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Never forget, the 4 other films nominated for Best Picture that year:

Dances With Wolves (holy fucking shit, this POS won)

Ghost (holy fucking shit, this POS was nominated? For an Oscar other than "dumbest storyline ever?")

Awakenings (I won't talk shit about this; De Niro was incredible and Robin Williams showed he knew the power of being small in a scene).

The Godfather III (OK, just shit all over that. A three enchilada special of ass splats if you please).

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32 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Funniest scene in the whole movie. 

I'll also nominate when Frankie and Tommy go to pick up Stacks at his apartment.  Or whack him, as it were.  When they first get there, SLJ is putting his pants on and there's mention of a girl he brought home to bang.  For a split second, he's so fucking out of it, he's genuinely looking around for her until he plays it off.  There's something so funny about his one leg in the pants, two mob guys staring him down, and he's looking for some evidence of the strange he got last night.  I don't know why, it always cracks me up.  All three played it perfectly.  

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48 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

It’s weird, I’ve seen this movie exactly once. Probably at a dollar theater, 30 years ago.  And never seen it again except the shoe shine scene a million times (kind of hard to avoid)

But I’ve probably seen Casino at least 4-5 times, out of order, on cable.

I think I've seen both in excess of 30 times.  

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34 minutes ago, Nole-4-Life said:

Maybe the same character with a different name Pesci played in Casino.

He annoyed me less in Casino.  Maybe it was because I saw after and was already desensitized to the arbitrary, cunty violence.

28 minutes ago, Trey3216 said:

I think I've seen both in excess of 30 times.  

I've seen Goodfellas at least 30 times but only 2-3 tops for Casino.

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8 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

For whatever reason, I just kept catching Casino on TBS or USA a lot back in the day.  It seemed like it was always on.  I've seen that shoeless cowboy get thrown  out it feels like 20 times. 

At least half of my Goodfellas viewings were stumbling upon it on AMC between 2005 and 2012 on weekend mornings.

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4 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

He annoyed me less in Casino.  Maybe it was because I saw after and was already desensitized to the arbitrary, cunty violence.

I've seen Goodfellas at least 30 times but only 2-3 tops for Casino.

I’ve seen both 30 times too. But I can’t see why anyone hates Tommy. And yes they are the exact same character. Nicky is far more hatable but more entertaining. His conversation with Charlie the Banker is one of the funniest scenes in the move. Probably the funniest. 

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4 minutes ago, Porterhouse said:

I’ve seen both 30 times too. But I can’t see why anyone hates Tommy. And yes they are the exact same character. Nicky is far more hatable but more entertaining. His conversation with Charlie the Banker is one of the funniest scenes in the move. Probably the funniest. 

Tommy reminds me of an old roommate I had.  Loved to give shit.  Absolutely couldn't take shit.  Was psychotically violent and capable of turning on a dime.

Thankfully he was like 5'7" 120lbs soaking wet, but I halfway expected to catch a knife in my back leaving for class sometimes.

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"Paulie may have moved slow, but that's because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody. "

That voice over delivered while Sorvino ate the sausage (classic Scorsese filming at 30 fps then slowing down in post to capture him chewing slowly and looking side to side, letting the viewer know that even during a backyard BBQ the boss has to know someone's gunning for him) is perfect.

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I believe the Paulie moved slow line is when he first appeared at the pizza store. Eating sausage was the explanation of the mob.

I too have watched this and casino about 30 times. I prefer GoodFellas though both are great.
Great catch and correction. That's when Paulie looked at his crew, sized them up, and they immediately fell into line. "You fucked up! I fucked up, you fucked up!"
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On 1/9/2023 at 8:06 PM, GhostOfTomJoad said:

Never forget, the 4 other films nominated for Best Picture that year:

Dances With Wolves (holy fucking shit, this POS won)

Ghost (holy fucking shit, this POS was nominated? For an Oscar other than "dumbest storyline ever?")

Awakenings (I won't talk shit about this; De Niro was incredible and Robin Williams showed he knew the power of being small in a scene).

The Godfather III (OK, just shit all over that. A three enchilada special of ass splats if you please).

I don't remember this scene

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1 minute ago, Macanudo said:

I had a roommate in college that, depending on how high he was,  had this and Disney's Fantasia on.  Quite the dichotomy there.

I usually would drift home in some level of stupor and watch different scenes from Goodfellas, Lebowski, Snatch, Lock Stock, and Pulp Fiction.  That 5 disk DVD player got a fucking workout on Friday and Saturday nights between 1-5am.  So did quite a few ladies.   

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