Tommy's mom is Scorsese' real mother. The scene with her has no scripted lines.

@joshy1462

9 ай бұрын

it does have one scripted line, where she asks if they want to see her painting. But other than that you're right.

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

That’s so cool! I love to hear this!

@jdolan74

9 ай бұрын

She killed it

@MrDMF567

9 ай бұрын

And Vinnie the cook in prison (‘3 small onions’) is Scorsese’s dad

@kylewestlake982

8 ай бұрын

And they really went to the real Tommy's mother's house for a shovel and woke her up and she made them some food and they talked for a bit all the while Batts was still alive in the trunk of the car.

This is an adaptation of the book Wiseguy, which is from Henry Hill's perspective. The book gives a little more background into events, but because it is Hill's POV, Henry is portrayed in a "good" light (relatively speaking). For another perspective, Henry's kids also wrote a book called "On the Run: A Mafia Childhood" which gives a much darker portrayal of Henry, esp during their WitPro years. Both books are worth the read.

@phillipribbink6903

9 ай бұрын

I love On the Run: A Mafia Childhood, it's so brutally honest.

Nothing will ever top Sid Vicious singing Sinatra’s My Way after that masterpiece

It's interesting to revisit Martin Scorsese's keen ear for musical selections and the way he uses them for unforgettable scenes. The serene, poetic and innocuous Atlantis by Donovan juxtaposed with the explosive wrath and bloodthirsty violence of Billy Batts' assaination by fists, blades,shoe leather and gunshot wounds. Amazing.

@mrtim5363

5 ай бұрын

Even more amazing, the music is not selected after the film is made. 'While writing the screenplay' in between the dialog lines. Marty pencils in the name & artist *song starts here. Then goes on to the next line of dialog. The person helping him said it would freak him out. Marty knows exactly what song & when it comes in, as he's writing it. & There are scenes timed to the music, both in rhythm &/or length, that most are unaware of.

Fun fact about Henry Hill around the late 90s he started calling into the Howard Stern show kinda became a regular caller he did drink cause of his demons but he did live until 2012 not cause he was wacked but his heart gave out

Always enjoy your reactions.Without a doubt a top 5 for this genre!

@Letstunein

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!:)

the blown up cars was a competing cab stand down the block

Fantastic reaction......having disgust for these characters and their actions is a completely valid response!

@TTM9691

9 ай бұрын

PS: Can't wait for the Tarantino....although I'm not sure you're going to love the characters any more than you loved these characters! 🤣 Especially psyched for Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Death Proof.

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

Aw thank you! This is one of the first movies I’ve watched in a long time where I’ve felt that. I was like; Wow, I can’t root for them at all lol , but an accurate depiction of this lifestyle from Scorsese! Thanks for watching:)

@flarrfan

9 ай бұрын

I'm watching several Sopranos reactors and I keep waiting for them to get disgusted with Tony's personal and professional behavior as the series goes along, but except for a few they never seem to get the fact that he's a bad man and almost everyone around him is just enabling his behavior. At least this one gets the point of Goodfellas...

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

@@flarrfan oh man! I forgot about the sopranos. I would defiantly feel the heavy durning that show. I’ve never seen it, but this movie really drew out the emotions. I could see all the evil going on. Hit me hard. Thanks for watching!!

Funny thing is what really put them away was point shaving at boston college

@laudanum669

2 күн бұрын

Of the main guys Jimmy Burke was the only one who went to prison over point shaving at Boston College. He got 12 years for that and while in prison he was convicted of the murder of Richard Eaton and received a life sentence. Paul Vario was convicted of unrelated charges and received a 14 year sentence and died in prison.

@13:52 They filmed this at a storefront on Queens Blvd, a few blocks away from my high school in Forest Hills, Queens. @18:00 This was at a restaurant called "Spartan" on Grand Ave, a few blocks away from my *junior* high school in Maspeth, Queens.

Fun Fact: The restaurant that Paulie agrees to be the guys partner in and was burned down was actually an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn on Coney Island Avenue around Avenue Y or Z Called Russo's. You can see on the outside there is a "R" on the walls. My family used to go there around once a week and the Shrimp Oreganato was the best I ever had.

@Letstunein

8 ай бұрын

Very cool fact! Thanks for sharing!!

@davidmichaelson1092

Ай бұрын

Ah I assume and old school "red sauce" place. There are a couple of those near where I live that probably at least once had mob ties. One of them (now defunct) I have heard from a reliable source that they were a meeting place for the Gambino family. I always meant to try them...they supposedly had amazing pork chops. But the closed down before I ever tried them.

Great reactio Cami like always. This movie is a masterpiece i really love Scorsese work and the cast is spot on, and some fun facts about this movie, some of the real criminals portrayed were actually toned down for the film, the infamous “funny how?” scene wasn’t in the script. This famous (if not the most quoted) scene comes at the beginning, when Pesci's Tommy DeVito jokingly-yet-uncomfortably accosts Henry Hill for calling him "funny." In addition to being the driving force behind the scene on screen, Pesci is also responsible for coming up with the premise. Both of Martin Scorsese’s parents have cameos in this movie. She plays Tommy's mother in the infamous dinner scene following Billy Batts’s murder, but the family connections hardly stop there. Tommy’s mother’s painting of two dogs sitting in front of an old man ("One's going east, and the other one is going west. So what?") was actually painted by co-writer Nicholas Pileggi’s mother. And Scorsese's father Charles also pops up as Henry’s prison compadre who puts way too many onions in the gravy. The large “f**k” count was mostly improvised, among the many things Goodfellas has become famous for over the 30 years is its liberal use of the word “f**k.” In all, the expletive and its many colorful derivatives are used 300 times. I dont know how this movie only went home with one Academy Award. You should react to "Casino" (1995) is another masterpiece from Scorsese, with De Niro and Pesci. Keep up the amazing work.

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

Aw thank you! You are always so encouraging! And these are a lot of cool facts! Thanks for sharing! And always watching along!!

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

Also, the fact that some of them were toned down😮

@MarcoMM1

9 ай бұрын

@@Letstunein yep they were the worst of the worst.

This is such an amazing movie! My all time favorite for sure! Hell, my friend got me a Goodfellas movie poster, autographed and framed! I really enjoyed this, you my friend, got yourself a new subscriber! 😁

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

Yay! I love to hear this! Glad you enjoyed one of your favs! Thanks for subscribing:) Hope to see you for the next one!

@fern4real733

9 ай бұрын

@@Letstunein of course! See you on the next one!

So these guys were part of the Lucchese family. When I moved into my current neighborhood, there was a suspicious looking store front labelled "Private Club" with its windows blocked so you couldn't see in. I later found out that was Carmine Persico's "social club." He became head of the Colombo family and recently died in prison. The mafia got priced out of my neighborhood and now there are no signs of them. My ex-wife once commented that gentrification had the side effect of driving out the mob. Across the Gowanus canal is I think Gambino family territory. I know people who had run ins with the mob in that neighborhood (and in Bensonhurst) and you still find social clubs. I think the mafia is still strong there. But overall they are much weaker than they were at the time of this movie.

You're supposed to root for them, they're Goodfellas. 🤣🤣

@Letstunein

8 ай бұрын

Right! Lol should have known 😁

FUN FACT....the character that Joe Pesci was playing was not even close to how violent and evil the real Tommy DeVito in real life was way more sick and sinister. Ather fun fact the whole Karen culture originated from this movie the woman who plays Karen started the Trend of Karens.

@Letstunein

8 ай бұрын

Oh I was wondering about the Karen thing! Thank you! And that’s terrifying that he was worse!!! Yikes!! Thanks for the trivia!

It’s funny how, after Tommy died…no mention of Tommy, the story just moved on😂

@Letstunein

8 ай бұрын

😂

@barbados_ririfenty8553

7 ай бұрын

Nobody really cared and was probably glad he was gone

@Highfalutinloyd

2 ай бұрын

@@barbados_ririfenty8553 yeah, they don't mention it in the movie, but he also apparently killed one of John Gotti's protege's, Ronald "Foxy" Jerothe. Tommy had dated the guy's sister and beat her up. The guy threatened to kill Tommy, Tommy got to him first. So, I don't think there were a lot of people in the Mob world that were too sad to see him go.

You're a good mind. Nice reaction. I Iike your demeanor.

Tarantino just wrote the original drafts for True Romance and Natural Born Killers. These are among the very best films Tarantino has ever been involved with but they are not Tarantino films. True Romance was directed by Tony Scott Natural Born Killers was directed by Oliver Stone. Tarantino never would have, or could have made either of these films. Film is a director’s medium. The personal touches brought to the scripts by directors Tony Scott and Oliver Stone are well beyond the scope and sensibilities anything Tarantino would ever do. All that being said, YES!!! Absolutely watch True Romance and Natural Born Killers!!! These films are brilliant! Just don’t heap praise all over Tarantino for movies he didn’t direct. Tarantino never would have made either of these films as they exist in their finished forms.

Hey good movie girl ! 👍😎🍿🇺🇸🇮🇹🇲🇽

Check out the movies American Gangster(2007), American Me(1992), Scarface(1983), New Jack City(1991), Menace ll Society(1993).

Natural Born Killers is not a Tarantino film. It’s Oliver Stone.

Great reaction. If I may recommend American Me. It’s a Chicano film about crime inside & out of prison.

Since so many others are requesting movies... The Mexican starring Brad Pitt, Out of Sight starring George Clooney and J-Lo, Mililer's Crossing a Coen Bros movie, Ocean's 11, Gangs of New York, Catch Me if You Can, Fresh (the 1994 one), Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Trainspotting, Drugstore Cowboy, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Kingpin

@Letstunein

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the suggestions! :) I haven’t seen a lot of those! Love to hear what you guys would like to see!

Lol she's not going to make it through Tarantino

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

I’m gonna try my very best lol

@Tones753311

9 ай бұрын

@@Letstunein I am rooting for you. Tarantino movies are special. Hope you enjoy.

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

@@Tones753311 Aw thank you!! I appreciate it:))

I have subscribed to your channel. Do not go thinkin,' that I want to run away wit' you or anythin'.

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

Haha love it! 😂

@user-er4lh1vp6r

9 ай бұрын

@@Letstunein OK. Maybe you I would run away wit'.

Goodfellas is my favorite Gangster movie. Can you add these to your reaction list? If you didnt see them. Boyz N The Hood, Menace To Society, Juice, New Jack City. They get great views when people react to them.

Fun fact The real Henry hill actually tried to disassociate himself from the mob And he joined the military in the early sixties

What makes this movie even more interesting is knowing it was based on real people and events including the airport heist... of corse there were modifications made to some names etc.. but based on fact.

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

Agreed! Makes it so much more powerful!

Next another must : " Carlito's way"!!! Please

I like this girl because she isn’t “ride or die.” She has smarts.

@Letstunein

8 ай бұрын

Aw haha thank you:)

I love this reqction, because you obviously had no idea - in the end, though, they got what they deserved....as for the movie, it's a masterpiece, and Scorsese is a brilliant story teller

@criminalcontent

2 ай бұрын

agreed !

I’m gonna go hit the subscribe button hit the subscribe button

@criminalcontent

9 ай бұрын

Thank you, Mr. Two Times!

Great reaction, fantastic movie! Thanks for sharing! Another movie thats a bit scary because it's true is City of God. Definitely watch that if you get a chance...like this, it's a masterpiece!

@stevelafarga3296

8 ай бұрын

Casino.

“Does she know that he’s married?” Nah! Lol

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

Lol 😂 perfect response!

I knew a guy who was doing a federal prison bid at Ft Dix in New Jersey, and he was able to sneak away from the prison to meet his girlfriend at a local motel and spend time with her. After which, he would go back to the prison without anyone detecting anything at all. They didn't miss him, and the only reason why he got caught was because his girlfriend caught him cheating and ratted him out to the prison staff. You can get away with a lot of stuff in Federal prison.

Check out the movie American Gangster(2007) which is based on a True Story and the movie American Me(1992).

Great reaction, haha Im always interested in how we the people equate suffering = paying for crimes in a "moral" society 😂 This movie does blur the lines. Its one of the best

13:18 Henry is handling the glass with the napkin. Samuel Jackson killed it in this movie.

Henry fingering the mailman was great foreshadowing of him giving up Jimmy and Paulie in the courtroom at the end.

19:01 - That's the director's real mother. No wonder they respect her...

Come on, folks! Criminal Content has over 1,000 subscribers here, but I am the only Patron? You know where the link is.

Lorraine Bracco was a real babe back then. Some people believe that Paulie ordered the hit on Tommy. Tommy was bad for business and attracted too much attention.

Shine box man Batts went on to become Phil Leotardo on the Sopranos as well as the kid who played “Spider”, Christopher Moltisanti, Karen, as Dr Melfi , and Tony Stacks went to portray Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri. There’s a few more that were in this movie that went on to star in The Sopranos.

This is and casino are as close to real life mafia as youll see on screen....

@billrab1890

9 ай бұрын

Don't forget 'Donnie Brasco'

@dimitrakapa4887

9 ай бұрын

" carlito's way??"

Hey, there's Cami!

What a pretty lady. Also Goodfellas is really good. Although I like casino more.

is she really watching all the Tarentino movies next...

Other of these scorcesi type DeNiro pesci movies to watch....casino, a bronx tail of course the godfather movies...tho not his....and his first, mean streets. Also a great comedy made about Henry, by Steve Martin called, my blue heaven or pennies from heaven! And a kinda out of the box 2 mob movies very good, Rob the Mob, and a movie about a mobster about to be killed, starring Al Pacino and Christopher Walken! Ironically, most of the characters in this, casino, a Bronx tale, all in the tv series, The Sopranos! Also ironic....scorcsesi says the greatest mob movie of all time is Once Upon a Time in America. By the hero of spaghetti westerns, Sergio Leone. In its uncut version its almost 5 hours long, and very gritty and dirty. Martin himself had it restored to how it was originally shot, multiple time jumps, out of order, and the entire length. And its ending is ambiguous!

Liotta should’ve got an oscar

I love how Tommy ages 20 more years than Hendry after the time jump

There's a channel on here where this other retired "gangster" comments on movies like this and he says the scene from prison is very heavily functionalized; yeah they got some perks but not like that, not lobster and their own cell and stuff.

@noonecaresworkharder9125

2 ай бұрын

Nah Franzese was wrong about that. Henry Hill was in Lewisburg with other mobsters and other guards and people there have said it was like that. Franzese served time in the 80’s where the glory of the mob was not as present

@erosson27

2 ай бұрын

@@noonecaresworkharder9125 That's cool..I didn't know that. I should read his book.

@noonecaresworkharder9125

2 ай бұрын

@@erosson27 yea, but to be fair he’s not completely wrong about it, because the book paints a better picture. For example Henry didn’t have his own cell. I think the reality is somewhere in the middle

@erosson27

2 ай бұрын

@@noonecaresworkharder9125 The truth usually is.

I keep hearing reactors say he broke the fourth wall in the end when he addressed the camera. What are the first, second and third wall?

@criminalcontent

27 күн бұрын

left of camera, right of camera, and away from camera

On a lighter note, have you seen Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny? Fun movie!

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

I have not! So that might be a good one for me! Lol :)

Fun Fact. In real life Karen Hill had an affair with Paulie. Btw since you saw Samuel Jackson in this one why not continue with him in Pulp Fiction perhaps his most notable role.

@justmeeagainn

9 ай бұрын

That's a really fun fact; Paulie took sex in exchange for money while Henry was in jail so she could feed herself and her kids. I suppose you'd think it's another fun fact that Thomas DeSimone tried to rape her, which was among the reasons he was killed.

@harlanginsberg7269

9 ай бұрын

@@justmeeagainn was not aware of that fact and it wouldn't go under a fun fact lol. As to why he got killed, you could fill a book.

Please do Casino!!!

timestamp on your setup pics is different,.... like years after,...

This is glimpse into "that life". Every street guy involved in the life knows what is at stake. Its what theyve all signed up for. You break the rules, you die. Everyone knows that.

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

It really was! I think that’s why it was so intense and heavy! Very realistic breakdown of that life!

so, given your response, how did watching all of that Tarantino go?

@criminalcontent

2 ай бұрын

not well

@joewilson4151

2 ай бұрын

you're fun. i could see you rooting for the good guys. Tarantino is the champion of the anti hero.

If you actually watch the movie… it’s so much more brutal

You should watch Copland at some point

6:38 6:53

Yea You might want to stick with Rainbows Unicorns and Butterfly type movies..😂😂😂

You show all the violence but you block the F-words???🤣🤣🤣

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

2 ай бұрын

Only on the regular free review the patreon it's unedited

Looks like you were going through a root canal watching this movie. This isnt for you, or Tarantino.

If you enjoyed this you’ll enjoy Casino 95

That is why I love Scorsese's Mafia movies, it all fun privilege but after a while the black side comes up.

Cami is good woman. Most people kinda like the Mob behaviour. Forgetting that they are criminals and it costs regular people, even if they dont think so..The glorification of the Mob while regular folks pay taxes and price of goods go up.. Cami is a good woman.. Very pretty, good morals ...

Yeah, this movie is not for the faint of heart. You seem way too soft for this movie ( no offense) 😂

This woman has a perfect nose.

The KZreadr History Buffs has a great video about the historical accuracy of GOODFELLAS. Definitely worth a watch: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qJdoz6SAeaerlbg.html Thanks for the reaction video!

@Letstunein

9 ай бұрын

Ohhh I will watch this , thanks for sharing!!

I'm not sure you were the right person to react to this movie.

@MeteorologistAlsoGoPutin

5 ай бұрын

Why? Because she wasn’t rooting for the deplorable people in the movie? 🤦🏾‍♂️

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Cami...whatever you do, don't watch Scarface.

It is based on a true story if you believe everything Henry Hill says , aspects of it is true, but i feel a lot of it is twisted to make him look good, notice how although he did help hide bodies he never once killed someone. Personally i think Henry Hill was mostly full of it and not nearly as important as he made himself out to be.

TRES Cool/Heavy

Too many comment interrupting. Brief but there was no flow to enjoy the actual movie.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist

2 ай бұрын

Become a patreon then You can watch it uninterrupted

You're going to have serious difficulty with Tarantino movies. Scorsese comes from a Catholic background and his movies have a strong moral center, despite the behavior of some of the characters. As you've seen, they don't "get away" with anything, not really. Now a director like Tarantino introduces pure nihilism in some of his movies. I noticed you didn't ask "why" in this reaction; you will ask "why" in Tarantino's movies. A lot of Ragu spaghetti sauce coming your way.😔

What kinda man are you Hendry???!!!???

It's funny watchn' uptight people react to a story like this..

@MeteorologistAlsoGoPutin

7 ай бұрын

Uptight because she has a visceral reaction to palpably violent criminals doing violent and criminal things? Since when is it a bad thing to have a negative reaction to bad people?

I tried. She seems like a sweet lady, but my cat has bigger reactions and more to say when I put a movie on. 😴

If you start watching series on here. The sopranos is amazing🤌