Worst real life Goodfellas moment - Henry Hill used to be a regular on Howard Stern's show. On one appearance (after the movie came out), Spider's real life sister called in begging Henry to tell them where they buried Spider. He just kind of laughed it off and ignored her - it was one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever heard.
@@JKLeScH777 Why would it be hard for me to comprehend? Did I say that I personally know them? No, I said that I actually heard the conversation on the radio. Make of it what you will.
My God 😣😣 yea the real Henry did his rounds of interviews and I hated him. I watched 1 and never again. My friends kept telling me there are new interviews cuz they know I love the film, I said just don’t mention him again. He even made fun of De Niro & it was funny to Hill the details De Niro wanted to know. He made me sick
Black Bird - the series he finished before passing is excellent. I rewatched Goodfellas dozens of times, mostly for him. He was also in a cutesy comedy movie with Sigourney Weaver & Jennifer Love Hewitt.
One “crucial characteristic” of Goodfellas is the fact that most of the main characters, as well as Scorsese, were all from the NY/Jersey/PA region. This gave a rich authenticity to the whole vibe of the movie. Their personalities, ragging on each other…talking shit, mannerisms, vernacular and puns were things I heard everyday growing up in the Bronx.
Yes, it's Scorsese's best movie. The gang outlined why it is the best movie of all time. When I was in college, my roommates and I had this movie on repeat for five years straight. We spoke to and interacted with each in the language of this movie.
I loved this movie from the first time in the theater. The acknowledgement that Goodfellas is one of the all time greats came much later. As the '90's rolled on, I was amazed at how many people had never watched the movie. I would insist on getting friends to watch the movie, and loved watching the reactions as I saw more people seeing a classic movie for the first time.
Straight away - you can call this Scorsese's best movie ever, I have no problem with that. However, you can't call it the culmination of his career when Casino doesn't come out for another five years. That's a little disrespectful to Casino, but these conversations are amazing. These are the conversations we all want to have over a beer with a friend but don't have the attention span or time. Love it.
I'll start by saying that I love Casino. But in some ways Casino is Goodfellas pt 2. again no disrespect. I love taxi driver and raging bull, but I agree that Goodfellas is the pinnacle of Scorsese's artistic vision and commercial appeal
I remember my dad watching this when I was like 10 years old and I never enjoyed watching stuff he watched. And this one clicked with me and I sat and watched with him and it became one of my all time favorite movies
I think it's basically the best movie since, um, Goodfellas. Maybe the best since 1980 let alone 1990. I go back and forth on whether Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, or Raging Bull is his best....They all have an argument to be his best......Though Dances With Wolves beating it was ridiculous, I think an even more ridiculous snub was Liotta not even getting NOMINATED for best actor.....Imo, he owns this movie more than anyone (including the great Pesci)....To me, it's Liotta's movie more than anyone else and he gives one of the great performances in any movie ever. I have always thought he never got enough credit for his performance and influence in and on this film, including his incredible almost Morgan Freeman level narration. What a wondrous film it is.
I can't remember if the question was asked in this episode or another one, but Yes, Jimmy was married. His wife is in a bunch of scenes. They're not shown together much, maybe only in the vacation photos and at the wedding, but she's shown at the wives hangout, in the bar, and at Jimmy's trial.
The DVD flipped right before Karen showed up to Henry's mistresses apartment with the kids. Her hitting the call buttons was the first frame of the second discovery.
So when I was a kid I had two basketball posters in my room... However every late 70s, early 80s Basketball poster I see I'm like "Yep I had that one" --The Kareem poster "might" have been on my wall.
I usually hate listening to young people talk about film. It usually feels like they are trying to say the correct thing or be interesting. But this felt genuine and informed. A truly enjoyable listen. You just got a new subscriber.
Oh whoa!! All these years I was fine making up in my mind what u guys would look like… and here we are 😂… love this damn show so much!! Glad to be able to watch it now!
I remember the doubled dvd watching with my dad and us both being floored. He would never like gritty movies like it but then we see the departed in theatres and have the same response. Great memories
The eat the food part, when Robert D tells the mom the food was delicious, delicious... After commiting that murder and enjoying the food.... Devilish 😈😅😅😅
Wolf of Wallstreet was not even close to the level of the ALL TIME MASTERPIECE that Goodfellas was! Goodfellas washes TF out of it! It’s on so many peoples Mount Rushmore for a reason! Goodfellas didn’t need to be watched 3 times to know it was ILLmatic the first time!
That dang 2 sided DVD!! Also, during the crew intro. Fat Andy is played by one half of the real Cocaine Cop’s (Eppolitto) & Frankie the Wop is played by Tony Lip (Green book/Sopranos) Great Job guys!!
80's: After Hours is a good movie, Color of Money is a good move, King of Comedy, also good, Raging Bull (of course). These are also some of Marty's all-time best movies. He followed up Goodfellas with a remake of Cape Fear and The Age of Innocence, which are also both good films.
This is one of the best mob movies! Bill, I also have that DVD where they play half the movie on one side and then I have to get up and flip it over. There's only one other DVD, I have to do that with and it's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I should look for some new copies. Without a doubt, Jimmy would've had Karen killed. If she didn't decide to leave at the last min. Chris' impression of Ray Liotta saying Karen was hilarious! BTW! I'd pick Goodfellas over Dances with Wolves anytime!
Robert De Niro is more Irish than Italian. De Niro's father was half Irish, and three of his grandparents were of Irish descent. His mother, Virginia Admiral, was of Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry. As a teenager, De Niro traveled to Ireland to find distant relatives. He hitchhiked from Dublin to Galway and then to the Aran Islands.
Paulie being the silent partner of the bar and ordering a bunch of weird stuff and never paying for them is the same thing they did on The Sopranos. When Davey Scatino owed Tony a bunch of money and they did the same thing with his sporting goods store.
Everything Bill said about the reaction at the time to Goodfellas when it was first released is spot on. Now i had read some things here and there while the film was being made that had me anticipating it enough to read WISEGUY. Definitely the focus was on Godfather III but word was slowly getting out that it wasn’t good so i was more stoked to see Goodfellas and remember trying to convince friends to go see it. No one was interested, they were all geared to see only one mob movie, GF3. What i remember was it took a year or two for Goodfellas to become part of every film lovers conversation. As soon as it was released on video i took it and forced my friends to watch it. I also recorded the sound off the TV andwould play it on a tape deck while i slept cuz i was instantly obsessed with the dialogue. Only gripe i have is the idea presented that Pulp Fiction was heavily influenced by Goodfellas, i would argue against that notion.
For like every movie they say "this is the point of view from the main character. This is how he remembers it and not how it actually might have happened"
Gangsters really did love pay phones, due to a simple legal loophole. There was a law that public payphones could not be wiretapped. It would be fruitless for a DA to seek a wiretap on a payphone since no judge would grant it. Payphones were deemed a public good or utility, and warrants have to be for specific persons. Or whatever the rationale, it was the law.
"Call me on a landline", Trejo in Heat. Because the restaurant's phone would be safe and unwiretapped (and if it was, any warrant would have to be limited to named persons, the restaurant's owners or managers, a third party like Neil safe, inadmissable even if it was wiretapped), and he was calling from a payphone. Two secure points, free from any lawful wiretap.
That scene with the restaurant owner complaining about Tommy to Pauly. Pauly says "What do you want? He's a bad kid. He's a bad seed. What do you want me to do? Shoot him?" The guy says "Well, that wouldn't be a bad idea." and the face that Pauly makes is hilarious.
when I first started hearing the whole "Karen" thing on twitter a couple years ago, like I understood what people meant and were making fun of, but the underlying tone of it, and why the name of Karen in particular was chosen, I totally thought was a reference to this movie lol
Dancing with Wolves win is the biggest mistake of the Oscars. Also, Liotta not winning an Oscar for Goodfellas. Absolutely ridiculous he wasn’t nominated .
Fun fact about ketchup on pasta: no one really did that. Also, those double sided DVDs usually had the movie on one side, and the special features on the other. They never split the movie in half. DVDs could handle 2.5 hours...
The thing is that it is basically true about poor quality pasta and sauce in other states. It's not ketchup but it's not much better. I grew up in Chicago and went to Indiana University and it was hard to find good pasta there. I think they had 1 good Italian restaurant.
You did click on an old episode. This one is two years old. The Rewatchables is a podcast not a TH-cam show, however they sometimes record it on video too, if we're lucky.
You actually do see Jimmy's wife. They show her in the scene where Tommy tells his date if she looks at anyone else he'll kill her. She tells another woman "He'll really do it, too!" And the other woman, Jimmy's wife, says "Yeah! That's great!!" with a look of horror. You see pictures of her and Jimmy with Henry and Karen on vacation. Very surprised I remember this and you guys don't
When a Rewatchables episode is Rewatchable
Very true Henry
If there was ever a movie that needed two…
Have rewatched The Godfather II pod countless times
I’m shocked they have 99k subscribers thought they had like a million. Been watching bill for a few years now he’s absolutely the best in the business
Is this your Apex Mountain?
Worst real life Goodfellas moment - Henry Hill used to be a regular on Howard Stern's show. On one appearance (after the movie came out), Spider's real life sister called in begging Henry to tell them where they buried Spider. He just kind of laughed it off and ignored her - it was one of the most uncomfortable things I've ever heard.
Yikes
Turns out radio shows do things that stir up drama. It wasn’t real. I know this is hard for you to comprehend.
@@JKLeScH777 Why would it be hard for me to comprehend? Did I say that I personally know them? No, I said that I actually heard the conversation on the radio. Make of it what you will.
My God 😣😣 yea the real Henry did his rounds of interviews and I hated him. I watched 1 and never again. My friends kept telling me there are new interviews cuz they know I love the film, I said just don’t mention him again. He even made fun of De Niro & it was funny to Hill the details De Niro wanted to know. He made me sick
@@JKLeScH777 Not sure how you know when Henry Hill was lying or telling the truth. Just more things the rest of us can't understand I guess.
Simmons-Ryan-Fennessey, true power trio.
They are good guys
@@KeithSweat89some would even call them Goodfellas ..
Finally showing us Goodfellas full episode in person. It had to be done
Rest in Peace Tony Bennett, I saw the news of his passing as I was listening to this Rewatchable... Life is a trip
I watched it back to back in the theater. It’s my favorite movie by a long shot. Absolute masterpiece.
Amen brother. Rewatched today, still love it.
Please upload all of these, I absolutely love watching them all on TH-cam! It's so fun watching the way you all interact discussing my favorite films.
Ray Liotta's passing was one of the saddest days of my life, Goodfellas is a precious movie for me and my #1 gangster movie
I met him at Berdgorf Goodman in 2017. He was a super nice guy and even took a picture with me and my buddy.
@@Edd_LShore what does that mean?
Black Bird - the series he finished before passing is excellent. I rewatched Goodfellas dozens of times, mostly for him. He was also in a cutesy comedy movie with Sigourney Weaver & Jennifer Love Hewitt.
One “crucial characteristic” of Goodfellas is the fact that most of the main characters, as well as Scorsese, were all from the NY/Jersey/PA region. This gave a rich authenticity to the whole vibe of the movie.
Their personalities, ragging on each other…talking shit, mannerisms, vernacular and puns were things I heard everyday growing up in the Bronx.
Yes, it's Scorsese's best movie. The gang outlined why it is the best movie of all time. When I was in college, my roommates and I had this movie on repeat for five years straight. We spoke to and interacted with each in the language of this movie.
This is Simmons at his best.
goodfellas deserves a re-re-re-re watch to complement HEAT
I loved this movie from the first time in the theater. The acknowledgement that Goodfellas is one of the all time greats came much later.
As the '90's rolled on, I was amazed at how many people had never watched the movie. I would insist on getting friends to watch the movie, and loved watching the reactions as I saw more people seeing a classic movie for the first time.
The break on the dvd was when Karen was talking to Janice through the speaker at her apartment if memory serves correctly
It was nice of Karen to let the superintendent know that there was a whore living in 2R. 😂😂😂
Your memory doesn’t serve correctly. Why comment this when your memory is wrong? Delete it
@@JKLeScH777 Nope, his memory does serve correctly. Side two started with that scene
Straight away - you can call this Scorsese's best movie ever, I have no problem with that. However, you can't call it the culmination of his career when Casino doesn't come out for another five years. That's a little disrespectful to Casino, but these conversations are amazing. These are the conversations we all want to have over a beer with a friend but don't have the attention span or time. Love it.
I'll start by saying that I love Casino. But in some ways Casino is Goodfellas pt 2. again no disrespect. I love taxi driver and raging bull, but I agree that Goodfellas is the pinnacle of Scorsese's artistic vision and commercial appeal
That’s because Casino completely sucks!
In terms of pace and cinematography, i see goodfellas as 70s rock where The Godfather is classical
I've watched this pod like 4 times in last 6 months. Brilliant
Liotta was amazing in that role
I’ve listened to this pod so many times. So glad I get to watch it now.
I remember my dad watching this when I was like 10 years old and I never enjoyed watching stuff he watched. And this one clicked with me and I sat and watched with him and it became one of my all time favorite movies
That's a lovely memory
I think it's basically the best movie since, um, Goodfellas. Maybe the best since 1980 let alone 1990. I go back and forth on whether Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, or Raging Bull is his best....They all have an argument to be his best......Though Dances With Wolves beating it was ridiculous, I think an even more ridiculous snub was Liotta not even getting NOMINATED for best actor.....Imo, he owns this movie more than anyone (including the great Pesci)....To me, it's Liotta's movie more than anyone else and he gives one of the great performances in any movie ever. I have always thought he never got enough credit for his performance and influence in and on this film, including his incredible almost Morgan Freeman level narration. What a wondrous film it is.
I can listen and watch this all day……Comfort and hilarious pod
This is possibly the reason why we love, The Rewatchables. The Big 3…………😂😂😂😂
I love the reference to "That Guy" actors because we all have used the exact same description.
Probably the best episode of the Rewatchables ever.
Yes!!! Great to see you together on set.
I can't remember if the question was asked in this episode or another one, but Yes, Jimmy was married. His wife is in a bunch of scenes. They're not shown together much, maybe only in the vacation photos and at the wedding, but she's shown at the wives hangout, in the bar, and at Jimmy's trial.
Wonderful. Thanks guys. THE perfect podcast.
They should do a rewatchable on the rewatchables
The DVD flipped right before Karen showed up to Henry's mistresses apartment with the kids. Her hitting the call buttons was the first frame of the second discovery.
1:41:36 Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent in Batman.
Chris's Goodfellas pod up there w russillo on the town just for that one section lmaooo 1:47:30
1:46:59
shot in the summer of '89. I saw this in the theater; I was 10. Loved it.
So when I was a kid I had two basketball posters in my room... However every late 70s, early 80s Basketball poster I see I'm like "Yep I had that one" --The Kareem poster "might" have been on my wall.
I agree. When I think about “vintage film” vs “present day”… Goodfellas is ground zero.
Good Fellas was the first DVD that I owned. Great film and great rewatchables episode. Thanks guys.
I think the break requiring a flip was when Karen goes to the girlfriends apartment and is ringing up all the neighbors.
Thank you for posting a video for this! Perfect for a Monday.
Great analysis! My favourite film of all time and most quotable 😊
Thank you for the video footage. These three!
I usually hate listening to young people talk about film. It usually feels like they are trying to say the correct thing or be interesting. But this felt genuine and informed. A truly enjoyable listen. You just got a new subscriber.
I mean these guys are like 40 😅
Simmons is over 50.
Saw it on opening day in Toronto. Not surprised that it has become THE mob movie of all time.
Oh whoa!! All these years I was fine making up in my mind what u guys would look like… and here we are 😂… love this damn show so much!! Glad to be able to watch it now!
I'd love to see you do Casino which is my personal favorite of Scorsese's films.
Does this mean Bill will drop the two part Boogie Nights rewatchables video?
2:17:54 unfortunately there isn’t anymore 😔
Goodfellas is one of the movies that you’ve already rewatched a million times because it’s always played on TV.
I remember the doubled dvd watching with my dad and us both being floored. He would never like gritty movies like it but then we see the departed in theatres and have the same response. Great memories
The eat the food part, when Robert D tells the mom the food was delicious, delicious... After commiting that murder and enjoying the food.... Devilish 😈😅😅😅
Put out all of the video versions of the Rewatchables, we'll eat 'em up.
Wolf of Wallstreet was not even close to the level of the ALL TIME MASTERPIECE that Goodfellas was! Goodfellas washes TF out of it! It’s on so many peoples Mount Rushmore for a reason!
Goodfellas didn’t need to be watched 3 times to know it was ILLmatic the first time!
I know it's cliche but Goodfellas is one of my favorite movies of all time!
There are 2 movies that I saw at the theater 2 days in a row in my life. Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction.
Fuck all the contrarians, there's nothing wrong with recognizing greatness
That dang 2 sided DVD!! Also, during the crew intro. Fat Andy is played by one half of the real Cocaine Cop’s (Eppolitto) & Frankie the Wop is played by Tony Lip (Green book/Sopranos) Great Job guys!!
GREAT Job guys....loved it
This podcast kept me awake when I was falling asleep driving through Kentucky in the middle of the night trying to make it to Knoxville
80's: After Hours is a good movie, Color of Money is a good move, King of Comedy, also good, Raging Bull (of course). These are also some of Marty's all-time best movies.
He followed up Goodfellas with a remake of Cape Fear and The Age of Innocence, which are also both good films.
Re: most influential movies of the past 35 years (37 now), the other contenders are Die Hard, Batman, and When Harry Met Sally
This is one of the best mob movies! Bill, I also have that DVD where they play half the movie on one side and then I have to get up and flip it over. There's only one other DVD, I have to do that with and it's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I should look for some new copies. Without a doubt, Jimmy would've had Karen killed. If she didn't decide to leave at the last min. Chris' impression of Ray Liotta saying Karen was hilarious! BTW! I'd pick Goodfellas over Dances with Wolves anytime!
Anybody have a mini-stroke when they saw this just uploaded and thought they did it again?
Robert De Niro is more Irish than Italian. De Niro's father was half Irish, and three of his grandparents were of Irish descent. His mother, Virginia Admiral, was of Dutch, English, French, and German ancestry. As a teenager, De Niro traveled to Ireland to find distant relatives. He hitchhiked from Dublin to Galway and then to the Aran Islands.
Sick shirt Bill!! Love The Rewatchables!
Ray Liotta was never associated with anything else even close to this level but he starred in the best movie ever made.
Paulie being the silent partner of the bar and ordering a bunch of weird stuff and never paying for them is the same thing they did on The Sopranos. When Davey Scatino owed Tony a bunch of money and they did the same thing with his sporting goods store.
To add to my previous statement, its called a Bust Out.
Pesci deserved his Oscar
That was Scorsese's apex of his apex.
Billy D Williams was Harvey Dent in Batman 89.
BAd was shot inside the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station in Brooklyn.
Billy Dee Williams played Harvey dent in Batman 89
Billy Dee Williams played Harvey Dent in Batman 89
This is a Hall of Fame Rewatchables episode...right up there with "The Town" one for me.
Everytime my girl and I make spaghetti sauce I keep telling her:
“Don’t let the sauce stick!”
Everything Bill said about the reaction at the time to Goodfellas when it was first released is spot on. Now i had read some things here and there while the film was being made that had me anticipating it enough to read WISEGUY. Definitely the focus was on Godfather III but word was slowly getting out that it wasn’t good so i was more stoked to see Goodfellas and remember trying to convince friends to go see it. No one was interested, they were all geared to see only one mob movie, GF3. What i remember was it took a year or two for Goodfellas to become part of every film lovers conversation. As soon as it was released on video i took it and forced my friends to watch it. I also recorded the sound off the TV andwould play it on a tape deck while i slept cuz i was instantly obsessed with the dialogue. Only gripe i have is the idea presented that Pulp Fiction was heavily influenced by Goodfellas, i would argue against that notion.
For like every movie they say "this is the point of view from the main character. This is how he remembers it and not how it actually might have happened"
Tuddy Cicero's real name was Vito by the way.
Gangsters really did love pay phones, due to a simple legal loophole. There was a law that public payphones could not be wiretapped. It would be fruitless for a DA to seek a wiretap on a payphone since no judge would grant it. Payphones were deemed a public good or utility, and warrants have to be for specific persons. Or whatever the rationale, it was the law.
"Call me on a landline", Trejo in Heat. Because the restaurant's phone would be safe and unwiretapped (and if it was, any warrant would have to be limited to named persons, the restaurant's owners or managers, a third party like Neil safe, inadmissable even if it was wiretapped), and he was calling from a payphone. Two secure points, free from any lawful wiretap.
Please release rewatchable of Contact please
Love this. Love a good deep dive.
That said, Chris screaming “Karen” repeatedly was brutal. Make it stop.
In my opinion he has the best sense of humor out of all of them. Bill and Sean are like 2 cranky old men.
Lol the podcast is as long as the film it's about, a very Scorsese move 👍🏼
Great episode guys. Richard Belzer was in Scarface. Henry Youngman was also briefly in in Death Wish 2.
Best line in the film to me”Look what that mutt did to my shoes “
That scene with the restaurant owner complaining about Tommy to Pauly. Pauly says "What do you want? He's a bad kid. He's a bad seed. What do you want me to do? Shoot him?" The guy says "Well, that wouldn't be a bad idea." and the face that Pauly makes is hilarious.
You guys are the best!
The break happened when Henry goes to jail. First scene on the flip side of DVD is Paulie cutting garlic
To this day people probably use that trick. Cutting the garlic with a razor blade so it liquifies in the pan.
I'm gonna go watch this podcast, watch this podcast...
Total masterpiece. If you watch this and then Reservoir Dogs... it is such an influential film.
when I first started hearing the whole "Karen" thing on twitter a couple years ago, like I understood what people meant and were making fun of, but the underlying tone of it, and why the name of Karen in particular was chosen, I totally thought was a reference to this movie lol
No Anthony…….he’s a good boy he knows what he’s said………
I’m glad but why the awesome volume of new rewatchables??
Dancing with Wolves win is the biggest mistake of the Oscars. Also, Liotta not winning an Oscar for Goodfellas. Absolutely ridiculous he wasn’t nominated .
The entire Oscars is a mistake. Our guy Rog never got nominated for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
I always assumed Tuddy was a nickname for Arturo or “Arthur.”
KAREN!!!!!
Fun fact about ketchup on pasta: no one really did that. Also, those double sided DVDs usually had the movie on one side, and the special features on the other. They never split the movie in half. DVDs could handle 2.5 hours...
The thing is that it is basically true about poor quality pasta and sauce in other states. It's not ketchup but it's not much better. I grew up in Chicago and went to Indiana University and it was hard to find good pasta there. I think they had 1 good Italian restaurant.
I had that same DVD, still do, and it definitely cut off during the movie. The second side started with the cooking scene in jail
Sean, Chris and Bill are the best big three in the league.
Double sided dvd?. I never knew there was such a thing? You had to flip it over?
It's "IT'S WHAT IT IS" not "IT IS WHAT IT IS" in The Irishman.
Greatest film of all time.
Saul Bass only made one movie, Phase IV
I though I clicked on an old episode… can’t believe it took this long to get to Goodfellas
You did click on an old episode. This one is two years old. The Rewatchables is a podcast not a TH-cam show, however they sometimes record it on video too, if we're lucky.
You actually do see Jimmy's wife. They show her in the scene where Tommy tells his date if she looks at anyone else he'll kill her. She tells another woman "He'll really do it, too!" And the other woman, Jimmy's wife, says "Yeah! That's great!!" with a look of horror. You see pictures of her and Jimmy with Henry and Karen on vacation. Very surprised I remember this and you guys don't
1:46:52 Chris's Rewatchables Apex Mountain
"Who played Harvey Dent in Batman?" Billy Dee!
Jeez, these guys are awesome.