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Originally Posted by Severian

But you have to (or should) admit that GoodFellas kind of perfected this narrative style. Criminals, hustlers, gangsters, gamblers... It's all been done at this point, and I feel like it originated with GoodFellas. That whole "look at how crazy our scene is... Man, we are invinci-- Oh, shit everything's unraveling" sort of story.

In Wolf of Wall Street it was Stockbrokers. In Boogie Nights (one of the earlier "GoodFellas-lite" entries, it was porn stars. In Entourage it was publicists and producers. On Rescue Me it was NYC Firefighters. (Hell, even Pulp Fiction kinda qualifies... though not all of it)

It's all a GoodFellas archetype, even if it's by Scorcese himself. In fact, he doesn't seem interested in doing much else after he finally got his Oscar. I suppose he's entitled.

I for one, haven't seen American Hustle all the way through. I can't speak to that specific film, I suppose. But I know that just about every review I read of it mentioned Scorcese.

I'd watch it if people started saying "it's kinda like GoodFellas" instead of "It's GoodFellas-lite" ... Yuck. Like, Diet GoodFellas? No thank you.

i like goodfellas, one of my favorite scorsese movies, and one of my favorite movies ever, but if everything is a form of goodfellas then i wanna be goodfellas with irish butter because then i could lick myself all day. or i could be the weed goodfellas and smoke my own fingers.

in gangster films, the how great/unraveling goes at least way back to the first scarface. not the depalma scarface but the one with paul muni from 1932. go watch it!

ps- wait, little caesar was a year before