Goodfellas (1990) ✦ Full-Length Watchalong Reaction
Added 2024-06-30 03:00:05 +0000 UTCHappy weekend all! This movie received the most votes in the Inspiration for Mr. Robot poll. Thanks to the 73 of you who voted for it! I'm very happy to check this one off both the Scorsese list and the gangster/mob/cartel list! I can't wait to dive into more of this genre of films down the road. [Direct link here.]
I'm looking forward to your comments and thank you so much for watching with me!
✦ KL
Comments
Goodfellas is one of those films I've heard so many good things about, but never got around to it. This was as good a time as any, so I checked it out for my first time as well. I see why it's held in high regard. It romanticizes the gangster lifestyle while also showing that it's basically inevitable that it's going to catch up with you eventually. From the very beginning, the narration is in past tense, which is foreboding. It's all gonna come crashing down. Basically, as an audience we can just grab some popcorn and watch the unraveling. Thanks as always for the reaction
Chad Jenkins
2024-07-13 06:43:03 +0000 UTCDonnie Brasco…another excellent mob movie based on a true story. Highly recommend.
boss435
2024-07-02 05:28:53 +0000 UTCAnother great reaction 😍😍😍I love the look u give the camera on the sex scenes and the laugh when u guessed Joe Pesci was getting what he deserves being a bully. I lived in Italy and New York. I had great Italian friends. It was probably some of my best times of my life. 😀😀😀
Perry Campbell
2024-06-30 22:50:18 +0000 UTCMight just be the greatest gangster movie ever made (he says, as if his opinion were somehow truth). Scorsese is just a master, and the cast is at the top of their game. It's really hard to nail down a favorite sequence or moment, because everything is so top-notch. The oner with Henry and Karen walking in through the back of the restaurant is pretty iconic, but I don't know. One of my favorite things about the movie is Scorsese's use of music, showcasing very romantic sounding classics in the beginning as Henry full-on romanticizes the mob, and then getting more and more frenetic and disillusioned as everything gets so messy and falls apart, until we end with Sid Vicious belting out Sinatra's (and Paul Anka's) 'I Did it My Way' like the fucked-up rock star he was.
Steve Mercier
2024-06-30 16:33:28 +0000 UTCThis is one of my top-3 favorite mob films. The Italian-American mob is very tricky cuz it’s like so cool, but you have to brush off the racism, sexism, discrimination, and countless murders. Tommy is definitely my favorite character—he was an agent of chaos. Favorite scene is the 3 minute one-shot of Henry and Karen walking through the back entrance into the restaurant. It just pulls you into the glamour of the mob life before it inevitably crashes.
Ray H
2024-06-30 06:10:09 +0000 UTCLOVE mobster movies and this one might be my all time favorite! Yay!
HugoBoss435
2024-06-30 05:14:40 +0000 UTC"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." Does Scorsese know how to open his movies or what? I'm excited to rewatch this with you. This was a film that I remember watching in my film studies class in college in 2009 (ish?) and it's one movie I'm always excited to watch with reactors no matter how many times I've personally seen it. I've often wondered if deNiro and Joe Pesci actually did have ties with the mob, at least for a few years, just because of how many mob portrayals deNiro has done and the fact Joe Pesci disappeared for so many years before coming back for The Irishman... Realistically though, it's probably just what deNiro's good at and Pesci probably just had personal stuff or wanted to retire for a while. But the brain never stops conspiring 😂
Nathan Jasper, the Artist Formerly Known as Primary
2024-06-30 03:18:51 +0000 UTC
