Way too low on the top 250.

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2010)

Before seeing Goodfellas, I knew knew very little of the crime genre, or biopic films for that matter. When I first saw it a few years ago, I was quite frankly, blown away. Everything from the way Martin Scorsese used the wonderful soundtrack, how he used specific songs in specific scenes to increase the mood (especially the Billy Batts scene, when he is being beat to death, the Song "Atlantis" by "Donovan" can be heard playing, which means he will be "sleeping with the fishes"), to the acting, which in my opinion, is the most real and raw i've ever seen in a film. There is seriously not a single bad performance in this movie, and Joe Pesci is incredible, the way his character (which is based on a real mobster, mind you) goes from being a joker, to being dead serious in seconds. The writing in the Goodfellas is also very solid, having a great script along with a great cast to act it out is a good combination, and this film just so happens to have that.
the Fact that it's 17 on the top 250, and that the Dark Knight is higher just sickens me. The Dark Knight is a good movie, but watch it and then watch Goodfellas, and it's clear that Goodfellas is FAR superior along with most of the films above it.