the departed, casino, or american gangster

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Originally Posted by Scripture

Casino and the Departed are both excellent films, in my opinion.

That said, if I only had to pick one, it would be Casino. The combination of De Niro and Pesci is money. Not to mention, it's based off the story of Sam 'Ace' Rothstein. To me, that pretty much seals the deal.

Sam "Ace" Rothstein was really Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. Ginger McKenna/Ginger Rothstein was really Geraldine McGee (better known as Geri McGee)/Geraldine Rosenthal (better known as Geri Rosenthal).

It is a toss up between Goodfellas and Casino for my favorite gangster movie. Casino had a substantially better transfer than Goodfellas-especially the video transfer. The Departed was okay. Leonardo DiCaprio is the only cast member of The Departed that can hold a candle to Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci (Nicholas Santoro, Senior-better known as Nicky Santoro, Senior, who was really the following: Anthony Spilotro, Senior-better know as Anthony "The Ant" Spilotro and Tony "The Ant" Spilotro) and Frank Vincent (Frankie Marino-who is or was really Frank Cullotta). Phillip Suriano (Dominick Santoro-who was really Michael Spilotro) was on par with Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent.