(to continue)...being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.
Isn`t that the greatest mob movie ever made or what? When it comes to mob movies everyone always talks about "The Godfather" but they always completely ignore the Masterpiece "Goodfellas". The greatest movie Martin Scorsese ever made, 1st only to "Taxi driver" and "Raging Bull". Believe it or not I read the book before I saw the movie and the movie was verbatim from the book, word for word. If you don`t believe me, buy the book and read it. It starts off with those exact words in the movie. That is why it succeeded on the scale it did. Mr. Scorsese did not alter a word from the book. He did not let egos destroy it which is what happened to "Gangs of New York". Gangs of New york was another Masterpiece of a book, but that fat f***ing slime bag f**k Weinstein insisted on turning it into a faggot Titanic with that girl DiCaprio in the lead. That was a crime to beat all crimes because that book was beyond Goodfellas. If people thought the mob was sick in the 20th century, they should read the book "Gangs of New York" to see the real definition of sick. The guys in that book made Tommy DeVito look like Mr. Rogers and I know Mr. Scorsese wanted to make it like that, but Weinstein the bitch wanted it turned into a Disney "Leonardo Faggio" movie. God, I almost puked when I saw that flick. I can understand these guys want to make money on a film, but they never seem to realize that a well made one can do just as well as one that focuses on a flaming homo.
Goodfellas is the greatest mob movie of all time. The movie was spot on true to the book. I too read the book years before the movie came out and I was floored that a movie could be that true to the book. The book is actually titled "Wiseguys", but the movie came out at a time when a television show entitled "The Wiseguy" was popular.