rjrumfel: this thread is about goodfellas and other scorsese films.

you mentioned "once upon a time in ny".

as far as i know this movie does not exist.

you are thinking of either "gangs of new york" (which is a fucking great scorsese film)

or

"once upon a time in america" a sergio leone film (of "the good, the bad, and the ugly" fame) which also starred robert de niro and in my opinion licked balls compared to other sergio leone films. i was severely dissappointed when i saw it.

10/18/2006 7:57:19 PM

I'd put Godfather and Goodfellas on the same level. I could see why some would say Goodfellas is a better movie, but overall they're about the same imo. Goodfellas is a lot easier to follow but once you get the plot of the godfather its pretty hard to beat.

10/18/2006 8:06:14 PM

oh shit guys

my apologies, I was talking about once upon a time in america

and I didnt know that was a leone film

10/18/2006 8:57:36 PM

The Godfather is a mob movie on such a large scale that everything Pacino does has some consequence because everyone i watching him.

goodfellas being basically a neighborhood "Family", they dont have AS much to deal with

Goodfellas is definately mirrored in the Sopranos in more ways than simply having part of the cast. The family, the wives, the business, getting made, meetings for killing made men, etc

10/19/2006 9:05:32 AM

once upon a time in america is too long, shits like 4 hours

10/19/2006 11:34:49 AM

Got this book in yesterday, by Nicholas Pileggi

He and Scorsese wrote the Goodfellas script from this book

Pileggi also wrote the book that the movie Casino is based on (thread coming)



awesome book so far, just like the movie, but more detail

the only thing different are the last names of Paulie, Jimmy, and Tommy

oh and first neat little fact I found,

Henry Hill was a paratrooper for a few years in the army

Stationed at Fort Bragg

[Edited on October 20, 2006 at 8:01 AM. Reason : >.<]

10/20/2006 8:01:16 AM

wanna read a good book? read the actual donnie brasco book that the movie was based off of. It was ten times better than the movie.

10/20/2006 9:17:59 AM

^^yeah i've always been interested in that book

i've watched goodfellas with the commentary turned on of the real Henry Hill and the main FBI agent...thats some insightful shit right there as well...like Joe Pesci's character in real life was just as violent and brutal, but he was also like 6'3" 260

10/20/2006 9:56:18 AM

Joe Pesci is the fucking man...

he plays almost the exact same guy in Casino

10/20/2006 9:57:25 AM

he's a little more out there in casino i think

you know casino is the first movie where vincent actually kills pesci, unlike goodfellas, raging bull, etc where pesci kills vincent

10/20/2006 10:08:33 AM

haha thats exactly what i said to myself

i was like, he finally got that fuck

10/20/2006 10:12:25 AM

Im almost done with the book, its great

turns out Henry Hill spent most of his youth running back and forth from the warehouses in NC with stolen cigarettes...

also, he and Karen got married in Walden NC... later they had a jewish wedding, like in the movie

10/26/2006 9:00:06 AM

Read every Mario Puzo book you can get your hands on. Although one or two are kind of "so-so"...the rest of his book are pretty awesome. "The Godfather" is one of the best books I've ever read...4 or 5 hundred pages that I finished in like a day and a half. It was only topped by "The Sicilian", which I was pissed that they made a shitty movie about. "The Family" is pretty money too.

10/26/2006 9:31:11 AM

will do, Im going to pick up Pileggis other book Casino while im at it

10/26/2006 9:32:42 AM

im gonna have to get this shit to bump in the car

http://www.amazon.com/Goodfellas-Motion-Picture-Various-Artists/dp/B000002IQ4/sr=8-2/qid=1161972707/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-1953451-9994565?ie=UTF8&s=music

10/27/2006 2:18:46 PM

yeah ive been rocking Layla for a while now on my burned cds

10/27/2006 2:23:40 PM

Quote :

"Pileggi also wrote the book that the movie Casino is based on (thread coming)"

Pileggi wrote Wise Guy with Henry Hill while he was running around in the witness protection program. Pileggi's wife wrote the screenplay for My Blue Heaven starring Steve Martin based on Hill's adventures in protection.

That blew my mind when I read it.

10/27/2006 2:51:18 PM

holy shit My Blue Heaven? oh man thats awesome

"My name is Todd....its Italian for...extra special"

10/27/2006 2:53:49 PM

whoa i didnt know anything about that

My Blue Heaven??

almost done with Wise Guys btw

10/30/2006 10:25:17 AM

11/14/2006 6:15:08 PM

Gangsters and Goodfellas is a good follow up to Wise Guy.

It picks up where the book left off and discusses Hill's reaction to the movie a bit as well.

11/14/2006 6:19:33 PM

^^ahahaha thats my shit

11/15/2006 10:05:57 AM

^^ yeah im going to get that after I finish The Sicilian

11/15/2006 5:29:13 PM