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I love this quote from Roger Ebert: "This is movie about a man who sells his soul, and the truly terrifying thing is that, in the end, his only regret is that he has no more of his soul to sell."
Ebert always had such a beautiful way with words when he would review movies. He had an ability to articulate things that I thought and felt about a movie but I didn't know how to convey them as perfectly as he did. He's always been my favorite film critic
My grandma accidentally gave me this movie for Christmas when it first came out in vhs and since I was a latchkey kid I watched it when my mother wasn’t home one day after school. It has been my favorite movie and I know it word for word and I used to tease my grandma with that opening line, because she gave an eight year old a Martin Scorsese movie and corrupted her mind in a funny way.
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
@Aka it perfectly encapsulates the main characters plight (wannabe gangster) and low-key sets up his downfall in basically the first real line in the whole movie. If anything the mundanity of it only makes it better
One of the greatest films ever made. Scorsese knocked it out of the park and delivered a truly fascinating look into the glory days and fall from grace that happened to the New York Italian mafia.
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
@@yakivpopavich what y’all think about Knockaround guys it’s another underrated mob movie that doesn’t get talked about it’s one of the 2000s mob movies
Joe Pesci filmed Home Alone the same time as Goodfellas and he had a hard time not cussing on the set. To cut down the swearing while on the Home Alone set, he started shouting incoherent ramblings when he got hit over the head and injured. Pesci is an absolute legend.
Whomever you got this from is wrong. Goodfellas wrapped principal photography the year before Home Alone. Maybe you mean Joe Pesci was having trouble shaking off his character from Goodfellas a bit? That has happened a few times. Al Pacino was in a play after he'd finished Scarface and he couldn't shake his Cuban accent and Tony Montana mannerisms until a few performances into the plays run
Love how the waiter Joe Pesci shoots in the foot is the actor of Christopher in the Sopranos, who then goes on to shoot a character in the foot in that show and say "it happens" 😂
It's crazy that just after watching this movie along with you I learn that the actor for Pauli just died, 2 months after Henry's actor who also died! May the both of them rest in peace. They made one hell of a movie.
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
One of my favorite films of all time. R.I.P. Frank Vincent. 💐👏🏼 R.I.P. Ray Liotta. 💐👏🏼 R.I.P. Paul Sorvino. 💐👏🏼 If u guys haven’t seen Donnie Brasco, I recommend seeing that film also. 💯
Echoing everyone's comments that Sopranos needs to be reacted to someday, as well as other Scorsese movies. And Eric needs to watch Heat, maybe some of the crew haven't seen it yet either.
I’m amazed how no major reaction channel has watched The Sopranos. It has an extremely active online community (Borko) and paved the way for every anti-hero protagonist show that has come since. Its like a free 50,000 subscribers for whoever jumps on it
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
26:29 The silent "Is that Samuel L. Jackson?" :D. In full length they had an instant reaction when he walked into the scene, but then it was never brought up in the discussion =)
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
It's just unbelievable how much better Martin Scorsese is than the rest. His hit to miss ratio is astounding, and the hits are just some of the best movies of all time that I can't believe from one director.
Fun fact the scene where Joe and Ray were in the restaurant laughing about how joe was funny was actually adlib it wasn't part of the script but the director liked it so much it was added to the movie and I'm so glad
Actually, while it’s one of the shortest, Patty Dukes speech for The Miracle Worker was even shorter. She simply said “Thank you” and exited the stage.
"One day some of the neighborhood kids carried my mother's groceries all the way home. You wanna know why? It was outta respect." One of the greatest lines EVER!
Easily one of my all-time favorite movies! It's hard to describe but it has a sort of rhythm - it just easily flows from scene to scene almost like a piece of music or something. I also notice how fluid the camera is - almost every shot has movement either within the frame or the camera itself moves. (One other movie that I feel the same way about is the Coen brothers' 'Fargo'. It has that same sense of rhythm and flow.)
To this day I still prefer Casino, but Goodfelllas has tons of classic lines and scenes it’s hard not to love it as well. 2 masterpieces from Scorsese.
I use to prefer Casino when I was younger but I grew a better understanding and took more from every watch of Goodfellas than I did Casino. I always found something new I didn’t notice before or I would try to read between the lines and try to figure out what something meant because they don’t always say or tell you everything in Goodfellas. With Casino it’s pretty much what you see is what you get and also I’m not too sure what the morale of the story of Casino is, like I’m sure there’s themes of like greed and lust that overlap between the three main stories but nothing truly deep to me like Goodfellas or The Departed like it just feels like just kinda ends with no real perspective to give.
Blow, Casino, The Godfather Trilogy, Carlito's Way, Analyze This, Get Shorty, A Bronx Tale, Donnie Brasco, Lucky Number Slevin, Reservoir Dogs, The Usual Suspects. Would really suggest all of these movies!
Henry Hill was arrested in 1980 on a narcotics-trafficking charge,[5] and with a long sentence hanging over him, he agreed to become an informant.[6] As a result, Karen and their two children (Gregg and Gina)[7] entered the U.S. Marshals' Witness Protection Program with Henry in 1980, changed their names, and moved around several undisclosed locations including Seattle, Washington; Cincinnati, Ohio; Omaha, Nebraska; Butte, Montana; and Independence, Kentucky.[8] In 1987, Henry Hill was convicted of cocaine trafficking in a federal court in Seattle and expelled from the witness protection program.[9][10] In 1990, Karen had filed for divorce after 23 years of marriage. The divorce was finalized in 2002.[citation needed] After their divorce, Henry remarried and fathered another child.[11] Karen Hill continues to use an alias to protect her identity, as do her two children, Gregg and Gina. Her children released a book in 2004, titled On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, that tells their own version of their experience with the Mafia. In the book, Gregg and Gina discuss how their maternal grandparents and Karen's two younger sisters, Sandy and Adrianne, helped take care of them, when Karen and Henry were out dealing in crime.[12] Henry died on June 12, 2012, at the age of 69, from heart failure in Los Angeles.[8]
Growing up in NYC, every neighborhood had a cabstand that had no cabs, and/or a barbershop where they didn't cut hair. And also there was an Italian American Social Club that would throw the greatest 4th of July block parties. I miss those days.
Every time I watch this movie I'm taken aback by how well it captures the shifting mood, just so much truly perfect filmmaking. Incredible script and performances too, and some of my favorite (and the most iconic) editing of all time. Man, what a film.
Im so glad you guys watched this! Love that you guys are watching some classic mainstream movies especially with the perspectives of people who have never seen them before.
I really wished these guys had watched this masterpiece before they saw the Community episode “Contemporary American Poultry” aka the Mafia Movie episode.😂😂 Also I still can’t believe why this movie lost Best Picture at the Oscars to Dances With Wolves. Don’t get me wrong, I love that movie, but it does NOT have the legendary film status that this movie does. RIP Ray Liota and Paul Sorvino
It was always wild to me that Henry Hill used to be a frequent caller and guest on Howard Stern. Also, one of the gangsters he mentions in a voiceover early on, Michael Franzese, has a big TH-cam channel now where he talks about how real mob movies are, etc. It's interesting to hear his side/inside stuff on this movie, The Irishman, etc, since he was literally there for that stuff.
20:50... I forgot the channel's name but there's this guy who made a video about Goodfellas and he talks about most of the characters who were killed in this movie are based on real people and he visits/shows the location where they were either killed, buried or discovered at. Like the real Spider was actually buried in the basement of that building he was killed in.
Growing up in Brooklyn in an Italian neighborhood, I can tell you that, that line is not original. People said shit like this to each other all the time. The idea was to come off real serious, then laugh when the other guy took it serious. Also heard "badda boom baddda bing" a lot, as well as "fugedaboudit". Lol.
@@realitycheck5376 I grew up in Jersey soooo I'm no stranger to that. With that said I never said it was original I'm saying it wasn't in the script. It also wasn't so much the line as it was the delivery and reactions that Joe and Ray gave that made Martin love it so much.
@@supersizesenpai Sorry, I didn't know I was speaking to the choir. Lol. Joe Pesci was genius for that and Ray's reaction was perfect too. Scorsese had to love it.
Ray Liottas laugh is legendary. RIP. Love this movie. A masterpiece and in my top 10 movies of all time. So glad you're finally watching it. Reminds me of the times my father grew up in Philly at literally the exact same time as far as the years and their ages. Crazy. So many stories. He was a great guy though and I don't mean all the brutal stuff if that makes sense. It's just crazy how different things were back then. The shot with Deniro smoking at the bar was always his favorite scene. Wish you didn't cut it out. I lost my father early this year to covid, unexpectedly obviously. Double pneumonia. He battled for 5 weeks. Love you dad. Miss you everyday. I hear time heals all wounds, but so far that hasn't been the case. And today is one of those bad days. Thanks for the reaction,. Hopefully it starts getting easier. This helped
The movie "My Blue Heaven", starring Steve Martin, is an incidental sequel to "Good Fellas". Martin and Ray Liotta both play Henry Hill, the former played his experience in the witness protection program.
Hank would later be kicked out of witness protection because he got back into the drug business. Between that and his record, he had to resort to telling about his life in the mob for a living until his death.
By then Jimmy Burke (Jimmy Conway in the movie) and Paul Vario (Paul Cicero) were dead and no one in the Lucchese family really cared anymore about Henry. Killing Hill would only bring a lot unwanted attention for such a small fish as Hill.
Joe Pesci should have been paid for two jobs with this picture. One for playing the wise guy Tommy, and the other as a wise guy authenticity consultant. He grew up surrounded by real connected guys in NJ and mirrored a lot of his improvised dialogue after things he heard as a teenager.
That was a fun watch with y'all, thanks for that! To this day, it has the number one image+sound brain-burn in cinema for me; hearing Layla, I instantly see garbage bags tumbling over each other in slow motion. What a sequence. I remember reading somewhere that Henry Hill went to see the movie and actually wrote a review of it for either GQ or Details mag. Fun fact: talk about influences... when Danny Boyle was making Trainspotting, he wanted to homage Scorsese's use of song/soundtrack to denote the time/era.
SOPRANOS REACTION BY THE END OF THE YEAR PLEASE. The bartender kid who got shot in the foot and later gets murdered was Uriel from Lucifer. He also plays a really important character in the THE SOPRANOS. PLEASE GET TO THAT SHOW THEN WATCH THE WIRE AND Oz, HBOs best shows imo
I watched goodfellas every fuckin day at lunch my senior year in high school… in parts of course, but I’ve seen the entire movie at once probably 100 times
It's also just moral cowardice and the inability to love. They all act like best friends, but they all also fear and despise each other, so that as soon as its convenient, or necessary to off one another, they have no compunction at all. They give each other the freedom to do whatever they want, but at no point is there any acceptance of self-sacrifice to help each other. You can do whatever you like as long as you don't ask me to put you before me. Not being bound by the law also means not being bound by common decency or loyalty or friendship. And in the end they have no freedom, either because they live most of their lives in jail, or because they live in fear of each other and the feds. They can do whatever they like, except build up a real life on real relationships and real love, which would require moral backbone, self-control and self-denial.
One of the main reasons that the real life Tommy was killed is that he approached Karen Hill for sex. When she refused, he tried to rape her. Karen was having an affair with Paulie at the time, and when she told him what happened he was enraged. He went to the Gambino family and told them that Tommy had killed Batts, as not turning him over for killing a made Gambino family man could risk a mob war. Tommy’s violent temper was also bringing unwanted attention. It was believed that John Gotti, who was a close friend of Billy Batts, personally murdered Tommy, and contrary to the film, his death was slow and torturous. His body was never found.
You will see Goodfellas a few times over the next few years pop up on tv, and it will be around the 3rd viewing when you will realise how amazing this movie truly is.
When I watched this I wondered if you guys had seen Heat, which is a Michael Mann movie, and then when I heard Eric say he had not seen it, I had to comment...you should make that one you watch and react to boys, ASAP, it is INSANELY great...thanks for the great content as always.
that scene of the music playing over the pink caddy and dead people, has stayed with me for 30 years. every time I hear Layla by Clapton, it instantly brings me back. Surreal
Shoutout to Eric for noticing something I’ve never noticed before. He’s always smoking a cigar, except in the scene where he picks Tommy up to get made. Nice foreshadowing from Scorcese
Joe Pesci 5'4" 128 lbs played a guy Tommy DeVito in the film, in real life Thomas DeSimone was 6'4" 230 lbs and still made him menacing yet DeSimone was far more violent and psychotic than he is portrayed in this movie.
Despite Tommy DeVito being known for being exceptionally dangerous, I've read that he was really broken up about having to kill Stacks. It had to be done but they were really close friends.
14:06 that was the moment I learned about sound design as a kid, i can still feel the impact of those hits in my gut even now. 17:07 also, best line delivery in the whole movie
I know it’s not really the most hilarious or important of scenes, but I just love when he’s rattling off all the gangsters he’s working with and the nicknames. It just makes me chuckle and I don’t know why. Lol
Henry Hill , while in the witness program would pop up in NYC & drop in on the Howard Stern radio show . Gangster would call in to threaten him & he would laugh it off & say “ you know where I am right now , so do something !” . But once day when he popped in , Spiders sister called in & begged him to tell her where spiders body was , so they could bury him . Hill pleaded ignorance
Goodfellas and Gangs of New York are my favorite Scorsese films. Wolf of Wallstreet was really good and a great insight into the high rolling bro grift that destroyed the retirement accounts of so many of us and caused so many Americans to lose their homes. The Departed, The Aviator, really good; I'd definitely watch them again. Hell, I'd watch any Scorsese movie again; he's so good. I was 29 when this came out. The woman who played Tommy's mom is Scorsese's mom in real life.
The cars Henry blows up is a rival cab company that refused to be bought out by Paulie. So they burned out all the cars. Making the business worthless and allowed Paulie's cab company to expand. It's in the book.
So in real life, the Billy Bats murder went a bit differently. The movie was going to have a closer version to what really happened, but they risked getting a higher rating so they tamed it down with what we see at the beginning… that’s the tame version. In real life, they didn’t have the gun or knife. They had a tire iron. They beat him to death with a tire iron.
The way Tommy went out is like the oldest trick in the book, going back to Roman times. Julius Caesar was going to call off the Senate meeting where he was assassinated, but one of the conspirators, who was a long time friend of his, convinced him not to by telling him the Senate planned to lavish him with all kinds of honors at that meeting. Then, he walks in and gets stabbed 23 times.
Nicolas Pileggi who co wrote the screenplay and wrote the book was married to Nora Ephron who wrote My Blue Heaven which is pretty much a semi sequel to Goodfellas as it tells the story of a mob guy as he adapts to suburban life.
You would think the prison scene with all of them cooking and chilling would be fake but its 100% true. These guys had the guard's brideb so well that they could do pretty much anything they wanted.
Without Goodfellas, there's no Sopranos. Without Tony Soprano, there's no Walter White. Without Breaking Bad, 80% of today's cable and streaming crime dramas don't exist. So thank you Goodfellas for existing.
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Y'all need to follow this up with Martin Scorsese's ''Casino'' (1995) and then ''The Wolf of Wall Street'' (2013), or vice versa...
Rumor has it that the REAL Henry Hill thank Ray Liotta for not making him look like a douch-bag, and Liotta just said "Did you see the movie?" Haha.
Lol
When Henry Hill was on Howard Stern, they had to hide the bottle from him after a point.
Ray said himself he’s never seen ANY of his films…and Henry Hill said that on Howard Stern…Hillwas constantly drunk as hell on that show
@@mr.smithgnrsmith7808 Shit I would be too if I saw the shit Hill saw
But what does that mean
I love this quote from Roger Ebert: "This is movie about a man who sells his soul, and the truly terrifying thing is that, in the end, his only regret is that he has no more of his soul to sell."
Ebert always had such a beautiful way with words when he would review movies. He had an ability to articulate things that I thought and felt about a movie but I didn't know how to convey them as perfectly as he did. He's always been my favorite film critic
The real henry hill is an unreliable narrator. Henry Hill is nowhere NEAR as innocent as he describes himself to be in the interviews. FAR from it.
@@Gadget-Walkmen even so, the movie him isn't a good person either
@@GabrielNeanderthal exactly.
"As far back as I remember, I always wanted to be a gangster."
One of the best opening scenes ever.
As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be in a mafia movie
@@sang1342 We stopped being a Family, and started being a _Family_ in italics
My grandma accidentally gave me this movie for Christmas when it first came out in vhs and since I was a latchkey kid I watched it when my mother wasn’t home one day after school.
It has been my favorite movie and I know it word for word and I used to tease my grandma with that opening line, because she gave an eight year old a Martin Scorsese movie and corrupted her mind in a funny way.
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
@Aka it perfectly encapsulates the main characters plight (wannabe gangster) and low-key sets up his downfall in basically the first real line in the whole movie. If anything the mundanity of it only makes it better
RIP Tony Sirico. Was just a minor character in this but went on to play one of the best television characters ever in The Sopranos
And of course he'd be named Paulie LOL
Paulie Walnuts is the best character in Sopranos
@@samhilton4173 OH!
word to the wise, remember pearl harbour 🤘
Heh heh heh, eh ton
One of the greatest films ever made. Scorsese knocked it out of the park and delivered a truly fascinating look into the glory days and fall from grace that happened to the New York Italian mafia.
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
@@yakivpopavich what y’all think about Knockaround guys it’s another underrated mob movie that doesn’t get talked about it’s one of the 2000s mob movies
@@yakivpopavich well actually there are still quite a lot of Italian and irish mobs its just a lot more subtle and harder for them to operate
The disrespect that was Dances with wolves…
There’s no such thing as the mafia.
Joe Pesci filmed Home Alone the same time as Goodfellas and he had a hard time not cussing on the set. To cut down the swearing while on the Home Alone set, he started shouting incoherent ramblings when he got hit over the head and injured. Pesci is an absolute legend.
From what I read Chris Columbus suggested that Pesci use 'fridge' in place of the f-word.
Considering Goodfellas was filmed in 1989 and Home Alone was filmed between February and May 1990, I find that quite difficult to believe.
Whomever you got this from is wrong. Goodfellas wrapped principal photography the year before Home Alone.
Maybe you mean Joe Pesci was having trouble shaking off his character from Goodfellas a bit?
That has happened a few times. Al Pacino was in a play after he'd finished Scarface and he couldn't shake his Cuban accent and Tony Montana mannerisms until a few performances into the plays run
fun fact: Tommy's mother is actually played by Scorsese's mother. Her and his dad had cameos in loads of his movies.
The paintings were really hers, also.
And the scene was improvised by her. Legend!
His father is the one making the sauce in prison.
RIP Paul Sorvino and Ray Liotta. Two great actors that really shine in this film, especially Liotta.
Also R.I.P. Frank Vincent, who played Billy Batts.
Love how the waiter Joe Pesci shoots in the foot is the actor of Christopher in the Sopranos, who then goes on to shoot a character in the foot in that show and say "it happens" 😂
Yes, please keep having this type of segment: "POPULAR MOVIES THAT THE CREW NEVER SEEN (especially Aaron)"!
It's crazy that just after watching this movie along with you I learn that the actor for Pauli just died, 2 months after Henry's actor who also died! May the both of them rest in peace. They made one hell of a movie.
RIP both Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino.
Now that they understand the references, I hope one day Eric and Aaron re-watch the Community episode "Contemporary American Poultry".
“As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be in a mafia movie.” Abhed
I was gonna say this too
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
@@yakivpopavich The Irishman was released pretty recently. And the mob isn’t completely gone. They are aren’t as substantial as they once was.
Or literally every Goodfeathers short on classic Animaniacs
One of my favorite films of all time.
R.I.P. Frank Vincent. 💐👏🏼
R.I.P. Ray Liotta. 💐👏🏼
R.I.P. Paul Sorvino. 💐👏🏼
If u guys haven’t seen Donnie Brasco, I recommend seeing that film also. 💯
Echoing everyone's comments that Sopranos needs to be reacted to someday, as well as other Scorsese movies. And Eric needs to watch Heat, maybe some of the crew haven't seen it yet either.
I’m amazed how no major reaction channel has watched The Sopranos. It has an extremely active online community (Borko) and paved the way for every anti-hero protagonist show that has come since. Its like a free 50,000 subscribers for whoever jumps on it
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
If they hadn't seen Goodfellas, they certainly haven't seen Heat
52:07 Heat is Michael Mann and is one of the all time greats, I pray it makes it onto a poll or you guys choose to watch it real soon.
Joe Pesci ad libbed the 'I'm funny, I amuse you' scene. Ray Liotta's reaction is genuine as he didn't know what was happening.
26:29 The silent "Is that Samuel L. Jackson?" :D. In full length they had an instant reaction when he walked into the scene, but then it was never brought up in the discussion =)
The guy playing the FBI agent who puts them into witness protection is actually the real FBI agent who agent who handled Henry.
Wasn't FBI Was the United States attorney for the New York district.
@@jcarlovitch Thanks for clarifying. Not sure why I thought it was the FBI.
@@John_Locke_108 I thought the same thing
now they've watched Goodfellas, we NEED to get The Sopranos on a poll.
Yes!
Wait… they haven’t seen the sapranos?
@@TheManWithTheMasterPlan Idk. But if they haven't.. they're seriously missing out
It's very sad, just as the Italian Mafia and all it's families have all come to an end as are all the movies and media regarding it. Goodfellas. Godfather, Sopranos, etc. The age and era of the Italian and Irish Mob are dead and gone, and all of the actors of the aforementioned films are in their later years and probably filmed their last Italian mob related movie. I still wish we had more of it, it should have been like Western's with tons of Movies and TV Shows about various Italian Mob crime families and such. Oh well. :(
@@yakivpopavichI think the Italian mafia coming to an end is a good thing above all
It's just unbelievable how much better Martin Scorsese is than the rest. His hit to miss ratio is astounding, and the hits are just some of the best movies of all time that I can't believe from one director.
I think Heat (1995) with De Niro and Pacino would be a great movie to react too. I hope you will do it someday!
Fun fact the scene where Joe and Ray were in the restaurant laughing about how joe was funny was actually adlib it wasn't part of the script but the director liked it so much it was added to the movie and I'm so glad
Joe Pesci won the best supporting actor oscar for this movie. For his speech he said, "It's my privilege, thank you". It's the shortest ever.
Actually, while it’s one of the shortest, Patty Dukes speech for The Miracle Worker was even shorter. She simply said “Thank you” and exited the stage.
I lost it when Eric looked disgusted at the idea of tiny plates at a fancy restaurant 🤣
"One day some of the neighborhood kids carried my mother's groceries all the way home. You wanna know why? It was outta respect." One of the greatest lines EVER!
Easily one of my all-time favorite movies! It's hard to describe but it has a sort of rhythm - it just easily flows from scene to scene almost like a piece of music or something. I also notice how fluid the camera is - almost every shot has movement either within the frame or the camera itself moves. (One other movie that I feel the same way about is the Coen brothers' 'Fargo'. It has that same sense of rhythm and flow.)
The FBI agent who talked with Henry Hill and his wife about the witness protection program is the actual agent who dealt with the real Henry Hill.
To this day I still prefer Casino, but Goodfelllas has tons of classic lines and scenes it’s hard not to love it as well. 2 masterpieces from Scorsese.
I prefer Casino too but yeah they are both amazing movies.
I use to prefer Casino when I was younger but I grew a better understanding and took more from every watch of Goodfellas than I did Casino. I always found something new I didn’t notice before or I would try to read between the lines and try to figure out what something meant because they don’t always say or tell you everything in Goodfellas. With Casino it’s pretty much what you see is what you get and also I’m not too sure what the morale of the story of Casino is, like I’m sure there’s themes of like greed and lust that overlap between the three main stories but nothing truly deep to me like Goodfellas or The Departed like it just feels like just kinda ends with no real perspective to give.
same here. Casino all the way.
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Goodfellas is better than Casino, in my opinion.
Blow, Casino, The Godfather Trilogy, Carlito's Way, Analyze This, Get Shorty, A Bronx Tale, Donnie Brasco, Lucky Number Slevin, Reservoir Dogs, The Usual Suspects.
Would really suggest all of these movies!
The scene where Paulie smacks Henry in his back yard was improvised by Scorsese. Notice Liotta’s reaction, he wasn’t expecting that shit.
Henry Hill was arrested in 1980 on a narcotics-trafficking charge,[5] and with a long sentence hanging over him, he agreed to become an informant.[6] As a result, Karen and their two children (Gregg and Gina)[7] entered the U.S. Marshals' Witness Protection Program with Henry in 1980, changed their names, and moved around several undisclosed locations including Seattle, Washington; Cincinnati, Ohio; Omaha, Nebraska; Butte, Montana; and Independence, Kentucky.[8]
In 1987, Henry Hill was convicted of cocaine trafficking in a federal court in Seattle and expelled from the witness protection program.[9][10] In 1990, Karen had filed for divorce after 23 years of marriage. The divorce was finalized in 2002.[citation needed] After their divorce, Henry remarried and fathered another child.[11]
Karen Hill continues to use an alias to protect her identity, as do her two children, Gregg and Gina. Her children released a book in 2004, titled On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, that tells their own version of their experience with the Mafia. In the book, Gregg and Gina discuss how their maternal grandparents and Karen's two younger sisters, Sandy and Adrianne, helped take care of them, when Karen and Henry were out dealing in crime.[12]
Henry died on June 12, 2012, at the age of 69, from heart failure in Los Angeles.[8]
Growing up in NYC, every neighborhood had a cabstand that had no cabs, and/or a barbershop where they didn't cut hair. And also there was an Italian American Social Club that would throw the greatest 4th of July block parties. I miss those days.
Every time I watch this movie I'm taken aback by how well it captures the shifting mood, just so much truly perfect filmmaking. Incredible script and performances too, and some of my favorite (and the most iconic) editing of all time. Man, what a film.
Im so glad you guys watched this! Love that you guys are watching some classic mainstream movies especially with the perspectives of people who have never seen them before.
Not a movie but I want them to react to the Sopranos
Same here!
So badly!!!!
I really wished these guys had watched this masterpiece before they saw the Community episode “Contemporary American Poultry” aka the Mafia Movie episode.😂😂
Also I still can’t believe why this movie lost Best Picture at the Oscars to Dances With Wolves. Don’t get me wrong, I love that movie, but it does NOT have the legendary film status that this movie does.
RIP Ray Liota and Paul Sorvino
It was always wild to me that Henry Hill used to be a frequent caller and guest on Howard Stern. Also, one of the gangsters he mentions in a voiceover early on, Michael Franzese, has a big TH-cam channel now where he talks about how real mob movies are, etc. It's interesting to hear his side/inside stuff on this movie, The Irishman, etc, since he was literally there for that stuff.
R.I.P. Ray Liotta, Tony Sirico, and, Paul Sorvino.
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be in a Mafia Movie..."
Micael Franzese, who was mentioned in the bar scene is a real ex mafia Captain….huge TH-cam channel now….awesome man
20:50... I forgot the channel's name but there's this guy who made a video about Goodfellas and he talks about most of the characters who were killed in this movie are based on real people and he visits/shows the location where they were either killed, buried or discovered at. Like the real Spider was actually buried in the basement of that building he was killed in.
Eric: "I thought that was going to be worse honestly "
Calvin: " It was pretty bad". OMG I can't with you guys 😂. Love the channel btw.
The "Funny guy" scene was completely improvised including Henry's reaction. The director loved it so much he had no choice but to keep the scene.
Growing up in Brooklyn in an Italian neighborhood, I can tell you that, that line is not original. People said shit like this to each other all the time. The idea was to come off real serious, then laugh when the other guy took it serious. Also heard "badda boom baddda bing" a lot, as well as "fugedaboudit". Lol.
@@realitycheck5376 I grew up in Jersey soooo I'm no stranger to that. With that said I never said it was original I'm saying it wasn't in the script. It also wasn't so much the line as it was the delivery and reactions that Joe and Ray gave that made Martin love it so much.
@@supersizesenpai Sorry, I didn't know I was speaking to the choir. Lol. Joe Pesci was genius for that and Ray's reaction was perfect too. Scorsese had to love it.
"director" lol
Ray Liottas laugh is legendary. RIP. Love this movie. A masterpiece and in my top 10 movies of all time. So glad you're finally watching it.
Reminds me of the times my father grew up in Philly at literally the exact same time as far as the years and their ages. Crazy. So many stories. He was a great guy though and I don't mean all the brutal stuff if that makes sense. It's just crazy how different things were back then. The shot with Deniro smoking at the bar was always his favorite scene. Wish you didn't cut it out.
I lost my father early this year to covid, unexpectedly obviously. Double pneumonia. He battled for 5 weeks. Love you dad. Miss you everyday. I hear time heals all wounds, but so far that hasn't been the case. And today is one of those bad days. Thanks for the reaction,. Hopefully it starts getting easier. This helped
The movie "My Blue Heaven", starring Steve Martin, is an incidental sequel to "Good Fellas". Martin and Ray Liotta both play Henry Hill, the former played his experience in the witness protection program.
One of the all time classics and one of my favourite movies.
Henry Hill published The Wiseguy Cookbook with anecdotes from his life in between recipes. I've made some of them. Pretty good actually 👌
Hank would later be kicked out of witness protection because he got back into the drug business. Between that and his record, he had to resort to telling about his life in the mob for a living until his death.
By then Jimmy Burke (Jimmy Conway in the movie) and Paul Vario (Paul Cicero) were dead and no one in the Lucchese family really cared anymore about Henry. Killing Hill would only bring a lot unwanted attention for such a small fish as Hill.
I can't hear Layla anymore without thinking about dead bodies being found all around Queens.
Yes, this was really based on a true story. Henry was such a character. He was a frequent guest on the Howard Stern Show through the 90's and 2000's.
Pesci won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor ❤❤❤❤
Joe Pesci should have been paid for two jobs with this picture. One for playing the wise guy Tommy, and the other as a wise guy authenticity consultant. He grew up surrounded by real connected guys in NJ and mirrored a lot of his improvised dialogue after things he heard as a teenager.
Rip Ray, and Paul
That was a fun watch with y'all, thanks for that!
To this day, it has the number one image+sound brain-burn in cinema for me; hearing Layla, I instantly see garbage bags tumbling over each other in slow motion. What a sequence.
I remember reading somewhere that Henry Hill went to see the movie and actually wrote a review of it for either GQ or Details mag.
Fun fact: talk about influences... when Danny Boyle was making Trainspotting, he wanted to homage Scorsese's use of song/soundtrack to denote the time/era.
Goodfellas is one of my favourite movies. It's the best mob movie
SOPRANOS REACTION BY THE END OF THE YEAR PLEASE. The bartender kid who got shot in the foot and later gets murdered was Uriel from Lucifer. He also plays a really important character in the THE SOPRANOS. PLEASE GET TO THAT SHOW THEN WATCH THE WIRE AND Oz, HBOs best shows imo
My Blue Heaven, staring Steve Martin.was also based on Henry Hill after witness protection. It was actually released a month before Goodfellas.
Jimmy died in prison before he could make it to 2004.
"Gangs of New York" is by far my favorite Scorsese film it's like a Grimm's fairy tale about the early gangsters of New York in 1863.
I’m not judging you but I’ve never heard of this opinion before haha
@@hathbeenslain Yeah I could've worded it a little better lol.
I watched goodfellas every fuckin day at lunch my senior year in high school… in parts of course, but I’ve seen the entire movie at once probably 100 times
It's also just moral cowardice and the inability to love. They all act like best friends, but they all also fear and despise each other, so that as soon as its convenient, or necessary to off one another, they have no compunction at all. They give each other the freedom to do whatever they want, but at no point is there any acceptance of self-sacrifice to help each other. You can do whatever you like as long as you don't ask me to put you before me. Not being bound by the law also means not being bound by common decency or loyalty or friendship. And in the end they have no freedom, either because they live most of their lives in jail, or because they live in fear of each other and the feds. They can do whatever they like, except build up a real life on real relationships and real love, which would require moral backbone, self-control and self-denial.
One of the main reasons that the real life Tommy was killed is that he approached Karen Hill for sex. When she refused, he tried to rape her. Karen was having an affair with Paulie at the time, and when she told him what happened he was enraged. He went to the Gambino family and told them that Tommy had killed Batts, as not turning him over for killing a made Gambino family man could risk a mob war. Tommy’s violent temper was also bringing unwanted attention. It was believed that John Gotti, who was a close friend of Billy Batts, personally murdered Tommy, and contrary to the film, his death was slow and torturous. His body was never found.
FYI Jimmy Burke (Conway) never got out alive; he died in ‘96. Thank goodness.
Did you guys notice Uriel got shot in the foot? He didn't see that coming either.
You will see Goodfellas a few times over the next few years pop up on tv, and it will be around the 3rd viewing when you will realise how amazing this movie truly is.
The dialogue is so real
My favourite Movie from my favourite Director. Glad you guys enjoyed it!!
There was a mention of GTA 3 and V but not Vice City in which Ray Liotta actually voiced Tommy Vercetti the main protagonist.
RIP, Ray Liotta and Paul Sorvino.
I’ve seen Goodfellas so many times but I never realized The guy who played spider was also Uriel from Lucifer
When I watched this I wondered if you guys had seen Heat, which is a Michael Mann movie, and then when I heard Eric say he had not seen it, I had to comment...you should make that one you watch and react to boys, ASAP, it is INSANELY great...thanks for the great content as always.
Two Rules of Goodfellas:
1. Never bust your friend's balls
2. And always avoid busting balls.
Regular people: "What have I seen? What haven't I seen?"
Eric: "What have I seen? What have I haven't?"
I would love for them do do a re-reaction the the Community Chicken Finger episode after this
Damn honestly can't believe you haven't seen Goodfellas, but this is a welcome surprise to my morning!
Lot of comments so likely already mentioned, 27 actors in Goodfellas also appeared on the TV series The Sopranos.
At 66 years old and watching 30s year old commentators say this movie reminds them of a GTA video game makes me feel old and out of touch.
Big props to the person that edited this reaction. Great job.
that scene of the music playing over the pink caddy and dead people, has stayed with me for 30 years. every time I hear Layla by Clapton, it instantly brings me back. Surreal
Based on this reaction, they’ve never seen The Sopranos
Shoutout to Eric for noticing something I’ve never noticed before. He’s always smoking a cigar, except in the scene where he picks Tommy up to get made. Nice foreshadowing from Scorcese
Joe Pesci 5'4" 128 lbs played a guy Tommy DeVito in the film, in real life Thomas DeSimone was 6'4" 230 lbs and still made him menacing yet DeSimone was far more violent and psychotic than he is portrayed in this movie.
Despite Tommy DeVito being known for being exceptionally dangerous, I've read that he was really broken up about having to kill Stacks. It had to be done but they were really close friends.
14:06 that was the moment I learned about sound design as a kid, i can still feel the impact of those hits in my gut even now.
17:07 also, best line delivery in the whole movie
I know it’s not really the most hilarious or important of scenes, but I just love when he’s rattling off all the gangsters he’s working with and the nicknames. It just makes me chuckle and I don’t know why. Lol
I always think its fascinating when reaction channels react to the same movie, shows all reactors share a big community
Henry Hill , while in the witness program would pop up in NYC & drop in on the Howard Stern radio show . Gangster would call in to threaten him & he would laugh it off & say “ you know where I am right now , so do something !” . But once day when he popped in , Spiders sister called in & begged him to tell her where spiders body was , so they could bury him . Hill pleaded ignorance
I swear to god, the first big reaction channel to watch the Sopranos is gonna make a killing
12:28 and Then He Kissed Me by The Crystals produced by Phil Spector and his Wall of Sound
12:11 I can’t believe you guys skipped over one of the most iconic long takes in history!! At least you saw it though, that’s all that matters.
Goodfellas and Gangs of New York are my favorite Scorsese films. Wolf of Wallstreet was really good and a great insight into the high rolling bro grift that destroyed the retirement accounts of so many of us and caused so many Americans to lose their homes. The Departed, The Aviator, really good; I'd definitely watch them again. Hell, I'd watch any Scorsese movie again; he's so good.
I was 29 when this came out.
The woman who played Tommy's mom is Scorsese's mom in real life.
The cars Henry blows up is a rival cab company that refused to be bought out by Paulie. So they burned out all the cars. Making the business worthless and allowed Paulie's cab company to expand. It's in the book.
Easily one of my favourites of all time. Lost count of the amount times I've seen it...and never gets old. Just perfect.
The Dinner in Prison scene is one of the greatest individual scenes in any movie ever.
So in real life, the Billy Bats murder went a bit differently. The movie was going to have a closer version to what really happened, but they risked getting a higher rating so they tamed it down with what we see at the beginning… that’s the tame version. In real life, they didn’t have the gun or knife. They had a tire iron. They beat him to death with a tire iron.
The way Tommy went out is like the oldest trick in the book, going back to Roman times. Julius Caesar was going to call off the Senate meeting where he was assassinated, but one of the conspirators, who was a long time friend of his, convinced him not to by telling him the Senate planned to lavish him with all kinds of honors at that meeting. Then, he walks in and gets stabbed 23 times.
Nicolas Pileggi who co wrote the screenplay and wrote the book was married to Nora Ephron who wrote My Blue Heaven which is pretty much a semi sequel to Goodfellas as it tells the story of a mob guy as he adapts to suburban life.
You would think the prison scene with all of them cooking and chilling would be fake but its 100% true. These guys had the guard's brideb so well that they could do pretty much anything they wanted.
12:43 "it's a fancy place with tiny plates"
Eric looked SO DISGUSTED by the sole idea of that lol
Without Goodfellas, there's no Sopranos. Without Tony Soprano, there's no Walter White. Without Breaking Bad, 80% of today's cable and streaming crime dramas don't exist.
So thank you Goodfellas for existing.
Without goodfellas we also wouldn't know who henny youngmen was