It goes on for what feels like an eternity and nothing exciting happens. Watching the dull everyday lives of these scumbag gangsters talk about how cool they are and occasionally killing someone for just for looking at them funny is not my idea of entertainment.
shareWell I like it. And frankly it's more fast paced than the Godfather.
shareyea this movie is a lot more fast paced than godfather. i liked them both but godfather was better i think
shareThe Godfather is slower because it's more developed and the story arcs are more involved. I won't go as far as to call it boring but Goodfellas is the fast food version of a mob film, Casino isn't that much better but it is better.
shareI enjoy The Godfather, but it's Hollywood. At the time it came out, my family, who are Castellammarese, all mocked it as an unrealistic, Hollywood fantasy version of Sicilians/Mafiosi. Goodfellas, on the other hand, felt like a spot-on depiction of the world and lives of the mob families.
Accuracy aside, I just enjoy Goodfellas more. Its story is more engaging, and its characters more fleshed out and interesting. I don't dislike The Godfather by any stretch, I just find Goodfellas to be a much better movie.
I don’t care for this movie as much as most but I wouldn’t say it was boring. It’s fast paced, and there’s always something going on.
I do find it to be somewhat anti-climatic. The way it ended with him ratting out his partners just didn’t deliver as much as I thought it was going to.
It seems boring today because mob life has been well covered in film. At the time it was exciting because it offered a story about a real life mob figure versus speculative fiction aka The Godfather. An early effort to look at the mafia on the street level versus a mansion or compound.
shareMaybe they should do a movie on your life then. We would see how interesting people find it 25 years after it's made.
shareTotally disagree with you. Maybe the movie is a little longer than it needs to be, but I definitely don't think it's boring.
shareMother fukker! Keep him here! Keep him here Henry!
shareThat's racist.
shareI don´t know about boring but I do think its overrated. Never cared much for Ray Liotta. He looks more like a used car salesman than a respected Mob guy. The part I did find believable was when he became a junkie coke head.
shareRay Liotta was not playing a respected mob guy though, only a mafia associate. Have you seen a picture of the real Henry Hill? He looked more like a mailman.
shareHas been a while since I´ve seen it. I just remember certain parts of the narration where he makes out like he is respected even though he was just an associate.
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