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  • May 10, 2012

    With punches, beautiful dames, bullets, and a Jay-Z sample, the trailer for Gangster Squad has arrived online! Being one of the most anticipated films coming out this year, the trailer promises a solid entry into the cops and robbers genre. The cast looks to be on their game and each actor fits well into the setting of a corrupt Los Angeles. Set in Los Angeles in 1949, Gangster Squad tells the story of “ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) who runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and–if he has his way–every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop…except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.”

    -Thoughts?

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    1. *Gosling catches a shotgun tossed at him as he walks through the door.*
      *I start throwing dollar bills at the computer screen.*

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    2. Looking forward to this

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    3. Yeah I’m pretty sold on that. But does anyone else get the feeling we’ve seen it all before?

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      • Yep. That’s what I thought too. Reminds me a little of ‘Public Enemies.’ No doubt that I’ll still see it though.

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        • Exactly. It definitely has a flavour of Public Enemies. Fingers crossed it’ll be better than that!!

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      • I didn’t like what i saw but i do share your second thought. ‘Public Enemies’ all over again.

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    4. I’m definitely a bit let down…I still think it looks good, but not exactly “Oscar” good.

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    5. I definitely think this trailer is solid, but solid in that it hits the normal beats of this type of movie. A trailer should wow people, not have them thinking about countless other movies that are similar to it lol

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    6. I was afraid this would be more cartoony than LA Confidential-ish. Looks like that will be the case. Though I’m sure since Ryan Gosling is in it, people will be praising it up and down. Is Penn’s makeup meant to make him look like James Cagney? That was probably the part that threw me the most with the trailer. Certainly seeing it, but pushing it down the list of awards contenders now.

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