I’ve never been a fan of Iron Man, but after watching this trailer, I’m definitely a little more exicted about it. If anything, it’ll be better than this order of Steamy Crap and Fries.

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Where would we be without Mob Movies?  There’d be no “sleeping with the fishes” references.  No “I made him an offer he can’t refuse” references.  No ‘Sopranos’.  No ‘Growing Up Gotti’.  No work for Joe Pesci.  Al Pacino would still be an unknown.  Hell, even Marlon Brando wouldn’t be quite the larger-than-life figure he is.  The Mob Movie has helped turn actors into icons, and has cell-ebrated the American Dream - even if it is violent, selfish and distasteful at times.  After all, what’s more American than The Mob?

Even American cinema itself owes a big debt to gangsters.  Organized crime and The Mafia have always been so alluring, that early American cinema had produced a number of great gangster films in the first half of the 20th century.  These early mob movies helped pull audiences into theatres, even during economically tough times such as the 1930’s, and some of those early gangster movies are still classics today.  Since the 1950’s, a ton of kick-ass Mafia Movies have been released in theatres.  Here are Bacon’s selections of the best of them.  The Top Ten Mob Movies.

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