good movie.. but since im 50% italian, 50% sicilian, i go for the italian shit!

still good movie i don't think it did very well at the box office although it seemed to do very well with the critics. At the party at Mr.Rooney's house i thought it would be like an "Irish Godfather" movie, but it was really good .

In Mafia: The Game, you really feel like you're in The Road To Perdition, with all the cars, countryside, and pedestrians. It's great!

Hi,
I will wait for the DVD. I believe that the Hanks character workes for Frank Nitti in the movie. The only thing this brings to mind is Mad Dog Coll who was one of the baddest Irishmen around.

Paul

My 13 year old son is developing the same taste in movies that I have. He and I loved Bronx Tale, which is a great father-son movie, and he and I loved Road to Perdition as well.

Hi,
Any rumors when the DVD is coming out?

Paul

GREAT FILM...WORTHY OF SOME ACADEMY AWARDS. TERRIFIC PERFORMANCE BY TOM HANKS, NOT IN THE CLASS OF THE GODFATHER FILMS, I GIVE THIS FILM MY HIGHEST RECCOMENDATION. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, THEN YOU ARE MISSING ON A VERY GOOD FILM.

Actually it has grossed over $100 mill at the box office. I have not seen the film but am looking forward to the DVD..

Hi,
The DVD should be out in February.

Good movie but I'd rather rank it in the father-son movie department than in the mafia one. Here the mafia is only the backdrop, not the main plot line.

Well, this is a very complex film, involving the mafia and a lot of stuff. I've often thought about the two Michael's, Coreleone and Sullivan and how one of them could only wish they could find redemtion while the other actually made effort to recieve it.

Well, i'm not so sure that this is true, i don't hink michael wishes for redemption, remember his line to cardinal lamberto, 'how can there be redemption if i don't repent' or something like that.

Not a bad movie, I really wasn't blown away by it. I just have a hard time believing Tom Hanks as a gangster. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't seem in in this part, I think it should have went to someone else.

I saw this movie with my dad. It was very good. Tom Hanks was good but it was Paul Newman and Jude Law who really shine. When Oscar time rolls around, I hope this movie is remembered.

I also LOVED this movie, I think it was time to attempt to make a REALLY GOOD film about the IRISH mob. Just cuz i never saw a movie like it. It was beautiful acting, and of course, TOM HANKS, a brilliant actor.Perfect for tha part.
I saw it with my Pop too, its not really a "father and daughter" movie I guess, lol, but it's different if your daughters a "mafia everything" fanatic.. My favorite line was in the end when his son says "They ask me, Who was Michael Sullivan?" and he always says, "He was my Father." Bottom Line:Oscar-caliber IMHO

well see how it does. I thought it 'd do better then 100 million during the session i saw it at there was barely anyone there no ever a quater of the seats were full , and this was like in a Saturday at 8 of clock.

Actually, when i went the theatre was pretty full, guinea, but I know what you mean, im sure in the following weeks, the film made no money. I dunno why though, i thought it was so good. Maybe its just people these days and the movies young people watch now, arent we the ones who go to the movies the most?

I'm sure it made a lot of money in it's first weeks but then the absorbtion for it just seemed to abate it could have been the fact that the film was released in the midst of feel good summer movies in a time where everyone was struggling their best to feel good and a lot hid behind trendy patriotism. I hope the movie does well perhaps if it had been released in the fall or winter who knows but then i don't think it would have made the to the Oscars i forget how long the movie has to be out for it to be included.

Guineapig.

Guinea,

The Oscars aren't always given to the highest grossing films of the year, except maybe Titanic. The Oscars are fucked up anyway. There so politically correct. At least we have the Golden Globes.

I saw it last night. I thought it was very good but not great. It was visualy stunning, but the plot became too sentimental at times. The performances were solid, and I'l be surprised if Newman doesn't recive an Oscar nomination.

The Oscars recive far to much critasism. It seems like every time they don't coencide perfectly with people's choices, they say that the Oscars are out of their minds. I think Goodfellas should have won best picture in 1990, but Dances With Wolves was hardly a bad film. If they had given Independence Day best picture, then I would say that they are idiots. As for Titanic, I think it's a very good film, and I won't listen to anyone who says it's crap until they come up with a valid reason as to what's wrong with it. I can respest your opinion as long as you have an intelegent reason for it. "It's boring", just isn't enough to convince me.

I have been avoiding this topic for weeks before seeing the movie finally tonight in Dutch theatre..

I liked it, even though it's not spectacular. I heard a lot about the cinematographic level of it, and that was quite good. I was impressed with Newman's performance, and altough we'll never get used to "Sleepless Forrest Gump in Philadelphia"-Tom Hanks as a cold-blooded murderer and prototype gangster, he's great...as always.

the ending is tragic, but not surprising. (SPOILERS)

what I wonder is this (but this is the "Godfather-bulletin-board-converstationer" in me:

Tom Hanks at some point realizes the hitman knows they are going to Perdition to aunt Sarah's house. Sullivan (Hanks' character) blows off the trip. But in the end they go to her house anyway, and when he sees the house is empty:
-would that mean the hitman killed Sarah+family in order to have the house for himself and to wait for Sullivan and son???
-wouldn't Sullivan sense rightaway something was wrong, which would not have saved his life in anyway way though.

If you come to think of it, Sullivan Sr "shot the man who killed him" that's a quote you don't hear everyday.

when he dies, after so much blood shed, the entire journey seems so pointless...but for his son who will not go to hell after all.

still, the movie wasn't spectacular, not dramatic nor emotional and only touched me a little bit. hardly any action in it... but I can't help thinking positively about it.

very good film.

The point I was trying to make is that sometimes the Oscars go a little over board. Did Titanic (I liked it BTW) deserve 11 Oscars? Was it equal to Ben-Hur? Did Lord of the Rings deserve 12 nominations? I don't think so. It's all opinion. Can you honestly say that you believe that Lord of the Rings is that great?

Also, the Oscars can't seem to make up there minds. Did Denzel Washington deserve his Oscar for Training Day? I think he is one of the greatest actors of today and was robbed of an Oscar many times. I think they gave it to him to "apologize" for him being robbed in the past. Same goes for Al Pacino's win in Scent of a Woman and Paul Newman's win for The Color of Money. Can you honestly say that those two actors greatest achivements were in those two films?

Oh, well. As I always say: Difference of opinion makes the world go 'round.