This week on the totalfilm.com DVD Club, we're watching The Wild Bunch.
No surprise, then, that we got to thinking about the best movie gangs ever to flick a switchblade.
Whether it's slick street types, rough riders or smooth criminals, we take a look at the best mobs out there...
The Gang: The Warriors
The Film: The Warriors (1979)
Led By: Cleon (Dorsey Wright), the founder, who sacrifices himself after a pow-wow between New York's crime teams goes badly wrong.
Enemies: The Rogues, the Baseball Furies, the Turnbull ACs, among several others.
Why Are They Cool? Even when they're stranded in enemy territory, with the cops hunting for them and rivals at their backs, this lot make it through with a combination of street smarts, brawling, and tactical use of a molotov cocktail.
And they do all that while pulling off a look that includes red-orange pleather vests boasting their logo on the back.
That takes real guts.
Next: The T-Birds
Comments
sleepwalker
Sep 1st 2009, 11:19
You forgot the Axe Gang from Kung Fu Hustle. Thiose boys can dance too and they use fireworks in the same way as a bat signal, beat that!!!
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darjeelingmike
Sep 1st 2009, 13:29
Good call on Grease, but i'd prefer to see West Side Story in there, better film and a better gang. Don't know if they would class as a gang strictly, but The Untouchables are pretty damn cool what with Costner, Connery and Garcia on board! My actual vote though, goes to American Me, which is just.plain.ace.
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JuiceTerry
Sep 1st 2009, 13:45
What no Wanderers or the Baldies? Shocker.
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reggiesambuka
Sep 1st 2009, 13:53
What about Bodhi's gang of adrenaline fuelled mask wearing bank robbing surfers THE EX-PRESIDENTS from Point Break? Surely they deserve to make the list?! Seriously, if donning a rubber Ronald Reagan mask and leading fellow ex-presidents Carter, Nixon and Johnson on a crime-spree around Los Angeles ripping off banks to finance their endless summer isn't enough to get them on this list then what is the world coming to?!
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imaginarium
Sep 1st 2009, 16:56
Would the Fellowship of the Ring count?...
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stephanie221
Sep 2nd 2009, 0:21
I don't know, but if they do count, they're the best gang ever.
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tygear34
Sep 2nd 2009, 3:58
What about Neil McCauley's gang for Michael Mann's crime classic "Heat". DeNiro, Danny Trejo, Tom Sizemore (before he was a drug-addled mess), and best of all, Val Kilmer. They make scores of cash and live in the fast lane. What could be better than that?
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Mozkiwi
Sep 4th 2009, 17:24
Sure... Magnificent Seven... perhaps... but for my money, I'd rather join the gang from Silverado, or better still... Cat Ballou!
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Jason Voorhees
Sep 7th 2009, 23:49
Potentially The Expendibles, Corleone clan is the greatest ever though!
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Nealsreviews1
Sep 9th 2009, 14:21
The T-Birds were the coolest kids in high school & The Pink Ladies
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halo14
Apr 1st 2011, 11:51
What about the Bubblegum Gang from Hostil?? Meanest f**ken gang Ive seen. And they just kids!!!
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