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Rating: 10/10 (2 September 2015)

I really love this movie and it is one of those films that I never get tired of watching. Ray Liotta is the ultimate slime ball and while he has an answer for everything, these guys are gangsters. The idea that to some this lifestyle is so normal is what attracts people to this film but for me it reminds me of my uncles. Although they were gangsters, they were also fathers, brothers and husbands. All of which are dead now. This movie always takes me back. One of my favorite scenes is when Joe Pesci keeps picking on the kid working in the bar until he finally talks back. At first, Robert De Niro congratulates him for the size of his balls which offends Joe. When Joe reacts he shoots to wound him but then is able to laugh it off. In a later scene you see that the kid is still working there.