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Viewing GoodFellas for the AFI ...
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here:http://www.spout.com/blog s/pippin06/archive/2008/3/1/25 756.aspx GoodFellas is on the following AFI lists:
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A fairly good Mob movie
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"Based on the book "Wiseguys" by Nicholas Pileggi, "GoodFellas" is a fair Mob movie about former Mob member Henry Hill (Ray Liotta). Hill rises from a young man who does odd-jobs for members of his neighborhood Mob Family in the 1950s, to a man who becomes fed up with the life and turns State's witness to put away the Mobsters he admired as a boy. For a Mob movie, the violence is not much. However, it is sufficient for what is presented. If you want blood in a Mob movie, I suggest the "Godfather" Trilogy. The acting is pretty good, but nothing spectacular. Despite the great cast, none stand out and steal scenes -- however, Joe Pesci is pretty funny in a good number of scenes he's in. The story itself is somewhat interesting. However, I was expecting a violent, crime-driven motion picture. The directing was pretty good. But the director didn't set up any scenes where you were surprised when a gun was shot. I probably jumped once not expecting a shooting. Overall, this is not the Mob ... "
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"Danny Boyle’s new crowd-pleasing film Slumdog Millionaire was originally intended to be shot entirely in English, but apparently due to the preferences of a casting director, about a third of the movie is in Hindi. While this fraction may not be enough to call it a foreign-language film, it could have been enough to turn off subtitle-fearing audiences were the movie not so otherwise accessible due to its feel-good, “Hollywood-style” story involving star-crossed romance, destiny and an ultimate “love conquers all” message. Also, the movie breaks free from one off-putting foreign film tradition by following Man on Fire, Night Watch and TV’s Heroes into the realm of non-traditional subtitling. Slumdog received a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival, where it won the People’s Choice Awa "
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""You've never seen GoodFellas! How can you call yourself a movie fan and have never see GoodFellas?" I have been these asked question repeatedly over the last eight years and I have always been at a loss for an answer- it was just one of those movies that I had missed several times and could not easily fit into due to its relatively long length (two hours and twenty five minuets). And perhaps part of it was that I was a little afraid I would be disappointed. As I have said before, I like Scorsese, but do believe that the director is overrated. I do not think that GoodFellas is "The best mob movie ever" as Roger Ebert calls it (that would have to go the first two Godfather films) or one of the best films of the 90's, as it is often considered, or even a masterpiece, but I do think that it's a very good film that is among the upper echelons of Scorsese's work, even though it's not in a league with Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or The Aviator. The movie is an many ways a k ... "
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"Doing to some slight research into the most recent DVD screener I received from Spout, The Man of the Year, I felt there might be some promise. Alas, this was one of the worst I've seen in a while.I watched the trailer for the movie which was on the DVD as well after I had finished. It featured a quote from who knows where stating "If Quentin Tarantino had been Brazillian". I'm not sure what the second part of this sentence was because the trailer failed to let us know. But I tried to think of a number of possibilities. One of the simplest ones probably would have been, "he would have made a movie that looked nothing like this one." Really this movie has none of the wit or enjoyable dialogue that you would find in a Tarantino movie.For another comparison, I saw a quote from a review by Phil Villarreal from the Arizona Daily Star. He says "If 'City of God' is Brazil's answer to 'The Godfather,' then 'The Man of the Year' is Rio's 'G ... "
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First Of His
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"I love the experience of revisiting this film. It never gets old. It was my introduction to Scorsese, and will always have a very special place in my memory. "
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Scorsese's Masterpiece
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"WOW ! this film packs a wallop and each actor in the movie contributes to its perfection. I grew up in Little Italy, NYC (so did Scorsese) and this movie captures the wiseguy and mafia -hoodlum -wanna be attitude of many of the fellas in the hood . So well done.!! "
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"Star Wars may have the most famous opening title sequence in film history, but in terms of influence it’s got nothing on the work of Saul Bass. He’s the brilliant graphic designer who gave us the animated credits for Hitchcock’s Vertigo, North by Northwest and Psycho and Scorsese’s Casino, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence and Goodfellas and most of Otto Preminger’s work, including Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder and
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Goodfellas
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"I saw Goodfellas 4 days ago already, but I kept putting off writing about it. Why? Well...I'm afraid I'm going to blaspheme.Oh, not blaspheme in the "fucking show yourself, you goddamn bloodsucker" way I was talking to the hiding mosquito in my room on my hunt after the movie, infected by the language. No, blaspheme as in: I didn't really like it all that much.Oh, Scorses is definitely a master filmmaker, so I did find much to admire: there are some breathtaking tracking shots, the dialogue snaps like it should, basically every technical aspect is perfect. Somehow, though, I was unaffected.One thing might be that it's long, and that I didn't find the story particularly engaging or suspenseful. To put it crudely, I didn't really care who lived or died. It might be that I found the switching between the perspective of the voice-over from Henry to Karen and back distracting and unnecessary. More importantly, I think it's from a lack of affinity with Scorsese's take on the mafia as a t "
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Innocence
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"Moved from one Scorcese oddity the other night (The Color of Money), to another yesterday evening with this period piece. You can still see what drew him to the material - New York of the 1870s, betrayals and intrigue - almost a gentrified version of Goodfellas, where instead of getting 'wacked' you become a social outcast, excluded from invitations, gossiped about in smoking rooms, if you dare cross the line of honor and expected behavior. The opening 'ballroom' scene even reminded me a bit of the 'barroom introduction scene' in Goodfellas where the camera insinuates itself among the guests giving you little snippets of information about various characters.Newland (Daniel Day-Lewis) is such a wishy washy character to be put in the role of doomed lover, he secretly disapproves of the stiff conformity of his peers, yet never dares break from it completely, he longs for forbidden romance, yet can barely bring himself to make even the slightest moves towards ob ... "
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