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that's entertainment

Posted by Jazz Inmate on June 5, 2007 at 19:24:16:
Yeah, every film buff and movie critic is wrong and you're right. Raging Bull sux. What were we all thinking? Here we have an epic story of a man who uses the ring to have a life but the ring becomes his life and the excesses he succumbed to ended up taking everything of value. Here was a gifted actor who became that character more convincingly than the work of anyone else in his generation. And though I'm no Olivier, if he fought sugar ray, he would say that the thing ain't the ring, it's the play. So give me a stage where this bull here can rage, and though I can fight I'd much rather recite...that's entertainment.

Casino was a far more focused story about the mob's grip on Vegas than Goodfellas was about "3 decades in the mafia" or whatever. Both are good explorations in the "honor among thieves" genre. But Casino just had far more going for it, and the narration of Liotta in Goodfellas was not convincing. He sounded more like a California surfer than a brooklyn gangster. I'll take De Niro and Pesci narrating Casino over that any day.

The Daniel Day Lewis snoozer makes Kundun seem like a thriller. It's a much more tragic, much more important story than Olde New York. If you can sit through the Lewis film, you can make it through Kundun. Or do you need some whitebread actor to make it easy for you to relate to the characters?
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