John Gotti movie trailer starring John Travolta!

[Ron Jeremy]

Gotti and the Jews would have eaten you and your entire family alive.

Stop Larping.

s.     The Italians didn't want to deal with the attention the Irish were attracting. Before Coonan the Irish boss Spillane kept things under control(for the most part). Coonan and the Westies were out of control, bringing severed heads into bars etc. Watch State of Grace. Loosely based on the Westies. Gary Oldman's character was based on Featherstone.

[AbrahamG]

I'm pro-John Gotti.  I have zero problems with the so called mafia.  They are not the type of organization that knocks on your door for no reason.  If they are at your doorstep, you
know why.  I also have a theory that the decay of the middle class, unions and good paying hourly jobs is tied directly to the war on organized crime. 

[Kwon]

Gotti and the Jews would have eaten you and your entire family alive.

Stop Larping.

Good thing Gotti never met Darren Avey IN THE STREETS!

[Simple Simon]

I'm pro-John Gotti.  I have zero problems with the so called mafia.  They are not the type of organization that knocks on your door for no reason.  If they are at your doorstep, you
know why.  I also have a theory that the decay of the middle class, unions and good paying hourly jobs is tied directly to the war on organized crime. 

Yes, you do know why, its to extort "protection" money from you when you are just trying to earn a living...

[AbrahamG]

Yes, you do know why, its to extort "protection" money from you when you are just trying to earn a living...

Nonsense. Pure nonsense.  If you borrow money from them or get involved with them for any reason, it's on you for fucking up.

[ratherbebig]

how do you rank these guys?

[calfzilla]

how do you rank these guys?

Esfitness, Matt, dj181

[Simple Simon]

Nonsense. Pure nonsense.  If you borrow money from them or get involved with them for any reason, it's on you for fucking up.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/7570/prison-sentences-for-mafia-protection-rackets

A judge has jailed 49 members of a Mafia syndicate in Sicily - some for up to 20 years - for running protection rackets involving businesses.

The Italian government says it's a landmark case in the battle against organised crime.

The BBC reports all were linked to the 'Lo Piccolo' crime family.

Official figures suggest that up to 80% of businesses in Palermo pay protection money to Mafia criminals in order to continue their commercial activities.

[Darren Avey]

Ive been watching the YouTube docs on the Westies and I think I have new heroes to add to my list of
Lenny Mclean
Krays
Tyson
Haku
Gary Nelson
Etc

[Darren Avey]

[njflex]

Thank you for mentioning the Jews, TA.  As a [half] Italian myself that came out looking full-Italian, I sometimes get annoyed with these movies laying the heat solely on Italians for organized crime, as if Jews aren't hugely involved also.

Shoot...in Thunder Bay right now, since displacing the Greek who currently controlled most of the drug scene here, we have ended up with a bunch of knee-grows from Ottawa and Toronto, who are ten times worse.

meyer lansky/Rothstein/were well connected with lucky Luciano/frank Costello/murder inc..

[SuperTed]

Apparently, it's utter shit. No major surprise. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44518822

[Darren Avey]

Yes I was disappointed.

[BB]

Yeah, even old school guys from that neighborhood weren't getting into it. The biggest complaints I hear is Travolta's face and mannerisms are just off and very odd, and the script is horrible. If there is a saving grace for it, it might be as a bad movie cult classic. A lot of folks here are treating it like a comedy.

They had a big push for it in the States with a street parade, and the newest Gotti doc "Gotti - Father and Son" showing just before it. You can see the documentary below, it's ok, if a bit self aggrandizing.


Part 1 -

http://ok.ru/video/1201867328135 .

Part 2 -

http://ok.ru/video/1203111201415 .

[Kwon]

Haha yeah John Gotti who got his ass kicked in prison by a nobody negro and could do nothing about it.

The Gambino family and Paul Castellano (who Gotti had whacked to become boss) were absolutely terrified of The Westies in Hells Kitchen. Jimmy Coonan killed Ruby Stein, Americas biggest loan shark, took his black book and cut up his body. Jimmy Coonan then took over the loan shark business and the mafia and Roy DeMeo's crew were too afraid to take them on so set up a meeting asking them to work as contract killers for them. The Westies were the real reckless lunatics they should make a movie about them instead. Go read about jimmy and mickey featherstone. They say they killed as many as DeMeos crew which was estimated 80-200.

https://hellskitchenproject.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/the-westies-terrorize-hells-kitchen/

Neither the Westies or DeMeos would stand a chance against Daredevil, the Devil of Hell's Kitchen!

DeMeo had to settle for inking this issue!

[Griffith]

his neighbour, rumour is he took him apart with a chainsaw in the back of a van.
Gotti was a coward who had a hit squad take out an 80 year old man because he hadn't the sack to pull the trigger himself. Lucky he never ran into my cousins in Hells or he was going in the Hudson. The Italian pussy. He was petrified of Coonan, Featherstone, Kelly and the lads. Even said it himself.

 

[Desolate]

Travolta.

Pathetic homo.

One would think Travolta should be able to distinguish good scripts from bad scripts after all these years in Hollywood.

It is amazing how stupid and clueless thee people are in their day-to-day lives.

[bike nut]

Ive been watching the YouTube docs on the Westies and I think I have new heroes to add to my list of
Lenny Mclean
Krays
Tyson
Haku
Gary Nelson
Etc

Darren;

Growing up my parents lived down the street from Tony Accardo in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Nicest man you would ever want to meet. Sometimes referred to as Joe Batters or the Big Tuna.

You should add him to your list

[Fortress]

Travolta is a wretched f aggot.

The only “greased lightning” he knows is a giant flesh rocket launching into his oiled shitmaker.

[Matt]

Travolta is a wretched f aggot.

The only “greased lightning” he knows is a giant flesh rocket launching into his oiled shitmaker.

LOL.  Your post reminded me of this Cyanide and Happiness cartoon:

[Fortress]

LOL.  Your post reminded me of this Cyanide and Happiness cartoon:

The guy was presented with prime Newton John (and his wife!) and STILL desires hairy asses and dongage.

Add to this his Scientology and you’re talking about one sick turd.

[BB]

Just saw this -

3/10 as a mob film. 7/10 as a good bad film.

The Good - Nice sound track. No flow to it, but some decent songs.

The Bad -

Travolta looks like he's wearing a rubber mask in many scenes.

Very little fleshing out of the story. A lot of one line explanations for murders ( E.g. - "Oh, I had to go do a piece of business"), and lots of use of old news footage to help the story along. Not well done, more like "We don't have the cash to film this, so stick that news clip here". Very cheap looking.

Casting - Travolta hams it up a bit. No one looks like the historical character they play, minus the Castellano guy, who's in it for like 2 minutes. Stacy Keach is Stacy Keach, no real acting. It's like they said "How much for 15 minutes?". Good for you Stacy, get that cash.

Pruitt Taylor Vince  - Horrible. I like the guy, but he tries an Italian accent for three lines, then just talks like a mid-Southerner. Hilarious in a bad way. He's in it for like 20 minutes.

The other characters are played by 4th string character actors doing bad, stereo typical acting. Just  . It's like they all called each other, and said "You want to get in this?".

The other extras look like they were cast out of whatever deli or high school was open.

Filming - Lots of tight jump cuts to hide the low budget and anachronisms. Yer not fooling anybody. Lots of empty streets, and empty club scenes. No budget for special effects. The big famous Gotti fireworks show is three duplicated stock footage scenes of the same red, white, and green rockets going off.

There's also a scene of a car bombing that looks like they just lit a puddle of gas on the front seats. Cropped real tight.

If you must see a Gotti film, watch the HBO one as mentioned. It's not perfect, but it's a 1000x better than this new one -

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