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Goodfellas

Picking Nits

Goodfellas The Rewatchables

Age mismatches, Sonny confronting Tommy publicly, absent strip clubs, prison meals, a mannequin-like assault victim, post-wedding housing, Billy Batts’s party, Lufthansa associates who fail to flee, Karen locating Henry, and payphones supply distinct nitpicks.

In the discussion (10)
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  • Liotta and Pesci are judged much too old for the early ages they portray.
  • Sonny discussing the restaurant bill in front of Tommy’s friends is questioned.
  • The absence of an obligatory strip-club scene is questioned.
  • The elaborate prison meals are questioned but accepted as fun.
  • The pistol-whipping victim stands like a mannequin.
  • Henry and Karen living with her mother after receiving substantial wedding cash is questioned, then defended as living off-grid.
  • Billy Batts’s sparsely attended party and friends leaving him with a rival crew are questioned; Jimmy may have kept him there and drunk.
  • Lufthansa associates fail to flee despite participating in Jimmy’s other murders.
  • How Karen knows Henry is at Morrie’s shop after Bruce assaults her is questioned.
  • Mobsters repeatedly using the same supposedly untraceable payphone is questioned.