1 of the best movies of the 90's
This is another great Scorsese adaptations, but i think the original title of the book was better"the wiseguys by Pileggi "..Scorsese showed the best angle of the book..i think the young DeNiro should have had the main role as Henry..And i... (read full)

4/4  Rock Lobster
So underestimated, this may very well be the best movie ever made. Yes, I will say such things when gems like "Gone With the Wind" and "Titanic" exist. "Goodfellas" offers a little of everything, bringing Joe Pesci his Oscar and Martin S... (read full)

4/4  Goodfellas.. Need I say more?
Needless to say this is one of the all time great mob films only behind The Godfather. This is Scorsese at his best, and you really cant beat the cast of characters in this movie. Pesci is crazy as always, De Niro is relentless and Liotta'... (read full)

4/4  Scorsese's Masterpiece in at #29.
Another classic gangster movie,Goodfellas has a good ensemble cast,a good storyline to it and great acting and sort of sets the mold for future gangster movies such as Heat,The Departed and American Gangster.Directed brilliantly by Martin ... (read full)

4/4  Awesome
I'd probably put this movie in the top 5 of the last 25 years. Thats just me though. You can't really go wrong with Pesci, De Niro, And Ray Liotta all in the same mobster movie. It shows a brutal yet accurate portrayal of the world of org... (read full)

4/4  Masterful but brutal gangster tale.
Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci star in Martin Scorsese's unromanticized classic tale of mob life in New York City in the movie 'Goodfellas'. "Since 1976 when he directed 'Taxi Driver', Martin Scorsese has since stood alone at the... (read full)

4/4  Goodfellas Quick Review
Great movie. I love Scorsese movies. This is an excellent gangster movie. My favorite part was when they were at Pescis mothers house eating while the body is in the trunk! Classic!! must see

4/4  Goodfellas Quick Review
I don't know what it was. This is movie is an absolute classic the story is amazing. What puts it down on my list is 300 unnessasary uses of "F***".

3.5/4  Goodfellas Quick Review
I really enjoyed this movie. My favorite part is when Lorraine Bracco stuffs the gun down her panties. Or, was it a bag of cocaine? lol. I can't quite remember. Anyway, it was awesome.

3/4  Goodfellas Quick Review
I really liked this movie. It was violent and showed a side of organized crime life that spells out the attraction of being part of a "family" and at the same time, the danger within.

3.5/4  Goodfellas Quick Review
What is there to say. It's friggin Goodfellas.

3.5/4  Goodfellas Quick Review
Another view on the gangsters side of life. 9/10

4/5 The best mobster movie ever made
  by calvinnme (Fredericksburg, Va)
This is the second time around for this film on Blu. This edition will have the following extra features:

1.A 34-page booklet and on the discs themselves:
2. Martin Scorsese commentary track where he is joined by various cast and crew including Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino and Nicholas Pileggi.
3. Henry Hill and FBI Agent Edward McDonald commentary.
4. Getting Made, Made Men and The Workaday Gangster making-of documentaries.
The above are all to be found on the two-disc Special Edition DVD and the recent Blu-ray.
They will be joined by:
5. Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film documentary - 106 minutes.
6.Four Warner Bros. mob-themed cartoons.

The documentary on the gangster film is already available separately here - Public Enemies - The Golden Age of the Gangster Film and in the boxed set Warner Gangsters Collection, Vol. 4 (The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse / Invisible Stripes / Kid Galahad / Larceny, Inc. / The Little Giant / Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film).

So if you have the documentary and you have the original Blu version you are getting nothing extra in this version.

As for the film itself, After you see this movie, all other mobster movies you see or ever have seen will seem like garbage. They and their cast of characters will all appear cartoonish in comparison. Of course, this is a movie about the mafia from the working man/gangster point of view, where "The Godfather" was a mafia movie filmed from the viewpoint of the executive suite, so there really is no valid comparison there. "Goodfellas" really does seem ahead of its time when you realize that the only artistic work about the mafia that compares to it in quality is the HBO series "The Sopranos", which debuted nine years after this movie was made. "Goodfellas" tells the real-life story of mobster Henry Hill, and it is largely true, although there are individual scenes that are out of sequence and others that were added for dramatic effect, such as Karen Hill flushing the coca ine down the toilet during the drug bust. Also, Tommy, the character that Joe Pesci played and the part for which he won an Oscar, was actually a composite of two separate gangsters. Other details are omitted completely, probably because they would have spun the movie off in too many different directions. For example, crime boss "Big Paulie" actually was having an affair with Henry Hill's wife, Karen. When Tommy tried to assault her and Paulie found out, that was when he alerted the Gambinos to the fact that Tommy had killed their missing crew member, "made man" Billy Batts, nine years earlier. This is the true reason that it took so long for Tommy to be killed over that incident. Thus, masterful direction of the story by Martin Scorsese in what was probably his finest film is why the audience has a more cohesive view of the mobsters portrayed in this movie than if we had been told every last detail.

What really makes this movie great is all of the personal details that enable you to see these mobsters living a largely suburban life, concerned about kids' birthday parties and getting the sauce just right for dinner, and all the while completely immersed in a completely amoral lifestyle in which murder and bribes solve everything- a lifestyle to which they would never voluntarily choose an alternative.

The film I recommend as one of the classics, but as for this version, if you have the Blu version already and you have the documentary on the gangster film, I can't see putting out this kind of money for four mobster related cartoons.

Film - 5/5
Extra features 2/5 (nothing we haven't seen before)
Averaged together = 3.5 stars

I round up from 3.5 to 4 stars just out of respect for the film.

4/5 goodfellas
  by Christoph Blank (USA)
awsome gangster movie!! a true story about the mob told by a gangster. from growing up and joining to leaving it in the end. ray,joe and robert are awsome in the movie!! its a longmovie on a two sided disk!!

5/5 Classic lines from a Scorcese Masterpiece
  by Felix N. Papadakis (Erwinna, PA)
I really can't put into words how I feel about this film. A Scorcese masterpiece (for which they robbed him of Oscar), it juxtaposes, (the same way the Sopranos did later on), the real life family struggles mobsters deal with.......with their "jobs". Add to that the masterfully written dialogue, which incidentally has provided years and years of fodder for my family, and you have a film of monumental proportions---"Henry....you gotta go back to Karen.....you're not gonna get a divorce...we're not animale"....Genius! Genius!

5/5 Classic
  by James C. Wolslager (Poplar Grove,Il USA)
Next to The Godfather 1 and 2 this is the best mafia flick ever made.

5/5 Awesome Movie
  by David A. Smith (Webberville, Mi, USA)
This has to be one of the greatest mob movies i've ever seen. this movie rocks. robert dr niro is an outstanding actor. pretty much if he's in it it's going to be good. this is a must see movie