Goodfellas should be top 5, no question

Rating: 10/10 (12 March 2006)

Goodfellas is without a doubt the best mob movie ever, far superior to any of the Godfather movies. *gasp* No, the Godfather is not the holy grail of movies that some people seem so intent to think that it is. Goodfellas tells a better story and does so with infinitely more style. Martin Scorsese is the best director in American history and Goodfellas is the greatest of his works. It uses music as well as any other movie. The performances are very solid - Pesci and Liotta are as good as they have ever been and De Niro is unspectacularly perfect, as we all have come to expect. Bracco is good enough and Sorvino is flawless. Goodfellas, likewise, is flawless. It does everything that it does as well as it possibly could. The Godfather is considered a greater work only by stubborn old timers who have been saying "the greatest movie ever made" in a Brando accent for 30 years. An average rating of 8.6 just doesn't make sense. If you've seen this movie and didn't give it at least a 9, you're either intentionally messing up the rankings, biased, or maybe incapable of understanding the messages sent by Goodfellas.