GoodFellas

Been feeing a little stressed out/depressed lately, and this is one of the foremost “could watch any time of day any day of the week” comfort movies in my life.  This film is a rock concert for me. One of the first movies to shoot an electric bullet right between my eyes as a kid. Perfect from top to bottom. Maybe the best edited American film of all time? Everything about it is beyond successful and memorable. Ray Liotta does godlike things here. See you in the inevitably short amount of time it will take for me to rewatch this again. The amount of times a week I have to wrestle with the guilt of this, ALIEN, Evil Dead II, and Raiders Of The Lost Arc not being in my top four is astronomical. I’m a broken man! Also, pro tip from me: if you are running late to somewhere and don’t want to speed (optional) but want to feel like you are making quick time, play the soundtrack from the “last day as a wise guy” sequence in your car. Yes I have done this in real life. Yes Harry Nilsson’s “Jump Into The Fire” made me feel like I was blazing a mile a minute. Yes it helps if you also mime frantically looking for helicopters outside your window. No it did not make me any less late to work.