Is GOODFELLAS your favorite movie of all time?

...WHATEVER happens.

I expect "some other movie" to win this poll, but I'm curious what the over/under is gonna be.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 15:44 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I'm gonna guess maybe 20, 25% go for Goodfellas.

I mean, I voted other, but it may be third behind 12 Angry Men and Heathers.

My guess is 10% or less, Goodfellas.

If they ever make a movie called 12 Angry Heathers, I may have to change my vote.

some other movie: dazed and confused

http://www.burgerworldchronicles.com/domo/goodfellas_painting.jpg

one dog goes one way the other dog goes the other way and this guys sayin whadda ya want from me

Gonna watch this tonight, btw.

Three Kings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wtf did they even watch it.

wrong thread! sorry.

nice head of white hair

i kinda love that painting.

dis Mama S actually do the painting?

i think so

i like goodfellas, but it's not weird/geeky enough to be a favorite (no outerspace monsters, no "artistic" pornography, no creepy dream sequences, no all-dwarf casting, no animation, no nine-minute static shots, no relentless zombie holocaust, no klaus kinski, no homemade WTF charm, no fourth wall in tatters, no pretentious art nonsense, etc.)

uh dude it definitely breaks 4th wall

probly my favourite 4th wall breaking in all cinema too

one dog goes one way the other dog goes the other way and this guys sayin whadda ya want from me

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 12:52 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

my last 15 minutes: think of pesci saying this, look at guy's face, lol, repeat

it breaks the fourth wall, but not in the way i like. it doesn't sabotage realism to make conceptual jokes, or completely upend the relationship between the viewer and the film (like, uh, man with a movie camera or something).

breaking != in tatters

you have stringent standards for "favorites" eh?

it's kinda weird you need a movie to do that in order to like it
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contenderizer demands his rupture

It's funnier in Italian.

the 4th wall exists for a reason, hopped up writers shouldn't go breaking it all willy nilly like it was a wet napkin

not so much that i have stringent standards, just that i've noticed what i like and what i don't. and i generally don't like gangster movies. and do like metafictional bullshitology

Every time Henry Hill breaks the fourth wall at the end on the witness stand, I can't keep my eyes off of DeNiro to see if he's moving or not.

(er, "Jimmy".)

his and paulie's eyes totally follow him in that scene

does the shot on the doorstep at the end count as wall-breaking?

yes. he asked for spaghetti with tomato sauce and they gave him egg noodles with ketchup.

ball-breaking vs wall-breaking

He's not necessarily looking at the camera though. He could be disapprovingly watching his across-the-street neighbors loading up the station wagon.

yeah this is what im wondering. how do people see it.

fuckin shnook

i think he's speaking to the great gazoo

it breaks the fourth wall, but not in the way i like. it doesn't sabotage realism to make conceptual jokes, or completely upend the relationship between the viewer and the film (like, uh, man with a movie camera or something).

― contenderizer, Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:17 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ugh lame and tired, next you'll be asking for alienation effects.

MWAMC doesn't up-end shit. you get exactly what you want, propaganda for a boring-looking 'ordered society' with -- omg -- some laying bare of the device, as advertised in the programme.

what is disrupted by the bourgeois-academic canon-fodder classic MWAMC?

enrq épater-ing the bourgeois once again

Is this still the GoodFellas thread?

No now it's a Man With A Movie Camera thread.

ilx's first ever thread digression.

I'll remember this day like I remember the moment I saw Lockington's come from behind 2-1 net victory over Pillsborough United at the old Castle Workingville Grounds.

ugh lame and tired, next you'll be asking for alienation effects. MWAMC doesn't up-end shit. you get exactly what you want, propaganda for a boring-looking 'ordered society' with -- omg -- some laying bare of the device, as advertised in the programme.

― special guest stars mark bronson

"alienation effects". jesus. MWAMC is funny and cool in how it moves you in and out of the POV of the camera, someone watching the act of filming, an audience member watching the filmed material, and someone watching that audience. i like that. i'm entertained by it, esp since it's executed so well, so suprisingly and so charmingly.

that said, thank you for coming on, once again, as some giant asshole with shit to prove.

i'm a sucker for games, paradoxes, mysteries and puzzles. i'm not trying to pretend it's any big artistic deal. i also like pretty much anything involving tentacled horrors.

do you know a guy named animal?

no? i do enjoy muppets

I downloaded this 2 days ago to watch (again, saw it last 10 years or so ago) just because of this thread and the fucking image turned out to be just HALF of the movie, as I discovered 1/2 way in last night.

GoodFellas was the first DVD I bought. It's one of those flippers, where after Tommy shoots Spider and says to Henry, "Yeah, I'll dig the fucking hole. Anyone got a shovel?" it stops and you have to manually flip the disc over to see Karen banging on the apartment intercom of Henry's mistress.

ya... they came out with a non-flippy one but the quality was better on the first edition.