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Summary: My FAVORITE Movie Of All Time!!!!!!
Review: This movie is my favorite movie of all time. The cast is fantastic. Robert DeNiro is my favorite actor which is what brought me to this film. This movie takes you away and makes you feel like your part of the crew. The soundtrack fits the film well but is a bit heavy on the Stones for my taste.
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Summary: Excellent movie, but DVD not multilayer?
Review: As outstanding as the movie is, I must subtract a star because you have to flip the DVD halfway through. What is this, the 12" laserdisc mentality running the show? The movie's barely 2 1/2 hours long. I have a number of longer movies that don't require flipping, and their picture quality is just as good.
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Summary: Martin Scorsese = Legend
Review: If ever there was a masterpiece in Scorsese's later works this would be it, you could not ask for a better cast. Joe pesci Plays one of the most memorable charecters of his career (2nd only to my cusin vinny) HA! ....
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Summary: Goodfellas
Review: This was the worst DVD I have bought since I've beencollectingDVD's. The sound was terrible and I had to flip the DVD in the middle of the movie. I didn't get any sound from the rear speakers throughout the movie... Don't get me wrong, it's a great movie and that's why I bought it, but the lack of surround sound and having to flip the DVD in the middle is why I've given it such a bad review. Please, bring these things up in other reviews... END
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Summary: Among the best films of the 1990's
Review: Loaded with stunning characterists and appealing tension, Goodfellas is arguably Scorsese's best film since Raging Bull in 1980. There have not been any equal competitors afterwards, either. Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci give one of the top performances of their whole careers, and that gives support to Ray Liotta. Martin Scorsese's high quality artistic directory and exciting storytelling lock you on your couch for full pack of quality entertainment. Definite crime classic. Oh, by the way, I like to scratch my butts while asleep.
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Summary: One of the great movies of all time...
Review: There are so many great scenes in this movie and the tempo is perfect through out the film. The scene when DeNiro as Jimmy "The Gent" is going to kill Murray is so great because it just shows DeNiro, and he is just looking at the camera, not saying anything, and you know exactly what he is thinking. The scene when Henry Hill takes Karen to the club is such a long scene and there isn't a cut in it, that scene is a masterpiece! You can feel the paranoia Henry feels when he sees the helicopter. The Scorsese, DeNiro, Pesci combo is a great dance that we hope will never end. The only thing missing is a Director Commentary by Marty!
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Summary: The absolute best 'mob' movie ever made
Review: When i watched 'Goodfellas' i was shocked, this isnt a bad thing, far from it, in fact this made me want to watch the whole thing over. The base line for the entire story is with 'Henry Hill', who is Irish Sicilian, growing up in 'Mob Land' Brooklyn. He becomes a faithful 'Family' member - a Goodfella, until something happens to push his cosy enviroment into chaos. Appearances from the likes of Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci (Nicky from 'Casino') and Ra Liotta (as Henry), make this a brilliant cast, who really do make thismovie spectacular. Most probably the most 'controversial' Mafia flick ever produced, a must see for anyone.
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Summary: Next to THE GODFATHER, one of the best gangster flicks
Review: GOODFELLAS invites comparison with the first two GODFATHER movies (forget about Godfather Part 3!) I found it more authentic than the GODFATHER, but nowhere near as good a plot. What was especially more authentic was the fun that these criminals had as they whacked folks. It made them far more menacing. The GODFATHER always struck me as so un-humorous as to be unrealistic. Marlon Brando set the tone with his over-lugubrious lead role (badly thought out, I've always believed). The result was that GODFATHER is a kind of corporate movie--intrigue in the business world, except that the business they are in is crime. Of course, what makes GODFATHER 1 and 2 among the greatest movies of all time is the superb plots that grip you all the way. GOODFELLAS doesn't really have much of a plot, because it is based on the true life confession of Henry Hill. After seeing GOODFELLAS (for the third time!) I read Nicholas Pileggi's WISE GUY, the book upon which the movie was closely based. If you've seen GOODFELLAS, by all means read the book: it tells you more. In addition, director Scorsese missed a big bet: he ends the movie as a kind of cautionary tale--Hill winds up in a dreary Federal witness protection program. The real life story by Pileggi has a much more satisfying ending, which is worth quoting in part: "Today Henry Hill and his wife live somewhere in America. As of this writing he has a successful business and lives in a $150,000 two-story neocolonial house in an area with such a low crime rate that garden-shed burglaries get headlines in the weekly press. His children go to private schools. He and Karen have their own cars, and she has embarked on a small business of her own. He has a Keogh plan.... Henry is so carefully guarded and his new identity is so vigorously protected by the US Marshal Service that even the Internal Revenue had to whistle when they tried to dun the old Henry Hill for his back taxes. Thanks to the government for which he works, Henry Hill has turned out to be the ultimate wiseguy." My bottom line: see the movie AND read the book.
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Summary: Brutal & Stunning
Review: This is a classic movie. GOODFELLAS takes the story of Henry Hill, who went from being a petty criminal to a mob member amongst violent gangsters (Joe Pesci's turn as a merciless killer is shocking but brilliant). It's a fluid story, from the 1950's to near the end of the century, telling us all the interesting, violent and criminal things that happened in between. Great acting and a first rate script make GOODFELLAS a contender for Scorcese's best movie so far. DeNiro is also on fine form as Jimmy Conway, a seemingly 'pleasant' gangster who ends up becoming Hill's worst enemy. If you have any interest in the gangster genre whatsoever, you will want to check out this contender for title of "Best of Genre" as quickly as you can.
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Summary: Memorable
Review: Before seeing Goodfellas, I had no interest at all in mob movies. But this movie completely changed my mind; I subsequently devoured the Godfather and a host of related films, and became an ardent Scorsese/de Niro fan. Is it better than any of the Godfathers? I don't know, but I do know that it was, for me at least, more memorable. There are so many classic scenes in Goodfellas that it would be impossible to even begin to list them here. This film is chock full of quirky but believable characters uttering snappy and witty dialogue. Furthermore, it often surprises you---I'm not talking about unexpected plot twists, although there is one. What ultimately happens to wiseguy Henry Hill is perhaps thoroughly predictable, but the counterpoint of workaday wiseguy tribulations, which are depicted so aptly and humorously, to the gross violence that necessarily accompanies the occupation is a disturbing but brilliant device, and expertly executed. With its humor, Goodfellas shows you that these murderous villains are indeed human, but not in ways we will readily admit, and that makes it all the more shocking. I love this full film; I've seen it many times, and you can enjoy it on several levels. I think I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it, even when they were squeamish about the violence.
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