Hmmmm....dunno'bout that. It still seems a bit incongruous to me (not the chronology part, but the aesthetic appropriateness).
Anyway, it's Midnight....my shift is over. Nighty night, ILX.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Symplistic (shmuel), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:58 (nineteen years ago) link
And here's an on-topic question to loop it back around: Why did Scorsese pick Sid Vicious' "My Way" for the end credits?
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...) (webmail), August 18th, 2004 10:55 PM. (vassifer) (later) (link)
because both sid vicious and henry hill were self-destructive louts whose following their id only got them into terrible trouble? (also the ironic wink to sinatra--it's a mob movie after all.) it seems a beautifully appropriate choice to me.
btw this movie rules, but casino is even better.
― amateur!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Symplistic (shmuel), Thursday, 19 August 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
There's an actual would-be-Sinatra character in Goodfellas, that singer at the nightclub.
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw this movie for the first time in the early nineties, when I was a punk teenager. I immediately loved it and watched it again and again and again. It became the first DVD I ever bought, and will probably become the first DVD that I ever rebuy. The one I have now is a flipper!
I watched it six months ago, half expecting that some of the magic would have dimmed since I'm now a grown man in his thirties. I loved it even more. My favorite movie of all time. Fuck The Godfather.
And Good Lord, fuck After Hours at the same time. Is that all there is? He goes to work covered in paint, huzzah for metaphors.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and the deleted scenes. I wonder how much is on there? Dammit, I guess I'll have to get this tomorrow.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Uh-Huh Him (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― G-L-O-R-I-A (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:15 (nineteen years ago) link
I can not like it because it's fucking horrible.
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― G-L-O-R-I-A (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Uh-Huh Him (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:37 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― ENRG (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 08:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link
How about the mountain of blow scenes in Scarface? They should be up there too.
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link
the obvious being that YOU'RE the dick!!!!
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:09 (nineteen years ago) link
This is the key point I think, no-one, other than say Jonathan Demme or Tarantino can use popular music as a plot device as well as Scorsese. Take the music away it's a fine, well acted, above average mob movie. Put the soundtrack in, it's elevated to a work of genius. Whenever I hear the piano coda of 'Layla' I immediately think of the corpse swimming through the trash (and what a duffer the rest of Clapton's catalogue is).
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link
crosspost
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:13 (nineteen years ago) link