― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
"Goodfellas" is a great movie about food...the mob stuff always seemed somewhat seconday. Paulie shaves the garlic with a razor blade, they had to cook the steaks in a pan, he used too much garlic in the sauce but it was still a good sauce. But yeah, as noted above, the problem with "Goodfellas" is Henry Hill. I think Liotta does a fine job--it's the basic idea. HH's supposed to be a kind of innocent here?
I also like "After Hours" fine, not a great Scorcese film but a good New York movie (which of course all Scorcese films are). Still, Scorcese has never topped "Mean Streets." "Raging Bull" is to me wayyyy overrated. "Gangs of New York" really sucked except for Day-Lewis, bad film of great book. "Taxi Driver" seems somewhat dated '70s film to me...I like the music, though, and it's certainly got its merits. The rest of Scorcese I pretty much dismiss. To me it's all about "Mean Streets," "GFs" and "Casino."
And I love Sutherland and the remake of "Invasion of Body Snatchers." One of the great yuppie-fear movies ever.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
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No, he's supposed to be a criminal. He is, in fact, someone who's very passionate about being a criminal. You can have as much sympathy for that as you choose, but either way, his punishment is poetic.
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― ENRG (Enrique), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Depends on who by.
Once again....."Goodfellas" is a great, great movie, but it's the genre itself (mob/gangster movies) that's so damn tired.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm breaking your rule just by asking this, but what do you mean? Seems like it'll stand up to scrutiny as well as anything.
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
Ah ha. I guess I don't hang around geeky enough geeks -- I don't know anyone who thinks it sucks (for any halfway coherent reason, anyway).
― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
And yeah, King of Comedy is fucking great! I think its one of my favorite ever performances by DeNiro.
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:22 (nineteen years ago) link
you really are a fanny.
this is to jimmybommy.
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
talk to the hand, cuz Anthony ain't listenin' no more.
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
also in general people have just talked abt this film too much, and very rarely is anything new said about it. for something somewhat new see the scorsese chapter in gilberto perez's the material ghost.
mean streets has some great moments, but a lot of it is kind of arrhythmic (not in a good way), the thematic material is presented kind of clumsily, and certain scenes really suffer from piss-poor post-synch sound.
― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Person A: (something completely innocuous about, like, pickles here)Person B: What? You fuck my wife?!?!?!
it wasn't as funny the next day.
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
the "she's a tiger" and "take her for ice cream" scenes in Scarface have been referenced plenty any time I've been to a bar recently.
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link