# Best caper films **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 23, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-caper-films/551115 "2010-08-23T00:25:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-caper-films/551115/41 "2010-08-24T00:57:26Z")
_Kelly’s Heroes_ may be a half-assed war movie but it’s a pretty good caper movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-caper-films/551115/42 "2010-08-24T01:01:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > _Kelly’s Heroes_ may be a half-assed war movie but it’s a pretty good caper movie. Ooh, good one. That’s a great movie. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-caper-films/551115/43 "2010-08-24T01:29:22Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Heat Al Pacino was hilarious in that. “I’m angry. I’m very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband’s dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!” _Thunderbolt and Lightfoot_ and _Kelly’s Heroes_ are both great caper/heist films in Eastwood’s c.v. that haven’t yet been mentioned, but my favorite is the unfortunately generically-titled _Heist_, written and directed by David Mamet and starring the incomparable cast of Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Delroy Lindo, and Sam Rockwell. Even the inclusion of Mamet’s anti-thespian wife Rebecca Pidgeon couldn’t bring it down. The humor, such as it is, comes from lampooning the conventions of heist and action movies, while the cast plays it straight, uttering Mamet’s particular dialect of criminality as if they walked out of a Raymond Chandler novel retooled by the Marx Brothers. Bobby Blane: Sometimes adrenaline gives people the shakes, some might think it’s cowardice, so maybe you’d want to pray about it. Jimmy: I’m not a religious man. Bobby Blane: There’s nothing wrong with prayer. We knew this firefighter, this trooper, who always caried a bible next to his heart. We used to mock him, but that bible stopped a bullet. Jimmy: No shit. Bobby Blane: Hand of God, that bible stopped a bullet, would of ruined that fucker’s heart. And had he had another bible in front of his face, that man would be alive today. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-caper-films/551115/44 "2010-08-24T07:55:19Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I have fond memories of _Topkapi_, although I haven’t seen it in decades. Yes !! (I’d now scurry off to a Torrentz donwloading site, but am afraid that might be where my viruses are coming from. :smack: ) ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-caper-films/551115/45 "2010-08-24T08:53:20Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > > [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > > > Why? There is absolutely nothing caper-ish about it. Just because a movie has a ton of money in it doesn’t make it a caper. > > You shouldn’t post about a subject that you clearly know nothing about. Pot? Meet Kettle. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-caper-films/551115/46 "2010-08-24T12:48:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > > > The remake of _The Italian Job_ (Mark Wahlberg, Edward Norton, Donald Sutherland) was great, even if it did amount to a feature-length commercial for the Mini Cooper. > > I have the original and the remake on DVD. I’ve only watch the remake once. Not that I didn’t like it, but the original is so much better. (But then, I’m a sucker for '50s & '60s films of certain genres.) It’s funny how tastes vary. I thought the original one was SOOOOO boring. I didn’t enjoy it at all. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-caper-films/551115/47 "2010-08-24T12:59:13Z")
[Rififi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rififi) is a granddaddy, if not _the_ granddaddy of them all. It even has the element of the One Last Job as a part of the plot, and the heist itself is actually interesting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-caper-films/551115.md?page=2)