Battle of the Bulger ends.

[Rev. Rye]

What a loss to humanity. Sicko Mobster and serial killer ends up dead in prison. Now, mind you, I am no fan of revenge, but at the same time, his murder in prison should not come as a shock, nor will I lose any sleep over it.

Mobster movies may make great for entertainment, but in reality mobsters are disgusting selfish psychopaths whom have no value for life or empathy for others. 

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I can remember an episode of the Boondocks where Riley starts up a chocolate syndicate, running a fundraiser like a cartel, and Huey asks him: “You watch a lot of gangster movies, right? How many of them have a happy ending?” It’s pretty clear that things never quite turn out well, and even if it doesn’t end with them whacked or arrested, it either ends with the protagonist acutely aware that either is a possibility, and that there’s no guarantee that someone’s going to shoot them the second they roll credits, or with them acutely aware that they’ve sacrificed a big part of themselves in getting as far as they did.

At least Black Mass, the film about Bulger, did a good job of showing how, underneath the “Modern day Robin Hood” reputation he cultivated, he was pretty much a thug with good publicity.

Then again, if we can’t expect scientists to not watch Black Mirror without trying to make it happen IRL, it’s probably not reasonable to expect people to see gangster movies and want to be a part of them. Every generation’s gangster movies get even darker (see the Warner Bros gangter movies from the 30s, The Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos for more on that), and it still attracts a following of people willing to be a part of them.