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Old 03-29-2006, 11:15 PM
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There's no feeling behind any of the characters and the story is told in a very 2-dimentional fashion. Montages are over used which slacken the pace and the whole mood of the film is wrong. Compare it with Blow (which is almost identical), it has the same bouncy narrative but Blow at least tries to engage you at the end...

It would have made a better film if Henry Hill's upbringing was cut and the mood darkened to give a Donnie Brasco-esq thriller. This may have been an entirely different film, but that's just my preference. For example, think of the immense tension that could have been created by Spyder's shooting if it had been handled differently...
Mm-hmm, I agree with everything you said there. And Blow was superior to Goodfellas, imo. Every scene I was able to play out in my head before it finished, just very predictable; Blow, I could not do this with. Both movies I watched with very little knowledge going in, as to the storyline. Even Joe Pesci's character irked me, far too predictable.
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Joe Pesci's character irked me, far too predictable.

Yeah, I just found him annoying. As I did in Casino
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Buster Keaton, Nicholas Ray, John Hughes, William Friedkin, Jean-Luc Godard, Michael Curtiz, Tony Richardson, Richard Lester, Nicholas Roeg, Lindsay Anderson...
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