I have a rare night to myself, should I go see Goodfellas at the Castro? I've never seen it on the big screen.
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
wonder if this is the same 35mm print Morbz saw
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
why wouldnt ya
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
idk some combination of laziness and poverty
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
plus I have seen it many times, albeit on a small screen
but the 35mm...
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link
Go and see it.
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
GO SEE IT JFC WHY IS THIS A QUESTION
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
At work yesterday we discussed this scene. It's terrific how Paulie and Henry play this fool like a violin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGjPCOpbv0
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link
Always loved this imdb trivia:
For the scene where Sonny Bunz complains to Paulie, Martin Scorsese secretly told Tony Darrow to improvise more lines for his character without telling Paul Sorvino. Sorvino's confused reaction was real.
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
ok fine I'll go
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 22:48 (seven years ago) link
:D
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 23:00 (seven years ago) link
my favorite bit of V.O. in the film is the transition here:
When they found Sepe in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy! He was like a kid.
Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy! He was like a kid.
― nomar, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
sorry, Carbone...not Sepe
― nomar, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
Continuity error in that clip: at 2:11 Paulie's got a cigar in his mouth, but it's suddenly gone at 2:12.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
Paulie moved slow, but he smoked really fast.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 23:49 (seven years ago) link
Bah its not 35mm its 4k dcp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 00:12 (seven years ago) link
oh Castro, go get yer shinebox
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2017 00:59 (seven years ago) link
what booooooooooooo castro
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 1 June 2017 01:12 (seven years ago) link
i wonder, cuz i have no idea what "Wanna" is
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 15, 2017 5:52 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's "I Wanna Be Adored" by Stone Roses, 1991.
It's just "Wanna" on Youtube because I don't want copyright police to shut it down (though I guess they can just Shazam it, as the do with everything else.)
― pplains, Thursday, 1 June 2017 01:22 (seven years ago) link
Lol the organist is playing that's amore
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 01:47 (seven years ago) link
you wanted "Layla"?
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2017 06:13 (seven years ago) link
"Jump Into The Fire"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 1 June 2017 13:33 (seven years ago) link
so this was pretty good
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
confirmed good film
― k3vin k., Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
this scorsese guy, I think he could really go places
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
was sweet when the crowd clapped for Ballhaus' credit at the end. I did not stick around for the Marriage of Maria Braun, however (sorry Werner)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
the pace of this movie is incredible, it's like the shortest two-and-a-half-hour movie ever made
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
yeah I was really struck by that at the point where it circles back to the opening scene w Batts in the trunk - all this amazing stuff has flown by, one adrenaline rush after another for about 30 minutes (?) - and then bang oh yeah, here we are back at the beginning, where things start to *really* go wrong.
the final shots of him in suburbia still felt a bit abrupt. His betrayal/turning rat happens really quickly and while I love when he walks out of the docket and talks directly to the camera, it's a bit disconcerting that there's not a more dramatic denouement for Jimmy and Paulie besides the post-script text
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:34 (seven years ago) link
the suburbia stuff worked because it is so abrupt, in my opinion, and you can see how it would feel worse than prison for Hen-dry.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah, henry's been in freefall for a while and suburbia is the crash landing. it's all over for him and he's our pov, so why hang around to watch him clip coupons or wait in line at the post office or whatever?
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link
yeah you can always listen to Hill's '90s appearances on the Howard Stern show
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
I didn't mean more shots of him being bored in suburbia I meant something that maybe leaned on the ramifications and fallout of his betrayal on the others
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
one thing I did notice on rewatch that I hadn't thought about much before is how many children are in the movie - kids are constantly shown as (mostly) mute observers, helpless bystanders and occasionally helpless accomplices to the behavior of these psychos
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link
so this ones worth watching?
dude has released so much it looks like he poops it all out once a year
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:18 (seven years ago) link
well it's no Star Wars: The Force Blows Up a Death Star Pt VIII
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:43 (seven years ago) link
it is just like Inception tho
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
sounds good enough
check out taxi driver if u haven't heard/seen it tho
pretty decent
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 1 June 2017 16:50 (seven years ago) link
other random thought: the music cues in the coke bust sequence are crazy, in my memory that whole thing was just Jump Into the Fire, but there's like 7 or 8 songs all cut together through the whole thing
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 18:14 (seven years ago) link
From the GQ piece ∞ linked to in the Spinal Tap thread:
http://www.gq.com/story/spinal-tap-vs-hollywood
Consider producer Irwin Winkler's 2015 suit against Warner Bros., which stated he hadn't been paid his 50 percent share of the net profits from the 1990 Mob classic Goodfellas. According to the complaint, Warners sent periodic net-profit reports for a while (the studio eventually stopped, claiming the film would never, ever be in the black), but those reports intentionally misrepresented how much the film had made (allegedly more than $275 million). Winkler claimed that Warners had concealed about $140 million in revenue by playing a sort of shell game with its wholly owned subsidiary, Warner Home Video, and had also charged fees and interest on past fees. “This was ‘studio accounting’ on steroids,” the suit alleged. “It was also fraud.” Warners settled last year.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
The film only did modest bizness at the box office; I would imagine home video turned it around.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
lol *27* Sopranos castmembers were in this
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:39 (seven years ago) link
A favorite Scorsese cue nobody talks about: Syncing Henry's rejuvenating bump of coke to the 70s Waters/Winter version of "Mannish Boy".
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:48 (seven years ago) link
I love that he only uses the opening line of "Mannish Boy" and then segues into "What Is Life." And the "Magic Bus" edit/usage is perfect.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link
yeah Magic Bus is only in there for like 5 seconds!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
tarfumes
hollywood accounting right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Yep.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, June 1, 2017 5:14 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
nah the looks from Paulie and Jimmy say it all, then Henry continues on from there just annoyed about his lack of access to decent Italian food. which says it all about him.
― nomar, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:44 (seven years ago) link
re-watching this really reaffirmed the parallels between this and WoWS, just this parade of psychopathic assholes driven by greed
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
But the similarity ends there. One is spaghetti with marinara sauce, the other's egg noodles with ketchup.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 June 2017 22:11 (seven years ago) link