Is GOODFELLAS your favorite movie of all time?

Yeah exackly. Goodfellas is more or less perfectly formed whereas Casino is scattershot.

i've been rewatching bits of casino lately.i still think the first hour or so is amazing but it becomes rather tedious as it drags on. it just starts to feel like the actors are going through the motions toward the end and the voiceover is just there to kinda wake you up and point you back to the action

There was a time I would've made a more solid case for why I favor Casino over Goodfellas, but it's been a few years since I've seen either. I just remember being blown away by Casino in the theater, and then another 10 or so times once I bought it on video.

I've only seen Goodfellas twice. Once to just watch it and another to critique it for a film appreciation class. Neither time made half the impression on me that Casino did.

I don't like this movie at all.

I've never seen it!

It's good, but there are a million other films out there better than it.
Can watch it maybe once every couple of years.

I've not see many of those gangster/mafia/wiseguy films...I'll see if my cousin has it on DVD...

i once preferred casino over goodfellas for some reason but having seen both a couple of times over the last few months, i have to go with goodfellas. casino is dope as fuck and works for me in a different, more epic, tragic kinda way than goodfellas, but every single aspect of goodfellas is just so well done i can't even fathom not choosing it over casino now. probably the greatest use of a soundtrack in any film i've ever seen, too.

Top 50 for sure, but Dr. Strangelove will probably stay #1 forever.

i saw goodfellas in the theater and have seen it like 1mx since - its special for being deep and a great ride - pretty much it makes u want to marry it

super amzing but prob not my fav

Goodfellas v Godfathers

yeah the thing is, i guess godfather is "better" than goofellas in a real eye broccoli sort of way, but honestly i can't not watch goodfellas when it comes up, it's just such superb entertainment, every damn second of that movie just cool and trump tight to the fuckin maxx....like i love godfather but goodfellas is one of those rare "Great Films" that i can appreciate as great filmaking like i do the Godfather but AT THE SAME TIME i can love it on the level of "oh man i'm so glad this popped up on A&E when I'm hungover on saturday" way that I do, say like Die Hard or something like that.

goofellas?

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My favorite Scorsese, definitely, but I'm not much of a Scorsese fan.

goofellas haha..poor guys still waiting for vol 2 of that greatest hits

Casino really isn't playing in this league, guys.

^^^

I like Goodfellas a decent amount, but it's not a favorite. It never connected with me on a personal level. I do think it is amazingly entertaining and well-made and deserves its classic status though.

Casino is OK, but I've always seen it as a lesser Goodfellas. It feels like a third of the movie is Sharon Stone shrieking/melting down and those scene are like physically painful for me to sit through.

I haven't seen Goodfellas, but I highly doubt it's as good as Totoro.

My favourite Scorsese films are The King of Comedy and After Hours, whereas I think Taxi Driver is way overrated. Would I like Goodfellas based on that?

don't tell me, totoro is one of those twee japanese cartoons?

It's the best twee Japanese cartoon ever made.

My favourite Scorsese films are The King of Comedy and After Hours, whereas I think Taxi Driver is way overrated. Would I like Goodfellas based on that?

― Tuomas, Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:06 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

who the fuck knows - watch it and see

I don't know I don't think Goodfellas has any brave robots so it probably isn't my favorite movie.

I wouldn't even put Goodfellas in my Top 20. Top 50, maybe.

My favourite Scorsese films are The King of Comedy and After Hours, whereas I think Taxi Driver is way overrated. Would I like Goodfellas based on that?

― Tuomas, Sunday, February 15, 2009 6:06 AM (Yesterday)

i think you're crazy for not loving taxi driver so idk what to tell you

definitely my favourite gangster movie, but not my favourite movie. second favourite gangster movie: carlitos way

<3 carlitos

i hadn't seen after hours in years and did a while back...that movie is BONKERS, man so so awesome.

ya it's amazing.

scorsese is one of those guys where the famous official classics are the good ones and the minor 'overlooked gems' that everyone makes a big deal about preferring to the famous ones turn out to be overlooked for a reason.

like what?

well, i mean after hours isn't bad but saying it's better than goodfellas or taxi driver just seems crazy to me.

it's neither bad nor overlooked imho

No way is this better than back to the future or jaws! Sorry not my favorite then.

I mean it lacks a shark for christ's sake!

not my favorite scorcese film and hence not my favorite film of all time (I don't know what is, but it isn't this)

sorry goodfellas is not my favorite movie of all time :(

And certainly there's a lot to be said against the shocking violence --> cue up beloved pop song M.O. of the movie. (honestly I have no idea how often that actually happens but it seems to be my enduring impression of the movie.)

It does float along painlessly but it's never burrowed its way into my imagination because I hate the people it's about, it resembles my life in no respect, it has nothing (like a giant maneating shark) that seems to bubble up from my subconscious. And I'm kinda tired of that breezy editing style.

i can see how you might tire of really skilled and artful editing

never got it. preferred casino. find it hard to empathise/get into most scorsese flicks or de niro leads.

Well I agree it's artful and skillful and that the the movie is a masterpiece of it's type. It's slick and entertaining as hell. But eventually I feel like it's neither a nihilistic sensationalistic gangsta movie nor does it really seem to say anything about these people that strikes me as insightful. The interest of the movie, its reason for being, seems to be the vicarious thrill we get observing these people on the margin. Thats more thrilling for some than others. It makes me a bit queasy.

you really don't think goodfellas doesn't offer a perspective on gangsters & organized crime that is insightful to say the least? esp at the time it came out. i mean who else showed the details, teh working joe element of that lifestyle, the attraction, the petty politics like that, with that sense of realism?

Yes you have a valid point there.

i mean, i dig it if it's not your thing, esp as subject matter goes, but to dismiss it as un-insightful and merely 'breezily' edited is to miss out on a lot imo

xp

Henry Hill: All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI could never understand - that what Paulie and the organization offer is protection for the kinds of guys who can't go to the cops. They're like the police department for wiseguys.

I think I preferred the sopranos because you could often detect an almost shocking amount of contempt and venom towards the characters. Maybe I'm being puritanical tho.

ya think?

It's an excellent film for sure, but I like a whole load of other movies better than it.

just a little tho! Look, I suppose relative to the world the movie inhabits these are interesting and rich characters with a fascinating and complex set of internal ethics. But you've got to want to enter that world to enjoy the movie. I recognize it's genre too and as such uses genre to explore America, comraderie, business, etc...

that's from Casino, i think

yeah, not really though

wow a lot o fpeople voted

yeah, i guess a lot of us wanted to make the point

wait til you see the tally on my Irene Dunne poll

people flew in from all over the world to vote on that

people flew in from all over the world to vote against Goodfellas.

i heard they were all financed with mormon money

mmm, hot, bicycle-riding, goodfellas-hatin mormon guys be bringing in my sheaves

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the signed icepick?

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unfortunately there is no 26 Queens Blvd. Addresses in Queens have the cross street in front of them. For instance, 80-26 Queens Blvd is the Pop Diner, a retro/googie diner that's just ok.

unfortunately for who, bald guys?

it might be my favorite and yeah i think it's better than the godfather. also it's funnier than 98% of comedies i've seen.

― memo from norv turner (omar little), Saturday, February 14, 2009 1:28 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark

Omar OTM. Just watched and kept thinking about how funny it really is in parts.

I like this painting . . .