Gone Baby Gone (rediculously good book made into a movie content)

Jason the Magnificent - 7-25-2007 at 01:11 PM

http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/gonebabygone/trailer1/

Movie based on a book by Dennis Lehane, who wrote Mystic River...its from one of his 5 books in a series about these two PI's Kenzie and Gennaro and arguably the best of the series. I've been waiting for this for a while now...so siked its not even funny....I'm going back to rewatch.

JawnDiablo - 7-25-2007 at 01:41 PM

I read this book a little while back, basically on the reccommendation of a fellow thorpster. It was excellent and I am soooo looking forward to this one.
Lehane's other stuff is really good too.

Jason the Magnificent - 7-25-2007 at 01:54 PM

I just read somewhere that one of his newer books 'Shutter Island' has had it's picture rights bought by Wolfgang Peterson. Not sure how I feel on Mr Posieden/Perfect Storm directing...but it could be sold too. He probably bought it up after Mystic River did so well.

JawnDiablo - 7-25-2007 at 02:11 PM

I just got Shutter Island off of Amazon a few days ago. Haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Just finished Sacred and Darkness Take My hand.

Jason the Magnificent - 7-25-2007 at 02:19 PM

Yeah I have it at home, haven't read it yet either. Knowing about the movie bumps it up on my list.

Just finished up 'Unfinished Business' by Joe Pistone which was the follow up to Donnie Brasco now that he can actually talk about more details after all the trials.

JawnDiablo - 7-25-2007 at 02:22 PM

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Originally posted by Jason the Magnificent
Yeah I have it at home, haven't read it yet either. Knowing about the movie bumps it up on my list.

Just finished up 'Unfinished Business' by Joe Pistone which was the follow up to Donnie Brasco now that he can actually talk about more details after all the trials.

would you reccommend that one? I need some new stuff.

BDx13 - 7-25-2007 at 02:37 PM

i'm not much of a reader, but that movie looks good.

Jason the Magnificent - 7-25-2007 at 02:38 PM

It was good, but if you haven't actually read Donnis Brasco already I would read that instead. Thats an amazing book. Unfinished Business was good but the first half was mostly covered in DB, it got very tangential towards the end...him coming out basically created the domino effect that starting bringing down the mob in the RICO era. While he wasn't responsible for every mob bust there were reasons directly connected to him that made a lot of it possible and he really just seems like he likes talking himself up at this point. I think he deserves all the credit in the world, but all of the books and movies and spoken word tours seem like they're going to his head.

I read tons and tons of true crime stuff... but some of the better ones of those I've read recently

'Brutal' by Kevin Weeks about being with Whitey Bulger in Boston
'Double deal' by Mike Corbitt who was a corupt suburban Chicago cop in Sam Giancanna's pocket
'Under and Alone'...forget the author... its by/about the agent that infiltrated the Outlaws

last good fiction book I read (that wasn't written by Lehane haha) was The Winter of Frankie Machine by Don Winslow, I think I've brought it up on here before because DeNiro's is directing/starring in the movie which he bought the rights to prior to the book even being released. It's about a hitman who's retired and runs a bait shop and laundry service in San Fran (I think) and ends up getting framed for some stuff and having to get back into the mix.

Jason the Magnificent - 8-18-2007 at 12:04 AM

Don't want to start yet another Frankie Machine thread, but now it looks like Scorsese is attached to direct DeNiro. Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Jason the Magnificent - 8-18-2007 at 12:06 AM

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Originally posted by juandiablo
I just got Shutter Island off of Amazon a few days ago. Haven't had a chance to read it yet.
Just finished Sacred and Darkness Take My hand.

Also , I finished Shutter Island...it's way different than his other stuff, great read but a slow start... almost a kind of Hitchcockian ending.

JUICE MAYNE MSHC - 8-18-2007 at 12:28 AM

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'Under and Alone'...forget the author... its by/about the agent that infiltrated the Outlaws

William Queen. Great book. The big deal about this guy was that he got fully patched into the Mongols (not Outlaws) and actually became an officer in the club. A huge deal for an ATF agent.

Jason the Magnificent - 8-18-2007 at 08:15 AM

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Originally posted by JUICE MAYNE MSHC

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'Under and Alone'...forget the author... its by/about the agent that infiltrated the Outlaws

William Queen. Great book. The big deal about this guy was that he got fully patched into the Mongols (not Outlaws) and actually became an officer in the club. A huge deal for an ATF agent.

you are correct, been a while since I read it, great book.

JawnDiablo - 8-18-2007 at 08:27 AM

I think I'll check that out.
I'm reading A Drink Before The War right now when I have a few minutes here and there. Maybe I'll be able to sit and relax with it this morning for a while.

JawnDiablo - 8-18-2007 at 08:31 AM

A little while ago I read this book called Born To Be Wild about a man named Robert Nauss who was in the Warlocks MC locally to where I grew up. He was big time in the meth world in the 70s and murdered some people and they couldn't pin it on him, and he escaped from a max security prison and stuff. It was great. It might have been better for me baing I was familiar with most of the settings and locations in the book, but if you come across It I'd say give it a check. It's hard to come by unless you pull it off ebay or amazon for too much $ these days.

clevohardcore - 8-18-2007 at 01:13 PM

that movie looks awsome. It looks similar to the style of MYSTIC RIVER sinec you pointed it out. The emotion the way it is written/directed really brings out the ....well emotion. I saw that Ben Affleck had his hand in it somehow.

Jason the Magnificent - 8-18-2007 at 03:38 PM

Yeah pretty much all Lehanes books are set in a "fictional" Boston. Affleck directed it, hence his brother starring, and when I first heard about it I was worried...but after that preview I'm psyched.

Jason the Magnificent - 10-15-2007 at 01:17 PM

This Friday!!!!

JawnDiablo - 10-15-2007 at 03:12 PM

goin to see Murphy's Law on Friday
Goin to see this on Saturday....
a great weekend in store...

just finished reading Prayers For Rain on Friday...

Jason the Magnificent - 10-15-2007 at 03:34 PM

Thats a good one...I forget the exact line but when the mob guy told Patrick that Bubba said he'd hit the streets and start killing if anyone laid a hand on him...hard stuff.

JawnDiablo - 10-15-2007 at 04:48 PM

I like the Bubba charachter.
Who's playin him in the movie?

Jason the Magnificent - 10-15-2007 at 05:25 PM

Slaine, hes some white irish rapper from Boston

JawnDiablo - 10-15-2007 at 07:31 PM

ha yeah i just looked that up on IMDB
i kinda like Slaine for some odd reason....

Jason the Magnificent - 10-16-2007 at 01:10 PM

yes, I'm being a total geek over this movie but now a featurette...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/gonebabygone/featurett...

JawnDiablo - 10-16-2007 at 01:15 PM

I was lookin at the cast on IMDB...
wasn't cheese a big fat fucker in the book?
and the mental picture i got of bubba was a dude that would be a bit bigget than Slaine

Jason the Magnificent - 10-16-2007 at 03:27 PM

Cheese was also white, he was called that because of his skin tone. Doyle...Freidmans char was also white I would guess....a police chielf in dorchester....with the name Doyle...and Bubba was polish and I'd picture him bigger too, but I guess these are the small liberties we'll have to see work or not work in the movie. I really don't care too much about cheese or doyle....bubba's character being on or not is my single biggest worry about the movie. Honestly I kind of pictured Pat and Ang a bit older and more worn down too, but I read that if he was older Bennifer was supposed to play him, I'm happy he picked little bro and stayed directing.

We'll see friday.

clevohardcore - 10-16-2007 at 06:50 PM

Ok. I am fucking hyped about this movie.

JawnDiablo - 10-16-2007 at 07:56 PM

Jason,
Since I guess you like to read some of the same stuff I do, do ya have any suggestions for me ...like other authors you dig?
I have a Amazon gift thingy burnin a hole in my email....

Jason the Magnificent - 10-17-2007 at 06:02 AM

Honestly 80% of the stuff I read is true crime. I think you mentioned Pelecanos before, I'm actually just getting into his stuff... in the Pelecanos/Lehane noir vein, Elmore Leonard is good, several of his books have been made movies too 'Rum Punch' is Jackie Brown and the Get Shorty stuff is his. He has a HUGE catalogue. James Ellroy is another I've heard highly recommended (LA Confidential) as well as James Lee Burke.

If your'e into true crime, Nicholas Pileggi-Wiseguy (Goodfellas) or Casino, Pistone-Donnie Brasco, William Queen-Under and Alone (which is actually being made a movie with Mel Gibson??????) are all Stellar reads. Some decent ones I've read recently Kevin Weeks-Brutal and Patrick Nee-A criminal and an Irishman...kinda like crime for dummies tell-alls that are riding the current Boston Southie craze.

I'm really just getting into fiction again after years and years of countless true crime/mafia tell all type books.

JawnDiablo - 10-17-2007 at 06:13 AM

cool, thanks.
I've read all of Pelecanos' books. He hasn't done any in a while.
I also reas the goodfellas / casino books.
i love the mafia tell all stuff.
i'll look into those others.

Jason the Magnificent - 10-17-2007 at 08:10 AM

Another good one I just read is "Culotta", it's a tell all type book on the Chicago/Vegas connection from a Chicago guy who was part of Anthony Spilotro's crew (Frank Vincent to Joe Pesci in Casino). Really good book. One of the murders re-enacted in Casino was filmed with Colotta doing his own hit. I guess Scorsese had Culotta, along with Lefty Rosenthal (DeNiro) as advisors on Casino and was having Culotta show him how the hit went down and ended up just having him do it on film (the one where the guy gets chased through the house near the end). Thats a showbiz first haha.

Jason the Magnificent - 10-19-2007 at 09:32 PM

speechless. the only time anything I have ever been hyped about lived up to it.