goodfellas

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Tom decided it was a little too Rain Man

titanic

funk love this movie

Frank Vincent (Billy Batts): Wherever I go, anytime I go anywhere, they tell me to go home and get my shine box.

fukken obv

xp to myself

i'm stirrin', i'm stirrin'

We think of that line in this film as a silent protest.

which character in goodfellas does banaka most identify with

The tone of Michael Corrigan's delivery in that scene conveys a deep dissatisfaction with the Way Things Are. Gangsters are merely capitalists in the truest sense: atavistic, cancerous, deadly. Only serving their sociopathic interest in self-gratification. No sense of a greater cause, save compulsory fealty towards superiors.

Man it's sooo cool you took a college class one time

We reject capitalistic higher education. We choose to embrace discipline instead.

Apologies, we erred: it was Kevin Corrigan, not Michael Corrigan who played Ray Liotta's brother. Not that names are important. Names will be obsolete when New Society is achieved.

lols

John Malkovich (actor): It sort of came at a bad time in my life, when I wasn't feeling well and didn't want to think about working. It's hard to explain why you end up in Eragon and not GoodFellas. But De Niro is fantastic

Eragon features impressive computer generated imagery, while Goodfellas does not. Malkovich should be proud to be associated with a technical achievement that represents a mastery over nature, and not just a formal or "artistic" achievement.

malkovich would have been terrible in this

unthinkable

i'm stirrin', i'm stirrin'

― banaka, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:33 (33 minutes ago) Permalink

We think of that line in this film as a silent protest.

― banaka, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 22:35 (31 minutes ago)

the time it takes someone to realize they accidentally posted under a sock acct?

haha

2 minutes of sheer panic

ha

Malkovich should be proud to be associated with a technical achievement that represents a mastery over nature

has yet to master technical achievement of multiple log-ins/browsers

lol lol

A TV series!

Please, no...I guess they'd back up to a point in time before nine-tenths of the principals got whacked? Maybe it'd be worth it for a whole episode centred around Chuck Low's character. I love how he says things like "unconscionable" and "most unreasonable." He could be like the Niles Crane of mob dramas.

teh fuck?

Maybe they can call the TV show "WISE GUY".

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/09/27/_goodfellas_on_trial/index.html

MZS schools this other dude pretty handily.

Seitz's rhetoric is stronger but I'm slightly in Grey's camp (and so is Pauline Kael). I still like the film a lot while acknowledging it's fucked up. Fuggedit, Jake -- it's the movies.

It's a great fucking gangster movie -- better than the Godfathers -- bcz, as reflected in a Jimmy Breslin quote I recently encountered, it doesn't deny that the Mob is about grade-school dropouts killing each other, instead of that phony romanticized shit.

wondering where this fits in to yr 'ride' based critique of scorseses later work

this is the first time I have ever seen morbz lavish praise upon a critically acclaimed movie on ILX

icey, it has brains and good acting, so there's no comparison.

and yet u must admit its very 'ridey'

dayo, that's bullshit. My favorite film of the '00s was Mulholland Dr.

(critically acclaimed)

no. a "ride" doesn't have a script. xp

to clarify morbz, this is the first time I have seen you actually explain what you like about a movie in a positive way

what negative ways have i used before?

do the godfathers really deny that the mob is about grade school dropouts killing each other? It's not like everyone's Michael in those films.

to clarify morbz, this is the first time I have seen you actually explain what you like about a movie in a positive way

Read one Spielberg thread.

Since when is saying "at least it isn't romanticized phony shit" positive in the first place?

cuz it speaks well of Pileggi and Scorsese's judgment in avoiding a trap, and in talking UP to the audience.

before you explain how the Godfather talks down the audience, can you explain how it denies that the mob is about numbskulls killing each other?

cuz while the tone is pretty operatic and grand (not sure I'd call that talking down to the audience, though), its still mostly a bunch of guys shooting each other.

hey vaffanculo ya goombahs.

SHASTA OUT

But in the scene at Tommy’s house, where Martin Scorsese’s mother has her cameo fixing the guys dinner and Billy Batts is outside bleeding to death in the trunk, Henry is laughing with the others over the Batts being a goner. In his heart, Henry is as much of a murderer as they are. But in the film he’s just an accomplice to murder.

Did this guy see the same movie that I did? Was it him laughing or was it him always being so quiet?

He may have gone heh heh to keep up the cover, but he wasn't anywhere near being the murderer Tommy and Jimmy were.

Read one Spielberg thread.

― Eric H., Wednesday, September 29, 2010 11:08 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark

ILX has speilberg threads?

how about the end of godfather 2 when michael kills his brother and basically damns himself to hell

SPOILER ALERT s1ocki :(

ian grey's moralizing in that article is super-tiresome

At the end, Henry doesn't care about the piles of corpses he has passive-aggressively accumulated. He's bummed because he can't get a good red sauce (Rim shot!) in witness protection.

o no they don't all hug and learn at the end