I watched it a couple times before I realized Tommy borrowed the chef knife from his mother before he was aware Billy Batts was still alive in the trunk.
@@groob33 Yea that's an acceptable explanation but in the real world its not very practical tool for dismemberment. A handsaw may be better. One gets the impression at the time, that he was getting the knife specifically so he could finish off poor old Billy.
Goodfellas is the greatest movie ever made, yes Godfather is iconic too, but Goodfellas is just the best overall. Marty did a great job putting certain songs at certain points. The scenery like the red light while their digging the grave. Its a piece of artwork!!! Just done perfectly, that movie has no flaws!!
I love how Scorsese says "in the previews the audience didn't like the jump cuts so we made it even faster" or how George Miller said "we made the movie we wanted not what the feedback we got from screenings." In going mad, the fury road documentary. As filmgoers we like to think we know what we want but we don't. We only know what we want after its already been given to us. An artist must be fearless on conveying his vision exactly how he wants it. If you listen to what everyone is saying you are asking to be like everyone, mediocre/ordinary and that's how mediocre movies music and art in general gets made.
This film stands as a monument to human creativity. Not many people I've met that don't have Goodfellas somewhere in the top of their list of favorite films. Even after watching it countless times there is a sense of wonder you feel as the scenes play out... I'm sure there are many others like me who could quote most of the film from memory LOL
The first Martin Scorsese movie I got on DVD was Goodfellas for Christmas. I always watch Goodfellas every Christmas Day. The first Martin Scorsese movie I seen in theaters was The Aviator. Martin Scorsese is the best filmmaker around and when he decides to stop making movies it'll be a sad day for movie buffs everywhere.
Dances with wolves was a great movie too and more of an artsy film so i can see why it won the Oscar over a very violent mob movie that wasnt even well received at first... Goodfellas is definitely at the top of my list but it makes sense why it didnt win knowing how the award committees work...
DWW deserved its Oscars for cinematography, costume design, art direction, John Barry's music score and several performances. The directing, by Kevin Costner, while artistic, was relatively simplistic. If not an Oscar for Scorcese's direction, Goodfellas definitely deserved an Oscar for film editing by Thelma Schoomaker!
"Arguably" the key word here 😁 I ADORE goodfellas and it's not just THE gangster film but one of the all time greatest films ever... .but I struggle to call it the greatest of the 90s as for me there is so much competition from so many great films of that decade that I love ....too many to mention but some examples are, Shawshank Redemption, Usual Suspects, Heat, Basic Instinct, Disclosure, Sliver, Shattered, Jurassic Park, Matrix, American Beauty, Terminator 2-Judgement Day, Fight Club, Devils Advocate, ....and they are only a handful of my favourite films that are award winning/worthy....I also have so many guilty pleasures 😋😆... But to your point Goodfellas is EPIC and in my Top 10 without question!
I was an extra in 'Article 99', a movie shot in my hometown Kansas City. 'Goodfellas' had been in the theaters several months. I was standing in a hallway with other extras and noticed Ray Liotta coming towards us down the hall. I looked at the floor, planning to casually look up as he passed by, but Liotta chose to turn and glare right at me the exact moment I looked up. That was my autograph, in living color.
I grew up with both masterpieces & studied both of them & at my current age this is how i think of these two films now.... The Godfather is the Family mob movie & Goodfellas is the Homie mob movie, they both mirror eachother& are equally perfect for that one reason alone💯 i liked both those films more than eachother at certain points & times over the decades but Goodfellas is really ment more for the younger adults & The GF is more more for the wiser older adults that already been thru all the bravidocious & all the pridefulness in they're lives already & the Godfather is the movie u rather watch more after u get over that younger period of your life 💯
There are a bunch of films ppl either don’t associate with Scorsese or they forget that he’s done. Like “Bringing Out the Dead”, “Kundun”, “Cape Fear”, and “Age of Innocence”. Everybody knows “Goodfellas”, “Casino”, and “Irishman” along with “Wolf of Wall Street”. When he’s on point those 2.5-3 hour runtimes feel like 90 mins. ThTs when you know it’s a well made movie.
Cape Fear and The King of Comedy are both brilliant, and are two of the legendary collaborations between Scorsese and DeNiro along with Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, and Casino and the others.
After watching this movie well over 500 times since its release, I can honestly say it never gets old! My absolute favorite movie out of the 4,000 + movies I own on DVD. as a matter of fact I own 10 copies of this movie since I wore out 3 DVDs so far from playing it over and over. Yes I'm obsessed with it that much lol
1990 was a fantastic year for Mafia films. Godfather III was a let down but Goodfellas and Miller's Crossing are still two of the very best. Miller's Crossing is still my favourite film of all time.
If you look behind Joe and Ray when Ray finally realizes Joe is pulling his leg on "What am I funny?" scene you notice the Waiter fan himself with the menu which I always took as clear body language showing what everyone felt at that moment which was to all around "RELIEF'.....
I've noticed that Scorsese is brilliant at letting actors be the character. He appears to only limit the actor by telling them what the situation is and what the outcome should be, then let the actors work together to figure out how to get there.
Goodfellas no matter when I watch it always feel like the first time. I love goodfellas it's funny gripping and exciting. The characters are great. There so many great moments in the movie. I watch it so many times I can't count. It's amazing epic remarkable Martin the beat director.
@R.P. McMurphy Math is math. Obviously. I was under 30 when it came out and now I'm 60. But they look younger in the "making of" than they did in the movie. Ray anyway. When you start getting up there and the kids are grown and the walls are closing in, you start looking back and wondering where the time went. If you are lucky and you get up there, you'll see what I mean.
GoodFellas is the best crime movie ever! The Departed is my second favourite but it made Running Scared with Paul Walker and Inside Man with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen look like Smokin’ Aces
Most filmmakers: dreaming of having the money to pay for the songs they want for their movies Marty: getting requests from bands and record labels to put their songs in his movies
While many dont even watch anything on traditional TV's anymore I always had a few movies, that no matter how many times I saw or last I saw it that when flipping through channels would have me stop in my tracks and just fall into....just always felt natural to lose time and thought and just easily slip into absorbing inside the movie. GOODFELLAS IS ONE OF THEM AND JAWS IS ANOTHER. DID I search or plan to watch this on RUclips....nope. But It popped up and here I am....different device but same result.
Pablo Picasso invented a new form of painting a picture, and another new form and another ... Stanley Kubrick invented a new form of making a movie picture, and another new form and another ...
30:00 Just imagine having to witness that. People walking out of a movie u put ur blood sweat and tears into making. Well, it's great that people still liked it, and to this day too
i think thats the case with every scorsese film like taxi driver and raging bull. its only after a few years that people look back these movies and label them as masterpieces
I imagine that, at Scorsese's funeral, there will be Scottish bagpipe music. Trivia: his parents' and grandparents' last name was spelled "Scozzese" -- which is the Italian word for "Scottish" or "Scotsman" -- but in his case it became "Scorsese" thanks to a clerical error on his birth certificate. He does indeed claim some Scottish ancestry.
They just re-released Goodfellas in a 4K Steelbook -- which I bought! Must be the fourth time I've bought it on disc. I had the original flipper DVD which I sold for store credit when that was a thing (long time ago when DVD was doing REALLY well, pre-2007 market crash), the first deluxe 2-disc DVD release, the slipcase release on Blu ray, and finally the latest Steelbook release which might be a Best Buy exclusive.
My Wife's Uncle docked and lived on his boat in Santa Monica and met Joe Pesci walking the docks. they became friends and Joe used to go hang out with him on the boat when he was in town. I wish i could have been there and met him too. They both said Joe was a super nice guy, unpretentious and just a regular guy that's famous.
I remember when it first came out and was nominated for an Oscar. I though oh know not another mob movie, but this is the template and exception to all gangster movies.
This just shows you how Scorsese outshines every other director in the last half-century! I’d take Scorsese over the combined works of Spielberg, Tarantino and Cameron! The only directors I’d put ahead of him would be Keaton, Ford and Hitchcock… Edit: Oops! I’d add Wilder to that last list.
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It’ll be a sad day when Scorsese stops making films. Thank you Mr. Scorsese for all the art you’ve given people.🙏
Hope he don't stop or if so find and mentor new people to take his place I would like to be his student.
I don't think he'll ever stop
@@Thespeedrap you and everyone else
@@abishaipaul2298 Death smiles when we make plans.
Scorsese, De Niro & Pesci are the best.
I'm going to be obsessed with this movie forever
My all-time favorite movie, period. I saw it like 100 times, no kidding.
I watched it a couple times before I realized Tommy borrowed the chef knife from his mother before he was aware Billy Batts was still alive in the trunk.
Same, been watching it every month ever since I turned 11
Proof?
@@tga2848 He wanted the knife to cut up and dismember the body. It just happened to come in handy because he was still alive.
@@groob33 Yea that's an acceptable explanation but in the real world its not very practical tool for dismemberment. A handsaw may be better. One gets the impression at the time, that he was getting the knife specifically so he could finish off poor old Billy.
One of the greatest if not THE greatest gangster films ever made. How this didn’t clean up at the Academy’s was an absolute crime ( excuse the pun ) 🙏
To this day, i still cannot listen to "Layla" without thinking in that sequence. One of the greatest!
One of the all time great movies. You can watch it over and over and over.
Scorsese laughing made me tear up...dude is so passionate
Why you laughing? You think I'm funny? Like I'm a clown? Like my only purpose in life is to make you smile? What do you mean I'm funny, huh?
Goodfellas is the greatest movie ever made, yes Godfather is iconic too, but Goodfellas is just the best overall. Marty did a great job putting certain songs at certain points. The scenery like the red light while their digging the grave. Its a piece of artwork!!! Just done perfectly, that movie has no flaws!!
You better check your f*******in loop, this Diamond has flaws!
Robert De Niro is excellent in this movie
One of THE greatest films ever made.❤
I love how Scorsese says "in the previews the audience didn't like the jump cuts so we made it even faster" or how George Miller said "we made the movie we wanted not what the feedback we got from screenings." In going mad, the fury road documentary.
As filmgoers we like to think we know what we want but we don't. We only know what we want after its already been given to us. An artist must be fearless on conveying his vision exactly how he wants it. If you listen to what everyone is saying you are asking to be like everyone, mediocre/ordinary and that's how mediocre movies music and art in general gets made.
True.Listening to all feedback you get averages things outs,leaving art toothless and gutless
Could not have put it better myself.
I was about to comment on Martin Scorsese's we made it faster quote. And you highlighted that beautful. 👍
This film stands as a monument to human creativity. Not many people I've met that don't have Goodfellas somewhere in the top of their list of favorite films. Even after watching it countless times there is a sense of wonder you feel as the scenes play out... I'm sure there are many others like me who could quote most of the film from memory LOL
Goodfellas is a masterpiece in every sense of the word
"piece"?
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@@ytcorporate9237 "mast"?
@@TheGentlemanGamer "terp"?
@@ytcorporate9237 "pie"!
Martin Scorsese an absolute legend ❤️
He is at another level... He creates depth like no other
This movie changed my life when I first saw back in 1995. I watch this movie every once in a while. R u kiddin'? Number one for me.
Warner Bros releasing these just made me subscribe to them.
The first Martin Scorsese movie I got on DVD was Goodfellas for Christmas. I always watch Goodfellas every Christmas Day. The first Martin Scorsese movie I seen in theaters was The Aviator. Martin Scorsese is the best filmmaker around and when he decides to stop making movies it'll be a sad day for movie buffs everywhere.
Well they do have a big Christmas 🎄 scene on it!
Saw
The fact that this movie lost the Oscar to Dances With Wolves is a real head scratcher.
Both great movies. I would still rank Dances With Wolves on Top.
@@cho7777 well, people are still talking about Goodfellas 30 years later. Dances With Wolves.. not so much.
Dances with wolves was a great movie too and more of an artsy film so i can see why it won the Oscar over a very violent mob movie that wasnt even well received at first... Goodfellas is definitely at the top of my list but it makes sense why it didnt win knowing how the award committees work...
Disgraceful. Saw DWW once. Goodfellas can't count & the scenes still hold up.
DWW deserved its Oscars for cinematography, costume design, art direction, John Barry's music score and several performances. The directing, by Kevin Costner, while artistic, was relatively simplistic. If not an Oscar for Scorcese's direction, Goodfellas definitely deserved an Oscar for film editing by Thelma Schoomaker!
Arguably the greatest film of the 90s.
Idk, what about Alien 3 tho? /s
@@jacobvarney23 LOL, that's not even funny.
@@goldtomlin3438 then why did u laugh? 🤔
"Arguably" the key word here 😁 I ADORE goodfellas and it's not just THE gangster film but one of the all time greatest films ever... .but I struggle to call it the greatest of the 90s as for me there is so much competition from so many great films of that decade that I love ....too many to mention but some examples are, Shawshank Redemption, Usual Suspects, Heat, Basic Instinct, Disclosure, Sliver, Shattered, Jurassic Park, Matrix, American Beauty, Terminator 2-Judgement Day, Fight Club, Devils Advocate, ....and they are only a handful of my favourite films that are award winning/worthy....I also have so many guilty pleasures 😋😆... But to your point Goodfellas is EPIC and in my Top 10 without question!
@@jacobvarney23 Shut up!
The "Layla" scene is ths best piece of film ever recorded!!!
All I can think of is, "that's the cleanest-looking garbage I've ever seen, surrounding those dead bodies there."
I love Martin Scorsese and his films.
WHat an absolutely perfect cast.
Timeless movie. Will current day Hollywood ever be able to make a movie of this quality like this again? Sadly, I doubt it...
No way. Hollywoke's best days are long over.
The Irishman?The wolf of wall street?
@@ShamsArifin-pj3bz what about them? they're played out pap.
Exactly. This and Mickey Blue Eyes are the two best mob movies made.
The most mesmerising movie I have ever seen!
This same year Joe starred in Home Alone
Really? That's crazy 😜
Paul Sorvino should do audiobooks...didn't know he had such a great voice
20 years later they'll still be talking about it. 30 years later now and it's still brilliant.
0:01 You talk about Scorsese films and you have Theme Park movie posters on the back. Great!
They are super blurred tho lol
The movie is great and Scorsese is obviously great, but the book the movie is based on is one of the best mob books ever
I was an extra in 'Article 99', a movie shot in my hometown Kansas City. 'Goodfellas' had been in the theaters several months. I was standing in a hallway with other extras and noticed Ray Liotta coming towards us down the hall. I looked at the floor, planning to casually look up as he passed by, but Liotta chose to turn and glare right at me the exact moment I looked up.
That was my autograph, in living color.
Goodfellas has and is my comfort movie since a teen ❤ Amazing film.
a masterpiece. should have won oscar for best picture and director
GoodFellas is like an endless cellar with wine getting better and better with the years.
Thank you Cine-Files podcast for recommending this series!
RIP Ray. 🙏 You were terrific!
I grew up with both masterpieces & studied both of them & at my current age this is how i think of these two films now....
The Godfather is the Family mob movie & Goodfellas is the Homie mob movie, they both mirror eachother& are equally perfect for that one reason alone💯
i liked both those films more than eachother at certain points & times over the decades but Goodfellas is really ment more for the younger adults & The GF is more more for the wiser older adults that already been thru all the bravidocious & all the pridefulness in they're lives already & the Godfather is the movie u rather watch more after u get over that younger period of your life 💯
There are a bunch of films ppl either don’t associate with Scorsese or they forget that he’s done. Like “Bringing Out the Dead”, “Kundun”, “Cape Fear”, and “Age of Innocence”. Everybody knows “Goodfellas”, “Casino”, and “Irishman” along with “Wolf of Wall Street”. When he’s on point those 2.5-3 hour runtimes feel like 90 mins. ThTs when you know it’s a well made movie.
Cape Fear and The King of Comedy are both brilliant, and are two of the legendary collaborations between Scorsese and DeNiro along with Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, and Casino and the others.
After watching this movie well over 500 times since its release, I can honestly say it never gets old! My absolute favorite movie out of the 4,000 + movies I own on DVD. as a matter of fact I own 10 copies of this movie since I wore out 3 DVDs so far from playing it over and over. Yes I'm obsessed with it that much lol
1990 was a fantastic year for Mafia films.
Godfather III was a let down but Goodfellas and Miller's Crossing are still two of the very best.
Miller's Crossing is still my favourite film of all time.
It's excellent. I'll never get tired of it as long as I live. EVERY actor in the film did a MAGNIFICENT job
You're a funny guy!
You lie more than the real Henry Hill
Do you have a DVD that you don't have to flip over?
If you look behind Joe and Ray when Ray finally realizes Joe is pulling his leg on "What am I funny?" scene you notice the Waiter fan himself with the menu which I always took as clear body language showing what everyone felt at that moment which was to all around "RELIEF'.....
I really like Martin Scorsese, he’s just incredible.
I've noticed that Scorsese is brilliant at letting actors be the character.
He appears to only limit the actor by telling them what the situation is and what the outcome should be, then let the actors work together to figure out how to get there.
Goodfellas no matter when I watch it always feel like the first time. I love goodfellas it's funny gripping and exciting. The characters are great. There so many great moments in the movie. I watch it so many times I can't count. It's amazing epic remarkable Martin the beat director.
100%.
Goodfellas and Jaws always grab me no matter what Im doing when I see it.
Such a rare quality for a movie to be able to do to someone watching.
What makes it cool for me as a fan of this movie is I live where the scenes were filmed and grew up where the real guys grew up
Just read 'Wiseguy' for the first time. For as amazing as Goodfellas was, the book was THAT much better.
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They look so young in the interviews. It goes so fast.
Um...well, it IS over 32 years old, so they WERE young in the interviews. Kinda how that works.
@R.P. McMurphy Math is math. Obviously. I was under 30 when it came out and now I'm 60. But they look younger in the "making of" than they did in the movie. Ray anyway. When you start getting up there and the kids are grown and the walls are closing in, you start looking back and wondering where the time went. If you are lucky and you get up there, you'll see what I mean.
"In a world powered by violence...On the streets where the violent have power....A new generation carries on an old tradition"
Goodfellas is Marty's version of The Godfather--more violent, more hyperkinetic, more schizophrenic.
Also the better version
In many ways Goodfellas was the Anti-Godfather.
this has got to be one of the greatest movies ever to have been made,with amazing cast and characters,scorsese is a genius
Goodfellas is timeless Martin Scorsese is a legendary Director
Goodfellow is the antidote to The Godfather it took all the veneer and romance away of what it really means to be a gangster
One of My Favorite Mob/Crime Movies Such a Classic Martin Scorsese Movie Without Question!
GoodFellas is the best crime movie ever! The Departed is my second favourite but it made Running Scared with Paul Walker and Inside Man with Denzel Washington and Clive Owen look like Smokin’ Aces
The Cine-Files brought me here
Thanks for this video.
Absolutely amazing film.
Most filmmakers: dreaming of having the money to pay for the songs they want for their movies
Marty: getting requests from bands and record labels to put their songs in his movies
Simply another argument for his GOAT status.
Loving these new behind the scenes series..makes us really appreciates these classic
These are old dvd extras
Great documentary. I love the insight into Scorsese's process. Thanks to Steve & John at the Cine-files for recommending this.
R.I.P. Ray
Love love love this movie... I have the special edition on DVD... Love from Melbourne Australia
One of my favorite movies of all time.
This is legit Warner Bros greatest masterpiece
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Brilliant Stuff
This is the Movie that stuck with me since I was a kid
Best movie ever made. Period.
While many dont even watch anything on traditional TV's anymore I always had a few movies, that no matter how many times I saw or last I saw it that when flipping through channels would have me stop in my tracks and just fall into....just always felt natural to lose time and thought and just easily slip into absorbing inside the movie.
GOODFELLAS IS ONE OF THEM AND JAWS IS ANOTHER.
DID I search or plan to watch this on RUclips....nope.
But It popped up and here I am....different device but same result.
Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction are my 2 favorites.
IT is a sad day today RIP Ray Liotta what a friggin sad day today
Pablo Picasso invented a new form of painting a picture, and another new form and another ... Stanley Kubrick invented a new form of making a movie picture, and another new form and another ...
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Just imagine having to witness that. People walking out of a movie u put ur blood sweat and tears into making. Well, it's great that people still liked it, and to this day too
i think thats the case with every scorsese film like taxi driver and raging bull. its only after a few years that people look back these movies and label them as masterpieces
@@ashutoshnayakkk That's kinda sad. At least Scorsese still lives to hear such praise
Great documentary. 👍
This masterpiece lost to Dances with Wolves at the Academy Awards. But it has happened before: Citizen Kane lost to How Green Was My Valley.
Hmm... correction, Joe Pesci’s character in Goodfellas never got “made”. He was killed before that. So...
Yeah, they planned to off him just before his ceremony on purpose too
Looking forward to it! The Cine-Files brought me here
Video starts at 2:18
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I imagine that, at Scorsese's funeral, there will be Scottish bagpipe music. Trivia: his parents' and grandparents' last name was spelled "Scozzese" -- which is the Italian word for "Scottish" or "Scotsman" -- but in his case it became "Scorsese" thanks to a clerical error on his birth certificate. He does indeed claim some Scottish ancestry.
Misses Schoonmaker literally translated means; ´´Cleaning person´´ in the Dutch language
So inspiring
Super cool !
Greay to see some of the extra features from dvds coming back
RIP Ray Liotta.
lol @ the marvel posters in the back blurred out. get you some dark knight posters
Loved the 4K release!
They just re-released Goodfellas in a 4K Steelbook -- which I bought!
Must be the fourth time I've bought it on disc. I had the original flipper DVD which I sold for store credit when that was a thing (long time ago when DVD was doing REALLY well, pre-2007 market crash), the first deluxe 2-disc DVD release, the slipcase release on Blu ray, and finally the latest Steelbook release which might be a Best Buy exclusive.
One would've expected this to be in full hd... But we all know it comes directly from the dvd, so...
Thank you.
RIP Ray Liotta
The Cine-Files podcast brought me here!
who ar e they
Wow. Great movie
My Wife's Uncle docked and lived on his boat in Santa Monica and met Joe Pesci walking the docks. they became friends and Joe used to go hang out with him on the boat when he was in town. I wish i could have been there and met him too. They both said Joe was a super nice guy, unpretentious and just a regular guy that's famous.
Scorsese needs to direct a semi auto-biographical film about his own life like Spielberg just did.
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Wow, Antoine Fuqua went on to make Training Day..Another amazing film.
Cine-files brought me here
I remember when it first came out and was nominated for an Oscar. I though oh know not another mob movie, but this is the template and exception to all gangster movies.
I think it is available as a DVD/Bluray bonus feature.
@Warner Bros. Entertainment thank you for this! Please can you reupload this again in 1080p HD or higher, if this is possible?!
I first noticed Ray in Something Wild.. I bet it lead to his role here.
Unless you've never seen or it's you're first time seeing it,no one has ever watched Goodfellas just once.
When "Karen" is in the bathroom cutting up the coke bag scrunching her face. So real !
This just shows you how Scorsese outshines every other director in the last half-century!
I’d take Scorsese over the combined works of Spielberg, Tarantino and Cameron!
The only directors I’d put ahead of him would be Keaton, Ford and Hitchcock…
Edit: Oops! I’d add Wilder to that last list.
Kubrick
love this. RIP ray liotta
The Cine-files recommended this to me! Very cool!
Best gangster movie ever
'I'm a clown, I'm here to amuse you…' the scene made me think Henry was about to get whacked the first time I saw it.