Made with so much love .....

Rating: 10/10 (16 November 2016)

How good a movie was this. Jeez! It is just one of the greatest films ever.
It is filled with actors in their prime. In their very prime. De Niro! Liotta! Pesci! Bracco! Sorvino etc. and those bit players - jeez this film has the best bit players ever.
And a new direction for Scorsese visually and in terms of editing. This was probably the film that commenced the sensory overload thing. He continued this with Cape Fear, took it to another level with Casino and then went crazy with it in Wolf Of Wall Street.
The "funny how" scene was brilliant. Yes. It was so perfectly rendered. Not just Pesci and Liotta. But the people sitting next to them - it is amazing how their reactions change from drunken glee to utter discomfort.
It does glorify gangster life to a certain extent, for a good part of the film. Of course the ending and Henry Hill's family life are like warnings. I guess the film is so damn entertaining and stylish, you tend to overlook the fact that it also a cautionary tale.
After multiple viewings, I think the first half of the film is exaggerated but well made and entertaining nonetheless. But it is the second half when Hill and Karen's marriage begin to unravel that I really liked. Lorraine Bracco is on another level. What an actress.
And after watching Goodfellas and Casino, how can a person take Di Caprio, Ryan Gosling, Tom Hardy etc seriously as gangsters or even leading men?
Its just been made and edited with so much love. They must worked their asses off in the editing room.
I watched this on Blu-ray. The film looks great on Blu-ray.
(10/10)