Goodfellas

This is Scorsese's masterpiece as far as I am concerned. I both enjoyed this movie as entertainment and it made me think. Basically it's the story of a reasonably charismatic guy who has no other redeeming qualities. It's like an advertisement for the mob life, but only would look good to someone who really would enjoy living as a parasite on society, his leech friends and no so intelligent wife. The movie is not one I'd recommend to my mom (according to IMDB they say "fuck" more then once a minute) and it's quite violent, but the true interest in this film is the fact that it's closely based on how things really work. It tells the same story as the (much uglier and not nearly as sympathetic) movie on 50cent's life 'Get Rich or Die Tryin', this film does make you understand how a kid could slip into this life. The acting is superb, the cinematography incredible (be sure to pay attention to the shot where he enters the club with his wife-to-be for the first time) and the story as well known ahead of time as a greek tragedy, except he basically has the best of all possible endings, which is not all that great.

Anyways, an excellent movie. I never though I'd find a film that was as good as the Godfather in this genre but this truely is. I wondered what the hubub around Departed ( a decent film but nothing we've not seen over and over before) was, this is it. If you liked Departed but have not see Goodfellas you need to see it, right now.

A+