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Goodfellas vs. The Godfather vs. Once Upon a Time in America

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Deleted 11 years, 1 month ago at Feb 23 21:46 -
Once Upon a Time in the West has potential to be a masterpiece, in my opinion, but the current version we have is too fragmentary for my liking, so many scenes seem redundantly implemented and pointless.

GoodFellas is excellent, but the final act dragged. Also it led to Scorsese's more recent period, in which he completely divested his cinematic soul to create flashy, rather obnoxious films (and then he turned to make limp, self-conscious dramas like Shutter Island), i.e. The Departed; his departure from such subtle, dramatically superb character studies like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull ranks as one of the great directorial tragedies, if you will

The Godfather is rather excellent, though the symbolism and drama can both get rather overt and melodramatic.

For my money, GoodFellas is the champ
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Deleted 11 years, 1 month ago at Feb 23 23:13 -
"Goodfellas" is the only one for me that really worked. "The Godfather", though I've tried on multiple occassions, really fails to phase me; it's beautifully filmed and marked by very masterful performances, but the lore fails to draw me in. Eventually, I just get bored and want to watch something else; perhaps, given the legacy that surrounds it, my expectations were too high to be met. "Once Upon a Time in America", despite my fondness for Leone, just felt like an absolute mess. Similar to the former, it's excellent from a technical stand point (like just about everything else Leone ever did), but fairly dead from a visceral one.

I liked "Goodfellas" because, like a lot of Scorsese, it all felt very natural. Whereas the other too were lavish, melodramatic, and of rather staggering length, "Goodfellas" took a much more gritty, realistic approach, which mde it more engaging for me (with a few exceptions, I'm not one for the cinematic epic)
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Deleted 11 years ago at Mar 3 2:14 -
I don't see how you can compare any of them. They are all great movies. Hard to pick one over the other. The mob stuff is kinda hard to work into a movie but those films did it, surprisingly.


The problem with the Godfather is when you sit down and read the book, you realize they should have never ever made a second film, or that god awful horrible third one in the series. It should have been ONE movie. The problem with it is it's kinda boring sometimes. The book was so long they would have had to do 2 movies just to cover the book. Instead of doing this, they cut short the first film, and part 2 instead of being a prequel (as it should have been) they had totally ruin the character of Kay, and other stupid things to drag it out.