I actually like Untouchables, the Sopranos, and the Departed more than Goodfellas or either Godfather, and that is limiting it to Mafia movies only, rather than all organized crime movies (so not including anything based on Yakuza, Russian organized crime, American gangs (north or south), etc.)
Couldn't agree more. That flick is a mind ****. As a matter of fact, I can still recall sitting in the theater, whispering in a strained voice, "what the . . . ?" with the "f' word in there, somewhere. Fortunately, my look into that substance you mentioned was very far in the past. Hard to believe that the Coen brothers made that film a little over 30 years ago.
I love the film, BUT my only bad LSD trip involved a friend (or “friend”) putting this movie on when I was blotto. Super stressful amplification.
WTF? The Godfather movies were not boring. And, there are many great movies made before the 70’s. Most of my all time favorite movies were made before the 70’s.
That is an incredibly weird movie to drop acid and watch. Not that the movie is weird, but it's weird that you did it.
Some people will say it's blasphemy to say such a thing. But the reality is Godfather is more a Broadway production that is more opera than reality while Goodfellas is the contemporary real McCoy when it comes to the mob. A little exaggerated and made "associates" look so good and in many ways on par in power with the "made" guys according to Michael Francese. DeNiro's character, Jimmy Burke, was actually running his own crew and had rackets and schemes that made the Luccheses some serious dough and often times he kept most of it for himself like Lufthansa Heist and fixed College Basketball games and drug enterprise on the side. This proved the hierarchy of power wasn't an exact science for the Mob
Amen, that's how I feel about the Godfather. It's romanticized while Goodfellas, it's scary and the way Scorsese shoots and edits sometimes it feels like a horror movie. Maybe I'm just a Scorsese fanboy.
Scarface is pretty epic, I'd even say it's better than the Godfather. Pacino ramps it up big time, crazy how he was never nominated for this role as I think it's one of his finest roles ever.
A lot of the Godfather is people giving long slow look and realizing the unsaid things. For people raised on nonstop CGI craziness, it requires much too much work from the viewer for many viewers. Maybe a little bit of a conneseur experience, like drinking high end vintage wine. If you put a fizzy sugary can of White Claw and a 1950 Chateau Petrus in front of a 21 year old kid, they'll chose the sugary fizz drink every time, because that is so much more accessable, and that is what they are used to. And Im not writing off Goodfellas, which has a lot of substance and is very enjoyable. It just is much more universally acceptable because the pace and the action makes it so much more palatable.
There are the guys that inherently rise through the ranks because of family connections, the case most of the times, and then you got devouted not too bright guys that don't know any better that take risks and work for scraps. Organized crime appeal never made too much sense.
I just watched true romance for the first time last night. It’s #1 now over Solo: A Star Wars Story. it wasn’t boring like most those other movies you old people like.
I mentioned this re: Goodfellas earlier, but that's also incredibly high on the list of most rewatchable movies.
Gary Oldman's short scene playing Drexel in the brothel is, my opinion, the best acting performance of all time.
