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new double-dvd full of good stuff! this movie is so amazing!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously, it don't get much better than this folks

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i like it

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry for ruingin your huckabees thread with my bragging.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

no you love it (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

and you are never allowed to ruinge a thread of mine again

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

BEST. MOVIE. EVER.

― jess, Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

YES

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a lot of dvd's to purchase this week!

― jess, Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Amazon has the entire Scorsese box set for ~$40

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

!!!!!! Fucking hell, the entire set?

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

no, he probably means the GoodFellas, alice doesn't etc, who's that knocketc, after hours and mean sts. one.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all about "After Hours", people....

RFI: Classical Music in Scorsese's "After Hours"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex...it is so NOT all about After Hours.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

why does he put his money in the cradle?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I love "Goodfellas," but it's kinda flawed. "Mean Streets" redux. The character of Henry is a bit of a cipher, actually. But I love it anyway.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Goodfellas" is indeed a fucking masterpiece, it's true.

....but it's still all about "After Hours". Stop living in denial.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you know, I normally agree with you, except for about the Greenpeace people, but you are so wrong right now.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Stop living in denial.
NO

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Watch it again. Ascend from the viscuous mudslick of sickly, abject wrongness you're currently slopping around in like giddy dungbeatles.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Alex, seriously, you're not right here.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

ALEX IT IS A BAD SHITTY SILLY MOVIE

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I'd agree with you if you weren't wrong, Ally.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, I applaud your civic pride and everything...but man, even Trading Places is better than After Hours.

Actually, Trading Places is great!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Trading Places" is a great, great movie, but it has no place in this debate.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I just put it there!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you ever find yourself missing the 1980s, Alex?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I doubt it's ever crossed your mind.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

After Hours is only OK.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Further evidence of your failure to see things clearly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think there's any point, in talking about after hours, at this point.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:25 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, I meant I don't think there's any point, at this point.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, let's ignore history, shall we?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

That's what you said, though.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

GOODFELLAS IS OUT ON DOUBLE DVD

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

All I'm saying is that "After Hours" is a perfect film, and that you're all eating boxfulls and boxfulls of Twinkies that fell from the Wrong Tree.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I KNOW , I OWN IT ALREADY.

xpost After Hours is ok but it's not as good as:

Taxi Driver
Raging Bull
GOODFUCKINGFELLAS
etc.

But it is better than Gangs of NY.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, you are unwittingly eating baby food sprinkled with misguidance.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"Gangs of New York" is an ambitious albeit deeply flawed film.

"Taxi Driver" and "Goodfellas" are untouchably sublime films.

"After Hours" is simply my favorite film of all time.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry for the poor metaphor...but it's really all I'm capable of right now.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Casino, anyone?

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Breakfast Club" is on AMC right now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It has some great Stones tracks on the soundtrack so yes - especially for Sweet Virginia.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Casino is good for having Devo on the soundtrack.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Might be Pesci's finest hour. Shame he had to die so painfully.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Jump Into the Fire" by Nilsson during the paranoid chopper/coke/pasta scene of "Goodfellas" = brilliance

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Casino rules!

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Never saw "Casino", actually, but now having heard that Devo appears, it will be viewed with all haste.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Clarence Frogman Henry to thread.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Well they don't APPEAR, Alex. I mean really you could just put on "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" on and just look at a pic of DeNiro, same difference.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 17:09 (six years ago)

seven months pass...

Your daily reminder that the Goodfellas painting was based on an actual photograph from the November 1978 issue of National Geographic. pic.twitter.com/Uajqsa4wUI
— JustinBrannan (@JustinBrannan) April 2, 2020

― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:43 (six years ago)

Whaddaya want from me?

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 April 2020 20:48 (six years ago)

four months pass...

I've posted a couple of these movie-music Zooms I've been doing with a friend (we're getting close to 50, but I've tried to post sparingly). The first half of this one, and then the last 10 minutes, is on Goodfellas and Scorsese; there's 10 or 15 minutes on Jonathan Kaplan's Heart Like a Wheel in the middle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNko&list=PLa8ssW9Hiyic0Atijb9MO-itwoVAYq2tG&index=42

― clemenza, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:32 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNko&list=PLa8ssW9Hiyic0Atijb9MO-itwoVAYq2tG&index=42

― clemenza, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:32 (five years ago)

Hmmnnn...need to figure this out.

― clemenza, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:32 (five years ago)

If this doesn't work, I give up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNkos

― clemenza, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:34 (five years ago)

I give up.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPW1RioUNko

― clemenza, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:34 (five years ago)

https://64.media.tumblr.com/bb6de095d85963b7f909aa76cc84ba71/7282df40199fe7b7-f7/s540x810/5e1d59b863fa2c6c654852329a39a39d277ef788.gifv

― pplains, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:40 (five years ago)

https://64.media.tumblr.com/911c0ad16c2b2abe3ef8d6070b271bc7/749082bcbbe3e1d1-40/s500x750/132cc560f58ac3205e68df5367ee07f8aff8beae.gifv

― pplains, Thursday, 3 September 2020 02:41 (five years ago)

Links are preferable to embeds anyway IMO.

It's probably endlessly repeated but on the Talking Sopranos podcast Michael Imperioli was telling the story of how he was taken to the emergency room for a cut on his hand when filming the scene where Spider gets killed and the staff called "code blue" and were cutting his suit open to treat gunshot sounds.

― grebo shot first (Noel Emits), Thursday, 3 September 2020 06:40 (five years ago)

*wounds!

― grebo shot first (Noel Emits), Thursday, 3 September 2020 06:40 (five years ago)

Probably a post about this somewhere in here; the Glenn Kenny book came out today.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/books/review-glenn-kenny-made-men-the-story-of-goodfellas-is-a-stellar-anatomy-of-a-film/

― clemenza, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:51 (five years ago)

Tfw I hit myself with a blast of drakkar noir pic.twitter.com/8GKaPxttPO
— Justin🌋Boldaji بلداجي (@justinboldaji) August 28, 2020

― pplains, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 03:07 (five years ago)

More anniversary stuff (by the woman in the Paranoid Style, whose music I don't know).

http://www.theringer.com/movies/2020/9/17/21440328/goodfellas-30th-anniversary-layala-scene-scorsese-clapton

― clemenza, Thursday, 17 September 2020 19:07 (five years ago)

Racing through the Glenn Kenny book...Confirming something I took notice of and always wondered about: at some point (Kenny doesn't know when), GoodFellas became Goodfellas. And at one point, somebody involved in the earliest stages wanted Tom Cruise and Madonna as the Hills.

― clemenza, Thursday, 24 September 2020 01:02 (five years ago)

I think I read that on buzzfeed like five years ago.

― pplains, Thursday, 24 September 2020 01:59 (five years ago)

News to me--and that Chuck Low once owned the building that Harvey Keitel, Lorraine Bracco, and De Niro all lived in. I didn't even know that Keitel and Bracco were married.

― clemenza, Thursday, 24 September 2020 02:08 (five years ago)

I think having Morrie the wig salesman as your landlord would be quite an experience.

― clemenza, Thursday, 24 September 2020 02:13 (five years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/history-gangsters-goodfellas-raos-restaurant

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 November 2021 00:59 (four years ago)

Damn I need to get up there
Raos sauce is a favorite in my house

― calstars, Friday, 26 November 2021 01:42 (four years ago)

six months pass...

https://deadline.com/2022/05/ray-liotta-dies-67-goodfellas-1235033521/

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 26 May 2022 16:19 (four years ago)

I met Ray Lotta about 10 years ago, at the Aruba International Film Festival.

What follows is the story of the first time Ray Liotta watched Goodfellas since its premiere, which he didn’t remember. Halfway through principal photography, his mother died.
A short thread.
— Moisés Chiullán 肖振藩 (@moiseschiu) May 26, 2022

― piscesx, Saturday, 28 May 2022 11:19 (four years ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/06/martin-scorsese-ray-liotta-goodfellas-gangster-dangerous-disarming-innocent

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 June 2022 11:10 (four years ago)

karen I’ve decided I should be on the pardon list, if that’s still in the works pic.twitter.com/G14RUKCGBr
— kilgore trout, death to putiner (@KT_So_It_Goes) June 17, 2022

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 June 2022 18:44 (three years ago)

A rep theatre close by is screening this three times in the next few days. "In memory of Ray Liotta"--I suspect it's more a case of "In memory of when people saw movies in theatres." I don't blame them at all.

https://www.hylandcinema.com/movie/goodfellas

― clemenza, Friday, 17 June 2022 18:51 (three years ago)

eleven months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/h5kku1d.jpg

― calstars, Sunday, 11 June 2023 19:03 (three years ago)

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2023 19:06 (three years ago)

three months pass...

Nothing like a long-time friend you share a private language with. My friend Peter signed off his latest email with "Pete the Killer (I took care of that thing for you)."

― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 03:20 (two years ago)

It's the thread revive we all hoped for!

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 18:45 (two years ago)

Let me understand this, 'cause I...maybe it's me, maybe I'm a little fucked up maybe. Is that a putdown?

― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 October 2023 01:31 (two years ago)

three months pass...

Goodfellas sighting: The Office, S6, the episode about the insurance salesman: immediately recognized the salesman--and possible Mafia soldier--as Frenchy. ("Security? You're looking at it. It's a joke. I'm the midnight to eight man.") Mike Starr is the guy's name. Didn't realize he was also in Miller's Crossing--can't get an image to confirm, but I think he's the goon who feels so bad about having to pummel Gabriel Byrne in the warehouse.

― clemenza, Sunday, 14 January 2024 17:33 (two years ago)

250 credits on him IMDB page!

― clemenza, Sunday, 14 January 2024 17:35 (two years ago)

Mike Starr is the dude I used to confuse with Danny Aiello for years

― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 January 2024 18:23 (two years ago)

Starr's most indelible role obv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVlTeIATBs

― Number None, Sunday, 14 January 2024 18:32 (two years ago)

knew before even seeing the video what it was gonna be lol

― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 January 2024 18:46 (two years ago)

Another one I now realize is him: Born on the Fourth of July, the guy in the bar who ridicules Cruise about his war experiences.

― clemenza, Sunday, 14 January 2024 19:16 (two years ago)

There's actually quite a few points of similarity between "GoodFellas" and "Miller's Crossing":

- Gangster drama released in late September of 1990

- Gangsters all primarily delineated as Irish/Italian/Jewish

- Mike Starr as a character named "Frankie" and "Frenchie", two names that could both be considered slang for "Francophone"

- Irish protagonist with Jewish love interest

- Murder of a character known for his toupee

- "Oh Danny Boy" is heard, either sung or played on a Victrola

- Corpse left in wooded area, and later revisited by protagonist, who succumbs to vomiting

- Both Tom Regan and Lois insist on retrieving their forgotten hats

― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 14 January 2024 21:13 (two years ago)

six months pass...

A good read:

https://flaminghydra.com/issue-133/#goodfellas-in-the-theater

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 5 August 2024 21:48 (one year ago)

three months pass...

The room they take Tommy into to be made/whacked has the worst fake wood paneling

― calstars, Saturday, 30 November 2024 04:22 (one year ago)

imagine being completely unaware the last things you'll be seeing are that room!

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 30 November 2024 04:56 (one year ago)

Yeah. You notice some details and then zzz
Was DeSimone ever found?

― calstars, Saturday, 30 November 2024 05:18 (one year ago)

three months pass...

pplains' video! lol

this is a good thread.

last night i watched this at a local place, big screen, for the first time since 1990. with my boys. real boys night out type of movie. of course it's a banger. so much that i'd forgotten about. really fun to read this thread now. when it all comes crashing down really made me think of cassavetes and his unhappy characters in crisis. the two of them on the floor sobbing raggedly and hugging each other.

here's a link to the GQ article that works:
https://www.gq.com/story/goodfellas-making-of-behind-the-scenes-interview-scorsese-deniro

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 17 March 2025 23:36 (one year ago)

Or even: https://archive.is/tnlXY

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 17 March 2025 23:37 (one year ago)

There's actually quite a few points of similarity between "GoodFellas" and "Miller's Crossing":

- Gangster drama released in late September of 1990

- Gangsters all primarily delineated as Irish/Italian/Jewish

- Mike Starr as a character named "Frankie" and "Frenchie", two names that could both be considered slang for "Francophone"

- Irish protagonist with Jewish love interest

- Murder of a character known for his toupee

- "Oh Danny Boy" is heard, either sung or played on a Victrola

- Corpse left in wooded area, and later revisited by protagonist, who succumbs to vomiting

- Both Tom Regan and Lois insist on retrieving their forgotten hats

― Hongro Hongro Hippies (Myonga Vön Bontee), 14 January 2024 21:13 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

amazing post

― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Monday, 17 March 2025 23:49 (one year ago)

Mentioned the Glenn Kenny book upthread; no one seemed much interested, but very good, with a chapter on the music.

https://i.postimg.cc/X7vNB7BJ/made-men.jpg

― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 March 2025 00:42 (one year ago)

one month passes...

It is indeed very good, that book.

Anyway, happy 45th anniversary:

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y3cfhqre6iuilnhwp23fgl2v/bafkreigok6qcwn3ewpv7a7mzehb2ngeqzx7evjk5zi6o2r5pk7jcoobkm4@jpeg

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 11 May 2025 15:04 (one year ago)

three months pass...

https://i.imgur.com/0eo8bvt.jpeg

― pplains, Saturday, 30 August 2025 17:05 (nine months ago)

heh

― lag∞n, Saturday, 30 August 2025 17:06 (nine months ago)

amazing

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 August 2025 18:16 (nine months ago)

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