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"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Stop living in denial.
NO

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link

ALEX IT IS A BAD SHITTY SILLY MOVIE

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

I just put it there!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I doubt it's ever crossed your mind.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link

After Hours is only OK.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Further evidence of your failure to see things clearly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:24 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:25 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, let's ignore history, shall we?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link

That's what you said, though.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:26 (nineteen years ago) link

GOODFELLAS IS OUT ON DOUBLE DVD

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Casino, anyone?

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:31 (nineteen years ago) link

"The Breakfast Club" is on AMC right now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Casino is good for having Devo on the soundtrack.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

Casino rules!

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:33 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Clarence Frogman Henry to thread.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:34 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, they sonically appear.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

There's a Devo track in Dogtown And Z-Boys, Alex. And Alice Cooper! You should see that movie!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Saw. Saw it before you. (Glen Friedman lives down my hall).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Boy was that an assholey comment from yours truly.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:35 (nineteen years ago) link

i like after hours

― gaz (gaz), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

No, I just want to make sure you see it.

oh no gaz

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

OK well Casino isn't bad, it's good, but it's not really good.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:36 (nineteen years ago) link

ihttp://www.scorsesefilms.com/photos/images/images/dunne_jpg.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Thanks for proving me right, Alex.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.tvguide.com/movies/dbpix/images/27135a.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually his choice of screen shots is making it look better than I remember it.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:42 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.xenix.ch/archiv/juli99/img_juli99/after.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.jeu.frcd.freesurf.fr/jpg/14s11i05.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never actually seen a Scorsese movie, except for half of GONY which was one of the worst things I've ever seen.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://saoki.site0.com/poly/engl372/scorsese/after-hours.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Griffin Dunne is NOT cool.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:48 (nineteen years ago) link

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

Hmmnnn...need to figure this out.

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

If this doesn't work, I give up.

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

I give up.

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

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

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 (three years ago) link

*wounds!

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

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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

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

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 (three years ago) link

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

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

one year passes...

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

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

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

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

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 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

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

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 June 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

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 (one year ago) link

eleven months pass...

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

― calstars, Sunday, 11 June 2023 19:03 (ten months ago) link

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 June 2023 19:06 (ten months ago) link

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 (six months ago) link

It's the thread revive we all hoped for!

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 October 2023 18:45 (six months ago) link

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 (six months ago) link

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 (three months ago) link

250 credits on him IMDB page!

― clemenza, Sunday, 14 January 2024 17:35 (three months ago) link

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

― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 January 2024 18:23 (three months ago) link

Starr's most indelible role obv

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

― Number None, Sunday, 14 January 2024 18:32 (three months ago) link

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

― Disco Biollante (Neanderthal), Sunday, 14 January 2024 18:46 (three months ago) link

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 (three months ago) link

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 (three months ago) link

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