View Full Version : Everyone swears by Goodfellas, but Donnie Brasco shits on that movie a hundred times
Patrick Chewing
07-11-2023, 09:59 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsmqPuhUCKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z54CDMBPKu8
warriorfan
07-11-2023, 10:05 PM
Hmm, kind of a interesting take, and it’s tough because i’ve seen donnie brasco once maybe twice and goodfellas more times then I can count. I was surprised by donnie brasco and liked it a lot though. I would say goodfellas is more of a mob/action movie when donnie brasco is more of a mob film with a bit more depth.
highwhey
07-11-2023, 10:13 PM
Hmm, kind of a interesting take, and it’s tough because i’ve seen donnie brasco once maybe twice and goodfellas more times then I can count. I was surprised by donnie brasco and liked it a lot though. I would say goodfellas is more of a mob/action movie when donnie brasco is more of a mob film with a bit more depth.
thanks for the crackhead perspective :cheers:
warriorfan
07-11-2023, 10:25 PM
thanks for the crackhead perspective :cheers:
thanks for being a goofy beaner we get to laugh at every day
1987_Lakers
07-11-2023, 10:29 PM
Hell no. I enjoyed Donnie Brasco, enjoyed the hell out of Pacino's performance but everyone else felt like a miscast.
Michael Madsen & Johnny Depp just didn't do it for me, the characters in Goodfellas all felt more real, like actual mobsters.
Patrick Chewing
07-11-2023, 10:38 PM
Hell no. I enjoyed Donnie Brasco, enjoyed the hell out of Pacino's performance but everyone else felt like a miscast.
Michael Madsen & Johnny Depp just didn't do it for me, the characters in Goodfellas all felt more real, like actual mobsters.
Damn. So many different perspectives. There is a huge contingent of people out there that think this was Depp's best role of his entire career. I'm inclined to agree.
And then I think the reason why I don't like Goodfellas as much is that it isn't as dark and grim as this movie is. Too many comedic elements in that film.
1987_Lakers
07-11-2023, 10:45 PM
Damn. So many different perspectives. There is a huge contingent of people out there that think this was Depp's best role of his entire career. I'm inclined to agree.
And then I think the reason why I don't like Goodfellas as much is that it isn't as dark and grim as this movie is. Too many comedic elements in that film.
He wasn't bad per say. Just didn't come across as a FBI guy trying to act like a gangster.
The real Joe Pistone has a little gangster in him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-X06Q04w4&t
highwhey
07-11-2023, 10:48 PM
thanks for being a goofy beaner we get to laugh at every day
when you look in the mirror, the mirror laughs at you
SATAN
07-11-2023, 10:57 PM
Why can't people just enjoy shit without comparing everything? They are both good.
FultzNationRISE
07-12-2023, 12:25 AM
Why can't people just enjoy shit without comparing everything? They are both good.
Aint no way you can say to me a Lincoln is better than a Cadillac.
Lakers Legend#32
07-12-2023, 04:01 AM
Poopsie thinks he's a movie critic. :lol
JohnnySic
07-12-2023, 07:43 AM
Objectively, Goodfellas is probably the better movie, but I still enjoy Donnie Brasco more, if that makes sense. It just felt grittier and more real. Goodfellas glorified the mafia lifestyle; Donnie Brasco focused on the difficulties that a common mafia foot soldier had to deal with.
Patrick Chewing
07-12-2023, 10:55 AM
Objectively, Goodfellas is probably the better movie, but I still enjoy Donnie Brasco more, if that makes sense. It just felt grittier and more real. Goodfellas glorified the mafia lifestyle; Donnie Brasco focused on the difficulties that a common mafia foot soldier had to deal with.
I also look at performances when I compare both movies. To me, it's hard to top Pacino's. Pacino's character as Lefty Guns was Oscar-worthy. Dude just transforms into a different person with ease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT8o1fvTB5Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEAJ192creo
ShawkFactory
07-12-2023, 12:39 PM
Nahh it doesn't shit on it. They're very different movies that are great in their own right.
I think Goodfellas has more replay value.
SaltyMeatballs
07-12-2023, 04:06 PM
Ehh I prefer Goodfellas. Everything about that movie is top-tier. Donnie Brasco was good though
Baller234
07-18-2023, 08:56 PM
Hard to compare, they're so different.
Goodfellas really isn't about anything. It's a day in the life type movie. No deep human relationships, no greater moral message. Donnie Brasco as a film just has much higher emotional stakes.
It's hard to say which one is "better". Goodfellas is just so well made and so damn entertaining.
TheMan
07-20-2023, 12:47 AM
Aint no way you can say to me a Lincoln is better than a Cadillac.
Foggedaboudit
ArbitraryWater
07-20-2023, 09:36 AM
Both gems
Nanners
07-30-2023, 08:10 AM
comparing goodfellas to donnie brasco is like comparing spaghetti and marina to egg noodles and ketchup
Patrick Chewing
07-30-2023, 06:46 PM
comparing goodfellas to donnie brasco is like comparing spaghetti and marina to egg noodles and ketchup
You no good rat ****.
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