Better than the DVD Version!
Added 1/25/2010
This Blu-ray looks and sounds incredible on a HDTV. I also have the DVD version but will no longer watch it when I have this beautiful replication around.
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GoodFellas, Great Movie
Added 1/17/2010
Joe Pesci, love to hate him. What a cast of greats! Plus Scorsese writing and directing...
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Good Movie
Added 1/15/2010
My husband bought this movie, and I am not big on gangster flicks but I liked this one because it was based on a true story.
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goodfellas
Added 1/11/2010
i have loved this film since its release,but I always thought the film slowed to a crawl after the scenes showing the remains of various family members
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I never quite understood this whole deal of walking in to a pizza place and seeing paintings of gangsters on the wall--you know, those big oils with the Godfather guys, Scarface, and the guys from Goodfellas. Why would anyone glamorize these theives and killers, hang up pictures of them?
Well, the answer might be in Goodfellas. It sees low leval mob life through Henry Hill from the 1950s to 1980, back when the mafia had sizable power: unions, construction, shipping, boxing, show biz. These guys had their hands in everything, most of all, the piggy bank. Even RFK went after them, and some think it got him killed.
Hill as a teenager saw the money, the cars, the mistresses, the free passes to see Bobby Vinton. Those "guys" across the street at that cabstand had everything a boy with otherwise limited prospects could ever want.
Hill is smart as a whip and soon gets drafted--actually, he enlists. He is the kid with more money than the grown ups. He gets to park cars, hang with the gamblers. By the early 60s, he is doing airport heists.
But soon things get more violent and Hill gets hooked on cocaine. Through the 70s, it gets a lot more dangerous to be a mobster, and the violence becomes more random as the society changes. Eventually, Hill is forced out after being busted for what the mob said they were never going to do--dealing drugs.
What works so well about Goodfellas is the film does not give the crime or the violence an air of tragity or judgement. Scorcessee structues the film so it is like we are hanging out with the crime crew. In bars. In Caidlacs. On jobs. Crazy Tommy shot this guy. What are we going to do with him? All this to a rock soundtrack and jump cut editing, which increases the volocity of the roller coaster
But things do unravel and the glamor unravles with it. Goodfellas is about the price of the violence over the long haul. It sneeks up on us as much as it does Hill, and in the end, we realize what gets paid when we Scorcessee pulls the planks from under. We realize at the end the intelligent Hill has wasted his life, and hurt many on the way down. His friends are dead or have disowed him, and he gets "to live the rest of his life like a snook." in a banal noname subburb .
Just deserts. For Hill, and us for riding along.
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Better than the DVD Version!
Added 1/25/2010
This Blu-ray looks and sounds incredible on a HDTV. I also have the DVD version but will no longer watch it when I have this beautiful replication around.
0 out of 1 people found this helpful.
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GoodFellas, Great Movie
Added 1/17/2010
Joe Pesci, love to hate him. What a cast of greats! Plus Scorsese writing and directing...
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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Good Movie
Added 1/15/2010
My husband bought this movie, and I am not big on gangster flicks but I liked this one because it was based on a true story.
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