deep down is goodfellas a better movie then godfather pt 1 or pt 2.

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i love goodfellas but i dont see how the two moves for close, micheals rise to power was crazy, if micheal first wife would have survived he might have been a different person

believe me dude had NO intention of returning if appolonia doesn't die.

just when he thought he was out he got pulled back in.
 

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i would have said goodfellas but i have seen that movie about 200 times. i would more likely put on godfather 1 or 2 now. just cause its a harder watch so i havent milked the experience to death yet. godfather 1 and 2 are the epitome of american cinema. hard to beat. goodfellas is like reasonable doubt to godfathers ilmatic. we all know how dope reasonable doubt is. it just aint illmatic.
 

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Ah that shyt..yeah I agree, that's a cop out. But I guess it's kinda like my personal feelings on some movies: I like Tango & Cash more than Vertigo (as in if they're both on, I'm watching Tango & Cash) but I know what the better film is :russ:

This argument has always really interested me. I enjoy Fletch 2 a lot more than I enjoy Casablanca, but I "understand" that Casablanca is the better movie. But why is that? Shouldn't pleasure factor into our critical judgment? I mean it's an old argument in literary criticism. How do we evaluate art? What makes Hamlet better than Tamburlaine?
 

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This argument has always really interested me. I enjoy Fletch 2 a lot more than I enjoy Casablanca, but I "understand" that Casablanca is the better movie. But why is that? Shouldn't pleasure factor into our critical judgment? I mean it's an old argument in literary criticism. How do we evaluate art? What makes Hamlet better than Tamburlaine?

I think it's because I understand that from a critical standpoint, as far as doing everything a movie is supposed to be as far as proper direction (which Tango and Cash doesn't have), character development, acting, writing, etc. that I can recognize some movies I love are lacking or in some cases just don't have. And you know that because you've learned them either through observation or in classes. There are a lot of film students on here or at least people who took film studies classes in college, so there will be a lot of discussing film from a critical and analytical standpoint. I was watching 2Fast last night and while I love it, I have more film knowledge now than I did in 2003 so there are things now that pop out at me that didn't before
 

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I'd put Goodfellas over GF2 but not GF1

Godfather just has way too many quotables for me. Way too many scenes that when I first watched it as a kid had me like :banderas:
 
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