Is GOODFELLAS your favorite movie of all time?

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.

little known fact

hmm i own the special edition : /

me too : /

i should just man up and get the blu-ray of this and ronin.. i'll watch em enough times

"He's NOT Jewish. Did you know how these people live?"

love the way deniro says "hoof"

love the way deniro pours ketchup

i'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers

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.

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I've seen this movie so many times in both forms that every time I see a hand pounding on buttons and IS DIS DA SUPERINTENDENT???? my reflex action causes me to jump up and change the disc, then get caught halfway between the reflex jump up and the autocorrective counter-reflex...

at which point I throw my back out and stand hunched over for the next 90 minutes and finish the movies before calling for help.

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voted some other movie: Goodfellas does not contain the following: prescient commentary on society, post-apocalyptic scenarios, giant animals attacking people, basis in historical fact, absurdist musical numbers, Udo Kier, demonic children, zombies, cannibals, Nazis, nuclear radiation, Klaus Kinski, or Christian Bale.

basis in historical fact - UH

i heard that henry hill dude on stern's show a few years ago. he was absolutely ridiculous. and i think he was wasted, too.

"hiya, Hendry" still cracks my shit up.

Seems like I heard Henry Hill on the Jim Rome show a few years ago. Guy sounded like a real weasel, actually. Not very Liottaesque.

yeah he came across really pathetic/ sad.

"YOU POPPED YOUR CHERRY!"

voted yes cuz it's up there

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a pretty strong showing against the field

15.5% That's a pretty good lump sum.

ple plai i don't think i can seriously recall a single scene in this movie in my mind broe, :(

can you recall any movie scenes?

you stfu immediately

that's from Casino, i think

yeah, not really though

wow a lot o fpeople voted

yeah, i guess a lot of us wanted to make the point

wait til you see the tally on my Irene Dunne poll

people flew in from all over the world to vote on that

people flew in from all over the world to vote against Goodfellas.