Posted on 06/10/2015 6:11:48 PM PDT by OddLane
The first time I saw “GoodFellas,” on a rented Blockbuster videotape in 1991, I was in a daze as the final credits rolled. If I had been a cartoon character, I would have had stars dancing around my head like Wile E. Coyote. I turned to my girlfriend and said, “What’d you think?” “Boy movie,” she declared — and I knew our relationship was doomed. Just kidding. (We split up because I was a jerk.) But women don’t get “GoodFellas.” It’s not really a crime drama, like “The Godfather.” It’s more of a male fantasy picture — “Entourage” with guns instead of swimming pools, the Rat Pack minus tuxedos.
“GoodFellas,” which starting next week will have a 25th anniversary showing at the Film Forum on Houston Street, and whose 25th anniversary Blu-ray DVD just hit the streets, takes place in a world guys dream about. Way down deep in the reptile brain, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), Jimmy the Gent (Robert De Niro) and Tommy (Joe Pesci) are exactly what guys want to be: lazy but powerful, deadly but funny, tough, unsentimental and devoted above all to their brothers — a small group of guys who will always have your back. Women sense that they are irrelevant to this fantasy, and it bothers them.
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A Bronx Tale.
Good fellas is the greatest mob movie because it shows these guys for the BUMS they really were and are.Ad for women not getting it? My late wife got it in its entirety.
“I didn’t care much for Brian DePalma’s The Untouchables either.”
Totally agree, complete disappointment.
Er, no. Not every guy dreams about being an amoral leech on society.
Yes, that was very good too.
The little I saw of it, sucked.
Until it becomes inconvenient.....
That’s ok, I never understood “Steel Magnolias”.
True story. Johnny Roast Beef threatened to break my legs once because an actress he liked was flirting with me.
It was funny because he wasn’t the least bit scary. He was just a fat f**k who bought a pink Cadillac and ended up in a meat truck.
Or “Beaches”.
Yup - Casino was another great movie.
I’ll take the heavy TV-ized Robert Stack series or even that 90s rehash.
I didn't think the movie was great, but the best thing about it is that the characters are portrayed as anything but glamorous. My conclusion at the end was "Why didn't they just go legit? They spent so much effort to be criminals they could have had a much easier life with a normal job."
I didn’t care much for Casino.
I liked the old Bronson movie called “The Family” or “Violent City” with his young wife Jill Ireland.
Italian production.
Some great vintage Can-Am car racing footage. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_sIYKS3-u8
(Main theme blacked out)
Do I amuse you?
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