I also bought the stories of De Niro and Pesci much more in Casino and it felt they had much better end points, I never bought that Liotta’s character got away with his circumstantial side business of selling and making coke and ratting out the rest of the mob. Casino maybe lacks the heart and ambition of Goodfellas but for me, it was much heavier and was much more absorbing to follow.

Doesn’t mean I underrate goodfellas at all, I have alot appreciation for the work that went into its acting, cinematography and innovative narrative techniques but even in that area, Casino expands on it more and has alot of more moving pieces and frames that can be noticed on subsequent rewatched. For me, I found both Casino and The Irishman better than Goodfellas and all of them are equally one of my favorite movies of all time. I think Goodfellas is the type of movie that sticks with people for the “experience” and “heart” that it has rather than the “story” and “characters” that Casino on the other hand focuses on. like the james woods scenes when Ace mob beats him up and Sharon goes full Nicolas Cage.

I´ve said 2 or 3 times now that the reason her performance is good but flawed is because a couple of times she went to far with the hysteria.

I'm yet to see you actually give a reason why she wasn't that great or even why you felt the need to bring her up in the first place when I never mentioned her. I don´t listen to critics I form my own opinion, then you can be consistent and critics are just another movie goer like the rest of us, they are no god with higher knowledge who decides whats good or not. Then you either have to start to pick and chose when to use the critics argument when it suits you´re agenda for instance Ebert thought Usual Suspect, Terminator and Blade Runner were bad are you going to have that opinion also because he said so? or you have to agree and blindly follow everything a critics says and always use that argument for every film. Even if he did you´re digging yourself into hole with that argument. Nowhere in his review does he write that Stone out acted Deniro or Pesci.

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