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Summary: Ive got your head in a vice....
Review: There aren't words to describe how good this movie is. It is a classic and not to be missed. Great mob movie. Joe Pesci does a superb job in this film, along with Robert Deniro and Sharon Stone.... Go Buy this NOW....
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Summary: not bad. not bad at all. much better than goodfellas.
Review: Sharon Stone should have won an award for her role as Ginger McKenna. I think her performance showed a lot of character, with the problems she developed with cocaine and liquor, and her great acting really was exposed when she was feuding with DeNiro, and she looked good for 42. She slept with a childhood friend of her husband, Joe Pesci's character Nick Santoro, so she was made to look like. . .well, you know. Even when she married someone that was a professional gambler, she never became addicted to gambling herself, and that's a testament to the movie, because that would have been the predictable thing to do. I also liked the way the casino in Las Vegas was viewed, in DeNiro's narrating of all of the staff members, and the secret rooms in the casino. This was all based on a true story, so the viewer is learning what it's like inside a real casino. Complaints that I've read have been about the really disgusting violent scenes, especially the one where the guys head is in a vice. I'm actually surprised, because I read those reviews before I watched the movie, and there were a lot more gross scenes (a man being stabbed to death, two people being buried alive in the same grave). But, I wasn't grossed out because it's really hard to tell the story accurately without including this. I don't like how some people complain that this movie has Joe Pesci swearing too much. The premise called for it. There was no way this could be a fairy tale.
Anyhow, the 70's and the 80's were brought back nicely. There was a part where, either Joe Pesci or Robert DeNiro, narrating, talked about something that happened "e; back home, years ago "e; and then you see on the screen at the beginning of the next scene, "BACK HOME, YEARS AGO." It was funny. This was a really great movie.
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Summary: 5 stars for the movie 2 stars for the dvd
Review: not much i can say about this movie that fans of the movie dont already know!what i can say is this movie needs better dvd treatment and almost every one can agree with me on that,2disk special edition anyone?!
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Summary: Scorcese and De Niro together again!
Review: Casino is nothing less than a Scorcese masterpiece, based primarily on the true story of the violent life and death of Tony "The Ant" Spilotro, who was the mob's chief enforcer during the early 70's, while protecting the mob's gambling interests run by Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. As someone interested in the development of the American mafia, Casino is a brilliant translation of the building of Bugsy Siegel's vision in the desert up to the gaudy haven for high rollers that it was during the 70s. This movie brings the dusty pages of Las Vegas history to life. Spilotro was the real thing; Joe Pesci gives us only a taste of how brutal he really was. His death in a mid-west cornfield was the final act of this particular chapter in Las Vegas history. This is perhaps Scorsese's most underrated film, Casino contains one of De Niro's finest performances--his Sam Rothstein is controlled, nuanced, quiet, contemplative, depressed, ambitious, and furious. De Niro plays all these sentiments at once, and he ultimately creates a character that may not be Scorsese's most likable but is certainly his most mesmerizingly believable. The film's rare dual voiceover is so well executed, as Pesci and De Niro's characters fight for control over the storytelling just as they battle for power over Vegas. This film is flamboyantly stylized-In many ways it is about style. There are as many flashy whip-turns and ironic soundtrack selections as there are peach blazers and white pantent leather loafers. If you want a film that is at once great entertainment and moving art, watch Casino, and let Scorsese transport you back to a rare moment in American history: "The last time tough guys like us we're ever given anything that 'effing' valuable."
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Summary: GLORY DAYS
Review: CASINO made me pine for the glory days of 70's Las Vegas: The sleazy attractiveness, no traffic jams on the strip, the high rollers. CASINO is what's expected of Scorsese, DeNiro and Pesci: riveting story telling, hypnotic visuals and their trademrak retelling of history that can make you disregard the real truth (although here their version is precise). The unexpected standout performance of Sharon Stone (Best Actress nominee...the film itself was robbed at Oscar time) as (DeNiro's) doomed wife is a jackpot in itself. The soundtrack featuring the Scorsese standards (Jerry Vale, The Rolling Stones, Don Cornell) is perfectly meshed into the storyline blending the two as one. Along with HEAT, CASINO marked the best of American film in 1995.
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Summary: Scorcese is a genius!!!!
Review: Martin Scorcese, Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci, you can't go wrong. This is one of my all time favorite movies for 3 simple reasons. 1) Robert DeNiro is my favorite actor 2)Martin Scorsese is my favorite Director 3) and I LOVE gangster movies. Everybody who has seen this movie knows how good it is so I dont have to say much. But if you havent seen this movie you need to buy it. I say buy it and not rent it simply because your guaranteed to love it. I even got my girlfriend to watch it. (only because she made me watch Dirty Dancing) and she thought it was a good movie. So just give it a chance and it wont disappoint.
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Summary: Another Great Gangster Film
Review: This is another great gangster film. It follows Ace Rohestein and Nicky Santoro and there rise and eventual fall in Las Vegas. This is a great gangster flick, the first hour plays as sort of a documentary about how the gangs influenced las vegas and the corruption that went on. The next two hours show how Rohestein and Santoro eventually fall. So next time you want to watch a good movie, get casino. Its a sure fire crowd pleaser.
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Summary: Casino
Review: This movie was great! even if u havent seen it- just buy the dvd- i know that you'll LOVE it... i saw it for my first time today on USA and its a great movie- 5 STARS!!!
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Summary: Stupid criminals in paradise
Review: I was born in Chicago, and my father went to Stienmetz high school with Tony Spilotro, the mobster portrayed in this film by Joe Pesci. I grew up listening to stories about "the Ant" (not flattering), and when he was finally whacked, my old man (a reporter for the Chicago Sun Times) wrote what amounted to his obitiuary. In it he recalled such charming Spilotro antics as the time he threw acid at a girl who had rebuffed his advances and the time he tried to split open my dad's head, and thus prevent my birth, with a T-square during shop class. To top it off, I recently discovered my Dad's old yearbook (1955 or so), in which he and the future boss of Las Vegas are standing in true 1950s glory (slicked hair, plaid shirts, everybody wearing horn-rimmed glasses) next to each other on picture day. So I guess you could say I had a personal interest in seeing how Marty Scorcese and his "Goodfellas" crew would tackle the subject of transplanted Chicago mobsters in the neon desert. My final verdict: they all did a hell of a job. Pesci, as "Nicky Salerno" (all the names have been changed to protect the guilty) is just as horrifying and vicious here as he was as "Tommy DiVito" in "Goodfellas"; Pugnacious, bloodthirsty, bad-tempered, arrogant, and paranoid, but also capable of humor, loyalty and a certain weird charm. Some would say he was just playing the same character again, and yeah, he is, but he's so damn good at it, who cares? Bobby D is superb (what else?) as "Ace Rothstien" -- the micro-managing, ego-maniacial Chicago handicapper and casino boss who trades in on his friendship with mobsters to become a big time player in Vegas, and promptly realizes he's let the snake in the manger. Nicky is what mobsters call a "Cowboy" -- a crazy, reckless hoodlum who thinks with his fists (or his gun, or the sharp end of a pen, or a telephone, or whatever's handy) and creates more wreckage than profit. He also attracts the attention of the Feds and the Nevada Gaming Commission, who soon make Ace's life miserable, and more importantly, begin to interfere with the Mob's ability to "skim" Casino profits back to Chicago. And if you know anything about the Outfit (as it is called there), you know N - O - B - O - D - Y is going to interfere with their profits and get away unscathed. "Casino" is one of those movies where you watch bad guys get their hands on something really big, and drive it straight into the ground. Things blow up, people get beaten and whacked, fortunes are made and squandered, and monster egos crash against each other like bumper cars. There are many similiarities to "Goodfellas" except the stakes are much higher, and like "Goodfellas" there is not a character you really can root for -- Ace is miserly, controlling, egocentric and arrogant, Nicky is a straight up homicidal maniac, and Stone's character is your typical scheming, treacherous hooker-hustler. A lot of people felt this movie was the same thing, with the same cast, done not quite as well, and indeed, "Casino" is not as good as "Fellas" but it is a very good movie all the same. If "Fellas" had never been made, this might be a top-5 Mob movie of all time. I recommend it to anyone with a gangland fetish, 80's nostalgia and strong stomach. And by the way, the actor Frank Vincent, who gets revenge on Pesci in this film (with a baseball bat) for twice getting the best of him in previous Scorsese movies ("Raging Bull" and "Goodfellas"), actually bears a stronger resemblance to the real Tony Spilotro than Joe Pesci does....wierd.
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Summary: Very, very distrubing.
Review: 'Casino' is one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen. It is not for the soft-hearted. Still good and in some ways better than 'Goodfellas'.
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