FIRST TIME WATCHING: Goodfellas (1990) REACTION (Movie Commentary) 

It’s so underrated!

@@danielbautista9062 i like it a lot but every time i watch, it feels like 10 hours of sharon stone being awful

I consider Casino to be the (older) sibling piece to Goodfellas. They’re very similar, but still so very different. (That’s not a comment on which is better, as I know most hold Goodfellas in higher regard.)

I like this one better. Casino has enough narration to be a documentary

I like to view Goodfellas, Casino, and Wolf of Wall Street as a sort of loose trilogy. Kind of a dark, criminal inversion of the American dream idk I may be full of shit.

Why do people come out with this “I’m such a smart insider” garbage? Who cares what was improvised allegedly?

@@justmeeagainn I'm not playing like I'm an insider, that information has been around for years, so it's really common knowledge at this point. If you go to 6:53 of the video CI says, "That worries me though, how he had everybody else fooled too. Nobody knew he was joking." The point I was making is that none of the other acters around Pesci and Liotta knew what was going on, so the reactions were genuine. When CI said, “nobody knew he was joking” is exactly right; no one knew. That information is more for CI to understand how that well that scene was executed.

@@justmeeagainn I found it interesting that the actor contributed one of the most memorable lines in the movie. At least C 127 didn't preface this with "Fun fact:". I HATE fun facts!

@@justmeeagainn it was an interesting fact, chill.

@@justmeeagainn Dang, you are one bitter person, aren't you? A lot of these comments are written so the reactor can learn more about the movie. It's not like the person thinks he or she is a "smart insider", it's common information that all of us who appreciate the movie already know but the reactor probably doesn't.

Spot on description

My favorite film of his will always be "The Last Waltz". Everything you mentioned and a star studded cast.

Same here. We'll put

100% correct!

I was always wondering how jimmy, after doing as much sociopathic shit as he did, cried at all.

@@andrewstephens5885 Meh. It does happen though. Tommy of all people basically had to be "forced" to kill Stacks in the real life accounting of this

I hear his dad uses too many onions in the sauce.

The whole movie is real life

@@rocco1641 Everything in this movie happened, but they actually left out a bunch of stuff. Mostly because dear Lord did Henry Hill, James Burke (Jimmy Conway in the film), Tommy DeSimone (Tommy DeVito), and Paul Vario (Paulie Cicero) get into a lot of stuff, you couldn't cover it all in a _four_ hour movie.

Apparently he was over six feet tall

@@cypher515 yessir, goodfellas is really Hills pov only. As far as im concerned all Mafia movies are based indefinitely on a real person(s) except Godfather i think

@Wacky Movie Clips facts, Gotti had his opinion on DiSimone early, alotta people have their opinions on the “Boss” Gotti but not many people know his rise to get there. He was a highly respected enforcer before he was “the Dapper Don” How else would ya get away offing the boss of your own family without the commissions greenlight, only to have them thank you for having the balls to do so? Lol.

Paul Sorvino also played Karen

@@jrock8089 now that was a great acting job!!!

I think Tommy De Simones bones were discovered in 2004.

Bruno facciolo took tommy to his death

Tommy’s body is most likely still in The Hole in New York, Fellow Bonnano Crime Family members like “Al” Indelicato, was found by kids playing in a vacant lot in 1981 and later on in 2004 other capos “Philly Lucky” Giaccone and “Big Trin” Trinchera where dug up by the FBI not far away also, they were disposed off by John Gotti, who Billy Batts was a close friend of, Tommy Desimone’s body is most likely still in the Hole.

Not onyl that, Mich says that Goodfellas is the "most realistic" movie about the Mob life.

Henry Hill

Ain’t no way Karen’s still alive

@@theargentino4245 apart from the prison scene

Yup he is 😎 lol

Shut up

She was great and her characters dynamics were awesome. A goody two shoes Jewish girl who knowingly gets into a relationship with a gangster and then marries him. Gets involved with the drug scene and then plays the "babe of the woods routine" when confronted by the FBI guy.

Tony Soprano's shrink...

She chose to play Melfi instead or Carm because she already did the Carm role to great success, remember her talking about how they tested her for both roles, but she had the gravitas to choose in order to get her to sign on. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been introd to Edie Falco's talent.

Many women like this movie because of the detailed development of Bracco's character. She gets quite a bit of screen time, which is pretty unusual for such a 'guy' movie. Scorsese is a true master.

@@arise2945 At the end, she's sitting there with Henry talking to Ed and both she and Henry are dejected at what they have to swallow She came full circle into a co-conspirator in coke deals. And she even said, "You need Henry, you don't need me." I always take that as a foreshadowing signal of their eventual divorce described in the credits. They both looked exhausted and depressed sitting there. That's what Marty was trying to convey -- that the mafia life is a destroyer of people and families. He laments that a lot of younger viewers don't seem to get that. .

Gianni Russo taught Mrs Scorsese how to cook

Apologies to Kevin Costner but that was highway robbery in retrospect. Not quite as bad as the Academy snubbing Do The Right Thing; that was outright disrespect.

Those so-called Oscars fucked over Scorsese many times, especially ''Taxi Driver'', ''Raging Bull'' annd of course ''GoodFellas''.

3rd best gangster movie ever behind Godfather 1 and 2

@@msw8966 2nd best behind Once upon a time in America, the Godfather parts 1 and 2 are masterpieces that captured more the Italian culture with a hint of crime and violence in between but hey that's just my opinion.

There are several on the same level, e.g. Casino also by Scorsese.

Steve Martin??

There are a number of little things that would explain more but were difficult to put in the script. Henry performed poorly in school because of dyslexia.

@@kellyfehr3719 Hill is a known liar and exaggarator. The spider thing never happened, he claims it did. He never walked in through the back entrance of the Copa Capana (except maybe with someone else like Paulie). I even doubt he had all that much contact with Paulie, other than at family things and Paulie smashing his wife, Paulie was a Capo, Henry was merely connected. And plenty of other things.... Sammy Gravano had dyslexia, maybe that's where Henry got the idea to claim the same.

@@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 When Henry was on Howard Stern I believe that Spider's family called in and asked Henry where the kid's body was.

@@DominusLuna I saw his Howard Stern interview in full lenght, and I don't remember that. Then again it was a long time ago. But what does someone calling in prove? Nothing. He could have paid someone to make that call. It's not like they verify and screen calls THAT much. Law enforcement, including the Feds, say the story is bullshit. There wasn't even a sign of a hole having been dug, where he claimed the body was (or where it was "initially"). Other people in the mob, who knew Henry (such as Michael Franzese, who wasn't just some connected guy, but a Capo), have also called him a liar on several things, incl. the Copa Cabana thing. He was a nobody in the mob, and he's bigging up his own story. Just like Frank Lucas ("American Gangster") is a huge liar and exaggerator, who's story got ever more outlandish, before and after he gave that interview, that lead to his movie deal.

@@youtubemodsaresnowflakelef7692 How do you know Henry Hill was a known liar? You don't know. Without any type of proof. Who is gonna believe a clown like yourself? Your not some kind of consultant of a movie Henry Hill was. So go sit your ass down play with your toys and let the grown ups talk. All you believe is your own theories...

It's a partially true story.

@@FuckRU-vidAndGoogle Well films have a tendency to embellish things. Throwing a fib Even in a real story is not uncommon. Like in the Untouchables film. Where Elliott Ness throws Frank Nitti off a roof. That was pure Hollywood fiction.

@@jstube36 Yeah, but most of Henry Hill's entire persona in this movie is fake, he was never that individually significant, at least not until he turned informant.

​@@FuckRU-vidAndGoogle A real former mob boss reacted to a scene from Good Fellas and said that Henry Hill was basically a lost soul with a massive drug problem.

He wasn't in Top Gun. He also wasn't in any of the Rocky movies. He wasn't in the Terminator movies.

"Was just saying its a nice pen"

Oh hell yeah, Long Kiss Goodnight is just *fun.*

Best Nick Cage movie

Tommy Devito is based on Tommy Desimone not Tony Spilotro. Spilotro is a character out of Casino. Your mixing up two different characters in one sentence...🤣

@@brock3010 Yea. I know that. lol. I was too lazy to fix it after I sent it. Figured someone would call me on it.

This movie did'nt do him any justice at all and I agree. The real Tommy wasn't racist either and was respectful to blacks.

Jimmy wouldn't have made parole in 2004 anyway because he killed another inmate during his sentence.

Bill Burr once said every scene in Goodfellas was like a closing bit of a great act! So much truth in that, movie’s a classic!

The 1962 Cape Fear is vastly superior. Robert Mitchum's portrayal of Max Cady would beat down DeNiro's without breaking a sweat.

Legit. He scares the fuck out of me in that movie.

Didnt see Deniro as much a villain in this. Bad ass, smooth player, yes, but not a villain. Cape Fear he is defo a bad man.

I heard Tony Bennet was his second choice. He asked Frank Sinatra for a song but Sinatra refused - Sinatra was still pissed at the character Johnny Fontane in the novel and film 'The Godfather' being based on him and he opposed all Mafia / Mob movies for their portrayal of Italian Americans. Scorsese went ahead and used Sid Vicious (of the Sex Pistols) punk-rock version of Sinatra's signature song "My Way" to get back at him.

I can't remember (1991-93?) SLJ played Gator in jungle fever and also before that "Do the right thing)

@@deanlangworthy3311 Iirc, DTRT was from 88 or 89. True Romance was def 93. Sam: "I eat da butt, I eat EVERYthang..."

@@nonplayerzealot4 and then.. Drexel shoots him.. love true romance

"Anyway, where ARE duh shovels?..." was good, too. They gotta have lye n shovels n kitchen knives handy in that life. Liotta stepped on Bracco's last two fingertips after the gun in face scene, she audibly gasps in pain, but held character. That's a vet.

I took care of that thing for you....

@@arise2945Thank you Thank you😏

After Lufthansa Jimmy really didn't give anybody the benefit of the doubt. He also didn't want to pay them.

Especially contrasted with the editing of The Day It All Went To Crap sequence-- all jarring photography and quick cuts.

Henry's life was a complete mess after this though, so the last laugh was really more of a light chuckle than anything else.

​@@FuckRU-vidAndGoogle Henry was always a complete mess.

And Artie Piscano's mother in Casino

And he wasn't short like Joe Pesci. He was six feet and two inches tall.

He was definitiley watered down in the movie

RIP Rutger Hauer