goodfellas

well it's no Star Wars: The Force Blows Up a Death Star Pt VIII

it is just like Inception tho

sounds good enough

check out taxi driver if u haven't heard/seen it tho

pretty decent

other random thought: the music cues in the coke bust sequence are crazy, in my memory that whole thing was just Jump Into the Fire, but there's like 7 or 8 songs all cut together through the whole thing

From the GQ piece ∞ linked to in the Spinal Tap thread:

http://www.gq.com/story/spinal-tap-vs-hollywood

Consider producer Irwin Winkler's 2015 suit against Warner Bros., which stated he hadn't been paid his 50 percent share of the net profits from the 1990 Mob classic Goodfellas. According to the complaint, Warners sent periodic net-profit reports for a while (the studio eventually stopped, claiming the film would never, ever be in the black), but those reports intentionally misrepresented how much the film had made (allegedly more than $275 million). Winkler claimed that Warners had concealed about $140 million in revenue by playing a sort of shell game with its wholly owned subsidiary, Warner Home Video, and had also charged fees and interest on past fees. “This was ‘studio accounting’ on steroids,” the suit alleged. “It was also fraud.” Warners settled last year.

The film only did modest bizness at the box office; I would imagine home video turned it around.

lol *27* Sopranos castmembers were in this

other random thought: the music cues in the coke bust sequence are crazy, in my memory that whole thing was just Jump Into the Fire, but there's like 7 or 8 songs all cut together through the whole thing

A favorite Scorsese cue nobody talks about: Syncing Henry's rejuvenating bump of coke to the 70s Waters/Winter version of "Mannish Boy".

I love that he only uses the opening line of "Mannish Boy" and then segues into "What Is Life." And the "Magic Bus" edit/usage is perfect.

yeah Magic Bus is only in there for like 5 seconds!

tarfumes

hollywood accounting right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

Yep.

I didn't mean more shots of him being bored in suburbia I meant something that maybe leaned on the ramifications and fallout of his betrayal on the others

― Οὖτις, Thursday, June 1, 2017 5:14 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah the looks from Paulie and Jimmy say it all, then Henry continues on from there just annoyed about his lack of access to decent Italian food. which says it all about him.

re-watching this really reaffirmed the parallels between this and WoWS, just this parade of psychopathic assholes driven by greed

But the similarity ends there. One is spaghetti with marinara sauce, the other's egg noodles with ketchup.

if WoWS is inferior it's because it's bloated/too long and the cast is not quite as great.

No real appetite for reviving something we exhausted three or four years ago, but for me the difference goes much, much deeper than that--it's Highway 61 vs. some useless mid-'80s Dylan album. (But bloated/too long, definitely.)

I like WOWS as much as Empire Burlesque: tacky, bloated, probably unnecessary, but a lot of fun anyway.

forty minutes >>> 4211 minutes or however long WOWS is.

(I think it will be another 5-10 years before a consensus develops around how bad The Wolf of Wall Street really is. Gangs of New York got a lot of great reviews when it came out.)

yeah I reject GONY without a second thought. The mustaches were the giveaway.

GONY with the Wind--a high-concept pitch that got cut from The Player.

me too, never liked it. WoWS is great though.

xp

GONY and WOWS are great fun but they're not watch-twice movies

GONY is an entertaining view, but a second viewing didn't do as much for me beyond some of the spectacle and a DDL performance that was eclipsed by two superficially similar roles, both his own in There Will be Blood and Ian McShane in Deadwood (lunatics with old timey facial hair.)

otoh WOWS is i think a genuinely excellent film

Wolf of Wall Street depressed the shit out of me for reasons I'm not entirely comfortable with. It made me worried for the same reasons that parents used to get worried about their kids watching violent horror or action movies, that it was going to produce a generation of violent sociopaths. I can seriously see this being the film that inspires a whole generation of future corporate assholes who like their money and coke plentiful and their women disposable. I hate taking this kind of moralistic stance towards a film, but that is what three hours in the company of these people did to me.

rest assured -- we'd never elect a violent sociopath as president

Interesting history of Maurie the wig merchant
http://mafia.wikia.com/wiki/Martin_Krugman

Krugman was unable to drive. His wife would drive him wherever he needed to be.

"Maybe we should let him drive."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3fU_nrrxeA

lmao

amazing

i'd share that everywhere but i just saw that's your video lmao

Private insta's one thing, but if it's on ILX, it's public.

Sorry about the green stuff. Pollen might move slow, but pollen don't have to move for nobody.

pplains i salute thee

Man I love how Tommy’s stories (which you can barely get a handle on because we jump into them halfway through and everyone is cracking up) are basically stories about him getting the shit kicked out of him, or him torturing someone. And I love that they’re done in an old school hack comedian delivery style. Pesci is actually at this point maybe extremely underrated in this role, he’s incredible.

Also love the moment when Jimmy tells Henry, “forget about tonight” re: Morrie, which feels like an easy narrative trick to deceive the audience, but the actual murder that follows is telegraphed so much that it comes off more like Jimmy thinking Henry doesn’t have the stomach for it, and maybe doesn’t 100% trust him because of that. Not ready to whack him yet, but hedging his bets on what he allows him to witness.

DeNiro saying “hoof” is still A+

I've thought about the "forget about tonight" moment several times, and I thought Jimmy was genuinely gonna offer Morrie an amnesty -- until Morrie started busting his balls in the alley hours later.

Love the bit where Tommy's trying to remember some Western starring Humphrey Bogart and Jimmy offers "Shane?"

always love it when I remember how Pesci comes out of nowhere and starts beating Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) to death, and then how in Casino, Frank Vincent walks up behind Pesci and he and his men start beating him to death with bats.

Great movie and fuiud agree

Back it up one film: Vincent also gets a beating from Pesci in Raging Bull.

this recut of Liotta's Chantix commercial is A+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgM0OMTiVOw&feature=youtu.be

https://nofilmschool.com/2018/12/someone-re-cut-ray-liottas-chantix-commercial-scenes-goodfellas-and-its-pretty-awesome?fbclid=IwAR28EcQ3UMFNZ53_uawuNONXQo8iCeT4jWZOeX2gn8HXtoC4B7URDB24c10

Many people bring this scene up to me. It's where I beat the preppy who didn’t treat my girl w/ respect. #GoodFellas pic.twitter.com/VypJz7PVbV

— Ray Liotta (@rayliotta) December 15, 2016

Coming to the very late defense of Alex regarding After Hours. That film is brilliant, people.

yeah, it's great

Okay this is amazing

http://mrgodfrey.tumblr.com/post/157186647808/morries-wigs-behind-the-curtain

i love that. the Morrie commercial is too perfect.