
Goodfellas - So, You Want To Be A Mobster...
Review created: 06/27/07
by: AliventiAsylum-- a member of Epinions and Advisor in Movies
Pros:
acting, pace, true to life story, cinematography
Cons:
where's Henry Hill's family for most of the film?
My grandmother, rest her soul, could tell stories of the gangsters she knew from her neighborhood. Her era was that of "Legs" Diamond and Dutch Schultz and could tell us stories about what it was like. I have to say that as a young child, all that did sound terribly glamorous and wonderful. It was only as I got older that I understood better what being a "gangster" meant and it didn't look as good as the stories she told. Goodfellas is a story told after her era, in the era of my parents and their generation of relatives. By this time, being a gangster was well beyond just protecting those...
Review ID: 10000000003865702

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