GoodFellas

🎵Ain’t that a kick in the head?🎵 Holy shit, how have I never seen this? Why have I never seen this? Who was stopping me from seeing it, I feel like a fraud. This film curb stomps the shit out of the Mario movie by a million pounds wtf Goodfellas really kicks you in the balls with a flick unlike any other, Scorsese did his thing which is common but he really geared up here. Every single minute of runtime is so entertaining that it had to be an instant classic right when it was released, it had to be! An all-star cast, who are classic for mobster rolls, were firing on all cylinders. RIP to Ray Liotta. A story so rich with paranoia, ego, misogyny, and violence that feels so hard to believe it actually happened. Our world has so much going on at once, and while it’s been obvious mobsters were a big part of American culture, you sometimes forget how real it really was and Goodfellas is sorta like this biopic on human nature within those classic gangsters. There’s feel good moments that last for long but are immediately stripped away by murder and violence because that’s what the life was for them, and it majorly helps keep the story intriguing because you really don’t know what turn the story could take if you’re unfamiliar with the subject. I’ve never seen the Godfather, still need to do that, but a Scorsese picture is just cinema. True magic every time he puts one on the screen. His stories are always hilarious and tragic, true reflections of the human identity that I feel gets lost in cinema nowadays. I need to watch more of his stuff, he really gets it. Live, laugh, love…Samuel Jackson. That was a pleasant surprise, but soon met with a gruesome end.