Hello, moviegoers!

Today I am going to tell you about Casino, a slow, but entertaining, Mafia film.

Casino is a movie which follows the rise and fall of Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a Mafia bookie who gets tasked with running a Casino in Las Vegas controlled by the Mafia. It is directed by Martin
Scorsese and features Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci.

The first thing to note about this film is that it starts slow. About the first half of it is devoted to properly introducing the characters. Fortunately, the deal is done in a sort of lively
phashion so you don't get to get bored, but at some point you feel just like after eating a bag of cheap snacks. You have the notion that you have consumed something which tasted fine, but know
deep down they are empty callories.

The three main characters are Sam, Sam's love interest (Ginger) and Nicky, the bodyguard assigned by the mafia to cover for Sam. Sam is pretty much a strong gentleman, ellegant outside, but
hardened businessman inside. He is played by Robert de Niro, who plays him as a competent administrator who lets nobody pull his leg. Ginger is your regular Bimbo from Las Vegas, ready to suck
any gentleman dry of his money and do anything to survive and pay her vices. Nicky, played by Joe Pesci, is probably the most funny character: he is a brutal thug who wants to set a proper
local gang in Las Vegas and does not shy away from torturing or killing anybody who dares interfering with his business, Sam's business, or who just looks funny at him.

Casino starts moving when issues start piling up for Sam. For one, Nicky's activities attract the attention of the FBI toward's him and the Casino. For another, Sam marries Ginger, who is
obviously not interested in Sam but on the Mafia money he controls. The Mafia's business starts to falter because some of the men involved start stealing money from the operation. Nicky starts
getting involved with Sam's wife.

It is a race in which every issue is running fast to be the first one to blow Sam's operation up. The reason you keep watching this movie is precisely that you want to find out which part of
the operation is going to explode first and who is the one who will get killed when it does. Since the characters are so fleshed out, this movie is kind of effective at making you feel for them
when circumpstances implode and people starts dying. You don't know how evil you are until a gang of mobsters start beating somebody with baseball bats in the middle of nowhere and you are
jumping up and down on your armchair, laughting as teeth fly around.

This film takes its 3 hours to deliver. It is quite fine once it kicks into gear, but it takes its time. Still, if you have some time to kill, watching Casino is safer than a poker party with
mobsters and hookers, so maybe it is an option worth considering.


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Hello, moviegoers!

Today I am going to tell you about Casino, a slow, but entertaining, Mafia film.

Casino is a movie which follows the rise and fall of Sam "Ace" Rothstein, a Mafia bookie who gets tasked with running a Casino in Las Vegas controlled by the Mafia. It is directed by Martin
Scorsese and features Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci.

The first thing to note about this film is that it starts slow. About the first half of it is devoted to properly introducing the characters. Fortunately, the deal is done in a sort of lively
phashion so you don't get to get bored, but at some point you feel just like after eating a bag of cheap snacks. You have the notion that you have consumed something which tasted fine, but know
deep down they are empty callories.

The three main characters are Sam, Sam's love interest (Ginger) and Nicky, the bodyguard assigned by the mafia to cover for Sam. Sam is pretty much a strong gentleman, ellegant outside, but
hardened businessman inside. He is played by Robert de Niro, who plays him as a competent administrator who lets nobody pull his leg. Ginger is your regular Bimbo from Las Vegas, ready to suck
any gentleman dry of his money and do anything to survive and pay her vices. Nicky, played by Joe Pesci, is probably the most funny character: he is a brutal thug who wants to set a proper
local gang in Las Vegas and does not shy away from torturing or killing anybody who dares interfering with his business, Sam's business, or who just looks funny at him.

Casino starts moving when issues start piling up for Sam. For one, Nicky's activities attract the attention of the FBI toward's him and the Casino. For another, Sam marries Ginger, who is
obviously not interested in Sam but on the Mafia money he controls. The Mafia's business starts to falter because some of the men involved start stealing money from the operation. Nicky starts
getting involved with Sam's wife.

It is a race in which every issue is running fast to be the first one to blow Sam's operation up. The reason you keep watching this movie is precisely that you want to find out which part of
the operation is going to explode first and who is the one who will get killed when it does. Since the characters are so fleshed out, this movie is kind of effective at making you feel for them
when circumpstances implode and people starts dying. You don't know how evil you are until a gang of mobsters start beating somebody with baseball bats in the middle of nowhere and you are
jumping up and down on your armchair, laughting as teeth fly around.

This film takes its 3 hours to deliver. It is quite fine once it kicks into gear, but it takes its time. Still, if you have some time to kill, watching Casino is safer than a poker party with
mobsters and hookers, so maybe it is an option worth considering.

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I believe that was a true story and good but slow movie.

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Today I am going to tell you about Casino, a slow, but entertaining,
Mafia film.

Funny you mentioned this - I watched all my favorite gangster flicks this weekend... kinda crazy, too, as I have a huge collection.

I'm on Knock Around Guys right now, just finished Boiler Room. But Casino... thats one of the greatest. Love it, and watched it earlier this morning.

Whats your all-time favorite gangster flick? I think all-time is Goodfellas for me. I'd recently heard they were remaking Goodfellas, but that was a year or more ago and I haven't heard anything new about it. Hope they do... Whats yours?



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Funny you mentioned this - I watched all my favorite gangster flicks this weekend... kinda crazy, too, as I have a huge collection.

I'm on Knock Around Guys right now, just finished Boiler Room. But Casino... thats one of the greatest. Love it, and watched it earlier this morning.

Whats your all-time favorite gangster flick? I think all-time is Goodfellas for me. I'd recently heard they were remaking Goodfellas, but that was a year or more ago and I haven't heard anything new about it. Hope they do... Whats yours?

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My favourite is Scarface (1983) with Al Pacino.

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My favourite is Scarface (1983) with Al Pacino.
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Great one... I love it, too. A little more dark and earlier than some of the others that focus on the 70s.

New skool, I love The Wolf of Wall Street - well... thats not really gangster, I guess - but its right up my alley.



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Whats your all-time favorite gangster flick? I think all-time is Goodfellas fo
me. I'd recently heard they were remaking Goodfellas, but that was a year or m
e ago and I haven't heard anything new about it. Hope they do... Whats yours?

I saw Goodfellas when I came out and liked it.

My favorites are from the 1930s-1940s mostly. "White Heat" and "High
Sierra" are both right up there.


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Re: Re: Casino (1995)
By: paulie420 to Arelor on Sun Oct 10 2021 05:27 pm

Today I am going to tell you about Casino, a slow, but entertaining, Mafia film.

Funny you mentioned this - I watched all my favorite gangster flicks this weekend... kinda crazy
too, as I have a huge collection.

I'm on Knock Around Guys right now, just finished Boiler Room. But Casino... thats one of the
greatest. Love it, and watched it earlier this morning.

Whats your all-time favorite gangster flick? I think all-time is Goodfellas for me. I'd recently
heard they were remaking Goodfellas, but that was a year or more ago and I haven't heard anythin
new about it. Hope they do... Whats yours?

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I am afraid I am not a good connoisseur of ganster movies. My experience with actual ganster films
is very tight.

The first one that came to my mind when you asked which is the best ganster movie I have watched is
"Road to Perdition," which is quite fine but not super-duper great. Still I think Casino is a
better movie and has a better gansta' vibe.

There are some films from the black and white era which involve the mafia, but I don't think they
quality because they are mostly heist movies.

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Re: Re: Casino (1995)
By: The Millionaire to paulie420 on Sun Oct 10 2021 08:05 pm

Funny you mentioned this - I watched all my favorite gangster flicks this weekend... kinda cra
too, as I have a huge collection.

I'm on Knock Around Guys right now, just finished Boiler Room. But Casino... thats one of the
greatest. Love it, and watched it earlier this morning.

Whats your all-time favorite gangster flick? I think all-time is Goodfellas for me. I'd recent
heard they were remaking Goodfellas, but that was a year or more ago and I haven't heard anyth
new about it. Hope they do... Whats yours?

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My favourite is Scarface (1983) with Al Pacino.

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Scarface is fucking awesome.

" Fuck Gaspar Gomez! And fuck the fuckin' Diaz brothers! Fuck 'em all! I bury those cockroaches! "

Yay for civility!

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Re: Re: Casino (1995)
By: paulie420 to Arelor on Sun Oct 10 2021 17:27:00

Whats your all-time favorite gangster flick? I think all-time is Goodfellas for me. I'd recently heard they were remaking Goodfellas, but that was a

GoodFellas is definitely a great classic.. What do you thin about Blow, though? I thought that one was pretty good too. Not sure if I can pick between the two.

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