GoodFellas
"As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster."
Without a doubt, this is my favorite Scorsese movie I've seen so far. Amazing characters and character arcs and along with that spectacular performances. Martin Scorsese may look like the cute and wholesome grandfather at first but on the inside he's the king of Mafia!!
To start, Ray Liotta absolutely crushes the role of Henry Hill, from the beginning of the movie to the end his character goes through amazing and seamless character development. I was very shocked and sad to hear he passes just two years ago, so rest in paradise to the soul of Goodfellas. But man, Joe Pesci just brings a whole new light into this movie, his temperamental, overly energetic character of Tommy Devito. He absolutely deserved that Oscar as he's just everything great about this movie. And finally, Robert De Niro as James Conway gets so much amazing dialogue and scenes here, he's badass and he's totally not 20 ish years old.
The plot moves in such a nice and smooth flow and everytime they do a time jump it's absolutely seemless, and a masterclass in moviemaking. Another person that gave probably one of my favorite performance is Lorraine Bracco as Karen Hill. The rocky relationship she goes through with Henry is an amazing addition to an already amazing storyline.
The main plot line with the mafia is very interesting and fun to follow. Everything with Paulie, the drugs at the end, Tommy, the Lufthansa heist, is just absolute perfection. And, when Henry breaks the fourth wall at the end, it's absolutely amazing and iconic along with Tommy shooting at the screen.
Martin Scorsese really did cook up something with this, he could've gone another way and became a mafia king but he decided to be the king at filmmaking. Overall, why would Martin Scorsese make metaphorical artistic movies when he can make another mob flick.