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this is the best gangster movie ever made

>>By thebest (Thursday, 30 Jan 2003 01:15)

i am deeply in love with the goodfellas! (not sexualy) My favorite charater is by far, jimmy.

>>By bobby brown (Wednesday, 26 Feb 2003 23:42)

GOODFELLAS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE YOU YOUR NAME THEBEST THER NOT GANGSTER THER ARE MAFIA OK

>>By PEEWEE (Monday, 31 Mar 2003 08:20)

what is so god-damn-funny in Joe Pesci!?!?!?
my favourite scene is when johnny two times says "i'll go get the paper,get the paper" good old johnny...
have you noticed that younger actors from Godfellas are acting in sopranos now?

>>By baader gaalio (Wednesday, 30 Apr 2003 01:19)

Goodfellas is an amazing movie. My favorite mob movie by far. I'm so glad they made the true story of these guys into a movie. It pulls you in right from the opening scene.

>>By Squeegy (Sunday, 11 Jul 2004 22:45)

This may be the most realistic mob film made by Hollywood partly because it is based on the memoirs of a real gangster. Of course, you have to take anything you see in the movies with a large grain of salt. Donnie Brasco is another mob movie that seems realistic.

I like Goodfellas because it showed how selfish and nasty these criminals are.

The first two Godfather films are good, but they make the mafia seem a little bit nicer than it is. There's cruelty and nastiness in the Godfather movies, but the mobsters are to some extent redeemed by their loyalty to their families. This is especially true in the first Godfather where Don Corleone is portrayed as someone who did what he had to in order to help his family survive. Corleone is ruthless but he also cares about his children and his community. The second Godfather puts more emphasis on the dark side.

The guys in Goodfellas are just plain evil. They laugh at the hardworking people they rob. They treat their wives like garbage. They kill for stupid reasons. They can be funny and entertaining but they're still the scum of the earth. And I'm guessing that's what gangsters really are like.

>>By Mikey_Canuck (Monday, 12 Jul 2004 10:57)

Yea, it's the most realistic mob movie I've ever seen.

>>By Squeegy (Monday, 12 Jul 2004 22:45)

"what, i'm funny to you ?
i amuse you how ?.............
like a clown ? "

yeah
great movie

& along with "donnie brasco"
does a good job of portraying how petty, violent &
confining the 'life' really is

>>By Helmet (Monday, 12 Jul 2004 23:48)

Great show. One of the best gangster movies i've ever seen.

Also, PeeWee - in the old days, long before you were born, Mafia hitmen and Dons were gangsters. they were OG's.......they were there before Poop Dogg.

>>By Impaler (Sunday, 8 Aug 2004 16:31)

Wow not a lot of people on flork have a) never seen it b) can't think of anything to say.
Well Goodfellas is a great film - pure brilliance. Not like the films nowadays with all those Hollywood actors. I still can't believe Martin Scorsese did Godfather, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas AND Gangs of New Yorke. No bloody hell New York. Damn you Thom and your name. I hope when I'm a film director I don't make excellent films when I'm young and grow old to become a Hollywood director hell bent on making a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of french porn.
But enough said about him. Goodfellas is one of my favourite films and what makes it more nice (failing to think of a better word) is that it's based on a true story. Although it was modified several hundred times - you can really believe the marriage between Tommy, his wife, and the mafia. I've read to deeply into that - but it's a bloody good film. I hope I can make good films like that, except my first one will be either about my novel or my war idea - no it's NOT another Wind Talkers or Pearl Harbour or We Were Soldiers or those crappy war films that totally trivialise it - I'm talking Platoon and Apoc. Now.

>>By Tchock (Sunday, 8 Aug 2004 21:23)

gee Tchock
i can't believe Scorsese directed
"The Godfather" either
&
thank god "Goodfellas" didn't feature
'those Hollywood actors'
that would have compromised the entire project
a big 'shout-out' to those unknowns
who carried the movie
DeNiro
Pesci
Liotta
well done boys
let's hope you work in the industry again
&
don't slip back into obscurity

>>By Helmet (Monday, 9 Aug 2004 05:16)

DeNiro is a huge name, but were Pesci and Liotta well known before Goodfellas?

>>By Mikey_Canuck (Monday, 9 Aug 2004 23:19)

Is Liotta well known now? First it was Goodfellas, then it was Copland, then it was the Muppets and then it was GTA Vice City.

>>By Tchock (Tuesday, 10 Aug 2004 00:04)

I don't know Tchock. I see Liotta once in a while on TV. I only know him from Goodfellas. I don't know what else he's done.

>>By Mikey_Canuck (Tuesday, 10 Aug 2004 02:03)

hey
hey

well
before "goodfellas"
liotta made quite a splash in "something wild"
& followed that up with a supporting part in
"field of dreams"
i'm sure those parts plus "goodfellas" made him a
shoo-in for the (good fckin' grief !!!) "muppet" movie
haha
even one of my favourite actors, Christopher Walken
has appeared in some real dogs
i mean really Christopher
"Kangaroo Jack"
"Joe Dirt"
&
"Gigli" ???

but back to the cast of "g-fellas"
proir to "g-fellas" Joe Pesci was Joey La Motta in
"Raging Bull" and was also in
"Once Upon A Time In America"

>>By Helmet (Tuesday, 10 Aug 2004 03:50)

I forgot about Raging Bull. I shouldn't have. It's a great film. But after Goodfellas, Pesci started popping up all over the place. He and DeNiro made a hilarious appearance on Saturday Night Live. I haven't heard that much about Pesci lately. I do remember Liotta in Field of Dreams. I didn't see Something Wild. I'm not criticizing Pesci and Liotta, but in terms of celebrity they're not in the same league as DeNiro. More importantly, I think DeNiro is a better actor.

>>By Mikey_Canuck (Tuesday, 10 Aug 2004 04:01)

no question that DeNiro is a cut above the others
(Travis Bickle Rules !!!)
i guess my point that i was taking issue with Tchock was that when "Goodfellas" was released the 3 principal male leads were all highly recognized 'Hollywood' actors
well that
&
the issue of who directed "The Godfather"
i think she should send an e-mail to
Francis Ford C.
&
demand he stop putting his name on the credits
where Marty Scorseses' name should be

>>By Helmet (Tuesday, 10 Aug 2004 04:20)

Robert De Niro is now a Hollywood actor, yes. But Hollywood actors are only Hollywood actors for the films they appear in. Casino, The Godfather, Raging Bull and Taxi Driver are not exactly popular films among the masses. I don't know about you but the people I know don't even know what De Niro looks like - and neither did they know where the "you talking to me" bit came from. Ray Liota may have been a Hollywood actor, but I have only seen him in Goodfellas and in Vice City, and I wasn't exactly around at the time to notice who was Hollywood and who was not - I am merely using hindsight to express my opinion, Mr I look like a Cowboy Helmet. I rate De Niro a Hollywood actor for all the "comedies" he has been in recently, Meet the Parents with that guy Ben somebody and Analyze Somthing with the other Ben or Billy - Hollywood films designed to make a hell of a lot of money without spending a lot on the plot, characterisation etc...

>>By Tchock (Tuesday, 10 Aug 2004 13:37)

is a film a false glamourised version of violence and the crime world?
If yes why....?
roly.xxx

>>By roly (Tuesday, 5 Oct 2004 00:37)

A film by the fact that 50 years are depicted in a couple of hours is automatically a "portray" or an" essay" and always always what the director/writer et al choose to put across. My point of view on GOODFELLAS and CASINO is that not only is it brilliantly directed but it doesn't half convey the hopelessness of a situation that some actually choose for themselves, so attracted are they by the superficiality of some of the artifices they think important. What makes a man is not the power or the realisation of a dream but the goal or the dream itself. When you have no goal left in life what do you become but an empty bitter little shell....Guys in GOODFELLAS have no morality or at least not mine and yes they have the traps of success they wanted in the 1st place but for what? Some more acute suffering and the complete and utter realisation that their world does not amount" to a hill of beans" as Bogie once said! That is what makes GOODFELLAS so sensational, the personal sacrifices, the tragedies and all for nothing, nada, zilch. For betrayal, hate and utter utter loneliness!
End of preaching! Oh but another thing ...Try CITY OF GOD and then come back to GOODFELLAS as it tends to look like a fairy tale next to it!

>>By filmfan1 (Friday, 15 Oct 2004 18:01)

Henry's wife Karen makes me laugh. The fact that she has the balls to stand up to someone like Henry Hill is something not even many men would do, especially if they knew the people of Henry's 'family'!

>>By lilmissitaly (Tuesday, 26 Oct 2004 15:07)

Best movie ever. Ray Liotta is wonderful as Henry Hill.

>>By LAURALEI3512001 (Tuesday, 2 Nov 2004 19:33)

You know the scene where Henry is delivering the guns in his car and the helicopter is chasing him? Does anyone know who sings the song that playing in that scene?

>>By Too Smart for a nickname (Sunday, 22 Jan 2006 15:22)

i could
(& may very well may be) wrong
but
i kinda remember that scene being played out to........
"Sympathy For The Devil"
by
The Rolling Stones
&
just for the hell of it while on da subject
fave scene...........
when joe pesci enters the room for his "made-man" ceromony
there's that split-second recognition that he is going to be whacked right before the gun is fired into the back of his head
yes
yes
i gotta add this beauty to my DVD collection

>>By Helmet (Sunday, 22 Jan 2006 17:51)

Thank you Helmet, you better be right though!! My favourite scene is the one where Karen is in the building of Henrys "girlfriend" and shes shouting "IM GONNA TELL EVERYBODY IN THIS BUILDING THAT 2R ROSSI YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A WHORE" its brilliant!!!

>>By Too Smart for a nickname (Sunday, 22 Jan 2006 18:22)

haha
yeah
that scene was a hoot !!!!!
what was the Goodfella code..........
friday nites reserved for the girlfriends
while
the wives got saturday nites

>>By Helmet (Monday, 23 Jan 2006 05:57)

Why does everyone think Scorsese directed The Godfather? That movie is so completely and utterly different (visually especially) to any of Scorsese's work. More disturbing still, does this mean you haven't even heard of the genius that is Francis Ford ''Apocalypse Now/Godfather Trilogy/Rumble Fish'' Coppola?

Anyway, GoodFellas is excellent, second only to Taxi Driver in Scorsese's back catalogue. Outstanding cast (Lorraine Bracco in particular, she deserves more credit than she gets), great script, brilliantly shot, and best of all, 100% believable. Even Joe Pesci's slight overacting doesn't ruin it.

And I saw someone mention Donnie Brasco further up the page, I recommend anyone who enjoyed the more gritty, small-time portrayal of the mafia in GoodFellas to check that Donnie Brasco out. Al Pacino's most emotionally vulnerable role.

>>By Stinkfist (Wednesday, 25 Jan 2006 17:29)

christ
did i really think scorsese directed the godfather
wow- errr sorry stinkfist, helmet and everyone out there
i am NOT that stupid!!!!

i'm wondering why i thought that now....
uhhh
yeah- buy the dvd helmet
if you can - try not to get the annoying double sided one
as it means that you gotta not scatch BOTH sides........which if you are my brother... is a near impossibility.........

Everything I said up there- I revise!!!
i'm so glad i matured.........

Yes Goodfellas one of my favourite movies of all time
EVEN if its got a rolling stone's lick in it!!!!!

Doc Tchock

>>By Tchock (Saturday, 25 Feb 2006 00:58)

I have always noticed two things about Goodfellars.

1) At the very ending of the movie, just before the credits roll, there is a split second image of Joe Pesci as Tommy firing his gun towards the audience. Shades of a famousshot from the Great Train Robbery (1903), the first western movie.
Anyone notice it?

2) That the voice narration of the whole movie is really what is being told by Henry Hill and his wife to the FBI guy that puts them on witness protection at the end. Anyone notice this brilliant Scorcese touch?

>>By Lkaplow (Sunday, 18 Jun 2006 14:46)

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