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Goodfellas [1990]

Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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Format: Dubbed, Widescreen
Languages: Arabic (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 139
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 7321900120395
ASIN: B00004CXX8

Theatrical Release Date: September 19, 1990
Release Date: January 25, 1999
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Better than the Godfather January 13, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

This is Scorcese's masterpiece and is the one he SHOULD have got the Oscar for (personally I feel he got it for the Departed 'cos the acadamy felt guilty!). It is packed with top notch performances throughout (although it could be said starting out at the top has blighted Liotta's career subsequently). Everyone performance is believeable and you really care what happens to each and every character, even the psycho DeVito played by Pesci (who won an Oscar for this part). The film is packed with memorable scenes, and the first time you see the " I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh ..." is a real edge of the seat experience. Top, top, top film.

4 out of 5 stars

A RIGHTLY HAILED CLASSIC December 5, 2007
1 out of 5 found this review helpful

Goodfellas makes you feel like you are watching guys that you know or knew. To this day, I have a friend that still talks like Jimmy Two Times. He always says things like "Nice Nice" and that was just a background piece in Goodfellas. But that is the point, all that is background is just as important as the main players and locales. It all paints us a perfect picture of what mob life must be like. And with all due kudos to The Godfather, but there is no other film that has ever made mob life look so real and feel so tangible the way Goodfellas does.

To say that Joe Pesci is the best part of this film would be to discredit the rest of the cast, but at the same time, you have to mention him in some way. His portrayal of Tommy is haunting. Here is a man that is so insecure and wants to be the top dog, the made man so bad that he can't decipher between what is a joke and what is disrespect towards him. Of course the scene in question is when he shoots a common boy for telling Paulie to screw himself after Paulie shot him in the leg. You would think the guy has a right to let off a little steam and vent, but Paulie is always looking for the diss. He is always looking to find some hidden gesture from someone that is putting him down. Even at the beginning when he is getting on Henri in the now famous " You're a funny guy " scene. He is kidding with Henri but deep down inside he is angry with him, you can see it and feel it. Joe Pesci gave the performance of his career and he richly deserved to win best supporting actor that year.

The story and script by Pileggi is sheer inside brilliance. You can feel the inside observations that no one can have except for a guy that spent his whole life on the inside. They ring so true and they get into your blood. From scenes like the fat guy running around delivering messages to the other mob guys because he doesn't like to use the phone to the scene when Henri, Paulie and Tommy have Billy Bats in the trunk but they stop off at Tommy's moms house for a late night dinner of pasta and such. They also have to borrow a sharp knife to finish off the guy in the trunk, but to his mom they have to cut off the hoof of a dear that hit the car. And the scene where Tommy does kill the young kid for joking with him and then Paulie gets mad at him, not for killing the guy but because he doesn't want to dig a hole tonight. There are so many tiny observations in Goodfellas that give it the authenticity it has. And it is a film that stays with you for years to come. I think this is Scorcese's best film and although I understand and accept why the academy awarded Dances With Wolves the accolades it did, if this film would have swept the Oscars that year, no one would have been surprised. It is a landmark film and I think it is one of the best films ever made. And again, taking no credit away from Coppolla's Godfather epics, but this gets inside the mafia on a deeper level. It goes one step beyond what Coppolla gave us, and for that Goodfellas should be remembered as the best film about gangsters ever made.

5 out of 5 stars

Good Film November 22, 2007
0 out of 4 found this review helpful

Scorsese has combined ambiguous camera angles, great dialogue and solid acting to make the greatest movie of all time.To the set pieces and costumes and the script, this stands alone as the greatest.With real events and deep characters,Goodfellas surpasses the age of time and reaches the limits of movie-making.

Ray Liotta is a funny,charismatic Henry Hill who seems to love the gangster life style and its rewards

Joe Pesci shows how maniacal senses and unstable actions can make a great movie character

Rob Deniro is at his best with Jimmy Conway.Not only is his acting on par with the greats(Brando)but shows real emotion

5 out of 5 stars

Your gonna like this film, its a goodfilma, like one of us! October 26, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

Aside from the terrible title for this review there is absolutely nothing to detract from this masterpiece of story telling and cinema. Scorsesse has created not only the definitive "gangster film" he has created probably the greatest film ever put on celluloid.

If you havent seen this film you owe it to yourself to watch it, watch it again then write a review on here telling the world how good it is. Truely an amazing film which grows with you and becomes more than a movie, it becomes a friend that stays with you for the rest of your life.

5 out of 5 stars

A Modern Classic October 20, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful

Based on the confessions of mobster Henry Hill, Goodfellas brings the epic style of The Godfather to the suburbs of New York. Scorsese was still suffering from the controversy surrounding Last Temptation of Christ when Goodfellas was released. It may have even seemed foolhardy at the time to follow up with this obscenity littered film, but for Scorsese it was really about going back to his roots, and doing what he does best - namely astutely observed films about gangsters. It clearly paid off as the film is an acknowledged modern classic.

Goodfellas is full of moral ambiguities, but whilst it undoubtedly depicts a certain seductive quality to the mafia, it doesn't shy away from the gruesome details either. Former crime reporter and author Nick Pileggi spent four years interviewing Hill before he collaborated with Scorsese on the screenplay. The outcome is frighteningly convincing, and a veritable who's who of the Italian-American Mafia scene in the sixties and seventies. Goodfellas portrays the reality of the Mafia world, the highs and lows, the pinnacle of what it is to be a 'made man', as well as the violence and constant state of fear that presides over men who can't even trust their closest friends.

Scorsese's enthusiasm for character driven cinema provides his actors with fantastic roles and serves to unite him once more with longstanding collaborator Robert De Niro. De Niro's Jimmy is introduced as the sort who "roots for the bad guys in the movies", and he does, at first, appear quite likeable. So too does Ray Liotta who, as Henry, is our narrator and the window into the world of Goodfellas for the audience. Finally, of the main three, there is Joe Pesci, a complete revelation as startlingly brutal psychopath Tommy. Their narrative follows a pseudo-tragic structure, but unlike the gangsters familiar to us from the James Cagney era, these characters do not grow in stature or garner empathy as the film progresses. In fact the reverse is true, with lies and betrayal of Shakespearean proportions serving to peel back the layers and slowly reveal characters who are nothing but shallow and self serving.

Scorsese emphasises the realism by using documentary style camerawork and past tense voiceovers from both Henry Hill and his wife Karen (superbly portrayed by Lorraine Bracco - who is, incidentally, married to another Scorsese regular, Harvey Keitel, in real life). Karen is dragged somewhat unwittingly into the role of gangster's moll, entranced by the glamour as much as by the charismatic Henry. By the time her eyes have been opened to the truth it is too late to get out.

Scorsese further sets the tone of scenes using popular music from the era, as he did in his earlier film Mean Streets (in many ways a companion piece to Goodfellas). He is also indebted to Sam Fuller, another maverick director, particularly in the way the fight scenes are shot, using long takes and a tracking camera to create energy and movement. Scorsese adds to this with his trademark floating overhead shots which atmospherically portray the sense of impending violence constant in Goodfellas. The most famous and beautifully choreographed scene of all is Henry and Karen's entrance to the Copacabana club. The way the camera relentlessly pursues them as they weave their way through the busy kitchen and to a table on the front row is so astounding it's almost like you're right there with them....and the last fifteen minutes of the film are so full of tension even Hitchcock would be jealous. The result is a highly polished, intelligent piece of film-making, and a stylistic masterpiece.