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Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

adonis98-743-186503 A group of kids in Brooklyn form a gang. From this moment on they do everything together. This makes things easier but at the same time they have to face new problems. Despite an alright dup of perfomances from both King and Stallone 'The Lords of Flatbush' is a weird mix of different genres alongside with lots of bad comedic moments and romances between the leads that didn't even felt realistic (Stallone's especially). The acting was mediocre, the story was half cooked and the movie came out before Sly's Rocky years so it makes sense for his acting to be once hot and once cold. Overall a big disappointment for me cause i was expecting way more effort. (5.4/10)

bobmccune1 "The Lord's of Flatbush is a moo oo vie, about how life was in the fi ii ifties" that I wanted to exalt the faux gang experience so that I could relive that glory. What happened was an exercise in truth-telling.Wayne P. was sort-of Chico and sort-of Stanley. There was Smiles, who was over 21 and bought the beer. Jake M. who had the strangely Pogrom-descended patois and orbited the group's periphery but sure got the girls' attention (How many nights did he sleep in a drier at the laundromat because his rabbinical dad kicked him out?) There would be Ben-Hur moments of waiting for the rumble with the Hopkins guys(Wall Rats)like the jocks on the football field, where switchblades flashed and zip-guns blazed.Wayne, Jake and others actually joined the navy. They wanted to get a better deal than the draft offered. The Wall Rats never showed, and a couple of guys got in a little fishing while they waited. One guy, Jon S.,moved to South Carolina and visited a year later with a deep drawl. Sure. A couple guys became junkies and died.I expected my era to be memorialized in Heston-like aplomb rather than the obscene burlesque of "Grease". So many guys had Lord's of Flatbush memories in jewel-encrusted boxes on the shelves of time. I was let down: These guys were bozos.Like us.And the real treasures are in the genuine moments of empathy and sincerity that were found in the rooftop pigeon coups of Flatbush or on the back steps of a suburban bowling alley at twilight in the summertime.This is the simple truth.

edwagreen Absolutely inane film dealing with a bunch of street hooligans who show their immaturity and lack of respect.The only good thing about this farce is that there is no violence.Perry King, who has gone on to become the king of television movies, plays Chico, riding around on his motorcycle and going nowhere quickly as is the case with this film.Talk of stereotyping. The film is demeaning to Italian-Americans. Annie and Frannie are the 2 prototypes for LaVerne and Shirley.Sylvester Stallone is gifted at playing hunks with IQ's around 2.The plot here is thin and the writing is even worse. The sound sounds like it is coming out of your local luncheonette.Topics such as teen pregnancy, fighting, unruly behavior in school, and the coming of age are poorly dealt with.Frannie wants to marry the Stallone character so they can watch American Bandstand together. The film suffers from a complete lack of maturity and should define itself as the coming of ignorance.

ewarn-1 The Fifties nostalgia craze started about 1971, and lasted all through the 70s, right into the early eighties, a whole decade of nostalgia devoted to half of a decade one decade previous! I thought it was insane at the time and still do, even though the nostalgic image reduced one of the most interesting decades in American history to irritating clichéd images of leather jackets. It hasn't really ended either, which is just as well, because no sane person could stand nostalgia for the 70s."Lords of Flatbush" might seem like just a cheap cash in on a fad, but it's actually very well written. It features minimalist dialogue and slice of life vignettes with very honest performances by King and Stallone. It looks cheaply produced but to me that added to the attraction, it seems to be done in an almost documentary style. AS such, its not really a film about the "Fifties"---besides the leather jackets and hairstyles, it has little to say about a specific era, but a lot to say about the human condition.This tale of four friends could have been set at any period in history, and the dialogue for once is a true indicator of the mental states of 17 and 18 year olds, there's no breathless philosophizing here. The characters seem to struggle with what they want to say, unable to express their feelings with limited vocabulary and intellect. Watching it is sometimes painful. The best scenes involve Chico's relationship with Jane Bradshaw. (This guy deserves a medal for his taste in females) Chico tries to express his emotions, but hes too young and impatient. He thinks he knows what to say and do, but his words and actions just don't match up.In the end, his efforts at a relationship are too clumsy. I still feel bad for him.I was never a fan of Stallone, but I like his performance here. The main problem with this film is that it's too short. The honest performances make me want to know more about these guys, and it ends abruptly while everything is still going on. Still, taking a look at this movie is worth the time, especially nowadays when finding an honest film made with integrity is very rare. Its kind of---nostalgia for nostalgia! Besides, even if you hate it, you still get to look at Susan Blakely.