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Goodfellas The Rewatchables
Goodfellas

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The Scorsese–Pileggi call, Henry Hill payment, a pistol-whip accident, filmmakers’ relationships, Imperioli’s injury, the painting, Oscar-winning killer roles, the closing shot, music planning, made-man rules, ratings edits, and profanity

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  • Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi’s reciprocal “waiting for this” phone-call lines are recounted. — Bill Simmons
  • Henry Hill was reportedly paid $480,000. — Bill Simmons
  • The actor pistol-whipped by Henry describes Liotta maintaining rage between takes and accidentally getting too close. — Bill Simmons
  • Scorsese dating Illeana Douglas and Lorraine Bracco’s marriage to Harvey Keitel are discussed. — Bill Simmons
  • Michael Imperioli broke glass in his hand, and hospital staff initially thought it was a gunshot wound. — Bill Simmons
  • Scorsese predicted Imperioli would tell the injury story on Jay Leno, which he later did. — Bill Simmons
  • Tommy’s mother’s painting was reportedly based on a 1977 National Geographic image. — Bill Simmons
  • Five actors said to have won Oscars for portraying real-life killers are counted. — Bill Simmons
  • Pesci shooting at the camera is connected to The Great Train Robbery and Henry always looking over his shoulder. — Bill Simmons
  • The music editor said Scorsese planned songs years before shooting and included them in the script. — Chris Ryan
  • A 2000 change to made-man ancestry rules is described. — Bill Simmons
  • Scorsese reportedly removed ten frames of blood to secure an R rating. — Bill Simmons
  • The movie is reported to contain 321 uses or derivatives of “fuck.” — Sean Fennessey
Dave The Rewatchables
Dave

What’s Aged the Worst?

The first 25 minutes; Charles Grodin's hair; Jay Leno's cameo

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  • The movie gets better as it goes: the first 25 minutes aren't bad but are probably the weakest part, and from the moment Mitchell goes down it takes off; a host realized how many times they had caught it already in progress on HBO, so the beginning, with him coming in on the pig at the car dealership and a Steven Root cameo, was unfamiliar, a premium-cable experience from a bygone era.
  • Chuck Grodin's wig or whatever is going on with his hair, a fuller head than at any point of his career, is called out by a host with an admitted obsession with actors who suddenly have full heads of hair, McConaughey's big flowing locks included; another host, who had Dave on VHS and knows no other Charles Grodin, finds it normal.
  • Jay Leno pops into the movie with the 'too many happy meals' punchline about President Mitchell and is just bad; 26 years ago Leno was not funny, even though he was amazing in the 80s, and the whole spiel about his Letterman-era legend is saved for Craig later.
Dave The Rewatchables
Dave

What’s Aged the Best?

The 1993 cameos (Oliver Stone, Tip O'Neill, Jay Leno, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ben Stein, Paul Simon); the jobs speech; the soundtrack; Bob Alexander; the Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver wedding photo; the Kline and Ving Rhames scenes; the realistic DC driving; Kevin Kline's performance

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  • The cameos are tremendous and feel very 1993: Oliver Stone, Tip O'Neill, Jay Leno, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the McGluffin Group (as transcribed), early Camden Yards two years in, Ben Stein and Paul Simon, not the politician; the only missing piece would be a fake SNL sketch with Phil Hartman doing Kevin Kline, and the movie feels trapped in that year.
  • The 'if you've ever seen the look on someone's face when they get a job' riff still gets a host; the soundtrack and music are happy and perfect yet completely of a moment, like the score in The Firm, the kind of score nobody writes anymore and which feels stolen for other movies and trailers.
  • Bob Alexander is a phenomenal bit and an iconic character to be discussed later, and the Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver wedding photo next to the bed is basically their Ice Storm photo before they made The Ice Storm, sideburns included, foreshadowing a movie the hosts all love.
  • The Kevin Kline and Ving Rhames scenes: Rhames, who later plays Marcellus and the Kiss of Death guy and all these crazy characters, is a straight presence here, and the exchange about his sweaters making his neck look too thick and whether to get a sweater vest is a sweet friendship.
  • DC itself: the film is said to be one of the only movies that realistically portrays what it's like to drive around Washington, unlike the virtually impossible routes most DC movies take, something the show points out about New York in nitpicks, though it helps that they don't go that many places.
  • Kevin Kline's performance counts too: he walks a fine tonal line in this that not many people could pull off, basically its own brand of comedy we haven't seen much of.
  • The cameos are one host's final answer, with the Oliver Stone one singled out as excellent and so funny, and the movie gets out of it quickly so the joke isn't beaten into the ground.
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