Why was the ending of this movie so bad compared to the rest of it?

Why was the ending of this movie so bad compared to the rest of it?

As soon as Henry started becoming a junkie, the movie took a fucking nosedive.

Because that's how it happened in real life, once Henry started dealing with drugs, it all fell apart and he was caught.

>As soon as Henry started becoming a junkie, the movie took a fucking nosedive.

Moron: filtered.

Well, he shouldn't have followed the original story so close then, because it made for a worse movie

BUH DUH ENDING
DUH ENDING
ENDING ENDGINE ENGINDIGNDIETGNIEGNIEINGE

Because it was based on real life events, and the real Henry Hill wasn't thinking about the pacing of a third act in a movie when he was snorting cocaine and cheating on his wife

Maybe he should have

Keked

What should've happened then?
I like the third act just as much as the rest of the movie. It shows how paranoid he gets until his life of crime finally and suddenly catches up to him. Also, the editing is flawless.

Goodfellas is almost a collage movie. The more experimental final act somehow works and doesn't come out of nowhere because we are exposed to such shots previously in the film (such as when Tommy kills Stacks and the scene repeats from "another angle" with dreamlike background noise)

Casino tried to be the same kind of "collage movie" and didn't work as well, which is testament to how closely Scorsese rode the line with Goodfellas

I don't know, it's just not what i'm looking for in a mafia movie.

It sort of turns into a DUDE DRUGS NOIDED LMAO FAST CUTS movie

>movie literally ends with the main character looking into the camera, breaking the fourth wall and talking to the audience in the theater

What did he mean by this? Why wasn't there a record scratch?

It was wrapping up

>not what i'm looking for in a mafia movie
What do you mean? It's about the downfall of a character, the theme of many mafia movies.
And those quick cuts that you make fun of are amazing. They reflect Henry's state so clearly.

Name literally 3 better mafia movies

Godfather 1 and 2
Once Upon a Time in America

>mafia movie
It's not mafia movie. It's good fellas movie. They even said that at one point or another, mafia was something else, different, they were just guys. Fellas. Goodfellas.

>What do you mean? It's about the downfall of a character, the theme of many mafia movies.
It's a dull downfall, though.
The rise and downfall of Noodles' gang is much more interesting, for example.

>It's a dull downfall, though.
You really think so? It feels like an action movie to me. He's driving back and forth, he's making dinner, he's on the lookout constantly, in denial thinking there's a way out of the fed's crosshairs.

Not every movie needs to have a happy ending you worthless fuck.

And besides, they were the fucking bad guys. There'll never be a happy ending for them.

You're a fucking idiot. Goodfellahs isn't top tier, sorry bud. It's a flick not kino

So was Noodles, but he still got a happy ending

The whole sequence of Henry losing his mind before getting busted always makes me nervous

Even then, it's a bitter sweet ending, to say the least

Why can't they ever make a mafia movie where it's comfy/lighthearted the whole time?

Imagine how COMFY a Goodfellas movie would be when it's just like all the first half?

Jimmy losing his mind after the Lufthansa heist makes me nervous

Pretty much yeah

Although I still think Goodfellas is a 10

Cause why get one flavor when we can get many. I like both halves

Agreed.

My moronic take on the smiling flashback opium den being the finale is that it's no more of a happy ending than him getting stoned at the chinks after raping Debora was

That wasn't the 60s ending though.

you are literally a fucking retard, and you have to go back

Pretty much.

Nice argument bro

The Jump into the Fire dinner montage is pure adrenaline filled, masterfully directed cinema. It's fucking dynamite.

kys OP

*your
retard

bump

goodfellas is a really good movie

it insulted me a little bit

because the real mafia are jews, not italianas