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Episode 5: Goodfellas (1990) · Take #2: Movie Reviews

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  Alright, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to another episode
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  of the Take to Pod with Mom and Dad.
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  I'm Dad. And I'm mom.
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  The kids just went down not long ago.
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  It was a pretty good day, no major concerns.
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  Little man was pretty tuckered out so he didn't put up a fight
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  that time. What about you?
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  I mean the the the potty training woes continue with with
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  our toddler. There's a lot of not going in
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  the toilet and literally going anywhere else.
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  But the baby was good. We had a good day, easy night
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  and now we're just excited to be having some mom and dad time.
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  Yeah, and for episode 5, it is Valentine's Day.
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  So happy Valentine's Day to you and your loved ones.
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  Yes, happy birthday. We have decided to do a special
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  movie for us and let's do the drum roll.
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  As far back as I could remember, I always wanted to be a Dada.
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  That's right everybody. We're doing good fellas today.
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  Released in 1990, directed by the amazing Martin Scorsese and
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  starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci.
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  What a cast. This movie is it's it's, you
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  know, we were like, do we wait? Do we not?
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  But you know what? I've been getting a lot of
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  people asking me, when are you doing, you know, this movie?
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  When are you doing this one? And then Goodfellas has come up
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  a few times. So I'm like, you know what?
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  Let's just give the people what they want to hear.
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  Yeah, and this is if, if, if it's not Dad's favorite movie,
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  It's one of his most favorite movies.
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  It's it's close to the top if it's not your very favorite.
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  No, this is my. Favorite.
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  This is his favorite. Movie, this one, sorry, this one
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  and Zodiac they're kind of floating back and forth, but
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  this one is my favorite currently.
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  It is just a phenomenal movie, but let's get into the details
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  here. So the synopsis.
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  A gritty crime drama detailing the true story of Henry Hill's
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  rise and fall within the Lukasi crime family in New York City.
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  As Mom mentioned, directed by Martin Scorsese.
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  Box office for this movie came out in 1990.
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  It made 47,000,000 on a budget of 25,000,000.
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  So not the best box office results.
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  Longevity of this movie. You know it's banging on what,
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  30 years now? It definitely is one of those
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  movies that developed a cult following it.
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  It wasn't necessarily received as well when it first came out,
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  but it definitely has developed a following.
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  Yeah, this movie came out in 1990 and it's banging on 35 plus
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  years now, so just just to legendary movie.
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  And still very poignant, very relatable.
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  Joe Pesci, Deniro Ryota, Lorraine Bracco.
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  Just an amazing cast. So we hope to do this pod
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  justice because we both love this movie.
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  So from the beginning, when was the first time that you watched
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  this movie? The first time I saw this movie,
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  you showed it to me. Yeah, It was one of our earlier
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  dates. And I noticed very quickly that
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  you were saying, look at this scene.
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  Did you notice this? Watch this.
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  So it became obvious that this movie was kind of a test, that
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  I, I was kind of required to like it if we were gonna have a
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  relationship. So I, I paid attention,
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  obviously, and I ended up really liking the movie.
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  And since then, because it's one of your favorite movies, I have
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  seen it countless times. We quoted at each other all the
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  time and it has it. It's earned a very special place
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  in my heart just because you love it so much.
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  Yes, this movie was a test, but it's because this movie is so
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  good. So my theory was, if I show this
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  movie to someone who hasn't seen it and they don't like it, they
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  can fuck off. Like seriously, I don't know
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  anybody who doesn't like this movie.
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  It's really good. It's.
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  Really, and I'm sorry, but if you haven't seen it at this
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  point, I mean you should probably go see it and if your
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  partner hasn't seen it, you should sit down and make them
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  watch it like this movie. Is medication OK?
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  So it was a good call to make you watch it.
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  It was a good call to make me watch it gave me a little bit of
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  insight into you. Not that you're like anybody in
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  the movie, Henry. No, but it it this is. 21 year
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  old kid with such connections. Yeah, your hands.
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  Your hands didn't feel like you worked in construction at all.
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  But no, it gave me a little bit of an insight into your taste
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  because a lot of your favorite movies are gangster movies or
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  crime movies. So it gave me a little bit of an
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  insight into what you like, movie guys.
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  And I, I know, love it too, and love several Scorsese movies
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  that I probably wouldn't if if I wasn't with you.
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  This is Scorsese best. What do you?
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  Think this is his. Masterpiece.
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  This is his masterpiece. I agree.
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  So first time I watched this movie, I was about 7 or 8 years
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  old and my brothers had got a copy of this on VHS and they
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  brought it home and the movie started playing.
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  And then you have the opening sequence where they're driving
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  in the car and then they open the trunk and you see somebody
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  getting stabbed. You know, you see Billy Bats
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  getting stabbed a bunch of times and then he gets shot.
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  And then Henry closes the trunk and it's freeze frame.
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  And then there's this, you know, prologue to the movie.
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  And that's as far as I usually got at that age.
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  As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.
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  Because the prologue was so interesting and when he was
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  older, I kind of fell out of interest, but I was really
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  little. But later on, as I grew up, we
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  had a DVD copy in the house. I'm probably 1011 and I watched
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  this movie from start to finish and I'm like, whoa, this is what
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  my brothers were obsessed with. This is why.
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  I'm surprised the opening scene didn't scare you off because the
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  opening scene is crazy. It's crazy, but.
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  Violent stabbing, yeah, but as. A, You know, as a young boy,
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  you're kind of like, you're kind of afraid of it, but also you
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  don't get, you don't see anything like that on TV, right?
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  So it's a very graphic and you're just like, it's crazy.
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  It's just wild. Yeah, it goes, it goes.
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  Hard, you know, young boys are they think the most scary,
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  dangerous things are cool. It's true.
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  When you get older, you like, wow, what was I thinking?
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  We have that to look forward to with our son, I'm sure.
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  Yeah. So why did you like this movie
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  or why did you hate it? Like I said, I liked it right
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  away. It's it's a very interesting
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  story. You go through Henry Hill's life
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  and you experience all of these amazing different experiences
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  with him, so you instantly have this connection.
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  Um, so I really liked that about the movie.
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  I like the journey that it takes you on.
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  I like how complex the story is. It goes in all kinds of
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  different, different directions. Yeah.
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  And honestly, I like it because of how much you like it.
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  I like, if it weren't for you, I probably, this probably wouldn't
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  be one of my favorite movies. And it is because of you.
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  So you like it because of me or you got gave it a chance because
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  of me and you really like it? I think.
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  Because you asked to watch it on some random nights.
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  You just like you watch Goodfellas.
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  Yeah, well, I I think it's both. When when you see someone you
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  love loving something, it makes it more special.
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  Wow, right on the theme of Valentine's Day.
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  Very, very poignant. Very cute.
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  Just imagine my my heart beating.
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  OK, OK, but thank you for that. I do love this movie for selfish
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  reasons and in that regard anyway, it's just from A-Z or Z.
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  It is just nonstop. This movie moves so quickly.
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  It's so well done and well acted.
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  Scorsese at his best here and it has some of the best quotes.
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  And this movie actually makes you question your day-to-day
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  life. It was hard for us to make notes
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  during it too because it goes so fast and you don't want to miss
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  a minute of it. They're looking down at your
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  phone. Feels criminal even though we've
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  seen it a million times. Yeah, when this movie is
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  playing, you don't wanna walk away.
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  You don't wanna go do something around the house because every
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  scene is so friggin good. And for me, it made me question
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  my life. Like that scene where Henry's
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  talking about people with bum paychecks who take the bus and
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  subway to work every day were dead.
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  They were suckers. They had no balls.
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  And I'm just sitting there. At one point in my life, I was
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  watching this and I'm just like, you know, you have that early
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  shitty job and your life, and you're like, ah, you know, he's
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  right. Why am I doing this?
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  Yeah, but he gets, he gets his comeuppance for the for the
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  lifestyle. That's the thing.
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  This movie is a drug trip from the beginning to about, I would
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  say 80% in and the last 2025% of this movie, it's like, OK, the
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  drug trip is over, now you're going to see the real reality.
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  Well, it's it's a lesson. Yeah, it is.
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  It's a lesson he learned throughout the movie that living
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  that lifestyle has a big downside.
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  It can ruin your life. The drugs can ruin your life.
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  The crime can ruin your life. Yeah, he ends up in jail at one
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  point. He he does learn throughout this
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  movie that yeah, this lifestyle is easier and more fun, but at
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  what cost? Yeah, it's yeah.
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  And the the opening prologue is so good.
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  Like the guy looks so much like Ray Liotta too.
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  They. Picked.
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  I love, I love the whole the whole segment where he is, where
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  he's a kid. Yeah, that's why like when I was
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  a kid, I watched that and I was like, this is great.
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  And then when they show them older, you kind of like, you
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  know, I was 8 years old though, so.
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  No, it's still amazing. But the the beginning scene, it
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  does have that innocence and that air of excitement and
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  learning about this world through Henry's eyes and through
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  a child's eyes. So it is like more sparkly and
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  more exciting. We have that.
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  It is. We have this movie on VHS, DVD
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  and I have it on Blu-ray now. It is a staple in my household.
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  I think it's been around for the last 30 years.
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  Whatever house I've lived in, there's been a copy of it in the
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  house in one format or another. Well, we we actually watched it
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  on Blu-ray and can I just say I I missed the the FBI anti piracy
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  warnings at the beginning of movies.
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  Yeah, it's it's sets such a specific bias.
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  It's weird. It's like museum piece.
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  Yeah, we don't have it anymore. But anyways, we really should
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  get into the segments because we have a lot to say about this
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  movie. Yeah, this movie is gonna take a
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  while because we love this movie and we wanna do it justice.
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  So yeah, cringiest moments. Do you want to go ahead or you
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  want me to go this? Time.
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  I'll go ahead. Listen, this is not a cringey
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  movie. It's incredibly well acted and
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  it was hard for me to find a moment that I felt was cringy
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  because every moment is so good. And the only thing that I could
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  say is Karen as a character is is rather cringy.
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  When she goes to Janice Rossi's apartment and she's screaming,
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  you have a whole living in this apartment building.
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  You have a whore living here to be Rossy is a whore and like she
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  has her kids with her is. This the Superintendent.
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  I just want to let you know Sir, that you have a whore living in
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  2R. Yeah, it's just like, and she
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  has her kids with her. One of them has like a passy in
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  their mouth, like they're very young.
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  It's really sad. It's kind of sad, but it's also
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  cringy that she's screaming. That, and honestly, Karen is
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  responsible for most of the cringy moments in the movie.
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  She lays on the floor sobbing after threatening to shoot Henry
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  in the face. The way she cries, though, it's.
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  It's not for Bracco. It's no, I love her OK, and it's
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  not bad acting, but like as a person.
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  She's. She's cringey.
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  Does it make you uncomfortable? It makes me cringe and um.
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  Because it's uncomfortable. Because it's acting so good.
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  Yeah, because I think she is a little bit of a cringey person.
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  Like when she goes to the cab stand and starts yelling at him
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  in front, in front of everybody. That's all so cringy.
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  Everyone knew what went on at the cab stand.
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  Yeah, well, it's embarrassing because she goes there, she
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  starts yelling at him. He's like turned on by it for
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  some reason. But that that scene is cringey.
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  Great eyes Like Liz Taylor. Like Liz Taylor, I thought.
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  Yeah, but it's it's also cringed.
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  This podcast is gonna be recording the whole movie.
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  Yeah, yeah. It's also cringy when she admits
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  to flushing the coke down the toilet.
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  They would have found it. I swear to you, I swear to you.
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  And then they cry in the corner. Like it's very dramatic.
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  But she is a character as a little bit cringy, but the
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  acting is impeccable. I don't want anybody to think
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  I'm coming for Bracco's acting career.
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  The writing is the writing for the characters kanji.
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  Karen is just cringy. She's a cringy character.
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  Karen. She's a Karen, Yeah.
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  Alright, my cringy moment. I actually found one.
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  The sequence where Henry's grammar is introduced, like
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  there's like I put her in an apartment around the block from
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  the suite. The wallpaper, all the like,
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  pink and purple furniture that needs to go to hell.
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  Like that wallpaper was so cringy.
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  Like it has not aged well. It wasn't.
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  Cool. Then he lets her design the
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  apartment. He doesn't.
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  Live it wasn't cool then it's not cool now it's the worst
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  design ever the bed frame the the walls everything like come
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  on like don't do anything just just get some new furniture.
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  Why'd you? You know the apartment looks
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  like well, if you watch it anytime you watch it, it never
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  looked good. Yeah, but I think it's supposed
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  to be ultra feminine, like it's supposed to be the inside of a
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  My Little Pony. Cause it's, it's the, it's the
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  mistresses apartment. She lives there.
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  He doesn't give Maria super homely.
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  Like it's just very. She's ugly, Yeah, sorry, no
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  offence to the actress. I said homely.
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  Yeah. Well, I think that the the
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  second mistress is a lot better looking than the first one,
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  Sandy. Let's get to the really fun
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  parts, OK? What's your most iconic moment?
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  So there's a lot. I only picked 1 moment and
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  basically the rest are scenes. OK so the scene where they name
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  all the gangsters is amazing. Pete the Killa, Nikki eyes Jimmy
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  2 times. Who got that name because he
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  said everything twice. I'm going to go get the papers.
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  Get the papers. That whole scene when he's
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  introducing everybody, not only historically is it amazing
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  because apparently, like, I don't know this, but apparently
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  a lot like everybody he's naming is real.
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  And they go into them in different movies and different
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  shows and stuff, but they're just they just kind of get that
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  little cameo moment in this movie.
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  Yeah, that scene is amazing, though.
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  It's it sets the IT sets the standard for the movie.
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  I got the whole list here, I'm gonna read it off alright.
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  There was Frankie Carbone, Anthony Stabile, Fat Andy who
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  was Moe Black's brother, Frankie the wop, Freddie knows Pete the
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  killer, Mickey eyes and Mikey Francesi and Jimmy 2 times who
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  got that name because he said everything twice like let me go
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  get the papers get the papers. Also, side note, Mikey
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  franchise, he's a real guy and he's a YouTuber now.
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  No, Yeah, he left the life and he was shocked to hear his name
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  in the film the first time. The first time he watched the
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  movie, he was in prison and he was shocked to hear his name in
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  it because he has nothing to do with Henry's crew.
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  He's part of the Colombo crime family or he was and this is
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  about the Lucchese crime family in New York.
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  So he was, you know, I think it was more of a, you know, when
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  the real Henry Hill was telling the story, um, he was kind of
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  like saying, you know, these are the kind of guys that were
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  hanging around. So there was a big name drop
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  because he was a big name. Anyway, just kind of a little
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  tidbit there. But I love the the the comments
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  the guys make. Like, you know, let me take care
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  of that thing for you, you know? Yeah, like they're all talking
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  to the camera. He's like, what's up, guy?
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  It sets, it sets the vibe, yeah. And it shows us that, you know,
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  this guys a gangster. He knows all these people.
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  And if you're a history buff who's like into the gangster
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  mobster history, you'll know a lot of the names exactly.
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  So it is. It's very interesting.
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  What else you got for a moment or scene?
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  So that was the only one I had for moments.
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  The rest are ohhh sorry the other another iconic scene is
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  when he walks her through. The Copacabana.
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  The Copacabana. Steady shot.
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  And when he kissed me plays. We actually had that play at our
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  wedding. When?
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  We walked back down there. Yeah, that's our after ceremony
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  song. And we got a big compliment from
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  the from. A lot of people, yeah.
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  The guy with the carriage. Actually, half the guests knew
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  that was from Goodfellas, so they were like super.
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  Pumped. Yeah, it was really good.
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  It's it's such a good song. Too.
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  It's a great song. Yeah, the whole scene, like that
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  whole clip, it's a nonstop no cuts.
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  Yeah, it's A1 take. It's a winner and it's
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  beautiful. Yeah, it's it's, it's really
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  good. It just it shows like his
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  connections, it shows how confident.
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  And it's symbolic that's him bringing her into that life.
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  And they actually go down cause they're going into like
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  basically it's supposed to be a a.
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  Connector. Oh, good connection.
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  To hell like he's going. Down.
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  To his world. Hmm, so I got Henry beating the
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  neighbor's face in with the butt of the gun after Karen calls him
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  crying. That scene is always like you
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  always watch it. You can't look away because the
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  look on Ray Liotta's face, Oh my God, it sucks that gun into.
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  His intensity, yeah. He just walks up to the guy and
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  you want fuck you want something and he just Bang Bang bang
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  cracks his face open with the butt of the gun.
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  Yeah, and this guy's not a criminal.
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  His friends aren't badasses, so they all immediately turn stark
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  white and get scared. Yeah, it's and they're working
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  on their Corvette. Yeah.
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  I would say, yeah, The entire opening with young Henry, I
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  think it's one of the best prologues to any movie ever
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  made. Like you, like most movies, have
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  a little flashback with narration, but this movie's
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  narration, just the storytelling is impeccable.
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  Obviously, Nicholas Pileggi, who did the screenplay and wrote the
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  book, wise guy that this movie is based on.
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  And then you have Scorsese working his magic with him.
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  I have, I have thoughts about that whole prologue that I'm
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  going to go into later, but it's it is really good.
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  Tommy and Spider argue about the missing drink, another epic
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  moment. People have always remember that
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  they did an homage to it in Sopranos with the guy who plays
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  Christopher Christopher, which any Goodfellas fan watching
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  Sopranos would lose their mind, which I did.
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  I was like, look at doing it. Oh my God.
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  I actually hate the two scenes with Spider.
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  It's really hard to. Watch.
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  It's hard to watch, but I mean, yeah, I mean, you gotta, like,
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  turn off your brain a little bit in this movie because you're
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  basically getting sucked into their life.
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  Like you're getting seduced by them.
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  You're supposed to like root for them and be OK with all the crap
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  they're doing. Right.
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  Well, I, I talked about that later too, but yeah.
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  But most iconic moment to me, Billy Batts, Tommy Argument.
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  Yeah, yeah, I think it led to one of the most iconic lines
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  ever. Go home and get your fucking
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  shine box. You say that all the time.
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  I have a T-shirt that says go home and get shine box.
• 19:53
  It's one of the best lines ever. It is.
• 19:55
  It's really insulting too. Solo Tommy.
• 19:59
  One more, shines Billy. I said no more shines.
• 20:02
  Maybe you didn't hear about it. You've been away a long time.
• 20:04
  They didn't go up there and tell you I don't shine shoes anymore.
• 20:08
  Relax, will you? For crowds?
• 20:09
  What's what's got into you? I'm breaking your balls a little
• 20:11
  bit, that's all. I'm only kidding with you.
• 20:13
  Sometimes you don't sound like you're kidding.
• 20:15
  You know, there's a lot of people.
• 20:16
  Right. I mean, I'm only kidding with
• 20:17
  you. We're having a party.
• 20:18
  I mean, I just came home. I haven't seen you in a long
• 20:20
  time and I'm breaking your balls.
• 20:22
  And you better when you're getting fucking fish.
• 20:23
  I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
• 20:25
  I'm sorry, it's OK, no problem. I'll go home and get your
• 20:33
  fucking shine box. Come on, you fucking piece of
• 20:38
  shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 20:40
  We used to call him Spitshine. Tommy.
• 20:42
  It's. Not that insulting.
• 20:44
  He's being sensitive. I mean depending like you just
• 20:48
  came, maybe he doesn't know him like that and maybe.
• 20:50
  He's really sensitive. He shoots Spider in the foot for
• 20:54
  saying go fuck yourself Tommy after no, sorry, sorry.
• 20:57
  He kills him. He kills him after he says that.
• 21:00
  Why would you poke the bear just cause you Billy bats?
• 21:03
  No, you're right. And, and I say something about
• 21:05
  that later too, but like he was being, that's not that bad of a
• 21:07
  compliment or or sorry, an insult.
• 21:09
  Do you wanna get into the quotes?
• 21:11
  Yeah. OK.
• 21:13
  So alright, sorry you're. Going doesn't matter, at least
• 21:16
  first. One day, some of the kids from
• 21:19
  the neighborhood carried my mom's groceries all the way home
• 21:22
  from the store. You know why?
• 21:24
  It was out of respect. It was out of respect.
• 21:26
  We say that to each other all. The time.
• 21:28
  I'll just be like, you know, I saw this person trying to park
• 21:31
  their car and they were about to back into somebody because they
• 21:34
  weren't paying attention. So I honked at them a bunch of
• 21:37
  times. You know why?
• 21:39
  Without respect, you can just say it in any situation.
• 21:43
  We just called it to each other all the time, even if it doesn't
• 21:45
  make sense. My God, you look like a
• 21:48
  gangster. When he shows up at the door,
• 21:50
  he's like, hey, mom, what do you think?
• 21:52
  He's dressed like a, you know, Al Capone?
• 21:54
  Yeah, go ahead. Business is bad.
• 21:58
  Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire?
• 22:00
  Fuck you, pay me. Please get hit by lightning,
• 22:03
  huh? Fuck you pay me.
• 22:05
  He's talking about the restaurant that they, they just
• 22:07
  destroyed it. They took it over and destroyed.
• 22:08
  It of course you have go home and get your fucking shine box
• 22:12
  and then funny how funny how? Oht that whole scene you can cut
• 22:18
  the tension. With a knife, like I'm a clown.
• 22:20
  Like I'm here to amuse you. No, no, you know, you just, it's
• 22:24
  funny the way you tell the story.
• 22:26
  Like maybe I'm a little fucked up.
• 22:28
  I don't get it. Or Tommy, you got it all wrong.
• 22:31
  Oh, Anthony, he's a big boy. He knows what he said.
• 22:34
  Would you say? Wow, you have that memorized.
• 22:38
  I'm telling you, this movie fucking slaps.
• 22:40
  It does never rat on your friends and always keep your
• 22:44
  mouth shut. When Tommy.
• 22:46
  When Henry gets pinched for the first time and Dinero.
• 22:49
  Was proud of him. Yeah, he's like you took your
• 22:52
  first pitch like a man. What else?
• 22:55
  You. Got I've got Karen on the first
• 22:57
  date. I couldn't stand him.
• 23:00
  I thought he was really obnoxious.
• 23:02
  He kept fidgeting around. Yeah, the narration.
• 23:06
  That's when we first learned. About Karen.
• 23:09
  Thank you. Um, don't buy anything What I
• 23:14
  say don't buy anything. That's what I tell my wife
• 23:18
  around the holidays when she comes home with stop anything
• 23:21
  from the mall. Be like, what did I tell you?
• 23:23
  What did I tell you? Don't buy.
• 23:24
  Anything that is a meme. Don't buy anything.
• 23:28
  That is. True, that's true.
• 23:29
  Why would you buy anything two months before the holidays,
• 23:32
  right? Just yeah, I I don't do that.
• 23:35
  No, I know. Some people don't call me out
• 23:37
  when I haven't done anything. You've been close.
• 23:41
  Um, he's treating me like I'm a half foot FG.
• 23:47
  You sense yourself there. It's a sunny Sunny when he goes
• 23:53
  to Pauly and he's complaining about Tommy because he hits some
• 23:55
  of the bottle. Yeah.
• 23:58
  And then you got Paulie at that same situation.
• 24:00
  He's like, he's got a cigar in his mouth.
• 24:02
  I don't know anything about the restaurant business.
• 24:03
  Ohio, sit down or a meal. I don't know anything about it.
• 24:06
  You know anything about this restaurant business?
• 24:08
  And then the end of the movie, he's in the back of a restaurant
• 24:11
  cooking. So he he learned something.
• 24:12
  About the I mean, he knows how to cook.
• 24:14
  Most Italian men do. Yeah, that's stereotype.
• 24:19
  Um, and then when they're setting up the bamboo lounge to
• 24:24
  burn it down, Joe Pesci looks at Henry and says, you look like
• 24:28
  you're decorating a Christmas tree, you fucking prick.
• 24:31
  I love that part. It's just, there's no dialogue.
• 24:34
  It's just them lighting, putting up wax and like making the plays
• 24:39
  flammable. And then it just cuts to Joe
• 24:41
  Pesci and says that line. Yeah, he's he's he's got a lot
• 24:44
  of a lot of personality in the movie.
• 24:47
  Go ahead, there are women like my best friends that would have
• 24:51
  gotten out of there the moment their boyfriend gave them a gun
• 24:54
  to hide, but I didn't. I gotta admit the truth.
• 24:58
  It turned me on. Mazel tov, that's pretty good.
• 25:04
  My daughter says that you're half Jewish.
• 25:07
  Just a good half, one dog's going this way and the other
• 25:13
  dogs going the other way and this guy saying what do you want
• 25:16
  from me? It looks like somebody we know
• 25:19
  you got De Niro When they rob Air France, it's gonna be a good
• 25:25
  summer. This is Karen again.
• 25:28
  Whenever the cops would raid her home, I always offered them
• 25:32
  coffee. Some of the wives like Mickey
• 25:35
  Conway, used to spit on the floor.
• 25:38
  She used to spit on her own floor.
• 25:39
  That never made any sense to me. That's such a good.
• 25:44
  One, I love that that line so much.
• 25:47
  Morries wigs don't come off when they're at Morries wigs shop.
• 25:50
  It's commercials playing. That that you know what I would
• 25:53
  say I'm changing my cringiest moment, the commercial Morris
• 25:56
  commercial you go when he jumps in the water off It's so.
• 26:00
  Embarrassing hurricane winds. So.
• 26:02
  I have a shirt that says Morries wigs wig.
• 26:04
  Shop I know you. Do and then also Henry Hills,
• 26:07
  like just just pay him his money.
• 26:10
  Let us just get the fuck outta here.
• 26:13
  Fuck him in the ear. Fuck him in the other year.
• 26:15
  They gets choked by the. By the phone I.
• 26:17
  Gotta drop the dime a million times they have buses ball.
• 26:20
  Did I? Did I?
• 26:21
  That's. Got money for that fucking
• 26:22
  commercial you know I got money from.
• 26:24
  Me that's seen as such low stakes like he's choking him
• 26:27
  with the with the phone. His wig comes off, he's smacking
• 26:30
  him with the phone, but then Henry takes a call and like
• 26:33
  leaves cause Karen's in trouble. Like it there's low stakes.
• 26:35
  Like you know, more is not gonna get killed.
• 26:37
  I mean, yeah, he wants his money.
• 26:39
  If he kills him, he's not gonna get.
• 26:40
  Paid. Yeah, he's just messing with
• 26:41
  him. Yeah, but he'll break his legs.
• 26:45
  And then you got Karen's mom. He's not Jewish.
• 26:49
  Did you know how these people live?
• 26:50
  Did you know what they? Were like your father, never
• 26:53
  stayed all night. Never stayed out all night.
• 26:56
  Dad never went out at all. Mom, keep out of it.
• 27:00
  You don't know how I feel. Feel.
• 27:02
  How you feel all that fucking oht My God, her mom is just.
• 27:08
  Do you quote that all the time? Yeah.
• 27:10
  Your father Will stayed out all night.
• 27:16
  Nobody goes to jail unless they want to.
• 27:19
  I got hmm, we didn't read and aristocrat.
• 27:23
  Yeah, that's a great one. Please.
• 27:24
  Yeah. Frying up steak in prison.
• 27:26
  That that's my last one I know. You more, I got a few more.
• 27:28
  Here, Yeah, we can talk about yours.
• 27:30
  Billy Bats scene when Tommy leaves pissed off.
• 27:34
  De Niro's telling Billy Batts salted him a little bit, insult
• 27:39
  him a little bit. Said that like, I'm waiting for
• 27:42
  a moment where there's an argument at like, a gathering
• 27:45
  and somebody's like, I don't know why he got so mad.
• 27:49
  Like, no, no, no, no, no. You insulted him a little bit.
• 27:52
  Maybe I should do it at work. Maybe.
• 27:54
  Yeah, just wait for someone to have a crash out and then say
• 27:57
  that. Yeah, what if they looked at you
• 27:59
  and they were like that from Good Fellas?
• 28:02
  Maybe it'll break the ice, maybe break the tension.
• 28:06
  Saturday night was for the wives, but Friday night was
• 28:08
  always for the girlfriends at the Copa.
• 28:10
  This ones funny because we, we, we go like what are we doing
• 28:13
  this weekend? Well Saturday night was the
• 28:15
  family night, but Friday night was always for mum and dad.
• 28:18
  So like, plan our weekends just as a joke.
• 28:21
  Yeah. Spider and Tommy, where's my
• 28:26
  fucking drink? I thought you said you were
• 28:28
  alright. I am alright.
• 28:29
  You're not alright. This spider and your way over
• 28:32
  here, Bring me a cutting water. Alright.
• 28:37
  What am I? What?
• 28:39
  Where's my drink? I guess your first.
• 28:41
  Drink You wanted to drink. I just asked you for a fucking
• 28:43
  drink. No, I thought.
• 28:44
  I thought you said that. You alright, Spider?
• 28:46
  What do you got me on? A fucking pain on mine.
• 28:47
  Brisket. I heard, I thought I heard
• 28:49
  someone say something. Spider, Spider.
• 28:51
  Fucking mumbling. Stuttering.
• 28:53
  Little do you know that problem. I thought you said you were
• 28:56
  alright. And then he shoots them, of
• 29:01
  course. As far back as I can remember, I
• 29:03
  always wanted to be a gangster. The opening line Iconic.
• 29:07
  Very iconic, yeah. Yeah.
• 29:09
  All right. Well, that's all the quotes.
• 29:11
  This is a handful here, but is this movie a classic?
• 29:16
  Stupid question at this point for this movie.
• 29:19
  Or cancelled in 2026. So this movie is obviously a
• 29:23
  classic with many moments that are controversial, but because
• 29:27
  it is a docudrama about real people, it kind of protects
• 29:33
  itself against being cancelled. We know the main characters are
• 29:37
  bad guys. That's why we're that's what
• 29:39
  we're exploring in this film. So you're not going to cancel
• 29:42
  one of these murderers for, you know, saying a racial slur or
• 29:47
  saying something sexist. We know they're bad.
• 29:49
  Guys, they're written based on real people.
• 29:51
  And they're real, yeah. It's real people who ended up in
• 29:54
  prison who got their comeuppance.
• 29:56
  It doesn't need to be cancelled because of the type of movie
• 29:59
  that it is. Yeah, I agree.
• 30:01
  This movie is a classic in so many ways.
• 30:04
  And you know, this movie is a classic because I worked with a
• 30:08
  guy one year, a couple years. He was from Nairobi, Kenya, and
• 30:14
  this guy had a thick accent and he knew about this movie.
• 30:19
  Like, I can't remember how it came up.
• 30:21
  I think it was talking about this movie with another
• 30:23
  colleague. And the Kenyan guy was like, oh,
• 30:26
  are you talking about good fellows?
• 30:28
  Good I was. Yeah, but I was like, you know,
• 30:31
  about this movie. He's like, yes, I've seen it.
• 30:33
  It's great movie. I was like, I was shocked.
• 30:37
  Like this movie has that much reach.
• 30:40
  Yeah, that a guy from Kenya has seen this and he's like, yeah,
• 30:44
  this movie is great cause you know, is over relation to these
• 30:49
  characters. But it's such a good and like
• 30:52
  seductive way of bringing somebody into the mob life.
• 30:56
  It's unreal. It is.
• 30:58
  Yeah, so this is a classic. Can you watch this with your
• 31:02
  parents? You can, but it's very violent
• 31:07
  and sexual, so you might be a little bit uncomfortable.
• 31:12
  Um, Karen goes down on Henry in the kitchen after he gives her
• 31:16
  some money. That's a little awkward.
• 31:18
  He grabs Sandy's butt very sexually in an implied sex
• 31:22
  scene, and there is a very sexual scene where he's feeling
• 31:25
  Karen up while her inner monologue plays.
• 31:29
  And that could be uncomfortable. But there aren't any full on sex
• 31:32
  scenes or nudity in the movie, so it wouldn't be that
• 31:35
  uncomfortable to watch with parents I don't think.
• 31:37
  There's not even a nip slip. I don't.
• 31:40
  Not that I can recall, yeah. Honestly the closest thing
• 31:42
  nudity in this movie is Samuel Jackson and his like.
• 31:46
  Tidy white. Tighty whities you don't bring
• 31:49
  any coffee. Yeah, this movie, you can watch
• 31:52
  it with your parents, but it's super violent.
• 31:55
  I think the the thing that would turn people off the most is the
• 31:58
  amount of F bombs, especially in the scene where Tommy is, you
• 32:03
  know, sitting with Henry and he's questioning him.
• 32:06
  What a funny how? Like I'm here to fucking amuse
• 32:08
  you. This movie is known for having
• 32:11
  very, very aggressive large amount of of swears.
• 32:14
  I don't think it broke the record.
• 32:16
  I think Wolf of Wall Street actually broke the record.
• 32:18
  Yeah, I think so. But this movie is known for
• 32:20
  having very heavy swearing. And then in a turn, in
• 32:23
  Tarantino's world, it's it's surprising that anybody gets
• 32:27
  that notoriety other than him. But yeah, full Wall Street is
• 32:31
  like 30 times more vulgar than this movie if you think about
• 32:34
  it. But.
• 32:35
  Yeah, and more sexual. That's what I mean.
• 32:37
  It's vulgar. Yeah.
• 32:38
  Like every way. Yeah.
• 32:40
  Yeah. You can watch it with your
• 32:41
  parents, but if you're a little older that's probably better,
• 32:45
  like maybe 13 or older. Have you have your discretion is
• 32:48
  advised. Yeah.
• 32:49
  What's your favorite chair? Who's your favorite character
• 32:51
  and least favorite supporting character?
• 32:54
  So my favorite supporting character is Polly.
• 32:57
  OHP. Interesting.
• 32:59
  He is unique, he's terrifying and scary when he wants to be,
• 33:03
  but he's also a big teddy bear. We kind of see just like how
• 33:07
  kind and sweet he is with Karen in the wedding scene, taking her
• 33:10
  around, introducing her to everybody, and her relationship
• 33:14
  with him after that is very kissy, huggy sweet.
• 33:17
  Do you know the real story about that?
• 33:18
  You know the real story about that?
• 33:19
  You might not like Polly after I tell you what.
• 33:22
  So apparently in real life, Pauly was constantly trying to
• 33:27
  get with Henry's wife. Oh, for real?
• 33:30
  Constantly in IRL he was constantly trying to get with
• 33:35
  Karen and. They.
• 33:38
  Had they had, they had a lot of beef about that?
• 33:40
  Like there was a lot of tension about it and they took it out of
• 33:43
  the movie because they thought it would take away from Karen's
• 33:47
  character and Paul's character. So.
• 33:51
  That was surprising, how liberties.
• 33:52
  I was surprised at how sweet he was to her at the wedding.
• 33:55
  I was like, wow, we're seeing like this grandfatherly, sweet,
• 33:58
  like fatherly side of Pauly, and I loved that about, but now
• 34:01
  you're telling me that. So you know the scene where they
• 34:05
  he's having he's on the outs with Karen and he he's at his
• 34:10
  girlfriends house at his grammas and Pauly shows up with the De
• 34:15
  Niro. Yeah.
• 34:16
  So Polly and Jimmy show up. To convince him to get.
• 34:18
  Back, Yeah. And he's like, he's like, I
• 34:20
  can't have them come over. They coming over and
• 34:21
  commiserating all day. I can't have, can't have, which
• 34:25
  is such good acting by Dinero. But basically he Polly says I
• 34:29
  need you to go down to Florida and take care of something with
• 34:31
  Jimmy, and then you come back, you go back to Karen,
• 34:34
  everything's gonna be beautiful, blah, blah, blah.
• 34:36
  So maybe I'm maybe I'm not misremembering, but basically
• 34:43
  Pauly did, he did go to jail, Henry.
• 34:46
  Yeah, that did really happen. But the true story is that, or
• 34:51
  what they say, is that Pauly sent him down there because he
• 34:54
  knew he was going to get busted, and he sent them there to get
• 34:58
  busted so that he could proposition Karen while he's in
• 35:02
  prison. Wow, that's the true story.
• 35:06
  Well you're ruining my favorite supporting character cause I
• 35:08
  don't like him that much anymore.
• 35:09
  You can. Still have a supporting
• 35:11
  character that you you you enjoyed but they're terrible
• 35:14
  people in real life but. Yeah, I I liked him in the movie
• 35:19
  because he was being so kind to care and I didn't think, well,
• 35:21
  yeah, I didn't think it had any dark.
• 35:23
  Well, that's the thing. I think they made the right call
• 35:26
  for the movie. Yeah, because I think any other
• 35:29
  way would have really kind of made you kind of give you the
• 35:34
  ick pretty early on in the movie.
• 35:36
  Giving me the. Yeah.
• 35:39
  Because I like, I was gonna say like he sort of, he's such a,
• 35:41
  he's such a teddy bear with these people that he likes and
• 35:44
  with Karen specifically. Um, but you also see his dark
• 35:48
  side several times in the movie when he walks out of the cab
• 35:51
  stand and everyone stops fooling around like they immediately.
• 35:55
  Everyone knew it went on that camps then.
• 35:56
  Yeah, they immediately get tense when they see Polly appear in
• 35:59
  the doorway. The restaurant owner hints at
• 36:03
  wanting Tommy to be killed, and you see Paul's expression
• 36:05
  changed to steel and he gives them that don't fuck with me
• 36:08
  look comes across his face and his face darkens.
• 36:11
  And that scene. Yeah.
• 36:12
  And when he speaks to Henry and Manson not to sell drugs and
• 36:15
  smacks him in his face. Yeah.
• 36:17
  I don't want anymore that shit. Just stay away from the garbage,
• 36:21
  you know what I mean? I'm not talking about what you
• 36:24
  did inside. You did what you had to do.
• 36:26
  I'm talking about now from now, here and now.
• 36:30
  Holly, why would I want to get into?
• 36:32
  That don't make a jerk out of me.
• 36:33
  Just don't do it. Just don't do it.
• 36:37
  You know that you're only out early cause I got you a job.
• 36:39
  I don't need this heat. Understand that.
• 36:41
  And you see anybody fucking around this shit, you're going
• 36:43
  to tell me, right? Yeah.
• 36:45
  That means anybody all right. Yeah, Yeah.
• 36:48
  He's like a very deep character, and I actually wish we'd learned
• 36:51
  more about him in the movie. Yeah, because he seems very
• 36:54
  interesting and learning that thing about him and Karen just
• 36:57
  now is really creepy. But in real life, so the actor
• 37:02
  who plays Pauly, he refused the role initially because he's a
• 37:08
  theatre actor and he's never played like a villain like that
• 37:11
  before. You thought it was disgusting,
• 37:13
  the character, the person you don't want to play him.
• 37:15
  And then he said he had no idea what to do.
• 37:17
  He's like, how do I? And he's like, I need the role,
• 37:20
  but it's the role of a lifetime. It's Scorsese movie.
• 37:22
  But he's like, I'm gonna blow it.
• 37:23
  I'm gonna ruin this movie. And then one day he was in the
• 37:26
  bathroom and he looked in the mirror, and he made a look in
• 37:30
  the mirror. And the look he gave himself, he
• 37:32
  said, terrify them. And he's like, I'm ready, which
• 37:36
  is kind of cool. That is cool.
• 37:39
  Who's your favorite sporting character?
• 37:41
  My favorite supporting character is Jimmy Conway.
• 37:44
  Jimmy the Gent I. Always do this.
• 37:48
  Jimmy Conway is a main character.
• 37:51
  He's not. He's supporting because he was
• 37:52
  nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
• 37:55
  OK, so you're wrong. Alright, what is support?
• 37:58
  Just cause No, cause he's on the front of the poster.
• 38:02
  Yeah, no, he's he's top build. That's why he's on the front
• 38:05
  cause he made the most money there's about.
• 38:08
  Henry, alright. Alright, you insulted me a
• 38:11
  little. Bit OK.
• 38:13
  Alright, tell me why you like Jimmy Conway.
• 38:14
  OK, Jimmy was the kind of guy he used to root for the bad guys in
• 38:18
  the movies. This guy has a steady terror
• 38:21
  about him in the movie. Like, he's so calm, but he has
• 38:26
  this look that he's just gonna eat you.
• 38:28
  He's going to, like, kill you. And apparently the guy in real
• 38:31
  life, the real Jimmy Burke, was even worse.
• 38:36
  Like he was 10 times worse. Joe Pesci won the Academy Award.
• 38:40
  This movie won 1 Oscar by the way.
• 38:42
  Huge. It was nominated 6 times.
• 38:44
  Yeah, but at once. Like Joe Pesci.
• 38:46
  Won Dances with Wolves, Won best picture.
• 38:48
  Get outta here bro. I've never seen that movie, so I
• 38:51
  can't I can't speak to. It but Dinero should have won my
• 38:54
  opinion. Hot take.
• 38:56
  He should have won best actor for this.
• 38:58
  Our best supporting actor, He used to call the real Henry Hill
• 39:02
  because they used them to when they were filming the movie.
• 39:05
  The real Henry Hill used to call him randomly and be like, you
• 39:08
  know, we have this scene where we're eating pasta and he's
• 39:11
  like, you know, did he put ketchup on the pasta?
• 39:14
  And he's like, yeah. He's like, how would he have
• 39:15
  taken the ketchup? Like, how would he extract it
• 39:17
  from the bottle? And then you see De Niro
• 39:21
  spinning the bottle to get the ketchup out, and that's how we
• 39:25
  used to do it. Why wouldn't De Niro have spoken
• 39:27
  to the real Jimmy Conway in prison?
• 39:30
  Oh, he wasn't. He wasn't gonna help.
• 39:33
  They were reaching out to him. Henry Hill was still in the
• 39:36
  witness protection. You don't think if you were in
• 39:40
  prison and you got calls from a big Hollywood actor, you
• 39:43
  wouldn't talk to him? He'd be like, I wanna do your
• 39:45
  character justice. How?
• 39:46
  How would you have shaken the ketchup?
• 39:48
  Bottle had Henry Hill at arms reach.
• 39:51
  I don't think they would call Jimmy Burke and.
• 39:55
  Maybe he was a better actor. He would.
• 39:57
  Have I mean OK. I hate on Denaro.
• 40:01
  Man, I'm, no, I'm just saying I would want to talk to the real
• 40:04
  guy just to like, get my character straight, Yeah.
• 40:08
  De Niro is amazing in this. Least favorite character is
• 40:11
  easy. Easily Karen's mother.
• 40:14
  She is so judgmental and miserable.
• 40:19
  You love quoting her though. And she's just an unhappy
• 40:22
  person. Like, yeah, your daughter is
• 40:25
  marrying a gang member, so I could understand that.
• 40:28
  Yeah, we would be unhappy too as the.
• 40:30
  Parent, for sure, any parent would be.
• 40:33
  And that's another thing about watching this as a parent.
• 40:35
  But yeah, she's just miserable. Even like 10, even at the
• 40:39
  wedding, she's unhappy. Like just pretend to be happy.
• 40:42
  She's not at the real wedding. They did a fake wedding for them
• 40:45
  and they didn't change ceremony with.
• 40:47
  Ceremony for them, but she was you know, anyways, yeah, not a
• 40:51
  not a not a not a pleasant character.
• 40:53
  Same actress though she was in Sopranos.
• 40:55
  Lot of Sopranos connections. A lot of separate, yeah, half,
• 40:58
  half this cast was in Sopranos. OK, your turn.
• 41:00
  The fucking babysitter, he tells.
• 41:05
  Her. Do not use the house phone.
• 41:08
  Yes, and she immediately picks up the house phone and uses it
• 41:12
  and gets him. Caught after all.
• 41:13
  Her Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bullshit.
• 41:15
  What does she do? She picks up the phone and makes
• 41:18
  the call from inside the house. And that's what gets him cut.
• 41:22
  It's. Her fault.
• 41:23
  I have a hot take about that later.
• 41:25
  It's really offensive. Yeah, so she's, she's my least
• 41:28
  favorite, but I, I do want to just, I have to mention Billy
• 41:30
  Bats in this category, in this category because he was such an
• 41:35
  asshole and he kind of deserved to get killed.
• 41:38
  Um, why are you grilling Tommy so hard?
• 41:42
  Drinks. Listen back.
• 41:43
  Drinks. Drinks on the House.
• 41:45
  He might not know how psycho Tommy is because he had been in
• 41:48
  prison, but regardless, why are you running your mouth around
• 41:53
  all these mobsters? They kill people for a living.
• 41:57
  You got some brass ones talking? That much shit, you can't touch
• 42:00
  them. Yeah, but still, like, do you
• 42:04
  really think you're that invincible?
• 42:05
  Yeah, you are. You're not allowed.
• 42:07
  You have to get a sit down and you have to get OK, otherwise
• 42:10
  you could be the one who. Gets well, they did kill him, so
• 42:12
  he got whacked anyway. Yeah.
• 42:13
  And then so maybe if you don't run your mouth, you can live a
• 42:16
  little longer. For sure.
• 42:18
  Billy Bats, Yeah, he's not the best character.
• 42:21
  No, he's wicked actor also in Sopranos.
• 42:23
  Also in Sopranos, yeah. OK, cultural impact.
• 42:26
  So this may be Scorsese's masterpiece.
• 42:30
  This movie revolutionized the gangster genre.
• 42:34
  Yes, it did, because we had The Godfather, which it it had
• 42:39
  gangsters looking very quite respectable.
• 42:41
  Almost. Yeah.
• 42:42
  And then this movie shows us the grittier side, the drug fueled
• 42:47
  side. It shows us how violent it is,
• 42:50
  how it can affect your mental health.
• 42:52
  It's it's a, it's a grittier look.
• 42:56
  Yeah, there's other movies like Scarface, which isn't really
• 42:59
  about the mob. It's more of a drug dealing
• 43:02
  movie which came out before this.
• 43:03
  But this movie took the mob and it like you said, it made it
• 43:08
  less pretty. It it shows you the ugly side,
• 43:12
  not the not the godfather doesn't, but godfather.
• 43:16
  They seem like respectable businessmen almost and godfather
• 43:19
  this it really shows. Two different.
• 43:21
  Vibes. It shows that the underbelly and
• 43:26
  it It just shows how masterful Scorsese is and without this
• 43:31
  movie we likely never would have had Sopranos.
• 43:34
  The film is often cited as the precursor and it has 20 plus
• 43:39
  cast members from Goodfellas that appeared in.
• 43:42
  Surprise. Do you remember when we first
• 43:43
  started Sopranos? It was years later.
• 43:46
  We just never got around to it and everyone was like, you gotta
• 43:49
  watch Sopranos. I was pregnant with her son when
• 43:51
  we started. Watching they're like, you love
• 43:52
  Goodfellas, you're gonna love Sopranos.
• 43:54
  So we start watching it and we. Ohhhhh my.
• 43:58
  God and everybody's in it. We should rewatch it honestly,
• 44:02
  it's so amazing. Everybody from Goodfellas.
• 44:04
  Is in it so many, Christopher? Christopher, you've got Lorraine
• 44:08
  Bracco. She's the therapist.
• 44:09
  Yeah, Oh my God. You forgot it.
• 44:12
  Oh my God, Lorraine, that she, he said.
• 44:14
  He's one of the other guys from the other five families.
• 44:17
  Billy Batts is in it. Yeah, it's, it's insane, man.
• 44:22
  So, so much crossover and and it it really did influence Sopranos
• 44:26
  as a show. Like we never would have had
• 44:28
  that show had this movie not been a thing.
• 44:30
  Good fellas walked so Sopranos could run.
• 44:34
  Truly, truly. It's highly quoted in pop
• 44:37
  culture as well. From the funny housing to the as
• 44:41
  far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster
• 44:44
  scene. Like we hear those quotes all
• 44:47
  over pop culture. And on top of that, the film did
• 44:50
  earn 6 Oscar nominations and only won once, unfortunately,
• 44:54
  with Joe Pesci winning for Best Supporting Actor.
• 44:57
  But it should have. It should have won several
• 44:59
  because it's so well done. Yeah, this, this movie is
• 45:02
  cultural impact. Like I told the story about the
• 45:04
  guy from Kenya. Like, I couldn't believe it.
• 45:07
  This guy sits on that movie. He was pretty.
• 45:09
  He's pretty vanilla, that guy too.
• 45:11
  And he's like, oh, you like good fellows.
• 45:13
  I was like yo. So it hit international.
• 45:15
  Audience. Exactly.
• 45:16
  I'm very surprised. Yeah, the soundtrack.
• 45:20
  On the impeccable. Yeah, forget.
• 45:22
  Like the soundtrack is good, but the way that Scorsese timed it
• 45:26
  with the edits, the way the the music drops at the right time,
• 45:30
  the type of songs. Sometimes you'll go through like
• 45:33
  2-3 songs in one scene and you won't even realize till.
• 45:37
  Later, so good at choosing songs that add a dramatic effect to a
• 45:40
  scenes life is but a dream during the wedding scene and
• 45:45
  Lorraines sorry Karens like beautiful smiling face.
• 45:49
  It adds such like such a vibe the movie The like we said
• 45:54
  earlier. Then he kissed me playing while
• 45:56
  Henry walks her through the back of the restaurant.
• 45:59
  I can't imagine that scene with any other song.
• 46:01
  No other song would have worked exactly.
• 46:02
  He picked the perfect song. He's a genius.
• 46:05
  Amazing. And then also Layla during the
• 46:08
  dead bodies montage. Yeah, and and countless other
• 46:11
  iconic songs. But but those three are the ones
• 46:13
  that I really I noticed and I always notice when the movies
• 46:16
  playing because they add something.
• 46:18
  And they really make you feel how you need to feel for the
• 46:21
  rest of the. Movie.
• 46:22
  Yeah, whether they want you to feel Alan Cawley or like they
• 46:25
  want you to feel dreamy and then love, or they want you to feel
• 46:27
  excited on this new date, those are the songs get you to that
• 46:30
  emotion. Yeah.
• 46:33
  So yeah, with cultural impact. Everyone who's seen this movie
• 46:37
  loves it. If you haven't seen it, what's
• 46:39
  the matter with you? Who gets a spin off?
• 46:43
  So I have two um 1A sitcom about Karen's parents.
• 46:51
  Oh my God, because this when? The.
• 46:55
  Before, after. Well, it's in in a real world it
• 46:59
  would never happen. But like the scene where she's
• 47:01
  yelling at Karen and Karen's yelling back and the fathers.
• 47:03
  Like laugh track? Sleepily sitting on the couch
• 47:06
  like you can imagine. Unable to digest a decent meal
• 47:09
  in six weeks. It almost has Everybody Loves
• 47:12
  Raymond vibes a little bit, so I could see it being as it calm
• 47:16
  and then also, like I said, a movie about Polly.
• 47:20
  Like I said, I need to know more about him.
• 47:22
  He's such an interesting character and I think there's a
• 47:25
  lot more to unpack about his life.
• 47:27
  For example, how did he become a mob boss?
• 47:30
  How did he how did he meet his wife?
• 47:33
  The downfall of his empire? I, I want those questions
• 47:36
  answered with Polly. I want a similar movie to
• 47:38
  Goodfellas but from Polyp's point of view as him and his
• 47:43
  young years and how he he rose to that level in the mob.
• 47:48
  Yeah, I honestly, I everybody basically dies in this movie.
• 47:52
  So, I mean, the spinoff would be Henry Hill's life after he goes
• 47:58
  into witness protection. That wouldn't be interesting.
• 48:00
  Well, The thing is, it's actually interesting because
• 48:03
  there's a documentary about it and the guy is a complete mess.
• 48:07
  He was still addicted to drugs. He kept getting in touch with
• 48:12
  people in that life and they kept having to relocate this
• 48:15
  guy. Apparently he was an absolute
• 48:18
  nightmare. So anyway.
• 48:21
  I don't wanna see him. That's my.
• 48:23
  Spin off I don't wanna see him eating his egg noodles with
• 48:25
  ketchup. Yeah, he's dead now.
• 48:28
  Double feature. So double feature the only The
• 48:33
  only two movies I can think of are also Scorsese.
• 48:35
  Sure, you could watch Casino after this if you're really in
• 48:38
  De Niro mood. Which ones first though?
• 48:41
  This one first? This.
• 48:42
  First thing casino OK De Niro's significantly older casino so
• 48:46
  you it's true for the for the for the timeline of Deniro's
• 48:49
  Life OK and then also a lot of people say that Wolf of Wall
• 48:52
  Street is this movie just on on Wall Street it's.
• 48:56
  The same movie on Wall Street. So you you could watch it as
• 48:59
  kind of a compare contrast. Obviously good fellows 1st and
• 49:01
  Wall Street second because of like when the when the movies
• 49:04
  took place. The ending of Goodfellas.
• 49:07
  You know when he's walking out of the the stand off the stand
• 49:11
  and talking to the 4th wall, He breaks the 4th wall with the
• 49:13
  camera at the beginning of The Wolf of Wall Street, Leo's
• 49:17
  talking, he breaks the 4th wall. He's talking to the camera about
• 49:19
  all the pills he takes and. Everything.
• 49:21
  Yeah, it's a trope Scorsese uses, but not in every movie.
• 49:23
  Like there's no wall. There's no 4th wall in Casino.
• 49:25
  No I know, but that's what I mean.
• 49:27
  That's why it's so similar the 2.
• 49:28
  Movies. Yeah, they they are similar.
• 49:31
  And honestly, even Ray Liotta's voice, Yeah, it sounds like
• 49:37
  DiCaprio. I think DiCaprio is doing his
• 49:39
  best impression. Yeah, maybe it's that.
• 49:43
  There's some piece, really. Yeah, they they, they sound
• 49:45
  similar to. Yeah.
• 49:46
  Rest in peace. Truly, truly a great actor.
• 49:48
  But yeah, for me, the double feature, just watching Scorsese
• 49:51
  movies just makes me want more Scorsese.
• 49:54
  I know it gets you in a certain mood.
• 49:57
  Yeah. So that's that's my thought.
• 49:59
  For me, Double Feature Casino was a no brainer.
• 50:02
  Yeah, another one just to like, it's almost like Goodfellas, but
• 50:08
  you know, different flavor. So instead of like spicy, you go
• 50:11
  with a little bit sweet and sour or something.
• 50:13
  I would put The Departed because they're both crime dramas and
• 50:19
  yeah, it's a little bit different of a flavor.
• 50:22
  Wolf of Wall Street to me is two similar and it's a lesser movie.
• 50:30
  Even though we've lost, it's really good.
• 50:31
  So no, it's really good. But when you put it next to
• 50:35
  Goodfellas, it's like, you know, you're at the top, top tier now,
• 50:40
  so you've got your gold medal and you've got your silver that
• 50:44
  lost. I gotta disagree.
• 50:45
  One, I gotta disagree. They're in the same league.
• 50:48
  No, not even close. They are.
• 50:50
  How many times have you rewatchable for Wall Street?
• 50:52
  The first time you watched it you said you hated it and then I
• 50:55
  made you rewatch. It I did hate it and then I
• 50:57
  rewatched it and now it's it's probably in my top ten favorite
• 51:00
  movies of all time. I mean, it's a great movie,
• 51:04
  don't get me wrong. It's peak Scorsese, but this is
• 51:08
  peak peak. It's like the ultimate.
• 51:11
  That's the thing. You have great and then you have
• 51:14
  even greater. So leave a penny, take a penny
• 51:18
  which which scene you taken out? Which scene you putting in?
• 51:22
  What's missing from this movie? I don't think anything's
• 51:26
  missing, but honestly I would take out the 2 spider scenes.
• 51:32
  What? There's the two spiders, the
• 51:35
  they're too upsetting. I understand they have to be
• 51:38
  part. Of the.
• 51:38
  Setting OK I understand they have to be part of the movie so
• 51:41
  we see how psycho Tommy is, but it fucks me up to watch.
• 51:46
  It yeah, it just kills because he was, he was innocent.
• 51:48
  He's. Just a kid working as a
• 51:50
  bartender. And Tommy's drunk, flailing his
• 51:53
  loaded gun around, dance for me like he's so unhinged.
• 51:56
  It makes me, it makes me fear for everyone in that room.
• 52:00
  And then he kills him. He's like, he's like, what was
• 52:02
  he? Called a good shot, he said it
• 52:04
  was a good shot, yeah. But didn't he say he's like,
• 52:06
  he's a rat? He's like and rat.
• 52:09
  Yeah, that child has a mother. Yeah, it's dark.
• 52:13
  Like as a mother you just shot a kid because he told you to go F
• 52:17
  yourself. After you shot after.
• 52:19
  You shot him in the foot. Bones are shattered.
• 52:23
  Yeah, I, I don't like it. It's it it makes me feel that
• 52:27
  whole scene makes me feel sick. So honestly, I, I wanna take
• 52:30
  them out of the movie, but I understand that they have to be
• 52:32
  in there. Yeah.
• 52:34
  And also I I just want to note that this this story is a little
• 52:39
  bit disjointed. And this is common in Scorsese
• 52:43
  movies. It's a really good movie, don't
• 52:45
  get me wrong, but the story doesn't always flow smoothly.
• 52:48
  And things happen throughout the movie without explanation.
• 52:52
  Like what? And this is a common thing that
• 52:53
  Scorsese does. So one of the things is Janice
• 52:57
  being swapped with Sandy. His girlfriends change.
• 52:59
  Yeah. We're never told why.
• 53:02
  We never see how it happens. Just suddenly he's out of prison
• 53:05
  and now it's Sandy and not Janice.
• 53:08
  I mean they hint at it. Yeah.
• 53:10
  He gives her a look. Yeah, and then he goes to jail.
• 53:14
  And then Karen says I don't want to hear another word about her.
• 53:16
  And he's like, never. Yeah, but he leaves prison and
• 53:19
  he needs someone to chop his dope.
• 53:21
  So who's he gonna go to? He's gonna go to a girl that has
• 53:23
  a thing for. Him, yeah, but that's that is
• 53:27
  that is assuming that you have that you have an an audience
• 53:30
  that is going to fill in those blanks.
• 53:33
  What do you mean? Which we know is not always the
• 53:35
  case. So I Jane is being swapped with
• 53:37
  Sandy. They don't explain it and also.
• 53:39
  Indeed, it's a gumar. You mean They mean nothing to
• 53:42
  him? That's the thing.
• 53:43
  Yeah, but we don't even see it happen.
• 53:45
  You have to show us. I disagree.
• 53:47
  And then also. That would have been a scene
• 53:50
  that I would have taken out because you don't need it.
• 53:52
  The movie is going too fast. Well, also Henry and Karen's
• 53:56
  coke addiction, neither of them are addicted to anything.
• 53:59
  And then suddenly we have that scene with with the helicopter
• 54:03
  where he's very paranoid and they're both just suddenly
• 54:05
  addicts. This was not a slow rise.
• 54:08
  Once we started, no, but once he started dealing, he started
• 54:11
  doing both of them. That's usually yeah, they go
• 54:14
  neck and. Neck, yeah, but suddenly they're
• 54:16
  both drug. Addicts.
• 54:17
  Yeah, it goes. Neck and neck out of nowhere.
• 54:20
  Yeah, so cocaine is a hell of a. Drug.
• 54:21
  Well, I'm just. It is.
• 54:24
  In Scorsese movies, and in this movie particularly, there are
• 54:27
  some gaps. And I understand that it takes
• 54:29
  place over 3 decades. You can't show us everything.
• 54:32
  Yeah, you can. But sometimes Scorsese has
• 54:34
  trouble making stories flow the way they should.
• 54:38
  Go. I'm just saying because we don't
• 54:41
  always see everything that we need to see and that's expecting
• 54:45
  us to fill in an awful lot with with no contact.
• 54:47
  I disagree. I I filled in the blanks.
• 54:49
  I didn't have any concern. You know what?
• 54:52
  I would take out the scene where Henry is sitting at the
• 54:58
  Copacabana and they're talking about they're with the
• 55:01
  girlfriends or the Dumars and he's there with Janice and then
• 55:05
  he ends up at her apartment. I didn't need the Copacabana
• 55:09
  scene. Yeah, they do a slow pan of
• 55:11
  everybody's face. Yeah, And it takes like a full.
• 55:13
  Minute. But you know what, it's really
• 55:14
  good directing. He's he's they're watching a
• 55:17
  live performance and the guy singing, he's like, pretend you
• 55:20
  don't see her at all. You know, like he's thinking
• 55:24
  about what he's doing. And he's like, I'm probably
• 55:26
  gonna go home with Janice. And it's just really well
• 55:30
  directed. But I would take it out.
• 55:33
  Not a huge fan of this Janice person.
• 55:35
  Like the whole scenario with it. I'm not for me, but I don't know
• 55:40
  what I'd put in. I want to see the heist.
• 55:43
  I wanna see the Lufthansa heist. They never showed it.
• 55:45
  They just show Henry and then the radio talking.
• 55:48
  I wanna see those guys rob the place.
• 55:50
  Well, that's I'm saying there's some stuff missing.
• 55:53
  Yeah, but it's two hours and 26 minutes, so they had to cut
• 55:56
  some. They had to, like, keep it
• 55:58
  tight, you know? I understand that it just it
• 56:00
  like this happens with other Scorsese movies too.
• 56:02
  There feels like there's a little bit of a gap.
• 56:04
  This movie is not about those extra characters though, that's
• 56:07
  the thing. And it's not about the crime
• 56:10
  it's about. It's about Henry.
• 56:11
  It's about Henry and what he is experiencing cause he wasn't
• 56:15
  there at the heist. Yeah, right.
• 56:17
  He wasn't planning. Yeah, him in the shower
• 56:19
  celebrating the highest is is really all we need to know about
• 56:22
  Henry. 'S lazy Sunday vibes.
• 56:26
  Not really no similar to Titanic it's a little bit too intense
• 56:32
  and upsetting to calmly watch on a lazy Sunday for me yeah we
• 56:36
  have seen it a lot so maybe for us we could but for other people
• 56:41
  out there that have maybe only seen it once or twice yeah this
• 56:44
  movie deserves to be like for you to give it your full
• 56:47
  attention to watch it in a dark room honest a lot of Friday or
• 56:50
  Saturday night with the lights off giving it your full
• 56:53
  attention It's it's it's not to passively.
• 56:56
  Watch this movie. 100% lazy Sunday vibes for me and I'll
• 56:59
  tell you why and what I was doing.
• 57:03
  I used to play cards Saturday nights, Friday nights, mostly
• 57:06
  Saturday nights but with some friends.
• 57:09
  And we'd be up all night talking and we would quote this movie,
• 57:13
  you know, making fun of each other or whatever, quote other
• 57:15
  movies. And then the next day I'd be
• 57:16
  home and I'd get up, I'd make some breakfast and I would sit
• 57:21
  with my coffee and my eggs and I would play this movie and I
• 57:26
  would just eat it watching breakfast.
• 57:28
  And I've seen it a million times.
• 57:30
  So maybe I wouldn't finish it. Maybe I would like head out and
• 57:33
  go get some stuff done. And then you come back and you
• 57:36
  finish it off. It was such a lazy and, or if
• 57:38
  you just get up and it's on TV and you're at the part where you
• 57:42
  know, Henry's grown up now and he they, they steal that truck
• 57:46
  with he steals that truck with Tommy.
• 57:48
  I I think it's lazy Sunday vibes for sure.
• 57:51
  Yeah, but this is coming from somebody who adores this movie,
• 57:55
  somebody who's seen it so many times.
• 57:57
  Like for you it could be, but I'm saying as as a movie itself
• 58:01
  for most people. You want to sit and watch it
• 58:04
  nonstop. Yeah, it's not.
• 58:05
  It's not something you can watch passively.
• 58:07
  That's the thing too. And I did say like when this
• 58:09
  movie playing, there's no scene where you could get up and go to
• 58:12
  the bathroom. There's very few of them.
• 58:15
  You know, the Copacabana scene with Janice, you could go to the
• 58:18
  bathroom, but everything else, like what happened, what
• 58:21
  happened, what I miss, it's so fast.
• 58:23
  You have to be there. Well, like I said at the
• 58:24
  beginning, we it was hard for us to take notes during this
• 58:27
  because when you're looking down at your phone, you you miss so
• 58:30
  much if you're looking down for a few minutes.
• 58:32
  Yeah, Movie alias. You got any other names?
• 58:36
  I got a couple here. So I obviously chose Wise Guy
• 58:39
  because that's the name of the book it's.
• 58:41
  Based I put wise guys. Too.
• 58:42
  Yeah. So I thought Wise Guy would be a
• 58:44
  good one. And then just if you if, if it
• 58:46
  was a little bit more of a documentary, you could call it
• 58:48
  the Henry Hill Story. Oh yeah, that's not bad.
• 58:51
  Yeah, but that's all I have. OHS, I've got.
• 58:54
  I've always wanted to be. I always wanted to be a
• 58:56
  gangster. It's a long title, but I think
• 58:58
  it fits. And the life because, he says at
• 59:02
  the end of the movie. I missed the life, he does say.
• 59:05
  That yeah, that that could definitely work.
• 59:07
  Some shower thoughts. So I have a lot.
• 59:10
  I have I have a laundry list. Me too.
• 59:13
  OK, go ahead. OK, so where we talked about
• 59:17
  this a little bit, but the funny housing is really a testament to
• 59:22
  amazing acting and it really shows you why Joe Pesci won for
• 59:25
  supporting actor that year. You can literally cut the
• 59:29
  tension with a knife. Even if you are passively
• 59:32
  watching this movie in that scene comes up, you will notice
• 59:35
  everyone in the room go quiet and look at the TV because it's
• 59:37
  absolutely engrossing. Yeah.
• 59:39
  And it lets us know that Tommy is not to be messed with.
• 59:43
  And he's unhinged. And my favorite thing after
• 59:45
  seeing this movie now bunch of times is when I meet someone,
• 59:49
  it's rare now but that they haven't seen this movie and they
• 59:53
  come over and we have a movie night and we play this movie for
• 59:56
  them. And you know, watching, I don't
• 1:00:00
  watch that scene. I watched the person's face.
• 1:00:02
  Watching Tommy, you know, asking.
• 1:00:05
  Yeah, you'll you'll get chills. He's so.
• 1:00:08
  Funny, like Henry almost takes him seriously.
• 1:00:10
  He knows this guy well and. He almost takes seriously so
• 1:00:12
  many memes cause he's so unhinged.
• 1:00:14
  That Ray Liotta laughing meme is from this scene.
• 1:00:17
  Oh really Otis fake laugh is so good that acting like I don't
• 1:00:21
  know if maybe somebody made him laugh for real before that scene
• 1:00:24
  so cause it's it's really good so.
• 1:00:26
  Apparently Ray Liotta and Joe Pesci knew what the scene was
• 1:00:31
  going on. Nobody else knew.
• 1:00:34
  Nobody else knew that he was gonna do that.
• 1:00:35
  It was improv he went to. So Joe Pesci went to Scorsese
• 1:00:38
  and said, listen, this happened to me in real life when he was a
• 1:00:42
  busboy. And he's like, I want to do it.
• 1:00:45
  I want the scene. And Scorsese is famously known
• 1:00:49
  for letting his actors kind of roam free and do their own
• 1:00:52
  thing. That's why a lot of his movies,
• 1:00:55
  there's some scenes like even with Leo and all these movies,
• 1:00:57
  like he lets his actors try things that aren't even script,
• 1:01:01
  and it works. And this is one of them.
• 1:01:03
  It's funny. You're a funny guy.
• 1:01:06
  You mean the way I talk? But.
• 1:01:10
  You know, you, you're just funny.
• 1:01:12
  It's, you know, the way you tell the story and everything.
• 1:01:15
  You're funny How? I mean, what's funny about it?
• 1:01:19
  Tom, you know you got it all wrong.
• 1:01:20
  Anthony, he's a big boy. He knows what he said.
• 1:01:23
  What do you say? Funny how?
• 1:01:28
  What just you know, you're, you're funny.
• 1:01:31
  You mean, so let me understand this because I, you know, maybe
• 1:01:33
  it's me. I'm a little fucked up.
• 1:01:34
  Maybe. But I'm funny.
• 1:01:36
  How? I mean funny, like I'm a clown.
• 1:01:37
  I amuse you, I make you laugh. I'm here to fucking amuse you.
• 1:01:42
  What do you mean funny? Funny.
• 1:01:43
  How am I? Funny, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta
• 1:01:46
  knew this, what they were gonna do, but nobody else knew.
• 1:01:50
  So the other actors, that's why. Like if you look at the scene
• 1:01:53
  again, it's a wide shot. You see the other actors.
• 1:01:55
  There's no close up of Joe Pesci or Ray Liotta.
• 1:01:58
  You see the people sitting next to them and you watch them and
• 1:02:02
  you see their real reactions. It's really amazing.
• 1:02:06
  But they stay in character because he calls him Tommy.
• 1:02:08
  Oh, for sure, but they don't like they not sure.
• 1:02:10
  Like he's walking this line where they're like, is he acting
• 1:02:13
  or is he pissed off for real? Like what is he doing?
• 1:02:16
  This isn't in the script. And you, you don't stop, right,
• 1:02:19
  because Scorsese hasn't said cut like they're rolling films.
• 1:02:23
  So it's just really cool when you when you know.
• 1:02:27
  That he does have like a a loser, a little bit of improv
• 1:02:30
  style. Margot Robbie talks about him,
• 1:02:32
  Wolf of Wall Street. When when Leo says who who after
• 1:02:36
  she throws the water on him pick him up she goes who who What?
• 1:02:39
  Are you a fucking owl That wasn't in the script?
• 1:02:45
  Was that one of the kids sneezing or was that a cry?
• 1:02:48
  Was a cough Sorry Margot Robbie? Yeah, Margot Robbie in in Wolf
• 1:02:54
  of Wall Street actually throws the water on Leah and he he goes
• 1:02:57
  who? Who?
• 1:02:58
  She goes who, who? What are you a fucking owl?
• 1:03:00
  That wasn't in the script. Yeah, was the water throwing in
• 1:03:02
  the script? The water throwing was in the
• 1:03:04
  script, but she was told by somebody who was like a a Jersey
• 1:03:08
  person with that accent, they're like, you should say who, who,
• 1:03:11
  what are you, a fucking owl? You should work that involves.
• 1:03:13
  Yeah, like somebody. Somebody suggested that to her.
• 1:03:16
  Sometimes she worked it in. Sometimes you gotta let the crew
• 1:03:20
  and the cast to come up with something.
• 1:03:22
  Well, some of the best moments. Phone flare.
• 1:03:24
  Yeah. What else you got, Tommy?
• 1:03:27
  And Jimmy? Are killers Yep Henry is not a
• 1:03:31
  killer he. Only we only.
• 1:03:34
  Really see him get violent a couple times in the movie, like
• 1:03:36
  when he pistol whips Karen's neighbor.
• 1:03:39
  He's not that violent of a person and he's not a murderer,
• 1:03:43
  so this makes him more relatable to the audience, but apparently
• 1:03:48
  the real one was not. This like chill of a person
• 1:03:52
  right? No, he's even in the movie.
• 1:03:54
  He's still a bad person. But we're able to relate to him
• 1:03:57
  because he's just as horrified when he sees Tommy, shoots
• 1:04:01
  Spider, when he sees Tommy and Jimmy murder Billy Bats, when he
• 1:04:06
  when Jimmy suggests that he wants to kill Maury.
• 1:04:09
  Yeah. It's the part of the life that
• 1:04:11
  he doesn't like. Yeah, we see.
• 1:04:12
  Henry disturbed and trying to save people.
• 1:04:15
  He tries to save Mori, so he's more relatable to the audience
• 1:04:18
  in those moments. Even though he is a bad person,
• 1:04:22
  we're able to cling on to his humanity while it takes us on
• 1:04:26
  this ride. And I thought that that was
• 1:04:27
  interesting. Yeah, that's a, that's a good
• 1:04:31
  point. I mean.
• 1:04:32
  He he's come off. So he comes off in the movie is
• 1:04:34
  like a, a softer version. Yeah.
• 1:04:36
  But when it's time to go, he has to like beat people up.
• 1:04:40
  And you know, you gonna pay, you gonna pay like he's beating up
• 1:04:43
  that guy in the car and then he ends up in prison.
• 1:04:45
  We definitely see him get violent.
• 1:04:47
  We see him do some messed up. Things but he is definitely the
• 1:04:50
  least bad of the three amigos. Basically, another thing I
• 1:04:55
  noticed is that young Karen is so beautiful and fresh faced and
• 1:05:01
  you just slowly see the lifestyle take a toll on.
• 1:05:03
  Yeah, the cocaine starts to Yeah, she talks about.
• 1:05:07
  It in the Hostess. Party scene like these women
• 1:05:10
  wore too much makeup, they had spat bad skin and they wore
• 1:05:13
  cheap clothing, a lot of pantsuits and double knits.
• 1:05:18
  She doesn't think it'll happen to her, but we see.
• 1:05:20
  It happening to her. Throughout the movie, um, and
• 1:05:23
  it's, it's just interesting because, you know, people never
• 1:05:26
  think that these things are going to affect them, but we
• 1:05:29
  literally see her become less beautiful, less starry eyed and
• 1:05:33
  and like kind of uglier from the lifestyle that she's going
• 1:05:37
  through with him because it's, it's stressful and it, it ruins
• 1:05:40
  you. Yeah, so.
• 1:05:44
  You see it on Henry as well, like the cocaine is really
• 1:05:48
  settled in after a certain couple scenes and you're like,
• 1:05:51
  OK, this guy's addicted to coke and so is his wife.
• 1:05:55
  Yeah, yeah. Anything else?
• 1:05:58
  Yeah, just a couple of moments that I.
• 1:06:00
  Noticed when Karen asks Henry for money, she shows him how big
• 1:06:03
  of a stack she wants instead of amount.
• 1:06:06
  Yeah, I thought that was cute. When touch when?
• 1:06:10
  Yeah. When Tommy murdered somebody.
• 1:06:11
  He's more upset about the blood on the floor than the fact that
• 1:06:14
  he just murdered a person, which is pretty backwards.
• 1:06:20
  How come when they're in prison, it looks like they're in an
• 1:06:24
  apartment and they have? A kitchen and stuff.
• 1:06:26
  Like, that's not like any person I've ever seen.
• 1:06:28
  They talk about how they made these extravagant meals.
• 1:06:31
  They owned the joint. What kind of prison is that
• 1:06:33
  where they? Have like an apartment.
• 1:06:34
  Henry goes out. At the end.
• 1:06:36
  So where is he going? So when celebrities.
• 1:06:39
  And Rich. People go to jail.
• 1:06:41
  They don't really, the really rich ones, they don't really go
• 1:06:44
  to jail. They go to like this because
• 1:06:46
  prisons in the US are a lot of them are privately owned.
• 1:06:49
  So these really rich people, what they do is they pay a lot
• 1:06:52
  of money to the the government, like to the city or to the
• 1:06:58
  state, and they basically buy a ticket to these really bougie
• 1:07:02
  prisons. And they are there with other
• 1:07:05
  bougie rich people and thought that was only for nonviolent
• 1:07:08
  criminals. No, they find.
• 1:07:10
  Their ways like money talks, OK. Yeah, and then in this they're
• 1:07:13
  mobs. So they they, he literally says
• 1:07:15
  we run the we run the joint, you know.
• 1:07:18
  So they probably what they did was they took this old maybe
• 1:07:22
  Infirmary, which suits, you know, it could fit like, let's
• 1:07:27
  say 20 beds and they just turned it into a huge ass apartment for
• 1:07:30
  them. He literally says he's like, we
• 1:07:33
  lived on our own. He's like we didn't live.
• 1:07:35
  He's like, you see Rose and Rosa guys walking and, you know,
• 1:07:39
  striped jumpsuits. He's like, we lived our on our
• 1:07:42
  own. They did their own thing.
• 1:07:43
  Yeah. They had a little apartment.
• 1:07:44
  They made extravagant meals. Yeah.
• 1:07:46
  And they had had this private, they have privacy that's.
• 1:07:50
  I mean. I thought that was pretty crazy.
• 1:07:53
  Prison. That's just like a vacation.
• 1:07:54
  That's going on the lamb, right? Yeah, but it's the prison at
• 1:07:57
  this point. So for me, I got you anymore.
• 1:08:02
  I have a couple more but you can go for bed.
• 1:08:05
  So for me I got. This movie is the king of freeze
• 1:08:10
  frame character intros and narration.
• 1:08:13
  So in the beginning they freeze frame a lot of a lot of
• 1:08:16
  characters. You know when Henry's getting
• 1:08:19
  beat by his dad, when he gets a letter?
• 1:08:22
  He hasn't been to school in months and then he's narrating,
• 1:08:26
  and then the mailman gets thrown into the pizza oven and he's
• 1:08:31
  like, that was it? No more letters from anybody.
• 1:08:35
  A lot of movies try this. A lot of movies do it now.
• 1:08:38
  It's a very common thing. One movie that I know does it
• 1:08:41
  pretty well is Snatch. Snatch does a lot of freeze
• 1:08:46
  frame intros in the beginning of the characters.
• 1:08:49
  And then there's a lot of moments where they freeze frame
• 1:08:52
  to tell like the audience what's going on or why things are
• 1:08:56
  happening the way they are because we're not familiar with
• 1:08:59
  that world. But there's some movies that
• 1:09:01
  they use that trope several times, and a lot of movies.
• 1:09:05
  It doesn't work. Yeah, when you're watching it,
• 1:09:07
  you're like, oht, they're doing that thing.
• 1:09:10
  But and you know, of course he does it with music, but not a
• 1:09:15
  soundtrack. Like he does it like, sorry, not
• 1:09:17
  a score. He does it with real songs from
• 1:09:20
  real artists. And so does Snatch, and that's
• 1:09:22
  by Guy Ritchie. So that's a great movie.
• 1:09:26
  It's one of my favorite movies. Snatch, it's underrated, I
• 1:09:28
  think. But they use a lot of similar
• 1:09:31
  tricks. Tommy and Henry set up Sunny to
• 1:09:34
  go to Pauly and become partners so Paulie could take as much
• 1:09:39
  money as possible from the restaurant.
• 1:09:41
  Hmm. And claim the insurance when
• 1:09:44
  they burn it down. That was a setup.
• 1:09:47
  They purposely made that guy uncomfortable at the Bamboo
• 1:09:50
  Lounge, the owner Sunny, so that he would go to Polly and make us
• 1:09:55
  to be partners. So then he would have to pay
• 1:09:57
  Pauly a bunch of they love that place and it really doesn't
• 1:10:00
  matter. It's a money.
• 1:10:01
  It's it's. They're they're laundering.
• 1:10:03
  Stolen goods out of there. And then Paul, he's not putting
• 1:10:07
  any money into the restaurant. The restaurant's losing money.
• 1:10:09
  And then what does he have to do?
• 1:10:11
  He has to pay Pauley his share, his protection money, right?
• 1:10:15
  Because that's what they did. Henry and Tommy went there and
• 1:10:17
  they basically made this guy go get protection from Polly for a
• 1:10:22
  fee. And then what happened?
• 1:10:23
  They ended up burning it down. That was the whole end game,
• 1:10:27
  which is crazy. Um, the narration A.
• 1:10:33
  Lot of movies do narration but. They do it and it's like, not
• 1:10:37
  done well. This movie is the king of
• 1:10:39
  narration. It's one of the best.
• 1:10:41
  Well, that's up there with Shawshank.
• 1:10:43
  It's up there with Terminator. Terminator 2 when?
• 1:10:48
  Sarah Connor is. Talking.
• 1:10:50
  It's just so well done. And it goes from Henry to Karen,
• 1:10:54
  like, seamlessly, and then it goes back to Henry.
• 1:10:58
  It's just so well done. Yeah, well, that that's the
• 1:11:00
  thing about this movie. It it has things.
• 1:11:02
  That are considered cliches now, but it it's it's the reason that
• 1:11:06
  they're considered cliches because it did it perfectly so
• 1:11:08
  now nobody else can measure up yeah this was this was one of
• 1:11:11
  those movies that, you know it was the.
• 1:11:13
  OG yeah, Henry's wardrobe his. Suits are timeless.
• 1:11:18
  And like he looks he's dressed so well in this movie.
• 1:11:21
  Even knit button up shirts are my favorite is short.
• 1:11:24
  Sleeve knit button ups. They just, they're back in style
• 1:11:27
  again. They are, yeah.
• 1:11:29
  They just some of the nicest patterns.
• 1:11:31
  This guys wearing. They look so good and my
• 1:11:33
  favorite is his red. Leather blazer when he.
• 1:11:36
  Goes to beat up Karens neighbor. It's like a suit jacket blazer.
• 1:11:40
  Yeah, that's iconic red leather. It's gorgeous.
• 1:11:43
  I love this shirt wearing. When Karen yells at him.
• 1:11:46
  Outside of the cab stand, Yeah, I love that shirt.
• 1:11:50
  I like. I wish.
• 1:11:51
  I could find that shirt. For you, my favorite for him is
• 1:11:55
  probably. Because they really did his like
• 1:11:58
  they're mob guys, right? They they like to dress nice.
• 1:12:00
  But my favorite of his is the scene where Sonny's going to
• 1:12:04
  Pauly and ask him to be in the restaurant business and Henry
• 1:12:08
  smoking a cigar and the shirts open with like a like a white
• 1:12:12
  undershirt and he's just chilling.
• 1:12:14
  It's it's a summer like outfit vibe.
• 1:12:17
  Yeah, his wardrobe is impeccable.
• 1:12:20
  Yeah, it is his. His is the most memorable in the
• 1:12:22
  movie. I mean, he's the main.
• 1:12:23
  Character but even more like usually you notice the the
• 1:12:26
  women's wardrobe more but his not even brought him close.
• 1:12:29
  It's it's all about the mob guys.
• 1:12:30
  Yeah, he's his wardrobes. More memorable than Karens?
• 1:12:34
  I found this out. You know, just.
• 1:12:36
  Recently when I knew we were doing the podcast, so the real
• 1:12:40
  Henry Hill was on the Howard Stern Radio show This Going to
• 1:12:45
  Disturb and a girl called into the show.
• 1:12:48
  A bunch of people called in but a girl called in and was very
• 1:12:52
  upset on the call and asked the real Henry Hill where the real
• 1:13:00
  spider was buried. The person who called was the
• 1:13:04
  real spiders sister Henry. Hill kind of shrugged.
• 1:13:12
  And didn't answer and then they had to hang up the call.
• 1:13:16
  He should have told her. That's fucking disturbing.
• 1:13:19
  He should have told. Her how he was already in
• 1:13:21
  witness protection. Yeah, just tell her that's
• 1:13:24
  crazy, huh? He was out of witness protection
• 1:13:27
  by then. Everybody was basically dead and
• 1:13:30
  also he was kicked out at one point because he was just too
• 1:13:33
  much. That's really sad.
• 1:13:36
  Polly and Henry both speak. Vaguely about the.
• 1:13:38
  Whereabouts of Billy? Bats when they're having that
• 1:13:40
  conversation after they kill Billy Bats, Holly's obviously
• 1:13:45
  fishing to see if Henry knows what Pollys talking about.
• 1:13:48
  But that whole scene, it's like, it's almost like it's, it's,
• 1:13:52
  it's something out of a scary movie because they're both being
• 1:13:56
  vague. He's like, did you talk to the
• 1:13:59
  guy about the thing? He's like, oh, the guy in
• 1:14:01
  Brooklyn. No, the guy with the other
• 1:14:02
  thing. Oh, the guy who used to live by
• 1:14:04
  Christie's house? No, the other guy, the guy from
• 1:14:07
  downtown. Oh, that guy.
• 1:14:10
  Like, it's just back. Yeah.
• 1:14:11
  It's kind of silly interrogation technique police use.
• 1:14:14
  That too. But that scene, the way they did
• 1:14:17
  it, it was just almost. Like the guy with the thing, You
• 1:14:19
  know the guy. Hey, you know the guy with the
• 1:14:22
  thing. Yeah.
• 1:14:23
  Police do that too though, because police a lot of times.
• 1:14:25
  Catch criminals by criminals knowing something they shouldn't
• 1:14:29
  know. They made fun of that in Analyze
• 1:14:30
  This, which stars Billy. Crystal and Robert De Niro,
• 1:14:33
  Yeah. He's like, you talk to the guy.
• 1:14:35
  Which guy? The guy with the thing, that guy
• 1:14:38
  with the thing, You know the guy, the guy I told you about
• 1:14:43
  and he's like, what the fuck is talking about?
• 1:14:44
  Is that a direct? Well, they do it a lot.
• 1:14:47
  In a lot of movies, I think, yeah.
• 1:14:48
  I think it might just be a mob. I'm still funny though.
• 1:14:51
  So I I want to. Question why Karen doesn't?
• 1:14:54
  Leave Henry because he's like so shitty to her and she's so
• 1:14:59
  unhappy. They're fighting about his
• 1:15:02
  cheating. They're fighting about him being
• 1:15:04
  away all the time. But she she does explain in the
• 1:15:07
  gun scene that she points the gun at his head.
• 1:15:10
  Yeah, she said. I I was still.
• 1:15:11
  Very attracted to him. And sometimes when you can't
• 1:15:14
  fully have someone, it makes you cling to them and want them even
• 1:15:18
  more. So it it, it's almost like
• 1:15:21
  because he was unfaithful, because he was gone all the time
• 1:15:24
  working, because she she didn't feel that she fully had him, it
• 1:15:27
  may have actually made her crave his attention even more.
• 1:15:30
  Well, she says I why should I let her win?
• 1:15:33
  You know, why should I lose? She doesn't want to lose.
• 1:15:36
  She doesn't want to lose him. Yeah, it's, I think it's also
• 1:15:39
  just someone. Just when?
• 1:15:41
  When? You're some women.
• 1:15:42
  Unfortunately, when they're not. Being treated well it it almost
• 1:15:45
  divorcing hard, not animal. Never gonna divorce, I should.
• 1:15:51
  Kill. You.
• 1:15:51
  But you'll never divorce you. Yeah.
• 1:15:54
  Well, I just I. I just I thought it.
• 1:15:56
  Was interesting because she doesn't.
• 1:15:57
  Leave him. And she's clearly unhappy he's
• 1:15:59
  in prison. Like, yeah, she could leave him,
• 1:16:02
  but she never does. Well, I mean, what is she gonna
• 1:16:04
  do? She has nothing.
• 1:16:06
  He's the the breadwinner. It's not like she's working.
• 1:16:09
  Yeah, but she's already having to survive with her two kids
• 1:16:12
  Leave. Town go somewhere else yeah I
• 1:16:14
  guess you know get away from him but she she.
• 1:16:17
  She never loves him. She.
• 1:16:18
  Loves him and those are her kids dad.
• 1:16:20
  Yeah, and she loves the life. She gets seduced into it.
• 1:16:23
  Right. She knows.
• 1:16:24
  She's not stupid. You don't feel like you're in
• 1:16:27
  construction. 21 year old with such connections.
• 1:16:30
  She knows. She knows.
• 1:16:32
  She knows immediately that something is up.
• 1:16:34
  No, no, no. She, she, she knows.
• 1:16:36
  But she. Yeah.
• 1:16:36
  And then? He finds out pretty quickly when
• 1:16:38
  he hands her. Gun and she's like, I'm sticking
• 1:16:41
  around. Yeah, it turned me on.
• 1:16:48
  What else you got? So just my last thing.
• 1:16:51
  Is. After Tommy dies, Jimmy becomes
• 1:16:55
  a full on villain. Yeah.
• 1:16:58
  And it's, you see this shift in him almost immediately.
• 1:17:03
  It's. Yeah.
• 1:17:04
  Yeah. You think you just.
• 1:17:05
  Tommy was his best friend. He cared a lot a lot about.
• 1:17:08
  Tommy and he's. Just he gets disenchanted with
• 1:17:10
  the life after that happens because that was supposed to be
• 1:17:13
  their ticket. That scene that where we finds
• 1:17:15
  out Tommy gets shot, holy shit. Yeah, and also how does Tommy?
• 1:17:20
  Know he's gonna die, he says, Oh no, right before I get shot in
• 1:17:24
  the head. So he knows he's dead.
• 1:17:25
  How does he know when you get, when you become a made?
• 1:17:29
  Guy basically, I mean, you have to go.
• 1:17:33
  So you go, they, they go to this house and basically you're
• 1:17:35
  gifted this house because you're part of the crew now.
• 1:17:39
  And then when you go there, there's a bunch of other maid
• 1:17:42
  guys and there's a ceremony. But when he opens the door,
• 1:17:46
  nobody's there and they show a ceremony like that.
• 1:17:51
  In Sopranos, don't they? With Christopher, basically they
• 1:17:54
  they they make a. They take an oath, and he was
• 1:17:57
  gonna take the oath, but nobody was there.
• 1:17:59
  And that's when he knew something.
• 1:18:00
  He knew. Yeah.
• 1:18:01
  He knew he was dead. It's crazy.
• 1:18:03
  Yeah. That's all I.
• 1:18:06
  Have for shower thoughts. That all of yours.
• 1:18:07
  No, I got a few. More here.
• 1:18:09
  So when Polly. Slicing the garlic when they're
• 1:18:11
  in prison, which is a great scene.
• 1:18:13
  I love that cooking in prison and stuff.
• 1:18:15
  But when you sliced the garlic. With a razor.
• 1:18:18
  This is basically apparently it's Scorsese doing character
• 1:18:26
  storytelling. I never realized this, but I did
• 1:18:30
  a little research and basically it's it holds a deeper meaning.
• 1:18:34
  Basically, it's showing that Polly is showing his power.
• 1:18:39
  And his. Meticulous control over the mob
• 1:18:45
  because he's sitting there and it's all about control.
• 1:18:48
  He's got a thin razor, he's slicing and he's slicing and
• 1:18:51
  he's slicing. There's also this other theory
• 1:18:54
  that the mob is, it's all smoke and mirrors.
• 1:18:59
  So everything's happening beyond behind the scenes, right?
• 1:19:04
  With the mob, they still trucks, they do this, they do that.
• 1:19:06
  All this crime and people don't see it day-to-day people, they
• 1:19:10
  don't see it. They go to work, it's happening
• 1:19:12
  under their noses, right? And when Henry's talking about,
• 1:19:17
  he used to slice the garlic so thin that he used to liquify in
• 1:19:20
  the pan. So that sliced garlic is, I
• 1:19:26
  guess, symbolism for the mob. How it's liquefied in the pan,
• 1:19:31
  you don't know what's there, right?
• 1:19:34
  But it's there and it's happening under your nose, so.
• 1:19:38
  There's two things happening. There and it's characters,
• 1:19:41
  storytelling, storytelling on Paul's part, and then also what
• 1:19:45
  the mob is. And they're literally in prison.
• 1:19:48
  The other prisoners don't know what's going on, but those guys
• 1:19:51
  have it made. They have like a little hotel in
• 1:19:54
  the prison, right? It's happening right under their
• 1:19:55
  noses. That's that's pretty deep
• 1:19:58
  inspection. Based on just Poly chopping
• 1:20:01
  something with the oh I think every time I see that scene as
• 1:20:04
  somebody who cooks with garlic a lot is.
• 1:20:06
  That that would take forever. Yeah, just use a garlic press.
• 1:20:10
  But for him, it's about control, right?
• 1:20:13
  So unintentional comedy. OK, this, this part, they kill
• 1:20:19
  Mori and they're like, let's go chop them up.
• 1:20:22
  And then Frankie Carbone's like, he's like, what, you wanna start
• 1:20:26
  the car? He's like, so Tommy's like drive
• 1:20:28
  off, like get out of here. And he's like, I got a better
• 1:20:32
  shot. And letting this fucking guy
• 1:20:33
  drive after he kills more, he's pointing at Maury.
• 1:20:36
  Like, I'll let Maury drive. And then Frankie Carbone's like,
• 1:20:40
  I want to warm up the car. And he's like, get the fuck out
• 1:20:43
  of here, Watch, warm it up, get out of here.
• 1:20:46
  Like, come on. Like we just had to kill the
• 1:20:47
  guy. You're gonna fucking sit here
• 1:20:49
  and let the car warm up? Yeah.
• 1:20:50
  Tommy's like, in a rush to leave.
• 1:20:52
  It seems risky. Also, this scene.
• 1:20:55
  Little dark, little dark joke. So Maury gets stabbed with a
• 1:21:00
  fucking ice pick in the back of his neck.
• 1:21:02
  So Bell never got her Danish cause he said he's gonna.
• 1:21:08
  Pick up a Danish for belt. Cause they were gonna go to the
• 1:21:11
  coffee shop. Sad.
• 1:21:13
  It's fucked up, I know. And all you hear is the last
• 1:21:18
  thing you you hear more you say is it was terrific Nunzio up in
• 1:21:23
  the that's all you. Hear.
• 1:21:27
  That's the last thing that Mori says.
• 1:21:30
  It's fucked up, OK, I don't. Know the sound.
• 1:21:38
  Yeah, you can speak at the. Back of the throat.
• 1:21:40
  You're twisted. He's getting killed, dude.
• 1:21:42
  I know, I know. It's dark, but it's.
• 1:21:45
  You know, it's just a little bit funny.
• 1:21:47
  She never got her. Poor Belle.
• 1:21:51
  It's kind of weird that Tommy. 'S mom is just like.
• 1:21:54
  OK with her son being in the mafia, like she literally
• 1:21:57
  congratulates him for getting becoming a maid guy.
• 1:22:01
  I think she just loves her son. I don't think she cares what he
• 1:22:03
  does. Yeah.
• 1:22:04
  But it's, it's a little, I mean, she knows she's not dumb.
• 1:22:07
  She shouldn't congratulate him. That's kind of yeah.
• 1:22:10
  And that's. Scorsese mom playing Tommy's
• 1:22:12
  mom. Oh yeah, it is.
• 1:22:13
  Yeah, yeah. She's the one.
• 1:22:17
  Who drew the picture? One dog was going this way and
• 1:22:19
  the other was gone. That way and this guy is saying,
• 1:22:21
  what do you want from me? The the the Niro payphone.
• 1:22:26
  Scene is so. Good and acting and filmmaking.
• 1:22:29
  Like when he's talking and the guy's telling him the Tommy,
• 1:22:32
  he's he's gone. He's gone the cameras, like,
• 1:22:35
  wide shot. And then as soon as he finds out
• 1:22:37
  that Tommy's dead, he the camera zooms in and then he starts
• 1:22:42
  smashing the frigging receiver into the payphone.
• 1:22:46
  Like, it's such good acting. And then the, like, weird cry.
• 1:22:50
  Yeah, the fury and the sobbing and angry cry.
• 1:22:53
  Scene It's it's it's. Excellent.
• 1:22:56
  Acting the cocaine morning scene.
• 1:22:59
  Basically, the paranoia is palpable.
• 1:23:01
  And also, the doctor in the hospital is from The Wire, It's
• 1:23:06
  Isaiah Whitlock. He's the guy that got.
• 1:23:08
  Him, she just died December last year.
• 1:23:13
  Yeah, no, just died at the end of 2025.
• 1:23:15
  So RIP. But imagine he's just taking
• 1:23:18
  Henry's blood pressure. He's like, let me take let me
• 1:23:20
  take a look at you, take his blood pressure she.
• 1:23:25
  That's no he. He gives some Valium, he gets
• 1:23:27
  him more high. Known for that.
• 1:23:29
  Line. He's used that line in other
• 1:23:31
  shows and other. Movies.
• 1:23:32
  OHS really. Yeah.
• 1:23:33
  That's like Arnold going in other.
• 1:23:35
  Movies just. I'll be back.
• 1:23:37
  So at the end of the movie, Jimmy tells Karen that he's got
• 1:23:40
  these beautiful Dior dresses that she wants, if she wants it,
• 1:23:45
  like they're hers. And basically he points, he's
• 1:23:49
  working, he's bought a bunch of properties and he's, he's is
• 1:23:53
  going through them all. Cause I guess there's, you know,
• 1:23:56
  goods that were left in there because they're abandoned
• 1:23:58
  buildings. But he tells her that he's got
• 1:24:01
  these beautiful Dior dresses and he points her down the road and
• 1:24:05
  says, you just go into that building there.
• 1:24:07
  So she's already a little paranoid because, you know,
• 1:24:10
  they're in big trouble with the police and Henry's paranoid
• 1:24:13
  because they're both coked up. So do you think he you know they
• 1:24:16
  were cleaned by then? Oh, that's true.
• 1:24:20
  She was. Do you think that he was?
• 1:24:22
  Going to kill her in that scene or do you think she.
• 1:24:24
  Was just being paranoid so my theory is that he wasn't going.
• 1:24:28
  To kill her. I think that Jimmy was testing
• 1:24:31
  her to see how scared they are because the more scared you are,
• 1:24:38
  the more likely you are to go to the police and flip.
• 1:24:42
  So when he points down there, I don't think there's any dresses,
• 1:24:47
  I don't think. There's any?
• 1:24:48
  Danger. I think there's just two grunts
• 1:24:52
  working in that building, and he's testing to see if she
• 1:24:57
  trusts him anymore because and she didn't.
• 1:25:01
  She's like, I have to go. I have to pick up the kids.
• 1:25:03
  And that's when the next scene is Jimmy telling him you need to
• 1:25:07
  go down to Florida to do something.
• 1:25:09
  And then Henry's, like I knew then that I wouldn't come back
• 1:25:13
  alive. Can I just say though, as a As
• 1:25:17
  a? Woman.
• 1:25:18
  Yeah, looking into that shadowy alley.
• 1:25:21
  And seeing men. In their moving boxes around and
• 1:25:23
  like how dark it is. I don't care if I trust Jimmy or
• 1:25:28
  not. I'm not going in there for my
• 1:25:29
  own safety. Yeah, I don't care what's in
• 1:25:32
  there that I see. Those really could have.
• 1:25:33
  I've walked down alleys were had creepy people and.
• 1:25:37
  Weird people in buildings. And I'm just, I book it.
• 1:25:40
  Yeah, but as a woman, that's not the thing.
• 1:25:42
  As a man. Yeah, as a woman, I specifically
• 1:25:45
  as a woman, that's, that's scary.
• 1:25:47
  That's a. Scary situation to put.
• 1:25:48
  Yourself in and any woman would have a brain is be like I'm not
• 1:25:50
  going I don't know who those guys doesn't think they they
• 1:25:53
  were tight right he like they they.
• 1:25:55
  Did everything together, they want vacations together.
• 1:25:57
  So he should have walked her down there then cause he's
• 1:25:59
  obviously a scary. Alley, he's testing the.
• 1:26:02
  Trust level, right? I also.
• 1:26:04
  Really, really little subtle hints there.
• 1:26:08
  When she says I have to drop the kids off, she's walking to the
• 1:26:12
  car and the the scene is a wide shot now that shows her walking
• 1:26:15
  to the car and it's zooming out and you see the street light and
• 1:26:19
  it says don't walk and then. Right underneath the Don't Walk
• 1:26:25
  sign, there's a. One way sign pointing towards
• 1:26:28
  where Jimmy was pointing. Like one way, like you're not
• 1:26:32
  coming out of there OK, You're. You're reading too.
• 1:26:35
  Indeed, too in depth it does some of this.
• 1:26:37
  Stuff details that Scorsese puts the don't walk, she stopped.
• 1:26:41
  Walking like it's it's telling the audience there was danger.
• 1:26:46
  So I have a hot take here. When we're on the talk of the.
• 1:26:49
  Topic of this every time that Henry.
• 1:26:54
  Gets in trouble. As an adult, it's because of a
• 1:26:57
  woman. I think women are his Achilles
• 1:27:00
  heel. So number one, his gumar becomes
• 1:27:06
  trouble and Polly tells him to go to Florida with Jimmy to take
• 1:27:09
  care of some stuff. He gets busted, goes to jail #2
• 1:27:15
  him and his. Gumar get busted?
• 1:27:18
  OK, the second Kumar, as she has bowls full of cocaine from their
• 1:27:22
  little lab that they made in an apartment and he's told her to
• 1:27:27
  use the dishwasher, clean this mess up.
• 1:27:30
  You know what, They could put us away forever if they ever catch
• 1:27:33
  us with this. And what happens?
• 1:27:35
  They catch them, they get all the dishes and everything's full
• 1:27:38
  of coke #3 his mule who you hate, the girl who flies the
• 1:27:45
  drugs in and out. Then the babysitter.
• 1:27:47
  The babysitter. The one who needs.
• 1:27:49
  Her lucky hat. Makes the call from inside the
• 1:27:52
  house when he explicitly told her to use an outside phone
• 1:27:56
  number 4. Karen gets scared of Jimmy
• 1:28:00
  because the Dior thing goes home crying.
• 1:28:04
  Henry is immediately threatened by Jimmy the next scene.
• 1:28:08
  He knows he's gonna get whacked if he sticks around.
• 1:28:11
  Before that he was paranoid, but he wasn't scared for his life
• 1:28:15
  because he saw Polly and Polly's like, here's some cash.
• 1:28:19
  You know, you're broke that, but that's it.
• 1:28:21
  I gotta turn my back on you because there's too much heat.
• 1:28:23
  I'm just saying there's a lot of instances with Henry that he's
• 1:28:28
  made some bad choices, but also those choices have been
• 1:28:31
  amplified by and he even says in the movie, every woman in my
• 1:28:35
  life, he's like the driving me crazy.
• 1:28:37
  That is an incredibly misogynistic view.
• 1:28:40
  He's a mob. Fact of the movie bad things
• 1:28:43
  happen to him because he's a. Criminal and he's doing
• 1:28:45
  criminal. Acts.
• 1:28:46
  It's a fact of the movie. I'm not saying that those are
• 1:28:49
  the people I'm. Just telling you facts.
• 1:28:51
  Every time he gets in major trouble, the the scene before is
• 1:28:56
  something happens with a woman in his life.
• 1:28:59
  Maybe the director and the writers are misogynists.
• 1:29:02
  Not me, bro. I'm just sitting here chilling
• 1:29:05
  and talking on a podcast. I'm just observing.
• 1:29:07
  Yeah, I'm observing the facts. Alright.
• 1:29:13
  Also, Lorraine. Bracco just a shout out.
• 1:29:15
  Nobody. Mentions her enough OHS she's
• 1:29:18
  amazing. She's so beautiful in this.
• 1:29:20
  She's so. Captivating.
• 1:29:21
  She didn't make sense to me. She's also kind of annoying,
• 1:29:24
  but. In in a good way.
• 1:29:27
  Does this movie hit different as a parent?
• 1:29:29
  Yes, the scene where Karen and Henry are.
• 1:29:32
  Fighting, yeah, and it shows. Their young daughters terrified
• 1:29:35
  face when he storms out is so sad.
• 1:29:39
  His kids in this movie are living amongst dysfunction and
• 1:29:43
  toxicity in their parents marriage.
• 1:29:46
  And we know from watching the movie that Henry is a bad
• 1:29:49
  husband, but he's also an abysmal father.
• 1:29:53
  Yeah, he's a he's a terrible father, but most of these mob
• 1:29:56
  guys would be. Yeah, but leaving Karen?
• 1:29:58
  Alone with the kids all the time.
• 1:30:00
  Obviously not helping out much with raising them.
• 1:30:03
  That sucks. And he admits Karen was always
• 1:30:06
  home with the kids when he's in Jenny in the Janice Rossi
• 1:30:10
  apartment scene. And his children obviously
• 1:30:13
  suffered from his poor life choices.
• 1:30:15
  They didn't have a father for several years when he was in
• 1:30:17
  prison and he obviously is not showing up the way a dad could.
• 1:30:24
  I mean, this is discussed a lot that sure, millennial dads are
• 1:30:28
  breaking all kinds of generational curses because
• 1:30:31
  previous generations were not as involved and you called me a
• 1:30:34
  misogynist. How dare on Valentine's Day.
• 1:30:38
  Fall days. Shame.
• 1:30:40
  Shame, shame. Shame.
• 1:30:40
  Shame. Shame, Shame, shame, shame.
• 1:30:41
  But but, but beyond even. That trope of you know.
• 1:30:44
  Gen. X and baby boomer dads being
• 1:30:46
  less involved, like he's just he's, he's a bad dad.
• 1:30:52
  We see a lot of innocence. In young Henry at the beginning.
• 1:30:56
  Of the movie as well and all of these men just.
• 1:30:59
  Corrupt. Him.
• 1:31:01
  Yep. In the court scene he's crying
• 1:31:04
  because he's upset that he got pinched and they're
• 1:31:07
  congratulating him for for committing a crime.
• 1:31:10
  As a mother I feel protective over young Henry.
• 1:31:14
  He really gets taken in by the mob and destroyed.
• 1:31:18
  It's the money. It's the flash he gets to
• 1:31:20
  deduced he gets. Seduced by by the money by the
• 1:31:22
  flash by. Seeing these men that he
• 1:31:26
  idolizes, all summer song they played, park they played cards
• 1:31:29
  all night nobody called. The cops, Yeah.
• 1:31:31
  As a kid, of course you're gonna be intrigued by that.
• 1:31:33
  Of course you're gonna. Want to get in on that because
• 1:31:35
  it seems like such and you know, such an amazing life, but he
• 1:31:39
  really does learn the dark side of it.
• 1:31:43
  And also Karen having to leave her parents at the end of the
• 1:31:47
  movie hits hard. And for me, that's not as a
• 1:31:49
  mother, but as a daughter. I could never leave my parents
• 1:31:53
  knowing I would never be able to talk to them or see them again.
• 1:31:56
  That would be that would be such a heartbreaking thing to have to
• 1:31:58
  do. And having a good relationship
• 1:32:01
  with your parents as an adult is like the spice of life.
• 1:32:05
  She made that. I mean, she made that choice.
• 1:32:07
  She's like I. Know what this guy's about?
• 1:32:09
  But you know, I agree. She's saying she's paying for
• 1:32:12
  her bad choices. But for me, like just think you
• 1:32:16
  put you, you automatically put yourself in that situation.
• 1:32:18
  One awful thing to have to do the the this movie does hit
• 1:32:22
  different, as apparent when I watched it.
• 1:32:23
  Younger, the kill scenes, everything was like, oh, this is
• 1:32:26
  so cool. My God, the swearing and stuff.
• 1:32:29
  And then you get older and you're watching it.
• 1:32:32
  You're like, wow, I have kids now.
• 1:32:34
  I hope my kid doesn't hang out with the wrong crowd one day and
• 1:32:38
  then doesn't go to school for a month.
• 1:32:41
  Like that's crazy. A month smacks the hell out of
• 1:32:45
  him with a belt. Yeah.
• 1:32:47
  Not not to talk shit about Henry's family or anything.
• 1:32:50
  But yeah, if you have a very involved happy home life, you
• 1:32:54
  usually that doesn't happen. Well, they didn't say that Happy
• 1:32:57
  House wasn't happy, but. There's a big family and the dad
• 1:33:01
  worked a lot. So like, it was just, you know,
• 1:33:04
  when you're struggling to just survive.
• 1:33:08
  Yeah. They were really poor.
• 1:33:10
  You don't have time. To, you know, like families
• 1:33:13
  like. Farmers like people just have a
• 1:33:15
  bunch of kids and they would take care of the farm and there
• 1:33:18
  was none of this like, oh, my kid has anxiety my, this that,
• 1:33:22
  you know, like that's a real issue that people have.
• 1:33:24
  Don't get me wrong. But nobody had time for, you
• 1:33:27
  know, mental health. Nobody had time for it before.
• 1:33:30
  Everybody was just trying to Also if you were to grow up so
• 1:33:33
  poor that you're not. Even having your basic needs
• 1:33:35
  met, of course, like a job, the cab stand where they're giving
• 1:33:38
  you fistfuls of money is appealing because you can
• 1:33:41
  finally afford some of the luxuries, more money than most
• 1:33:44
  of the adults in the neighborhood.
• 1:33:45
  Yeah, he said he had. More money than he could spend
• 1:33:47
  and like if you grow. Up very poor and like I said,
• 1:33:50
  your needs aren't being met. Of course that's going to draw
• 1:33:53
  you in. For me, the the part that.
• 1:33:56
  Really did me in. In this movie, as a parent, is
• 1:33:59
  the prison scene, the prison visitation that was really
• 1:34:03
  upsetting when he's. Holding his little daughter and.
• 1:34:05
  She's got a pacifier and she's crying and Karen's yelling at
• 1:34:09
  him and throwing food and like cold cuts and cheese and like
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  takes a bottle of wine. She has that like, her jacket
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  made me laugh. It's like the jacket from The
• 1:34:20
  Simpsons episode when they go to the candy convention and Marge
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  is just like stuffed with candy. It was last.
• 1:34:27
  There's a whole baguette. She.
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  Rips a baguette. 1st. Get in there like a.
• 1:34:31
  Magic trick and her kids. Crying and he's like.
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  Stop it. Stop it like you're making her
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  cry. I would never.
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  I don't even know what I would do if all I could do was see my
• 1:34:42
  kids for 20 minutes a week. That's crazy.
• 1:34:46
  Those visitations are short. Well, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:34:48
  Like his his poor, his poor life.
• 1:34:50
  Choices made him such a worse father.
• 1:34:53
  No I know couldn't even be there for them.
• 1:34:55
  I mean, he wasn't making those choices as a dad it.
• 1:34:58
  Was he was making those choices beforehand and he ended up
• 1:35:01
  becoming a dad? But yeah, this movie does hit
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  different. As a parent.
• 1:35:05
  It's still really enjoyable, still a lot of fun, still a
• 1:35:08
  roller coaster ride, amazing acting.
• 1:35:12
  But, you know, watching Spider get killed, watching these young
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  people, you know, the kids, the parents going to jail, police
• 1:35:20
  showing up, all this stuff like witness protection, like you
• 1:35:24
  don't get to see your grandparents anymore.
• 1:35:26
  You have to go just uproot your whole life because your dad was
• 1:35:29
  a fucking shithead. Yeah, being a parent really
• 1:35:32
  makes watching. Anything a more complex
• 1:35:35
  situation yeah. Like if if we start a movie and
• 1:35:38
  there's anything about children early on in the movie that
• 1:35:41
  upsets us, we will turn it off now.
• 1:35:44
  And that never used to be the case.
• 1:35:45
  Like your heart gets softer when you become a parent.
• 1:35:48
  It's true. Your heart gets softer and it's.
• 1:35:50
  Weird. Your heart gets softer and when
• 1:35:55
  you have a newborn, the baby scenes in movies bother you.
• 1:35:58
  When you have a toddler, the toddler scenes mess you up.
• 1:36:02
  But when you have a baby, the toddler scenes don't bother you.
• 1:36:05
  And it's vice versa. You get sensitive for the level
• 1:36:10
  that your child is at at that time.
• 1:36:13
  In my opinion, I disagree anything of all.
• 1:36:17
  But when your kids get older, you're.
• 1:36:18
  Able to stomach some of the scenes in movies but when your
• 1:36:23
  kid is the age or close to the age of the character in the
• 1:36:26
  movie and they're going through some turmoil like when they're
• 1:36:29
  fighting and the little girls looking out the door and her mom
• 1:36:32
  screaming at her dad, yeah, she's just always staying out
• 1:36:37
  yeah. It's.
• 1:36:37
  Just really heartbreaking. It is also when the kids see.
• 1:36:43
  Dead Johnny roast beef. I when I first watched that, I
• 1:36:49
  was like, did those kids do that?
• 1:36:52
  I didn't understand. But now I'm watching it and I'm
• 1:36:54
  like, those poor kids like that. They're traumatized for life.
• 1:36:58
  Yeah, that's trauma, man. Like seeing that?
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  They're gonna be going to college.
• 1:37:02
  Sitting on somebody's dorm room floor.
• 1:37:04
  Drinking a bottle of alcohol and being like yo when I was 6 me
• 1:37:08
  and my friends were playing soccer and we saw some guy and
• 1:37:11
  his wife in a pink car and they had been murdered.
• 1:37:15
  Well, because seared into their brains grabbers mother's.
• 1:37:18
  Name it was. Under his mother's name.
• 1:37:20
  Oh yeah, it wasn't his. Car It was under his mother's
• 1:37:21
  name. Was a wedding gift for my
• 1:37:23
  mother. Don't buy.
• 1:37:25
  Anything. Also, this movie is a Christmas
• 1:37:27
  movie. Yeah, according to you know,
• 1:37:31
  I've confirmed. This with your.
• 1:37:32
  Brother, because there's multiple.
• 1:37:33
  Christmas scenes in it. Yeah, and.
• 1:37:36
  Probably the worst Christmas tree.
• 1:37:37
  Another. Side note, Joe Pesci wins Best
• 1:37:40
  Actor, Best Supporting Actor for this movie and within less than
• 1:37:45
  a year, a few months before he did Home Alone, which is such an
• 1:37:49
  iconic movie, this guy. Banged out two movies within 6.
• 1:37:53
  Months and there are two of the most iconic films in history and
• 1:37:59
  they're completely different genres and these both isn't in
• 1:38:02
  both of them both are being watched day-to-day.
• 1:38:06
  One of them is religiously. Watched every.
• 1:38:08
  Holiday We will do a home alone episode during the holiday
• 1:38:11
  season for. Sure.
• 1:38:12
  You know Joe Pesci, he's. Low key the goat.
• 1:38:16
  He's one of the goats, so I agree.
• 1:38:19
  What do you rate this movie So? How?
• 1:38:22
  Many shine boxes out of 10. Are you giving this movie?
• 1:38:27
  I give this 9 Go home and. Get your fucking shine.
• 1:38:30
  Boxes out of 10/9 out of 10/9 out of 10.
• 1:38:33
  It's it's really good. But I I did note.
• 1:38:34
  Some of the things in the. Movie that bother me and that I
• 1:38:36
  think make it less than perfect so I can't give it a 10 out of
• 1:38:40
  10 so I give this it's really so I'm being.
• 1:38:44
  Very critical of this movie because it's Scorsese and it's
• 1:38:48
  because it's my favorite and I've seen it so many times I've
• 1:38:51
  dissected it. I give it a 9.8.
• 1:38:55
  I'm going into the decimals for this one.
• 1:38:57
  It's not perfect. Wait, wait.
• 1:38:59
  But 9.8 watts, 9.8 shine? Boxes out of 10.
• 1:39:05
  This movie is. Just everything about.
• 1:39:08
  It is amazing. I could watch it over and over
• 1:39:10
  and over, but I just wish that. Scorsese.
• 1:39:16
  Would pull a James Cameron. And just take this.
• 1:39:18
  Movie back and just fix a couple of things, like a couple of the
• 1:39:22
  edits. James Cameron has done it with a
• 1:39:26
  few movies. I know that.
• 1:39:29
  What's his name? He's done it.
• 1:39:31
  Who's the guy? That George Lucas?
• 1:39:33
  George Lucas has done it with Star Wars and ruined Star Wars.
• 1:39:35
  George Lucas and Steven Spielberg are notorious for
• 1:39:38
  doing this. But James Cameron's done it and.
• 1:39:41
  He's done it well, and he's, like, made it better.
• 1:39:44
  Yeah, but maybe Scorsese's like, worst.
• 1:39:47
  Case scenario, I make it worse and I can't stomach that.
• 1:39:50
  So maybe he just doesn't want to touch it.
• 1:39:53
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• 1:40:17
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