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scorsese wannabe

posted 21 years ago by shastablasta
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this is a very entertaining movie, but i cant help to notice the similarities this movie has with goodfellas. the story structure is the same, the way he lays out the last day before he gets screwed by the tricks he turns, all done in the same narrative and fast, choppy editing as goodfellas. there are also other similarities to other scorsese films i.e. mean streets, like the close up steady cam shot. youd figure that spike lees cinematographer would follow lees style more than scorsese.

[–] shastablasta 21 years ago

am i the only loser who cared to comment on this movie?

[–] shastablasta 21 years ago

somebody please just ammuse me

[–] dwyer209 21 years ago

I also dug this movie. I picked it up at BlockBuster for the hell of it and thought it was a damn good movie of the week. Yes, it was an obvious nod to Goodfellas, but I thought it was handled well. Krumholtz did an excellent job. The dialogue was a hell of a lot better than most of the big budget flicks I spend my 8 dollars on. Didn't know Spike Lee's old photographer was the director.. he did an o.k. job... would have loved to have seen what these producers could have done with a real budget.

I agree shastablasta... damn solid movie...

[–] FlacaWaca 20 years ago

well, the movie is based on a true story which happened after goodfellas was released. so if the plot is similar, it's not the writer's fault. the rest of it is a different matter.

[–] shastablasta 20 years ago

not a question of the plot. but how the movie was filmed and structure of the movie as a whole

[–] bohaatstvo 19 years ago

well, i guess I haven't seen the goodfellas. And thus Big Shot is just a great mock-up ... thanks

[–] JVP31 17 years ago

my biggest thing about this movie is i have such a hard time taking krumholz seriously as a thuggish new yorker. he just doesn't pull that off in my opinion. i feel too much like he was somebody acting that way as opposed to actually being a thuggish new yorker, if that makes any sense.