A Cult Film composed of sub-plots
Added 10/17/2009
First of all, Stallone and Winkler both give solid performances as street hoodlums on the verge of manhood. Perry King and Paul Mace are good as well, making this cast quite first-rate.
This film is entertaining as long as one doesn't expect anything that remotely resembles a plot. An amagamation of subplots serves to fill the void, and the film somehow works. It's exactly as billed in the trailer, sung as a doo-wop tune: "The Lords of Flatbush is a movie / About what life was like back in the fifties".
Well, that lyric says it all.
This film will not cure any ailments, but if you want to know what started the careers of Stallone and Winkler, look no further. It's entertaining, quite well acted, and insightful regarding the lives and outlooks of kids coming of age in the late 1950's.
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lords of a great movie
Added 9/23/2009
i love this movie ! it's so funny ! i like the whole greaser thig !
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Disappointing Quality
Added 9/5/2009
I saw this movie when I was a teenager and remember it being an entertaining movie. It featured some well know actors such as Sylvestor Stallone and Henry Winkler, whom were unknown at this early juncture in their careers. I decided to buy it since it is a film worth owning. I enjoyed the movie and its stereotypical characters and the fact that it took place in Brooklyn, New York where I grew up, however the quality of the DVD was not good at all. The picture was not well focused and the sound quality was pretty bad. In spite of all this It was not expensive so I will make it a keeper.
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Great B-Movie - "Happy Days" It Ain't
Added 12/22/2008
You can't help but see Fonzie when you see Henry Winkler in this film...but Happy Days it ain't.
Don't get me wrong, it is a great little b-movie (even the soundtrack is low budget with original 1970s songs trying to sound 1950s). But this film is not the innocent 1950s that Happy Days portrays. It is a straight, in-your-face look at the juvenile delinquent life--a day in the life of four guys in a gang called The Lords.
These guys get together with girls, fight, disrupt the classroom, and ultimately realize that they eventually have to grow up (or at least Sylvester Stallone's character Stanley does).
If you want a good juvenile delinquent film with familiar faces and cool nostalgia, then go to Flatbush with The Lords!
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Lords of Flatbush
Added 11/24/2008
Great movie, takes me back to a time when you could lube your car's engine by rubbing your greasy head up against it.
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A Cult Film composed of sub-plots
Added 10/17/2009
First of all, Stallone and Winkler both give solid performances as street hoodlums on the verge of manhood. Perry King and Paul Mace are good as well, making this cast quite first-rate.
This film is entertaining as long as one doesn't expect anything that remotely resembles a plot. An amagamation of subplots serves to fill the void, and the film somehow works. It's exactly as billed in the trailer, sung as a doo-wop tune: "The Lords of Flatbush is a movie / About what life was like back in the fifties".
Well, that lyric says it all.
This film will not cure any ailments, but if you want to know what started the careers of Stallone and Winkler, look no further. It's entertaining, quite well acted, and insightful regarding the lives and outlooks of kids coming of age in the late 1950's.
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lords of a great movie
Added 9/23/2009
i love this movie ! it's so funny ! i like the whole greaser thig !
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Disappointing Quality
Added 9/5/2009
I saw this movie when I was a teenager and remember it being an entertaining movie. It featured some well know actors such as Sylvestor Stallone and Henry Winkler, whom were unknown at this early juncture in their careers. I decided to buy it since it is a film worth owning. I enjoyed the movie and its stereotypical characters and the fact that it took place in Brooklyn, New York where I grew up, however the quality of the DVD was not good at all. The picture was not well focused and the sound quality was pretty bad. In spite of all this It was not expensive so I will make it a keeper.
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