

He has so many great lines and scenes in the movie.

Let's cut the woofing, pal. You tell me, or you're going to hospital or the ****in' morgue!

lsn't that just like a wop? Brings a knife to a gun fight. Get out of here, ya dago *******!

 

[jgmacg]

This was the first date with the future Mrs. Birdscribe. Love this movie, except the part where Charlie Martin Smith and Connery die.

Of course, that's redeemed by Costner (as Eliot Ness) throwing Frank Nitti off the roof and crashing into the parked car, then telling the inquiring Andy Garcia "He's in the car."

Phenomenal cinematography, especially in the train station.

I'll be impressed if someone here can identify the film to which the latter was an homage of sorts by De Palma.

The Battleship Potemkin. Sergei Eisenstein.

 

[hockeybeat]

I absolutely hate this movie.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Of course, Nitti shot himself in late NINETEENFORTYTHREE, for pete's sake. . . but don't let that spoil the story, boys . . .

 

[novelist_wannabe]

This was the first date with the future Mrs. Birdscribe. Love this movie, except the part where Charlie Martin Smith and Connery die.

Of course, that's redeemed by Costner (as Eliot Ness) throwing Frank Nitti off the roof and crashing into the parked car, then telling the inquiring Andy Garcia "He's in the car."

Phenomenal cinematography, especially in the train station.

I'll be impressed if someone here can identify the film to which the latter was an homage of sorts by De Palma.

The Battleship Potemkin. Sergei Eisenstein.

In particular, the staircase scene with the stroller. Classic in both cases.

 

[Songbird]

"Nice house — I said, nice house!"

 

[Moderator1]

The scene where Connery holds up the already-dead guy and then shoots him was a classic.
The baseball bat scene was a little rough but what the hell.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

This was the first date with the future Mrs. Birdscribe. Love this movie, except the part where Charlie Martin Smith and Connery die.

Of course, that's redeemed by Costner (as Eliot Ness) throwing Frank Nitti off the roof and crashing into the parked car, then telling the inquiring Andy Garcia "He's in the car."

Phenomenal cinematography, especially in the train station.

I'll be impressed if someone here can identify the film to which the latter was an homage of sorts by De Palma.

The Battleship Potemkin. Sergei Eisenstein.

FWIW, there's a great new history of the actual Potemkin mutiny.
I always liked the "I think I'll get a drink" last line from this one.

 

[SoSueMe]

The scene where Connery holds up the already-dead guy and then shoots him was a classic.
The baseball bat scene was a little rough but what the hell.

Mr. Ness. I do not approve of your methods.

Well, you're not from Chicago.

 

[Songbird]

The scene where Connery holds up the already-dead guy and then shoots him was a classic.
The baseball bat scene was a little rough but what the hell.

"Part, of, a team."
"Teamwork."
THWACK! THWACK! THWACK!

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

That scene would make for a great payoff piece in a pregame motivational video for a team with me-first players.

 

[boots]

What really made the movie for me was the clothing. It was authentic and looked damn good. You could wear any of those costumes to a club and pick up just about any chick you want. (As long as you have some good lines).

 

[SoSueMe]

What really made the movie for me was the clothing. It was authentic and looked damn good. You could wear any of those costumes to a club and pick up just about any chick you want. (As long as you have some good lines).

Go on and live the charade, with your soft clothes and federal stooges.