Donnie Brasco (1997)

[Guest sharpie]

Lately I've been running across boxes of videotapes that people leave out on the streets as they dump their VCRs. Since I have a perfectly servicable VCR I sometimes take these street tapes home. One of them I picked up recently was Donnie Brasco which we watched the other night. I'd seen it on tape about a year after it came out but didn't really remember too much about it. We all dug the movie a lot -- really well written with a knockout performance by Pacino.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

It's been a while since I've seen it. As I recall it was pretty faithful to book (and real events). Pistone was seriously up himself and Depp made the character more likable than he came across in the book.

It's a solid flick that falls just short of a mob classic.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I just took like 50 VHS tapes to the Goodwill yesterday. Amongst the movies, I found 5 tapes that made up the 2000 WS, another with the Grand Slam Single game, and the last one was the original Jackie Robinson game @ Shea in like '98 or whenever.

I popped in Game 1 of the WS for some reason and my VCR immediately ate it and I threw them all out.

Never saw Donnie Brasco.

[metirish]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: I popped in Game 1 of the WS for some reason and my VCR immediately ate it and I threw them all out. Never saw Donnie Brasco.

Your VCR didn't want to replay the sixth inning again so it spit it out.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I think you're right, sir.