GoodFellas | Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta

GoodFellas | Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta | Goodfellas HD DVD

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GoodFellas

	GoodFellas Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta Warner Home Video, 1997 average customer review:based on 631 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Classic Mob Movie

This is a film that Scorsese should have won the Oscar for, not "The Departed."

Goodfellas follows the life of Henry Hill through his life with the Mafia. The story is based on the real-life Henry Hill.

This film really established Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta as solid actors. With Robert De Niro and Lorraine Bracco, the cast was just perfect. The acting was great all around and the plot was very entertaining.

Unlike what is seen in "The Godfather," Goodfellas probably more accurately portrays what real life is like in the Mafia, atleast from what I've read. Not that "The Godfather" isn't any good, it's great but it almost glorifies that lifestyle to an extent.

Anyway, as I said, the plot is entertaining and this is a film you could watch more than once. The characters are interesting and the humor is appropriate. There is some graphic violence as to be expected but it is not over the top. There's plenty of foul language but again, it's not over the top.

Overall, this is a film that you must see, if for nothing else to see Joe Pesci's famous "am I a clown" scene.

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Goodfellas HD DVD

Don't buy it unless you have a Toshiba or regular HD player. It is no longer practical. I gave it 5 stars because, the DVD itself, is very good - nothing to complain about it.

It's a good quality HD DVD. If you have a copy keep it because maybe it will be a collector's item in about 30 years. Give it to your kids. It will play in standard players but will not work in a Blu-Ray HD DVD player and that will be the HD DVD standard player.

Good Fellas - Blu Ray

I wont bother reviewing the movie itself. It has to stand as one of the 100 best films of all time (at least in my list). As far as Blu Ray goes, this is much improved over my original "flipper" 2-sided DVD version. Some reviewers have mentioned the grain in some parts of the film. That's just the stock they made the transfer from. There is another part where there is a vertical line in the scene through De Niro that is part of the negative. But when the film is sharp, the transfer is perfect. I think this is especially obvious at the very beginning of the movie when there is tight close-up of a young Henry Hill looking out the window of his apartment and you can see the details of what looks like a green contact lens (to match Liotta I suppose).
I was disappointed by the audio. It seemes a bit muddy. I need to go back to my "flipper" version to see if it was any better. This may be a case of trying to make Dolby 5.1 out of an old soundtrack.
Overall, Certainly worth the price. Worth replacing an older version (not sure if this applies to the newer "collecters edition" or not.
By the way, one fun part of watching this movie is picking out all the Soprano's characters that were in this film. Christoper, Pauli, "Old" Carmine (Tony Lipp plays "Tony the Wop" or something like that), I think even "Big Pussy", Vincent Pastore has a walk on bit. For "The Wire" fans, I noticed that Isiah Whitlock Jr (the "honorable" Sen Clay Davis) had a bit part playing a Dr when Henry is picking his wheelchair bound brother up from the hospital near the end of the film.

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Dope

Extras are a blast from the past and the film is great. Anyone see the blu-ray version? I bet its better but by how much?

Curious about the Mafia?

"Good Fellas," I think, is the definitive movie about the Mafia in the U.S. It's beautifully done; the acting and direction superb. The settings and the mise-en-scene were brilliantly prepared. Unfortunately, the subject is so repellant that watching it is about as satisfying as watching a cat torture a bird to death.

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