*money can't buy her love...* FIRST TIME WATCHING: Casino (1995) REACTION (Movie Commentary) 

"This lady is a walking, talking red flag." The words of a wise man.

Tony ‘The Ant’ Spilotro was portrayed brilliantly and accurately right down to the resemblance. The scene when he’s with his lawyer, trying to get away from reporters is frame by frame realistic to the point that the real lawyer plays himself…then became mayor.

Man, that part where Sam has to CONVINCE Ginger to be with him. Most painful part of the film for me..

The lady playing the underboss's mother in the grocery store was the director's mother. The fellow playing the curly headed enforcer who was involved in many of the murders at the end was Frank Culotta, who actually was an Outfit gangster/enforcer. He was also a consultant for the film and the inspiration for the Frank Vincent character.

If Sharon Stone DIDN'T steal this movie, then she came pretty damn close. As much as I like Good Fellas, I like Casino better.

Sam made 2 MASSIVE MISTAKES. 1. Trust Ginger. 2. Let his friend come to Vegas. If only he didn't let his heart get in the way of his head.

One of the best movies ever. Your reactions were pretty much mine when I saw this as a kid. It was depressing but a great movie. And Scorcese does such an intricate job with the story line and the hits and the circumstances leading up to every situation

Joe Pesci said that the scene in the desert where he yells and curses at D’Nero when D’Nero just pulls back and let’s Pesci curse him out was significant, because as he said “no one reems D’Nero like that.” So it meant a lot that he was willing to pull back and let it happen in the scene.

Great reaction as always, thank you! Since you mentioned the adorable mother in the film who hated hearing her son swear…that was Catherine Scorsese, Martin’s real life mom. ❤️ She has been in several of Martin’s movies, including GoodFellas, playing Pesci’s mom. Loved seeing her in his films. 🙂

Sharon Stone really held her own with two heavyweight actors. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.

This is my favorite Robert De Niro movie. The character he plays is so logical and has such good common sense yet he doesn’t take crap from anybody. Also I feel for the guy because of his marriage troubles and his friend betraying him. I am glad that he did not go to jail or die at the end of the movie.

33:27 Did you know that the passerby who passed Pesci and Vincent is not an actor. Scorsese loved the improvisation so much he left it in the film. Pesci :"Who's the guy who's the guy

Dude, if you like that trio, you really need to see 'The Irishman'. It's hella long! But such good performances (especially DeNiro and Pesci and Pacino), you won't want it to end. I immediately watched all 4 hours again as soon as ended.

Sharon Stone was awesome in this because she is truly one of the worst fictional characters I’ve ever seen in a film. I absolutely despise her in Casino. Great job, Sharon.

Classic! Lived in Vegas when this was made.... 🤙🏽💯😎

In this movie (like Goodfellas also based on a true story), the character played by Joe Pesci is even more unhinged than the one he played in Scorcese previous film. The way him and his brother are dispatched is brutal AF.

This is one of my all time favorite movies. The actors are grade A+. Names have obviously been changed and a few small things. Other then that it's a kick ass true story...

Just watched your Goodfellas reaction and thought "He needs to watch Casino"... And here i am.

Pesci grew up around people like this, he knew how they really acted so he put that into his performances.

Man, you are awesome. You speak so eloquently and intelligently about movies. You don't come across as some film school nerd, but clearly someone who knows their stuff and seen some good movies. Great content man. Much love.

This movie has my favorite edit in any film. When Nicky is narrating in the cornfield and it gets interrupted by the bat smacking him.

You’re amazed at how fearsome he was and being a small guy. Dude was only implicated in like 20 murders - guy was the fucking grim reaper. Fantastic movie - probably top 50 all time

29:16 - For all the times I've seen this movie, I never noticed the fight in the background. 😂 30:17 - Love, be it real or imagined, is a powerful force. That's why he's still with her. Been there, done that, got the club jacket. 31:45 - "Manipulation 101," CI! If she can get Nicky to kill Sam, she can take everything without a fight. 34:22 - The toxic relationship is what makes this more than a mob movie. Two plotlines interwoven perfectly to make it the glorious mess we know and love that we call "Casino." 35:44 - Another one I know from experience. Regardless of how evil the woman is, her accusations will always trump the man's in a domestic dispute. As the cop told me, "The law protects the woman in these things." (I could explain this further, but it was one of the great traumas of my life.) Sharon Stone was the only person to receive an Oscar nomination. The movie got no Oscar wins. 🙁

One of my favorite movies

Michael Mann does crime drama pretty good.

Well said, three phenomenal performances from three great actors. Maybe Sharon Stone stole the show with her drugged out downfall. But De Niro and Pesci were equally astounding.

My favorite Scorcese film by far. Dope reaction.

The hitman at the end that shoots the guy in the parking lot and then the guy in white in the top of the head "where you goin jagoff" is the real Frank Cullotta, played by Frank Vincent in this movie.

FYI, the “adorable mom” is Scorsese’s actual mother. She makes cameos in a lot of his movies, including “Goodfellas” ! She is adorable! 😂

The thing that always bugged me about this movie is the fact that Sam didn't just pay someone to quietly make Lester "disappear." All he would have had to do is make a phone call or two, pay someone to bury the douchebag in a cornfield, and keep his mouth shut.

Frank Culotta who was an actual hit man of that time was in the movie as the old hit man and also helped with the authenticity of the characters. The character Frankie who is Nick's right hand man is him of that time.

My favourite Scorsese Mobster Film! Unbeatable energy, narrative flow and wonderfully executed violence. Not many react to this one due to the runtime without realising that it just flies by. And love that Scorsese really allowed Sharon Stone to shine. Not many cast Her for Her acting chops because She's so gorgeous, but Sharon really excelled in this piece! Also definitely Joe Pesci as His most delightfully unhinged and savage... 💖💖💖💖💖

The adorable old lady @ 24:24 is actually Martin Scorsese's Mom. Scorsese had casted her on several of his movies including GoodFellas.

You have to see De Niro in The Untouchables. He was incredible. Also, Heat was excellent as well. Thanks for the reaction. 👍🏽

this movie is so epic that it was split onto two VHS tapes if you rented it back in the day.

Excelente film..una obra de arte

23:25 His lawyer right there became the Mayor of Las Vegas. Nicky is suppose to be Anthony Spilotro a member of the Chicago Outfit, Spilotro was actually a big dude from what I've heard. Read into "The Family Secrets Trial" that happened like 15 years ago. They were actually killed in a basement in Bensenville and there bodies buried in a cornfield in Indiana.

scene where nicky is covering his mouth from FBI always had me dying, crazy but all time great character

This might be one of my favorite reacts from you so far lol

One of my all time favorites. Can't fake films like this. Pure class actors here.

Recently discovered this channel and loving it! Seeing your reactions makes me wish I hadn't seen these movies so I could experience them for the first time all over again!

The real life "Frankie" has small parts in this movie. He was the hitman who killed Stone and the guy in Costa Rica in the movie. He was Tony "The Ant" Spilotro's right-hand man in real life.

RIGHT before the car blows up in the beginning, you can see the slightest clip from the actor to a dummy if you close closely. The body kinda jolts back just slightly and his features become sharper.

The opening sequence is created by Saul Bass, who's "Phase IV" is one of my favourite movies of all time.

Love when your reactions are longer then 20 mins

You have to check out "City of God", an incredible good and criminally overlooked piece of art. A media called it the best movie of the past 10 years when it came out. Next to "8 Mile" it was THE movie of my teenage years... Watched it every day on DVD when I came home from school, probably a hundred times.

My sister was the flower girl for the wedding. I remember being at the production set of this movie when I was a kid in Vegas

FANTASTIC reaction, possibly the best I've seen for this movie! Great edit also! That first half in particular must have been hard to edit! PS: Slight correction: most of this movie takes place in the 60s and 70s; the 80s is just at the end. Same time period as "Goodfellas" basically. And I agree, he's got great music in this movie. A lot of Rolling Stones, as usual!

So the lawyer with him is the real lawyer and he also was the mayor of Las Vegas 12 years ago for 12 years and then his wife is the current mayor. Also when he was mayor he had a rule to get a filming license in Las Vegas he had to be included in a scene of your movie.

Fun fact: the old mother you said was adorable is Martin Scorce's mother.

Great reaction bro! 👍👍

This is based on the Stardust casino. You should look into this stuff. Very interesting.

And yes every muffin had an equal amount of blueberries. That really happened

I grew up in Reno, NV and my dads side of the family always had stories to tell about the mob there and in Vegas. I love this movie as for pretty much it’s damn near accurate with what happened in real life, down to the toxic relationship.

That blueberry muffin scene was true, lol

Fantastic soundtrack too.

Scorcese's gangster movies are weird... They're more often than not about the absolute scum of the earth - people with a completely twisted set of morals. And they're totally enjoyable.

I know years ago, 2 mob bodies were found in an Indiana cornfield, beaten and buried in just their underwear. Also, just outside Chicago, a mob boss was shot several times in the head with a .22, walking to his car in a restaurant parking lot. He actually survived. Always thought those scenes in the movie were inspired from that.

There’s not many reactions to this movie so glad to see a proper reaction to this it’s another masterpiece

21:30 your face/that shock 😂. THAT'S why I watch these reaction videos.

Gotta say Tony Soprano would not have been hustled like Sam "Ace" Rothstein was by Ginger. Ginger is the type of a lady who prays on naivety.

Ginger is a horror movie monster. Sam did it to himself, but then so does everyone.

Also, Sharon Stone plays crazy SO well.

Goodfellas has always been my favourite film (tied with the LotR trilogy) and I never really liked Casino all that much when I watched it as a teenager and in my early twenties, I always thought it spent too much time on Sam and Ginger and not enough time with the juicy mob stuff that I like, but as I got older I started to like it more and more. Goodfellas is still #1 but Casino is fantastic too. Especially Nicky. I have no idea how Joe Pesci ended up being one of the scariest guys on TV in the 1990's when he's barely 5 feet tall but holy shit he's one scary dude.

Dude, this is one of my favorite intros to any reaction video, lol. "Joe Pesci delivered. In fact he delivered a little too good." I threw my head back and laughed, because I knew what was coming in THIS movie. The last one they did together, "The Irishman", is great (although I think that one is FOUR hours!!!!). That's got Al Pacino in it as Jimmy Hoffa. ("Donnie Brasco" with Pacino and Johnny Depp are also worth watching. And DeNiro and Scorsese made two other huge movies that no one has done yet, for some bizarre reason: "The King Of Comedy" and "Cape Fear". Those two are musts. (They also did "Taxi Driver" and "Mean Streets" together. "Mean Streets" is their first mob movie together, the one that put them on the map. Harvey Keitel is both of those movies as well, another Scorsese "vet"!

My grandmother was spending $90k a year at the local casino's. I was her bodyguard and went with her. Every once in a while she'd toss me a $20 bill and say get lost. I sat there and watched her play for 10 hours a day. For years I studied my local casino's inside and out looking for an advantage. I finally found a loophole and started winning. Every time my grandmother tossed me $20 I turned it into $500. I was bringing in $5000 a week. I got greedy and the casino caught on. It was fun while it lasted. I didn't get rich but I enjoyed every minute of it.

I like your reactions. You don’t talk incessantly and miss funny or important things. Others RU-vidrs think their reactions have to be over-the-top and rambling. Also you have good analysis. I don’t always agree with it but it’s well-thought out.

Just found your channel and your reactions are soo great! Idk if you have a process for selecting the next movies you watch but I really suggest you watch the hunger games series. Its not on the radar of most reactors because its a YA book adaptation. But the themes it talks about (even more so the books) are very strong and relevant today. there's themes of capitalism, war/anti-war, sacrifice, and so much more. Its honestly always relevant to our society somehow lol

I love your reviews. Your humor and laugh make them really good.

Awesome Movie and Work Bro, Thanks!!!👍👍😎 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸

So this was based on a true story and real people. And just so you know most enforcers in real life were and are not usually big guys compared to what people imagine an enforcer should look like. They mistake security with enforcer. And one thing that is still true today and one reason I love living here so much is yes Vegas is the land of side hustle and handshake deals

I always felt Goodfellas was a better story but Casino a better movie. The sound track and flow of this is so unique. great review👍

So glad you reacted to this!

"When it comes down to fast money, people always find a way." More wise words.

The reason why Joe Pesci is so good at playing mob guys. Is because he sort of grew up around mob guys. Two of his uncles were in the mob. The neighborhood he grew up in was full of gangsters.

When the found the Ant and his brother in the cornfield it was on the morning news in the Chi. I was about 13. My intro to the Outfit.

This movie is acting 101

Great reaction, dude. Really fun to watch along with you.

The real Ginger (Geri McGee) dated Robert Redford in high school.

Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci were perfect for the role they played. Because they really did look like the real person...

dude you nailed Ginger and her MO like not even 5 minutes in

That field scene actually happened in a basement in Chicago

It's amazing how the mob had so much control in ownership at one point but in the end..they fucked it all up

"You hear a little girl Ace?!"

Only "Trainspotting" and "Donnie Brasco" left and then you'll have seen every classics of the 90's.

If you liked 'Snatch' you must watch 'Snatch Wars' on RU-vid where they dub Snatch over Star Wars. It's 8 mins long but it's clever and hysterically funny.

Look up on RU-vid for a video called something like Anthony Spilatro Perp Walk. Pesci was perfectly cast.

35:45 If the situation was reversed, the police would not let him be in the same NEIGHBORHOOD as her. Never mind letting him come into her house!🙄

You have to do GLORY , miracle at St Anna or read tails, Tuskegee airmen either. Love your reactions bro✊

Great reaction to this one. You should do The Departed.

When Nicky hits that asshole with that phone receiver😂😂😂😂😂

One thing it is hard for younger people to understand is the way Scorsese used the music. For us older people each sonn puts us in the correct palce in time. Same as in Goodfellas. BTW Mom is Scorsese's Mother.

33:30 that person was an actual random person passing by.

The older gentleman that did the hits at the end of the movie is in Frank Cullato in real life. Nicky's sidekick in the film. The one who lied about Nicky and Ginger having the affair

Awesome reaction! Ty Caped! Loved the way you got so pulled into their relationship from the word go. I just watched your reaction to Goodfellas a few days ago so this was perfect timing. The cinematography in this film was so stylish back then and felt almost "glossy" on the big screen. It was also fashionable to begin the movies with the end. Great cast, great film, great director. However, I definitely prefer Goodfellas.

And that's that.

This old white haired women is the mother of Joe Pesci's character in Goodfellas who serves them all dinner while Billy Batts is dying in the trunk, and in real life, is the mom of the director Martin Scorsese.

The characters in this movie are all based on real life people. There's plenty information available on RU-vid about this.

Yeah, Vegas was about 50% mob-run in one way or another in the 1970s (and earlier, of course), probably less than that once the decade turned. By the late 80s, however, a different type of gangster moved in, people like Mr. Wynn and Mr. Kerkorian who owned what was left of MGM. Of course Kerkorian had been there since the late 60s after the old movie studio shut down, but he increased his presence in LV by the 80s.

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