I want to agree with that because usually starting around the scene where the woman with pesci compliments the performer and everyone is all disgusted I start to completely hate the characters. But I do like The Godfather plenty, although I don't know how much it's the same thing.
The Godfather is more of its own thing. It's like opera or Shakespeare, with grand themes and drama and plots and betrayals, and it's all done with incredible class and taste. Goodfellas is based on the dude's real-life autobiography and is about mobsters the way they actually are/were, with the dudes being really inarticulate and uneducated and violent and their lives not being epic tragedies but just kind of sordid and disgusting.
The Godfather takes place in beautiful mansions with dark hardwood, smoky sitting rooms adorned with paintings by Caravaggio and everyone wearing crisp dark suits all the time. Goodfellas takes place in crappy Jersey suburbs where the couches are covered in plastic and everyone wears pastels.
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I want to agree with that because usually starting around the scene where the woman with pesci compliments the performer and everyone is all disgusted I start to completely hate the characters. But I do like The Godfather plenty, although I don't know how much it's the same thing.
The Godfather is more of its own thing. It's like opera or Shakespeare, with grand themes and drama and plots and betrayals, and it's all done with incredible class and taste. Goodfellas is based on the dude's real-life autobiography and is about mobsters the way they actually are/were, with the dudes being really inarticulate and uneducated and violent and their lives not being epic tragedies but just kind of sordid and disgusting.
The Godfather takes place in beautiful mansions with dark hardwood, smoky sitting rooms adorned with paintings by Caravaggio and everyone wearing crisp dark suits all the time. Goodfellas takes place in crappy Jersey suburbs where the couches are covered in plastic and everyone wears pastels.
yeah, I didn't feel like it was the same thing but I figured I should cover my ass in the conversation :P
I saw the guy at Comic-Con, but I was scared to go up, being barely out of high school. It seemed like "Yeah, I graduated high school this year and I love your comic about college!" would be vaguely like saying "Yeah, you're ancient!", so I walked away.
I did meet Stan Bush, though. And shook his hand.
Also: The internet has worn down my ability to question why something was done into a tiny nubbin.
finished the great gatsby. came across this interesting tid-bit. serious spoiler
the man with the owl eyed spectacles.
owls are considered an omen of death. the owl eyed man got into a car accident outside of gatsby's party. he also claimed that someone else was driving when it happened.
finished the great gatsby. came across this interesting tid-bit. serious spoiler
the man with the owl eyed spectacles.
owls are considered an omen of death. the owl eyed man got into a car accident outside of gatsby's party. he also claimed that someone else was driving when it happened.
finished the great gatsby. came across this interesting tid-bit. serious spoiler
the man with the owl eyed spectacles.
owls are considered an omen of death. the owl eyed man got into a car accident outside of gatsby's party. he also claimed that someone else was driving when it happened.
squeeeeeeeeee
The car accident scene doesn't make much sense.
What do you mean?
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finished the great gatsby. came across this interesting tid-bit. serious spoiler
the man with the owl eyed spectacles.
owls are considered an omen of death. the owl eyed man got into a car accident outside of gatsby's party. he also claimed that someone else was driving when it happened.
squeeeeeeeeee
The car accident scene doesn't make much sense.
What do you mean?
It has been a long time since I read it, but if I remember correctly
It has to do with the woman being hit by the car. If I remember the description of the drive correctly then for her to have been hit by the car she would have to have crossed a lane of traffic to get to the lane in which Daisy would have been driving.
The total trip is from Point A to Point B, and then from Point B back to Point A. On the way from A to B they stop at a gas station and, if I remember correctly, they do not have to cross a lane of traffic to pull into the gas station. On the way back from B to A that would mean that there was a lane of traffic between the lane in which Daisy would have been driving and the gas station.
Again, though, it has been about 7 years since I had this argument. But that is what I remember at the moment.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
5 minutes in and it's just awful. so depressing.
The Godfather is more of its own thing. It's like opera or Shakespeare, with grand themes and drama and plots and betrayals, and it's all done with incredible class and taste. Goodfellas is based on the dude's real-life autobiography and is about mobsters the way they actually are/were, with the dudes being really inarticulate and uneducated and violent and their lives not being epic tragedies but just kind of sordid and disgusting.
The Godfather takes place in beautiful mansions with dark hardwood, smoky sitting rooms adorned with paintings by Caravaggio and everyone wearing crisp dark suits all the time. Goodfellas takes place in crappy Jersey suburbs where the couches are covered in plastic and everyone wears pastels.
way to be
My immense body heat made quick work of them. And this was back when I was little and had a near buzzcut.
yeah, I didn't feel like it was the same thing but I figured I should cover my ass in the conversation :P
Holy crap, that's the best idea ever. Move over, Jonas Salk. I'm not even kidding.
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the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I love that comic.
I saw the guy at Comic-Con, but I was scared to go up, being barely out of high school. It seemed like "Yeah, I graduated high school this year and I love your comic about college!" would be vaguely like saying "Yeah, you're ancient!", so I walked away.
I did meet Stan Bush, though. And shook his hand.
Also: The internet has worn down my ability to question why something was done into a tiny nubbin.
Pillows with icepacks could change the world forever.
I won't sleep like a baby. I will sleep like whatever a baby thinks sleeps really well.
the man with the owl eyed spectacles.
squeeeeeeeeee
Meh.
The car accident scene doesn't make much sense.
Italians, on the other hand, are never the next logical step.
Unless they're Italian Ice.
Then they're delicious.
What do you mean?
in another way I'm terrified.
enjoy literature?
It has been a long time since I read it, but if I remember correctly
The total trip is from Point A to Point B, and then from Point B back to Point A. On the way from A to B they stop at a gas station and, if I remember correctly, they do not have to cross a lane of traffic to pull into the gas station. On the way back from B to A that would mean that there was a lane of traffic between the lane in which Daisy would have been driving and the gas station.
Again, though, it has been about 7 years since I had this argument. But that is what I remember at the moment.
Define "enjoy".
I read novels and do not begrudge the time spent reading them.