Still obsessed with 'Goodfellas,' 25 years later

[pete clemenza]

One of my favorites up until the end.

Casino was better to me overall.

How can people mention Casio in the same breath as the gawd Goodfellas.. Its criminal to me

 

[Street Knowledge]

 

[PIFF101]

I can watch it when it's on cable and recite every line forreal. One of my top movies.

 

[Methodical]

"Joe Pesci told Scorcese that he once witnessed this exact scene in real life at a restaurant in New Jersey and Scorcese liked the story so much that he put it in this film"

except that the scene is improv and liotta didnt know that pecsi was going to do that

he's right you know. you can even hear them say "jesus pesci" through all the laughter, showing that the scene was not scripted. however it was based on said event.

"knew all the story behind that scene, except that "jesus pesci" at 2:24! Thank you for bringing this up!"

 

[KevCo]

Just got it last night, 4.99 on itunes through monday if anyone wants the digital copy...i only had the dvd till now...great movie

 

[Methodical]

There's a reason Goodfellas is on cable seemingly somewhere every single goddamned day. It's great as a whole piece of art. But each scene is so well crafted, and has it's own little arc, it's own theme, and the pacing is so perfect, that's it's just incredibly watchable. Everything pops and snaps so crisply. The dialogue. The plot moves. The characters are constantly in an exaggerated state of some kind of other. It's always either The Best of Times, or The Worst of Times.

Wrong, Ray Liotta made this flick...but reading some of the responses here, seems like a lot of people don't realise that

Exactly he's the master of intensity.in this film. Ray Liotta made you in the whole flick with his his drug additction and his paranoid, etc. He made you like you're Henry and you're in there film with him and had you

 

[Thief's Theme]

cop the latest blu-ray, for all you film heads, there is amazing commentary on it

Goodfellas is a classic, I saw Black Mass the other day, and have come to the realization that post-Goodfellas, there have been no great gangster flicks since (Casino aside)... Sopranos, The Wire and Boardwalk Empire are the only things that come even close, but that's obviously TV/HBO -- Goodfellas fukked everyone up, because it's so real, Scorsese knows that crowd and you can't beat the realism

Pesci kills it, De Niro kills it, motherfukking Lorraine Bracco kills it - just look at the first time she hits the screen compared to the end... that's character arc for all you filmmakers out there. But it only works because of her performance

and then the shots, the camera movement, the color, the pacing of it all, the music, the narration where they explain everything but it's never boring or too expository

one of four or five Scorsese masterpieces

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

 

[Thief's Theme]

that scene with Pesci, De Niro, Liotta, and Scorsese's mom right after they bodied Billy Bats is one of the best scenes of all time

the hoof?

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

How can people mention Casio in the same breath as the gawd Goodfellas.. Its criminal to me

I love casino but it does not reach the levels of pure entertainment goodfellas does. Also, honestly, Sharon Stone was such a fukking c*nt that it annoys the living fukk out of me. Yes I realize that's what her character was supposed to be and she played it amazingly well, all I wanted was for her to get shot in the head at the end and it never happened

 

[Thief's Theme]

why De Niro is the GOAT

no lines, no action and you completely understand the character

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

i strongly suggest watching this if you all haven't seen it

 

[Vandelay]

How can people mention Casio in the same breath as the gawd Goodfellas.. Its criminal to me

Casino is that shyt...matter of personal preference. I just don't particularly like how goodfellas ended.

 

[Thief's Theme]

Casino is that shyt...matter of personal preference. I just don't particularly like how goodfellas ended.

all gangster flicks follow the rise and fall format, it's a morality tale... Scarface is the same way, he just goes out with a much bigger bang, Scorsese kept loyal to the true story

AND it still ends with Pesci firing shots right at the camera

 

[wickedsm]

Film is a classic.

I've heard that it is to stand up comedians what 'Scarface' is to rappers

I read the script as research earlier this year. I was genuinely surprised by how many of my favourite lines aren't in there and must have just been adlibbed.

Agreed that the film is a classic.

Never read the script but I was impressed that alot of the lines/storytelling were actually verbatim from the book.