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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I dunno. My girlfriend at the time dragged me to the theater to see it. She loved it.
My wife hates that movie...
I’d probably seen it 20 times over the years....
Never just tired of it...
at least the Godfather was a family man....
What do you mean funny?
great movie. of course. but I grew up with some of these characters and they are ruthless and worthless. I was working at a pizzeria when two of them were laughing about kicking an old man down a flight of stairs while robbing his house.
I’m Italian American and had to take up boxing because they always wanted to fight so I had to learn to defend myself. it worked.
Castellano’s old fortress is only a few miles away.
things didn’t turn out too well for him lol
I abhor mafia/gangster movies of recent times. Glorifying these monsters is not entertainment.
That’s what is great about it. You go along for the ride and really don’t care at the end what happens to them.
Oh, bullcrap. It’s one of my favorites movies. Probably in my top 25.
That movie is the King of quotes. “I want my money! I want my money!” “Now go home and get your shinebox!” “Your going to go dig the hole, I’m not digging the hole” What was interesting is the entire movie was taken almost verbatim from the book. I read the book and it was like reading the script.
I’m not a big Goodfella’s fan. I think it’s alright but I like Casino better.
I’m not a Oliver Stoned Scarface fan either. Then again I’m not a cokehead and many of the people I know who do dig that movie like their cocaine fantasy or are latino.
Yeah, we should all watch continuous reruns of Leave it to Beaver. < /S >
Remember Pete the Killer, Joe Buddha, Fat Andy, Jimmy Two Times
I’m watching “Mean Streets” right now. You can see where Scorcese was coming from.
“I’m not a big Goodfella’s fan. I think it’s alright but I like Casino better.”
Casino was too long though I know what you mean.
I saw Casino last week, oh man that bat scene in the cornfield was brutal brutal.
I really never did get this movie at all, but this is a good article and I think I’m buying his theory of “ball busting etiquette”.
"I’m funny how? I mean funny, like I’m a clown? I amuse you?
I make you laugh? I’m here to F-n amuse you? Whattya you mean
funny? Funny how? How am I funny? What the F is so funny about me!"
Haven’t seen Mean Streets. I guess I need to now that you mention it. I remember Jimmy: I’m gonna get the papers, get the papers.
At least it’s not a hip-hop movie. Think about it that way.
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