[Maceman]

The Godfather movies are great, no question -- although II is better than I in my opinion.

But Goodfellas hits harder because it is grittier, and doesn't romanticize the gangsters the way that GF films do.

Goodfellas shows what lowlives they are, whereas the GF makes them seem almost noble.

I find Goodfellas to be one of those movies that I always watch whenever I am channel surfing and run across it. I almost never watch the GF movies.

[Hadean]

The Godfather movies are great, no question -- although II is better than I in my opinion. But Goodfellas hits harder because it is grittier, and doesn't romanticize the gangsters the way that GF films do. Goodfellas shows what lowlives they are, whereas the GF makes them seem almost noble. I find Goodfellas to be one of those movies that I always watch whenever I am channel surfing and run across it. I almost never watch the GF movies.

My parents (Italian) were taken in by the "noble quality" of The Godfather enough to name me after Michael in that movie(I was born that year). I don't think they would have named me after one of the Goodfellas...

[dead]

I grew up in the middle of Sopranoland, New Jersey. A good deal of my close friends dad's were in the mob, so I grew up hanging around in those households.

The Godfather movies were basically Shakespearean, grand and romantic, but not even a little bit realistic. Goodfellas was more like a documentary, showing a bunch of knuckleheads scrambling around for things to steal. All were great movies, but I really enjoyed Goodfellas more.

[Petronski]

I like to think of Godfather as the mafia opera, and Goodfellas as the mafia docudrama.