submitted 4 months ago by delitomatoes@lemm.ee to c/movies@lemmy.world

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I search for movies like Inside Man and posts recommended Heat.

But there's pretty much just 2 robberies? In the bank scene, they wear masks but have their faces seen before they even put them on and just open the safe.

Reviews also mention this as a heist movie.

Is there a distinction between heist and robbery? I thought heists were like complex thefts that the people didn't even know that the money is gone

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago

IMO that's an odd distinction between heist and robbery. They both usually devote the first half of the movie planning the big heist, and that builds the suspense when things don't go to plan. I'm interested in seeing how the characters deal with and overcome adversary. I guess some of the suspense is if the characters can go under the radar and go undetected, but that doesn't define the genre to me.

I guess I'm curious of what are some heist movies by this definition? Like is Oceans 11 not a heist movie, because the casino owner knows he's being robbed at the time? Or Inside Man? These are quintessential heist movies.

[-] delitomatoes@lemm.ee -1 points 4 months ago

Yeah they would be heists, they do use violence, but a lot of planning and it's not the main way of breaking in

this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2024

3 points (63.6% liked)

Movies

7512 readers

48 users here now

Welcome to Movies, a community for discussing movies, film news, box office, and more! We want this to be a place for members to feel safe to discuss and share everything they love about movies and movie related things. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow!

Related Communities:

!books@lemmy.world - Discussing books and book-related things.

!comicbooks@lemmy.world - A place to discuss comic books of all types.

!marvelstudios@lemmy.world - LW's home for all things MCU.

While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by the Lemmy.World Terms of Service: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem.

Regarding spoilers; Please put "(Spoilers)" in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers, as we do not currently have a spoiler tag available. If your post contains an image that could be considered a spoiler, please mark the thread as NSFW so the image gets blurred. As far as how long to wait until the post is no longer a spoiler, please just use your best judgement. Everyone has a different idea on this, so we don't want to make any hard limits.

Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread. Most of the Lemmy clients don't support this but we want to get into the habit as clients will be supporting in the future.

Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your post/comment being removed and/or more severe actions. All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. We ask that the users report any comment or post that violates the rules, and to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting.

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Tenthrow@lemmy.world

JonsJava@lemmy.world