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i can watch all sorts of slasher films and none of it bothers me, but the scene where his character gets whacked is still hard for me to watch, so well done.
Man, shout out to Thelma Schoonmaker. She's been Scorsese's main editor for the better part of his career - Casino, Goodfellas, The Departed, The Aviator, Wolf of Wall Street, and probably a bunch of others. But definitely all those fast paced, a million scene cuts pictures. She's a G!!!
She’s been his editor since Raging Bull, but they’ve been friends and collaborators since college. In fact, both were on the crew for the Woodstock concert movie (Marty as a PA, Thelma as an editor’s assistant).
The truth whispered in my ear by the old bosses themselves is this: After Tommy Devito killed Billy Batts and was assassinated for it, Billy was resurrected and vowed revenge. Tommy’s identical twin brother renamed himself Nicky Santaro and fled New York. After discovering Nicky and mistaking him for Tommy, he changed his name to Franky Marino to infiltrate his gang and get close. When he had him right where he wanted him, he pulled out a bat, revealed his true identity and took revenge on his killer’s brother!!!
@@confucius12012 That’s probably where the bad blooded rivalry started. No wonder Billy verbally attacked Tommy, he never forgave him for assaulting him in Raging Bull!!!
This is actually a very accurate history of Las Vegas with the names changed. The Tangiers was the Stardust, Ace Rothstein was Lefty Rosenthal, Nikki Santoro was Tony Spilotro, the Gaming Commissioner played by Dick Smothers was the late US Senator Harry Reid (who was on the Gaming Commission in the 1970s), former Mayor Oscar Goodman plays himself when he was a Mob defense lawyer. In the montage of murders as the Mob cleans up, real hitman Frank Culotta (credited as "Frank Marino" because he was in witness protection during filming), re-enacted a hit that he actually did.
Not according to mob hitman Nicholas Calabrese. According to him they were killed in a basement in Chicago and their bodies were transported to Indiana.
10/10 The most uncompromising studio picture of the 1990s. A complex, multilayered, beautifully directed film, Martin Scorsese's Casino is a masterpiece of destruction and betrayal. Few films take so many chances and succeed so wonderfully. It takes some of the basic formulas that were found in Goodfellas and applies them to another type of story - while Goodfellas' view was ground-level, telling the story of the "blue collar" gangsters of NYC, this film tells the story of the guys who controlled those guys. And it's fascinating to watch these people run Las Vegas, control the flow of money, and then fall from the heights of power due to lust, hubris, and greed. An amazing film that will hopefully get the recognition it deserves in the years to come.
I'm convinced that Joe Pesci's lines weren't scripted. Scorsese just the situation of the scene and told Pesci to say whatever the hell he wants that's menacing and funny 😅
⏱️ Timestamps by TimeSkip ⏱️ 00:00:00 - Introduction to Casino 00:02:54 - Setting the Scene in Vegas 00:05:33 - The Role of the Counting Room 00:14:46 - Ginger's Complex Character 00:18:47 - Nikki's Influence and Control 00:21:16 - Learning New Skills 00:25:10 - Trust and Betrayal 00:28:58 - The Heat is On 00:31:10 - Nikki's Desperation 00:34:15 - The Complexity of Crime 00:36:51 - Trust Issues in Relationships 00:39:24 - Jewelry and Loyalty 00:41:38 - Access to Drugs and Personal Struggles 00:46:36 - Nikki's Increasing Heat and FBI Attention 00:56:26 - Tensions Between Sam and Nikki 00:59:27 - Ginger's Disappearance and Family Crisis 01:02:13 - Money Troubles and Mistakes 01:05:17 - Trust Issues and Safety Concerns 01:08:58 - Nikki's Downfall and Consequences 01:19:30 - Arrests and Health Risks 01:22:13 - Meeting with the Bosses 01:28:25 - Casino's Role as a Character 01:32:29 - Dario's Complex Relationships 01:39:26 - Joe Pesci's Dramatic Range 01:42:15 - Scorsese's Filmmaking Strengths
Yeah but not two MAIN narrators like this one. Technical this one has like 3 because that other guy narrates for a short while. But what they mean by 2 narrators is two main character narrators who regularly narrate back and forth throughout.
I lived in Las Vegas in the early nineties and worked at the Dunes Hotel and Casino in the hard count room, they show that in the film with those conveyor belts counting and rolling the coins. We were escorted around the casino with armed security guards and had to go through metal detectors when we went in and out of the room where we had to dump loads of money that we collected from each slot machine and loaded into those large hoppers that separated and wrapped the coins.
Fantastic movie. DeNiro is great - but for me Joe Pesci is the star here. And his ultimate demise is something that sticks with you. I've seen all kinds of Horror movies, but the raw brutality of that scene is more horrifying than most hard scenes in Horror flicks. Besides that, I think Sharon Stone pulled off one of her best performances here.
well apparently they wanted her to go into best supporting category but she insisted on being nominated for best actress and she lost to Susan Sarandon for Dead Man Walking. Mira Sorvino won that year for best supporting in Mighty Aphrodite.
Fun fact: 47:18 The man next to Nicky is the real life Oscar Goodman who was Tony "The 🐜" Spilotro, who was the character basis for Nicky, Oscar was his real life lawyer and he plays himself, he also became Mayor of Las Vegas from 1999 to 2011
I just saw an interview with Sharon Stone, and she gets asked "Which of your leading men was the best kisser?" And she didn't bat an eye, she gushed over kissing De Niro in this movie 😂 Didn't mention James Woods!🤣
I honestly liked Casino more then Goodfellas, and while it is not a sequel to it......both the timelines were close to each other! Plus gotta give Sharon Stone an Emmy for her performance, also another fun fact Frankie's Character was based on Frank Cullotta who was a technical advisor to the film, who cameos in the ending scene of the film gunning down the guy in Argentina!
Same here. It’s a lot more epic. The rise and fall os a skimming empire. I love all the historical connections to the real docos l’ve seen about las Vegas during the mob years. Casino is so good that my mum loves it. I’ve tried to introduce her to Goodfellas but she lost interest. And her 2 favourite films are Dirty Dancing and Roadhouse.
@Paul77ozee I agree. Goodfellas is always compared to Casino, but there is no comparison. I find myself bored with Goodfellas but there is never a dull moment in Casino
The Irishman Casino Goodfellas (I acknowledge Goodfellas is a better made and more important movie than Casino btw) The Departed Mean Streets If you want to include Wolf and Wall Street and Killers of the Flower Moon (depending on your definition of “crime flick”), Wolf between Goodfellas and Departed, and Killers between Departed and Mean Streets
Goodfellas, Casino, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The King Of Comedy.....those are all essential Marty crime films (and De Niro is in all of them). Cape Fear is not in that class but also worth seeing. C-list Marty crime films: The Departed (which Marty did NOT have fun making.....and it shows), and pretty much anything he's done with Leo, other than Killers Of The Flower Moon. I love Leo, but I never believe him in any Scorsese movie, he's miscast in every single one of them, IMO. I think "Casino" is Scorsese's last great movie, I think it's been downhill ever since.
The metal plate under the passenger seat was real. The car company installed it to fix a balancing issue so it had some genuine weight which stopped the initial explosion.
CASINO was a bit like Goodfellas , but more epic... Terrific acting from everyone, especially Sharon Stone 👏 ... Most events, including the survival car bombing actually did happen as portrayed in the film , extremely honest to the book . It was also amazing how much Joe Pesci resembles the true life gangster, Santoro.... 🎬😎👍
There was a drought that happened near Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border and when the water receded they started to find bodies that had been dumped in the lake.
Definitely a conversation to be had about how great movies would be overlong and thin mini-series on streaming these days. Saw a reaction to 'Heat' that mentioned the same thing. Great movies are able to fit in so much without needing 5+ hours.
Fun fact, the guy who kills Andy Stone in the parking lot is the real guy who Frank Marino was based on. He had gone into the witness protection program and was the technical advisor on the film. He told Scorsese the way they were filming the assassination wasn’t authentic, so Scorsese just decided to have him do in the scene to show how a realistic mob killing would look like (For the record, he wasn’t involved in the assassination of the guy Stone was based on)
His real name was Frank Culotta, "Frank Marino" was his screen name because he was still in witness protection when the movie was filmed. He passed away a few years ago, but he used to do a meet-and-greet at the end of a local Mafia bus tour. I once asked him how many people he killed, and he just laughed and said he's taking that to his grave with him.
In an alternative reality you have De Niro + Pesci at the start of Goodfellas where they go to Vegas to do Casino while Liotta is in jail, it all falls apart in Vegas and they’re back in goodfellas for Liotta being released
My favourite bit of Casino related trivia is that it stars two actors with extremely high IQ scores. Sharon Stone reputitly has an IQ of 154, which puts her as one of the highest among other Holywod actresses. While James Woods apparently has the higest of them all, with an enormous 180!!
Not true. Stone was caught lying about her intelligence, and admitted in 2002 that she had never been a member of MENSA, despite claiming she was. Look it up. Never believe stories about celebs and high IQs, they're almost always bullshit.
I live in Las Vegas and if you want to know which Casino this is...right now it's the Jockey Club location behind The Cosmopolitan. The Jockey Club is One of the only hotels on the Las Vegas strip that doesn't have a Casino right now. They used to and that's what they used to film this movie.. The Jockey Club is a Super Luxury hotel.... It used to be a apartment complex for the workers on the Las Vegas strip so the rooms are more like Apartment units than hotel rooms.... I used to work there I loved it.
Maybe you're misremembering? How could it have been even more violent than what we saw? I think Pesci's brother's head basically turns into a shapeless blob. And with Pesci himself, I remember his head was drenched in blood and he had no clothes on
That was in the alternate reality you were in when you were younger. Now you're in a new reality where the movie is a little less violent and that's why you're experiencing what we call the 'Mandela Effect'. Yes, I'm joking.
As I get older and watch this movie more and more, I've come to this ultimate decision: I want all of Robert DeNiro's wardrobe from this movie. It is a 10/10 vibe, especially those glasses at the end. My goodness they're fantastic.
I've seen most of Scorsese's core filmography, including everything from 1980 and onward. He doesn't really make bad movies, but that doesn't mean I'd recommend any of his movies to anyone. Also, he's mostly known for gangster/crime movies, but I think 80% of his filmography is not that, and is pretty diverse in its feel and genres. At the very least, you're pretty much always getting something more than what that movie would have been in the hands of almost any other filmmaker. If you're looking for a "strap yourself in and get taken along for a ride" movie like this, that really starts with Goodfellas in 1990, but applies to almost every Scorsese movie since, to varying degrees. There's a few exceptions, for sure, but most of his 90s and later movies I feel like can sit down and plow through on a moment's notice, any time, any day. If you think you'll like a movie in his filmography, it will at the very least be worth your time to give it a shot. I'll limit my specific recommendation to a few great movies that seem to get consistently overlooked when people talk about Scorsese movies (Everything else will certainly have other advocates in your comments section, and will probably be common on other reaction channels): Bringing Out the Dead, The Aviator, The King of Comedy, and (if you're down for something extremely sober, grim, and heavy) Silence
You two are my favs!! I enjoy your reactions AND your commentary as well as your chemistry!! I really enjoy your enthusiasm for these great films and their production. Great job, guys!! I look forward to more!! ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Tara - when she said she was going to powder her nose se was asking for cocaine money. L.Q Jones - director of A Boy And His Dog. I watched that recently & it has a fantastic talk in the features between L.Q & Harlan Ellison. Now I know why L.Q looks familiar to me - I must have seen him in Casino
I grew up watching Pesci as a gangster/tough guy...this movie, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, etc. His comedic chops surprised me as a kid (the Home Alone movies ALONE were crazy). Such amazing actors in this movie. FANTASTIC reaction!!
My friend's father was "Little Walter DeVenne". He was a famous radio DJ for an "oldies" radio station in Boston. He selected most of the music from this film. He was an expert in the music from the 1950s and 1960s.
The desert scene is probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. The direction, the acting, the cinematography, the storytelling. All top tier!!! The soundtrack is catchy as always.
Does anyone else think Coy should watch With Honors?? He’s seen the comedic Pesci and now the intense… I’d love to see his reaction to the introspective and philosophical Pesci
In real life, the character that Sharon Stone played was a casino showgirl. In real life, the character that Robert De Niro played was, or is Frank. Lefty Rosenthal. Also in real life, the character that Joe Pesci played the guy. His name is Tony, the Ant Spolatro.
Goodfellas is the only other movie I can think of with more than one narrator throughout the movie. Must be a Scorsese thing! 😁 I love your reaction, guys!
i enjoy a lot of scorcese -- when someone tells me they don't much like him, i tell them to see casino. they always come back to me "I saw casino! I loved it!"
5:43 - That was Martin Scorcase. He often gives himself small cameos. I'm surprised you missed it. Anyway, thanks for the reaction to an absolute master class in filmmaking.
Watching Amy stare out the window while Ginger goes batshit crazy is absolutely heartbreaking. The girl probably wanted for nothing material but had no social life. No friends. A mother who cared nothing for her and a father who probably didn't show her a fraction of the attention she needed and deserved.
Anyone that is successful in Vegas will tell you Ginger is 100% right when it comes to how you treat the valets, dealers, GMs, basically anyone that deals directly with the gueat. I cant tell you the amount of palmed handshakes I've had with valets, managers, budtenders, security etc. It's all a way of life. You take care of them and they will definitely take care of you and your business.
I think this is the most I’ve heard Tara swear. I think it’s the h fluency of this film. It makes you want to more after you watch it. 😂😂 I liked the interaction on the reaction discussion at the end. The best yet. I think those sunglasses are Marti’s moms and he wears them and made Robert wear them for the ending. 😂😂😂
One of my favorite movies, you rarely see a movie where the male lead loves the female lead more and that’s what separates this from a typical “gangster” movie. Oh and I love Joe Pesci, he used to visit my uncles mechanic shop. He always gave out money😂
The both of u have to watch heat .....it came out the same year as casino and robert deniro stars in it with al pacino and a bunch of well known actors. Arguably my fav film with crimson tide
Ace's car is shown being blown up at Tony Roma's Ribs, and that's true. Tony Roma's was at 630 E. Sahara, a half-mile east of the Strip. Lefty Rosenthal's Cadillac was blown up there on Oct. 4, 1982. Tony Roma's is long gone. That address is now a parking lot for an adult toy shop.
I remember seeing this and Heat on the same weekend during Christmas break in high school. Odd that you had 2 bonafide classics coming out within a week or 2 of each other. How DeNiro didn’t get an Oscar nomination in 95 is baffling.
At the very end; after the court house meeting - the person who takes out Andy Stone (Alan King) is a no actor. He was an on set "consultant" who was convinced to shoot the scene himself, "just to demonstrate how it would be done." 😮
1:20:17 - the guy who puts two in the back of Andy Stone's head is Frank Cullotta, the real life Frank Marino (or at least was the inspiration for the character Frank Maino (played by Frank Vincent)), and who acted as consultant on the film. He passed away in 2020, but he did a number of very interesting interviews before his death.
Frank Culotta used to do a meet-and-greet at the end of a local Mafia bus tour. I once asked him how many people he killed, and he just laughed and said he's taking that to his grave with him.
I gotta say even though Killers of the Flower Moon is a heavy and dark film, it also has that Scorsese energy that this film and Wolf of Wall Street have. If Coy hasn’t seen it yet it’s definitely something he should check out on his own or in the channel!
I went to see this in the theaters when it came out with my dad (RIP) and it’s so funny because he looks sounds and acts like Deniro. I miss him so much!
Casino is my favorite Scorsese film. It was the first one I saw in the movie theater and I was not prepared for Joe Pesci's vicious beating death. I saw this originally when I was 12 years old. Great movie.
10:45 Pesci's character is of course based off from the real-life mobster Tony "The Ant" Spilotro who was a similarly small, but very violent guy. 56:12 It's not in the scene cuts on this video, but the part where Joe Pesci squeals to a stop on freaking sand/dirt and it sounds like it's on pavement is hilarious.
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Maybe you guys don't know but this film is based on actual events.
The Italian mob in chicago had some influence in Vegas.
I saw this at the show, when it opened. 😀😀
My favorite gangster movie
i liked this better than goodfellas
I love your rainbow sweater and matching tank top, so cute! And you know what a Dutch angle/tilt is, that's awesome.
Pesci getting whacked while narrating is genius
i can watch all sorts of slasher films and none of it bothers me, but the scene where his character gets whacked is still hard for me to watch, so well done.
@@terrydavis7389 Yeah, he gets brutalised, it's tough to watch.
Man, shout out to Thelma Schoonmaker. She's been Scorsese's main editor for the better part of his career - Casino, Goodfellas, The Departed, The Aviator, Wolf of Wall Street, and probably a bunch of others. But definitely all those fast paced, a million scene cuts pictures. She's a G!!!
Schoonmaker really knows when to speed up the cuts and when to let things simmer. A bona fide legend.
@@stobe187Absolutely
She’s been his editor since Raging Bull, but they’ve been friends and collaborators since college. In fact, both were on the crew for the Woodstock concert movie (Marty as a PA, Thelma as an editor’s assistant).
Did you notice that the guy that played Billy Bats in “Good Fellas” and was killed by Joe Pesci’s character, killed Pesci in this film with a bat…
What goes around, comes around.
The truth whispered in my ear by the old bosses themselves is this: After Tommy Devito killed Billy Batts and was assassinated for it, Billy was resurrected and vowed revenge. Tommy’s identical twin brother renamed himself Nicky Santaro and fled New York. After discovering Nicky and mistaking him for Tommy, he changed his name to Franky Marino to infiltrate his gang and get close. When he had him right where he wanted him, he pulled out a bat, revealed his true identity and took revenge on his killer’s brother!!!
@ Frankie has a swing as sweet as Ken Griffey, Jr.
Joe Pesci also did a number on him in Raging Bull. Another Pesci/Deniro movie with Vincent(Billy Batts).
@@confucius12012 That’s probably where the bad blooded rivalry started. No wonder Billy verbally attacked Tommy, he never forgave him for assaulting him in Raging Bull!!!
This is actually a very accurate history of Las Vegas with the names changed. The Tangiers was the Stardust, Ace Rothstein was Lefty Rosenthal, Nikki Santoro was Tony Spilotro, the Gaming Commissioner played by Dick Smothers was the late US Senator Harry Reid (who was on the Gaming Commission in the 1970s), former Mayor Oscar Goodman plays himself when he was a Mob defense lawyer. In the montage of murders as the Mob cleans up, real hitman Frank Culotta (credited as "Frank Marino" because he was in witness protection during filming), re-enacted a hit that he actually did.
Had no idea about the Dick Smothers/Harry Reid connection. Very cool!
Crazy fact: The Death of Nicky and his brother it didn't happen in the sticks, they were actually killed in a basement out in Chicago.
They were buried together in a cornfield in Indiana though, as depicted in the movie
No it was a cornfield in Indiana bro , they are all from Chicago tho
Not according to mob hitman Nicholas Calabrese. According to him they were killed in a basement in Chicago and their bodies were transported to Indiana.
Fun Fact: The girl that played the daughter, Erika von Tagen, is now a LVMPD officer.
What does LVMPD stand for?
@@JW666Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
@Steve-yu6wk Ah ok.
10/10
The most uncompromising studio picture of the 1990s.
A complex, multilayered, beautifully directed film, Martin Scorsese's Casino is a masterpiece of destruction and betrayal. Few films take so many chances and succeed so wonderfully. It takes some of the basic formulas that were found in Goodfellas and applies them to another type of story - while Goodfellas' view was ground-level, telling the story of the "blue collar" gangsters of NYC, this film tells the story of the guys who controlled those guys. And it's fascinating to watch these people run Las Vegas, control the flow of money, and then fall from the heights of power due to lust, hubris, and greed. An amazing film that will hopefully get the recognition it deserves in the years to come.
When ever I watch Casino I think of three things; hammer, bench vise, and baseball bat.
Tara was on a HEATER in this review! 😂😂😂
Coy and Tara should watch The Godfather trilogy next.
I'm convinced that Joe Pesci's lines weren't scripted. Scorsese just the situation of the scene and told Pesci to say whatever the hell he wants that's menacing and funny 😅
It was Pesci's side hustles on set Scorsese just decided to let the cameras roll...
Funny how?
“You’re a good actress, ya know that?” 1:03:27 Great line for DeNiro to say to Stone.
⏱️ Timestamps by TimeSkip ⏱️
00:00:00 - Introduction to Casino
00:02:54 - Setting the Scene in Vegas
00:05:33 - The Role of the Counting Room
00:14:46 - Ginger's Complex Character
00:18:47 - Nikki's Influence and Control
00:21:16 - Learning New Skills
00:25:10 - Trust and Betrayal
00:28:58 - The Heat is On
00:31:10 - Nikki's Desperation
00:34:15 - The Complexity of Crime
00:36:51 - Trust Issues in Relationships
00:39:24 - Jewelry and Loyalty
00:41:38 - Access to Drugs and Personal Struggles
00:46:36 - Nikki's Increasing Heat and FBI Attention
00:56:26 - Tensions Between Sam and Nikki
00:59:27 - Ginger's Disappearance and Family Crisis
01:02:13 - Money Troubles and Mistakes
01:05:17 - Trust Issues and Safety Concerns
01:08:58 - Nikki's Downfall and Consequences
01:19:30 - Arrests and Health Risks
01:22:13 - Meeting with the Bosses
01:28:25 - Casino's Role as a Character
01:32:29 - Dario's Complex Relationships
01:39:26 - Joe Pesci's Dramatic Range
01:42:15 - Scorsese's Filmmaking Strengths
Well done!👏👏
Goodfellas has two narrators as well, Henry and Karen.
Yeah but not two MAIN narrators like this one. Technical this one has like 3 because that other guy narrates for a short while. But what they mean by 2 narrators is two main character narrators who regularly narrate back and forth throughout.
YES. Tara needs to see Untouchables. And even though Coy has seen it he needs to be her "watch partner". They are great together.
I love it. Tara is killing me with all the f-bombs. You can tell she came from a different time. Totally appropriate after a Scorsese movie.
Huge props to Sharon Stone's performance here because she truly got me mad throughout the movie lol.
I lived in Las Vegas in the early nineties and worked at the Dunes Hotel and Casino in the hard count room, they show that in the film with those conveyor belts counting and rolling the coins. We were escorted around the casino with armed security guards and had to go through metal detectors when we went in and out of the room where we had to dump loads of money that we collected from each slot machine and loaded into those large hoppers that separated and wrapped the coins.
I love how after watching a gangster film....Tara just drops F-bomb after F-bomb......I'm here for it!
Every single outfit De Niro wears in this film is amazing.
Personally I love the pink salmon suit the best.
Before John Wick was killing people in bars with pencils, there was Nicky killing people in bars with ball point pens.
The Joker was pretty good with magic tricks, too.
Fantastic movie. DeNiro is great - but for me Joe Pesci is the star here. And his ultimate demise is something that sticks with you. I've seen all kinds of Horror movies, but the raw brutality of that scene is more horrifying than most hard scenes in Horror flicks. Besides that, I think Sharon Stone pulled off one of her best performances here.
Not only is Sharon Stone in this, she should have won an Oscar.
Why, she would just give it to James Woods...
well apparently they wanted her to go into best supporting category but she insisted on being nominated for best actress and she lost to Susan Sarandon for Dead Man Walking. Mira Sorvino won that year for best supporting in Mighty Aphrodite.
She did. For this film. You ass.
Bruh Tara cussing more than ever in the breakdown 🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact: 47:18 The man next to Nicky is the real life Oscar Goodman who was Tony "The 🐜" Spilotro, who was the character basis for Nicky, Oscar was his real life lawyer and he plays himself, he also became Mayor of Las Vegas from 1999 to 2011
I just saw an interview with Sharon Stone, and she gets asked "Which of your leading men was the best kisser?" And she didn't bat an eye, she gushed over kissing De Niro in this movie 😂 Didn't mention James Woods!🤣
Man, I love this movie. The acting, the costume design, the soundtrack- all top tier.
I honestly think this is so underrated compared to goodfellas!
I honestly liked Casino more then Goodfellas, and while it is not a sequel to it......both the timelines were close to each other! Plus gotta give Sharon Stone an Emmy for her performance, also another fun fact Frankie's Character was based on Frank Cullotta who was a technical advisor to the film, who cameos in the ending scene of the film gunning down the guy in Argentina!
I definitely think Casino is way better than Goodfellas.
Culllotta also guns down Andy Stone in a parking lot with another guy.
I think the Ray Liotta performance gives Goodfellas the advantage
Same here. It’s a lot more epic. The rise and fall os a skimming empire. I love all the historical connections to the real docos l’ve seen about las Vegas during the mob years. Casino is so good that my mum loves it. I’ve tried to introduce her to Goodfellas but she lost interest. And her 2 favourite films are Dirty Dancing and Roadhouse.
@Paul77ozee I agree. Goodfellas is always compared to Casino, but there is no comparison. I find myself bored with Goodfellas but there is never a dull moment in Casino
Can we make every review section R-rated for Tara please?? 😅
What's Your SCORSESE CRIME FLICK Ranking??
The Departed
Goodfellas
Taxi Driver
Gangs of New York
Casino
The Departed
The Irishman
Goodfellas! easy.
The Irishman
Casino
Goodfellas (I acknowledge Goodfellas is a better made and more important movie than Casino btw)
The Departed
Mean Streets
If you want to include Wolf and Wall Street and Killers of the Flower Moon (depending on your definition of “crime flick”), Wolf between Goodfellas and Departed, and Killers between Departed and Mean Streets
Goodfellas, Casino, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The King Of Comedy.....those are all essential Marty crime films (and De Niro is in all of them). Cape Fear is not in that class but also worth seeing. C-list Marty crime films: The Departed (which Marty did NOT have fun making.....and it shows), and pretty much anything he's done with Leo, other than Killers Of The Flower Moon. I love Leo, but I never believe him in any Scorsese movie, he's miscast in every single one of them, IMO. I think "Casino" is Scorsese's last great movie, I think it's been downhill ever since.
The metal plate under the passenger seat was real. The car company installed it to fix a balancing issue so it had some genuine weight which stopped the initial explosion.
CASINO was a bit like Goodfellas , but more epic...
Terrific acting from everyone, especially Sharon Stone 👏 ... Most events, including the survival car bombing actually did happen as portrayed in the film , extremely honest to the book . It was also amazing how much Joe Pesci resembles the true life gangster, Santoro.... 🎬😎👍
There was a drought that happened near Lake Mead on the Arizona/Nevada border and when the water receded they started to find bodies that had been dumped in the lake.
I know it's not usual, but I prefer this a bit more than Goodfellas. Still my favorite Scorsese film is Taxi Driver
Same always liked this more .
not that unusual. Goodfellas is great but I prefer Casino.
Definitely a conversation to be had about how great movies would be overlong and thin mini-series on streaming these days. Saw a reaction to 'Heat' that mentioned the same thing. Great movies are able to fit in so much without needing 5+ hours.
Coy and Tara turning into the MVPs of the reactions for their post movie discussions.
Fun fact, the guy who kills Andy Stone in the parking lot is the real guy who Frank Marino was based on. He had gone into the witness protection program and was the technical advisor on the film. He told Scorsese the way they were filming the assassination wasn’t authentic, so Scorsese just decided to have him do in the scene to show how a realistic mob killing would look like (For the record, he wasn’t involved in the assassination of the guy Stone was based on)
His real name was Frank Culotta, "Frank Marino" was his screen name because he was still in witness protection when the movie was filmed. He passed away a few years ago, but he used to do a meet-and-greet at the end of a local Mafia bus tour. I once asked him how many people he killed, and he just laughed and said he's taking that to his grave with him.
Robert De Niro had the best suits and sunglasses in this film
I loved Tara's F-bombs at the end. She's ready to be in a Scorsese film.
If she was in a Scorsese, she would double f bombs 😂
In an alternative reality you have De Niro + Pesci at the start of Goodfellas where they go to Vegas to do Casino while Liotta is in jail, it all falls apart in Vegas and they’re back in goodfellas for Liotta being released
Except DeNiro got sent to prison at the same time as Liotta for the same crime. He just got sent to a different prison.
@ got out earlier than Liotta
My favourite bit of Casino related trivia is that it stars two actors with extremely high IQ scores.
Sharon Stone reputitly has an IQ of 154, which puts her as one of the highest among other Holywod actresses. While James Woods apparently has the higest of them all, with an enormous 180!!
Not true. Stone was caught lying about her intelligence, and admitted in 2002 that she had never been a member of MENSA, despite claiming she was. Look it up.
Never believe stories about celebs and high IQs, they're almost always bullshit.
I live in Las Vegas and if you want to know which Casino this is...right now it's the Jockey Club location behind The Cosmopolitan. The Jockey Club is One of the only hotels on the Las Vegas strip that doesn't have a Casino right now. They used to and that's what they used to film this movie.. The Jockey Club is a Super Luxury hotel.... It used to be a apartment complex for the workers on the Las Vegas strip so the rooms are more like Apartment units than hotel rooms.... I used to work there I loved it.
Hell yeah Casino is awesome. Coy and Tara brought back from the Goodfellas rewatch is great too.
I swear i saw a more violent version of this movie when i was younger but cant find it anywhere especially when Joe pescis character gets whacked
Goodfellas?
@ no it was an alternate cut of casino
Maybe you're misremembering? How could it have been even more violent than what we saw? I think Pesci's brother's head basically turns into a shapeless blob. And with Pesci himself, I remember his head was drenched in blood and he had no clothes on
@ yeah maybe
That was in the alternate reality you were in when you were younger. Now you're in a new reality where the movie is a little less violent and that's why you're experiencing what we call the 'Mandela Effect'.
Yes, I'm joking.
Tara is a GD National Treasure!!!
🤣💀
This is my first time seeing her, and.. She looks GGOOODDDDD!! lol
Wow you guys actually pay attention to the dialogue. That can be a rarity around here. New sub here
The desert scene is one of my favorite moments between Robert De Niro and Joe Pecsi!
As I get older and watch this movie more and more, I've come to this ultimate decision:
I want all of Robert DeNiro's wardrobe from this movie. It is a 10/10 vibe, especially those glasses at the end. My goodness they're fantastic.
Raging Bull is another 10/10 ,, greatest boxing movie ever made and a top 3 all time sports movie
I've seen most of Scorsese's core filmography, including everything from 1980 and onward. He doesn't really make bad movies, but that doesn't mean I'd recommend any of his movies to anyone. Also, he's mostly known for gangster/crime movies, but I think 80% of his filmography is not that, and is pretty diverse in its feel and genres. At the very least, you're pretty much always getting something more than what that movie would have been in the hands of almost any other filmmaker.
If you're looking for a "strap yourself in and get taken along for a ride" movie like this, that really starts with Goodfellas in 1990, but applies to almost every Scorsese movie since, to varying degrees. There's a few exceptions, for sure, but most of his 90s and later movies I feel like can sit down and plow through on a moment's notice, any time, any day. If you think you'll like a movie in his filmography, it will at the very least be worth your time to give it a shot.
I'll limit my specific recommendation to a few great movies that seem to get consistently overlooked when people talk about Scorsese movies (Everything else will certainly have other advocates in your comments section, and will probably be common on other reaction channels):
Bringing Out the Dead, The Aviator, The King of Comedy, and (if you're down for something extremely sober, grim, and heavy) Silence
Oh man, Bringing Out the Dead! Nicolas Cage and Marty Scorcese! 🖤
“Raging Bull” NUFF SAID! ........ 💯🔥
I’ve always liked Goodfellas more than Casino but there’s no doubt this is an excellent movie.
This is why Las Vegas holds no mystery for me. The unofficial motto is The House Always Wins.
There's nothing for me in Las Vegas.
You two are my favs!! I enjoy your reactions AND your commentary as well as your chemistry!! I really enjoy your enthusiasm for these great films and their production. Great job, guys!! I look forward to more!! ❤❤❤😊😊😊
Tara - when she said she was going to powder her nose se was asking for cocaine money.
L.Q Jones - director of A Boy And His Dog. I watched that recently & it has a fantastic talk in the features between L.Q & Harlan Ellison. Now I know why L.Q looks familiar to me - I must have seen him in Casino
Sharon Stone earned an Oscar nomination and won a Golden Globe for her performance in Casino 😊
Scorsese's most underrated work. Love this movie, thanks for reacting to it! ❤
I grew up watching Pesci as a gangster/tough guy...this movie, Goodfellas, Raging Bull, etc. His comedic chops surprised me as a kid (the Home Alone movies ALONE were crazy). Such amazing actors in this movie. FANTASTIC reaction!!
And Lethal Weapon 2. Pesci is awesome.
@@becomethestar OMG, how could I forget Lethal Weapon 2? Great call!! @becomethestar , what's my horoscope??
@christophercobb386 I see you will have a Happy New Year. Lol
Check out Easy Money folks. He played Rodney Dangerfield’s best friend in that. Classic comedy!
@jenfine I've tried to get people to react to it. That movie is funny af
My friend's father was "Little Walter DeVenne". He was a famous radio DJ for an "oldies" radio station in Boston. He selected most of the music from this film. He was an expert in the music from the 1950s and 1960s.
The desert scene is probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. The direction, the acting, the cinematography, the storytelling. All top tier!!! The soundtrack is catchy as always.
I love this movie. Joe Pesci was the real star of this one.
Its why he's my favorite actor. This movie sold it for me.
He grew up around gangsters, it’s why he portray one so good.
All that Pesci rubbed off on Tara. Dropping 100 f-bombs per minute in that post analysis lmao. Queen.
I love this more than Goodfellas
the holy trinity of epic italo-american crime movies: Casino (1995), Good Fellas (1990), Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Does anyone else think Coy should watch With Honors?? He’s seen the comedic Pesci and now the intense… I’d love to see his reaction to the introspective and philosophical Pesci
Agree. Pesci manages to develop his characters even in a very limited screen time, as, for example, in The Good Shepherd
This is the true Scorsese masterpiece.
dont get me wrong. Love Casino...but The Departed? Mmmmmmmmmmm.
Coy's reaction to Home Alone comment reminds me of Deadpool/Wolverine pitch meeting on Henry Cavill. "He's from Argyle!!" ".......yeah." 😂😂😂😂
De Niro’s lawyer is played by Oscar Goodman, who was mayor of Vegas from 1999-2011. Then his wife took over and is the current mayor.
I'm so glad I had the privilege of seeing Sigfried and Roy before their show got canceled due to the tiger attack. It was really dazzling.
Joe Pesci, Robert Dinero,Undefeated together absolute legends 🏆🏆
9:54 The infamous pen scene.
In real life, the character that Sharon Stone played was a casino showgirl. In real life, the character that Robert De Niro played was, or is Frank. Lefty Rosenthal. Also in real life, the character that Joe Pesci played the guy. His name is Tony, the Ant Spolatro.
Just based on the conversation at the end I’m assuming that you haven’t seen Raging Bull. De Niro and Pesci one of the greats.
Goodfellas is the only other movie I can think of with more than one narrator throughout the movie. Must be a Scorsese thing! 😁 I love your reaction, guys!
i enjoy a lot of scorcese -- when someone tells me they don't much like him, i tell them to see casino. they always come back to me "I saw casino! I loved it!"
5:43 - That was Martin Scorcase. He often gives himself small cameos. I'm surprised you missed it. Anyway, thanks for the reaction to an absolute master class in filmmaking.
Watching Amy stare out the window while Ginger goes batshit crazy is absolutely heartbreaking. The girl probably wanted for nothing material but had no social life. No friends. A mother who cared nothing for her and a father who probably didn't show her a fraction of the attention she needed and deserved.
The Hitman in this movie were actual former Mafia Hitman who were acting as consultants for Martin Scorsese.
Anyone that is successful in Vegas will tell you Ginger is 100% right when it comes to how you treat the valets, dealers, GMs, basically anyone that deals directly with the gueat. I cant tell you the amount of palmed handshakes I've had with valets, managers, budtenders, security etc. It's all a way of life. You take care of them and they will definitely take care of you and your business.
I think this is the most I’ve heard Tara swear. I think it’s the h fluency of this film. It makes you want to more after you watch it. 😂😂
I liked the interaction on the reaction discussion at the end. The best yet.
I think those sunglasses are Marti’s moms and he wears them and made Robert wear them for the ending. 😂😂😂
One of my favorite movies, you rarely see a movie where the male lead loves the female lead more and that’s what separates this from a typical “gangster” movie. Oh and I love Joe Pesci, he used to visit my uncles mechanic shop. He always gave out money😂
58:13 Take this card and...
You two are chefs kiss of reactionS. We need more matchups with you too.
When Tony " the ant " Spilatro got wacked by baseball bats it actually happened but not in Vegas according to Micheal Franzese ( a colombo mafia guy )
There's so many great movies made in Las Vegas can't wait for you guys to react to 😊
The both of u have to watch heat .....it came out the same year as casino and robert deniro stars in it with al pacino and a bunch of well known actors. Arguably my fav film with crimson tide
There's already a Reject Reaction video of Heat. 😅
Now every time I get a blueberry muffin I want to be sure each one has an equal amount of blueberries.
REEL REJECTS 😭
Sorry, just wanted to remind you guys that the trailer for "28 Years Later" just dropped. Would love to see a reaction 😊
I've been watching Casino reactions a lot lately and look what shows up!
Ace's car is shown being blown up at Tony Roma's Ribs, and that's true. Tony Roma's was at 630 E. Sahara, a half-mile east of the Strip. Lefty Rosenthal's Cadillac was blown up there on Oct. 4, 1982. Tony Roma's is long gone. That address is now a parking lot for an adult toy shop.
I remember seeing this and Heat on the same weekend during Christmas break in high school. Odd that you had 2 bonafide classics coming out within a week or 2 of each other. How DeNiro didn’t get an Oscar nomination in 95 is baffling.
At the very end; after the court house meeting - the person who takes out Andy Stone (Alan King) is a no actor. He was an on set "consultant" who was convinced to shoot the scene himself, "just to demonstrate how it would be done." 😮
Coy looks like a cross between Danny Bonaduce and Scut Farkus.
1:20:17 - the guy who puts two in the back of Andy Stone's head is Frank Cullotta, the real life Frank Marino (or at least was the inspiration for the character Frank Maino (played by Frank Vincent)), and who acted as consultant on the film. He passed away in 2020, but he did a number of very interesting interviews before his death.
Frank Culotta used to do a meet-and-greet at the end of a local Mafia bus tour. I once asked him how many people he killed, and he just laughed and said he's taking that to his grave with him.
I gotta say even though Killers of the Flower Moon is a heavy and dark film, it also has that Scorsese energy that this film and Wolf of Wall Street have. If Coy hasn’t seen it yet it’s definitely something he should check out on his own or in the channel!
More Coy & Tara! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I went to see this in the theaters when it came out with my dad (RIP) and it’s so funny because he looks sounds and acts like Deniro. I miss him so much!
Casino is my favorite Scorsese film. It was the first one I saw in the movie theater and I was not prepared for Joe Pesci's vicious beating death. I saw this originally when I was 12 years old. Great movie.
i will always watch Casino when its on tv
10:45 Pesci's character is of course based off from the real-life mobster Tony "The Ant" Spilotro who was a similarly small, but very violent guy.
56:12 It's not in the scene cuts on this video, but the part where Joe Pesci squeals to a stop on freaking sand/dirt and it sounds like it's on pavement is hilarious.