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i think it's better than the godfather too... i think it might be the PERFECT MOVIE.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

It would be perfect except for the mildly distracting aging problem. It's still amazing though. I might like The Godfather just a shade better, but that's not a slight on Goodfellas.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

i wish i could have an opinion on the godfather but ive tried to watch it several times and i cannot for the life of me understand a word marlon brando is saying. its very frustrating and it makes me feel deaf.

ive been trying to push the sopranos on to pleasant plains for sometime now. since weve watch seasons 1-4 of curb your enthusiasm we need another show to compliment our twice weekly homestyle bake dinners. goodfellas is his favorite movie. does loving goodfellas = loving the sopranos?

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

punch me in the cock, guys!!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

well I don't hate it, I just have no desire to ever see it again.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

I think it might be the perfect movie.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

I want it to be the perfect movie, but Alex is right about the aging.

― I was CRYING when Magin Johnson did donuts in a magical AIDS thrfit store (dr g), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

How did it age? During which part would a viewer say, "Oh, that is so 1990..."?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

the aging of the characters

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

it hasn't aged, and neither did Ray Liotta in the film!

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

And DeNiro looked the same at 20 as he did at 50. He was born a 50-year old man, like Will Ferrell in that one skit.

But I don't care.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

I thought DeNiro's aging was okay for the most part, Liotta didn't age as much as he started to sweat more over time. but a perfect film nonetheless.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

What, Joe Pesci as a twenty-year old out front of the burning Tiki club didn't convince anyone?

Okay. I see where you all are coming from.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

i don't really care about the aging... at least i don't think it detracts from the movie. in a way it sort of works, makes it almost more like a play

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:00 (twenty years ago)

...or not? i'm not sure, i'm struggling to articulate this, but it's just this non-realistic element that somehow just sits fine with me. almost like the movie exists in henry's memory, where everyone always looks the way you remember them

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i don't really care about the age thing, i'm always surprised when ppl say it detracts. i mean jimmy stewart is like 30 years too old for his part in the man who shot liberty valance, and it doesn't bother me at all.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 07:08 (twenty years ago)

A lot of those guys has such intense early adulthoods that they may have looked 45 at 30.

Say what you will about Sorvino's gray dye, but the actors all did a champ job of acting old. Liotta convinced me of being a wild-eyed young punk to being a middle-aged tired coke addict.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

i love the scene where they go to Pesci's mothers house to get a knife and she cooks them all dinner and Pesci describes his mothers painting. "this guy says...waddya want from me." If no one knew, thats Scorceses mother in that scene.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Everyone knew.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

She's really funny. She does a great job in Casino too.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

i figured as much.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

his mother??? wow :D

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

one dog's facing one way, the other's facing the other way

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

and this guy's saying, "What do you want from me?"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

almost like the movie exists in henry's memory

This is OTM, I mean isn't that pretty much the explicit playout at the ending?

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

"content to be a jerk" is kinda my life philosophy

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0101243/

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

funny how misquoting can sound wrong, I thought it was more like:

one dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way and the guy in the middle's saying "what do you want from me?"

google says:

Tommy DeVito : Oh I like this one... One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way, and this guy's sayin', 'Whadda ya want from me?'

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Was the guy in the middle? I thought both dogs were at the front of the boat, but you know what? I DON'T HAVE A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I just thought "it wasn't at such a steep angle, they must have been in front"

I haven't seen the movie in a good four or five years

it was a painting, btw, not a photograph

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

Yes it does. Especially when you see Christopher shoot someone in the foot.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 21:51 (twenty years ago)

Goodfellas is great, but am I the only one that thinks the "You think I'm funny?" scene would have worked a thousand times better if the stuff Pesci says beforehand was genuinely laugh-out-loud funny?

Watching Casino on network TV is insane. I didn't know you could say "sand nigger" on regular TV and get away with it. "FREAK YOU, SAM ROTHSTEIN!! FREAK YOU!!"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 6 April 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

I love Goodfellas, saw The Sopranos once and don't feel like I'm missing much.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Also re 'convincing' 'aging' in The Godfather -- HEY, 47-y.o. Marlon Brando, YOU GOT KLEENEX IN YER CHEEKS!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 April 2006 19:37 (twenty years ago)

WRONG

Marlon Brando wanted to make Don Corleone look "like a bulldog", so he stuffed his cheeks with cotton wool for the screen test. For actual filming, he wore an appliance made by a dentist. [...] Brando's mouthpiece is on display in the American Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York.

― fez, Thursday, 6 April 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

sopranos is great, fuck.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Friday, 7 April 2006 07:26 (twenty years ago)

what is pesci *ON ABOUT* in that scene pre the funny speech? i mean, what the...

― piscesboy, Friday, 7 April 2006 10:49 (twenty years ago)

he gets busted by the cops, they're like, why are you out here in the marshes or some shit (he's been whacking someone? as in 'the godfather'?), and he manages to get a night in the cells by being a wiseguy with them.

― 25 yr old slacker cokehead (Enrique), Friday, 7 April 2006 10:50 (twenty years ago)

I was looking for the dialogue for that scene and my colleague just caught me googling "go fuck your mother" :-/

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Friday, 7 April 2006 11:04 (twenty years ago)

that reminds me, Taxi Driver is on More4 tonight.

Goodfellas is amazing, I've never been able to get into Sopranos. Everytime I tried to watch it all I got were scenes with Tony talking to a Phsyciatrist. zzz..

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:23 (twenty years ago)

HEY PINEFOX
GO GET UR SHINEBOX

― teh_kit says 'dont fight u nubs just run in teh instance!' (g-kit), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:25 (twenty years ago)

hah, I made ref to the Brando appliance at AMMI in another thread yesterday! Lookin at it, I gotta believe he stuck something else in there.

A former co-worker saw one of the Reel One kids from the movie on the subway once, and when he exclaimed "You're that kid from Goodfellas!" the yute said "Hiya, Hendry."

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 April 2006 12:31 (twenty years ago)

Is it the marshes story that he tells at the dinner table? Which story is it that Tommy tells at the poker table when Jimmy decides not to go through with whacking the Rug King?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 7 April 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

TOMMY (as everyone laughs): I pulled out his hair. I bit him. He's out cold. I'm enraged. I wanted to kill this little fuck. We start to go in this joint. I don't want to turn around. Jimmy's doing this to me. I don't want to turn around. I don't want to turn around. He picks up his fucking head, he says, "Ah..."
I said, "Don't say it!"
"Jerkoff!"
What are you going to do? What? I fly at him. I got him and I'm banging his head, banging his face. I'm pulling his hair out of his head. I bit him to a pulp. To a pulp I beat him. He's laying there full of blood. I'm out of breath.

JIMMY (laughs, turns to Henry): Forget about tonight.

― gear (gear), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

i like this more than 'casino' now. but it's close!

― gear (gear), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

if casino didn't fall to pieces around the third act there'd be some competition but otherwise i don't think it comes close.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 August 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

i was surprised to see how many sopranos faces are around the edges of this film, beyond the obvious like imperioli.

― gear (gear), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

i know right? that reminds me of the first time i saw g'father 2 post-sopranos and i realized that uncle junior was JOHNNY OLA!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

and vincent gallo is in 'goodfellas'! i don't remember where, though.

― gear (gear), Friday, 11 August 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

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