Nominated for "Best ripoff", or what?

Rating: 4/10 (29 November 2002)

Just take a look at the top 250 list. Which movie has been at the top ALL the time (except for when Lord of The Rings was new and manage to race to the pole position and stay there for a couple of days)? It's Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather", based on a book by Mario Puzo!
The Godfather is said to have been premiered in 1972 (I won't know, because I wasn't born back then), and during all the time I watched "Goodfellas", i couldn't help feeling how much of a wannabe Martin Scorsese must've been when he directed his version of a 1900's mafia movie. He couldn't even write his own look-alike script, he had to do it JUST like Coppola and take a book about the mob and make a movie out of it. I'm not saying I could have done it any better, but how much of a rip-off isn't this "Goodfellas"?
Nothing wrong about the execution of the movie shooting though. Good actors, although I'm sick and tired of seeing Robert De Niro as a mobster. I'll give this movie a 4 out of 10.