Dear Silent Dawn/All of Letterboxd.

I deeply apologize for not seeing this film until today even though I'm only seventeen. I should have seen this when I was first born. I need to stop making excuses. This movie is as good as you've heard and maybe even better. I love Gangster stories and movies like this, so how have I not seen this until now? The fuck is wrong with me?

Everyone is fucking brilliant. Holy shit, so much great acting across the board. With fantastic dialogue as well. Each frame is perfectly placed for the scene and every scene has a meaning towards forwarding the story and characters.

Fuck, I want to have sex with this movie's soundtrack. I…

100/100

Had to give the "new" Blu-ray (from a 4K scan!) a spin, and it's as impossibly gorgeous as can be, enriching the murky, glorified details and cranking all the exhilaration and eventual paranoia up to 11. Even though I've seen this around 20-30 times at this point, I still get dizzy from all the detail; an entire world built up and thriving through soda pop nostalgia and the eventual nervousness of violence. Scorsese's attuned style commits fully to every aspect of the production, but it is in the strange, banal moments where his genius fully shines. Although it may be glorification in terms of technique, Goodfellas never romanticizes its band of characters or its almost Herculean setting, instead exposing…

An operatic descent into paranoia, a gorgeous soda-pop evocation of a seductive and vibrant world, a character study of despicable but human individuals, and a study of a changing criminal landscape; Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas is arguably his masterpiece, and It's a perfect example of Scorsese's exceptional style and his fascination with flawed people. With a never-ending rhythm of pop anthems that highlight, boost, and crank the infectious energy up to an almost obtainable level, this magnum opus grooves and flows like mercury that just ran out of a broken thermometer. Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci are three of the worst individuals that have been portrayed in the history of cinema, and yet, they're utterly breathtaking in their…

I decided to give Scorcese's film another go and while I still appreciate the skill involved I just cannot get myself to like this film.

The problem is that in a film full of antagonists the audience always loses. This film doesn't make me care for a single character and that completely takes me out of it. It turns me from a spectator into a passerby.

The story arch is fine and it is told with Scorcese's usual skill. Most performances are excellent and engaging, but I just keep coming back to the fact that I need a protagonists I can root for in a story like this. Our supposed hero, the way he's written, is simply not a character…

"Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies."

Thinking back on it, Goodfellas was probably the catalyst for my obsession with film. Before Goodfellas, movies essentially existed in a vacuum - they were just visual stories that someone made up to entertain the masses and hopefully rake in a bunch of cash at the box office. I didn't realize that most films are the culmination of a singular artistic vision, usually the director's, and actually have true artistic value. It's through Goodfellas that I became aware of Martin Scorsese. The same week I watched Goodfellas, I also devoured Casino, The Departed, Gangs of New York, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. Talk about an eye-opening…

GoodFellas is a masterpiece and one of the greatest films ever made. This is Scorsese's best film which is saying something because no man has made more amazing films than Martin Scorsese. The performances are just simply phenomenal. Ray Liotta is great as Henry Hill a man who want's to be involved with the mafia and Robert De Niro as hit man James Jimmy Conway is of course fantastic but the best performance is from Joe Pesci who gives one of the greatest performances of all time as Tommy DeVito and gives one of the best performances of his entire career. This film has great use of narration. This is over a 2 and a half hour film and there…

"Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies."

Thinking back on it, Goodfellas was probably the catalyst for my obsession with film. Before Goodfellas, movies essentially existed in a vacuum - they were just visual stories that someone made up to entertain the masses and hopefully rake in a bunch of cash at the box office. I didn't realize that most films are the culmination of a singular artistic vision, usually the director's, and actually have true artistic value. It's through Goodfellas that I became aware of Martin Scorsese. The same week I watched Goodfellas, I also devoured Casino, The Departed, Gangs of New York, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. Talk about an eye-opening…

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States. Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an afterschool job I knew I wanted to be a part of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant being somebody in the neighborhood that was full of nobodies. They weren’t like anybody else. I mean, they did whatever they wanted. They double parked in front of a hydrant and nobody ever game them a ticket. In the summer when they played cards all night, nobody ever called the cops. Tuddy Cicero. Tuddy. Tuddy ran the…

Goodfellas is a breakneck punch in the face, a cinematic cocaine rush of the fiercest kind. The film is based on the true story of Henry Hill, a mobster whose rise to power within the mafia soon becomes his downfall. With a constant stream of amazingly well written dialogue and a feast of stunning visuals, Goodfellas is without a doubt a contemporary masterpiece that has pushed the boundaries of the cinematic language. The incredibly absorbing performances by Robert De Niro, Joe Pescie and Ray Liotta make the film impossible to look away from. This story is told at such a speed and resolution that it will keep you coming back again and again.

Starting with Henry Hill from when he…