Lucas Cox (lucascox)

GoodFellas R

Goodfellas i think is a excellent gangster film which is based off the life of Henry Hill so by knowing this you know what you watching will be bloody good. Ray Liotta plays Henry in his movie and he plays a good part but i think he could have played the part a bit less seriously as he was to serious so it doesnt really show his promise like a actor. Robert De Niro comes in as he plays a good friend of Henry who helps him in his childhood and up in the ranks in the movie but his character starts to go mad and wants people who helped him dead.However i think the best character of the Movie goes to Joe Pesci as the childhood friend of Henry as he cant control his temper and makes you laugh and seem scared at the same time. This point is proveed in the famous " funny how " scene. I thought it was a shame for him to be killed in the movie. The Director Martin Scoreses did a excellent good job as he worked with two actor he used before De Niro and Pesci what i also liked about how i directed this movie was he showed the present first then he went back into the past as they wrre children then returned to the present and then he moved into the future. i liked it when the movie ended as you learn about what happened to the main characters in real life. overall i would reccomend this movie to anyone who enjoyed Gangster movies

Casino R

Casino is possibly one of the better films of the 1990's as it is based on true events but altered for the film to make it more dramatic and gripping. The Main character Ace who is played by Robert De Niro is a man who can neveer lose a bet as we learn in the movie as he can win and helps the bosses who secretly run vegas money and a lot of it, apart from that we learn that he falls in love with Ginger played by Sharon Stone but she doesnt love him. I like Ace as you see him reach the high and lows in Las Vegas. However i think that Ace's long time friend Nicky who is played by Joe Pesci is the main star of the show as we see him rise from a low level gangster to a person who is like Al Capone as the character is banned from Vegas and all it's casino's, but i like him as he is a caring father and he always makes breakfast each morning. i think were the desert scene between Ace and Nicky(where even Ace said his chance were living were 50 50 instead of 99 out of 100 as it shows what Vegas can do to friends who have different opinoins.) is one of the better scenes in the movie Martin Scorsese directed this movie and he did it like how he directed Goodfellas as he started off with the end but showed how it came to be like that in the restof the movie then at the end you see the start again and what happens nex. Scorsese 2worked with De Niro and Pesci for the 3rd time 4 this movie and it shows that they can make a good movie. overall i consider Casino to be one of the better gangster films of the 1990's as there is a few storylines that in the end tie each other up nicely into 1 storyline at the end The 1 thing i didn't like in the movie is that Ginger's old boyfriend played by James woods does not get enough screen time as i liked how the character was always going to Ginger to help and she would always do it even tho he got beaten up for it. I thought he should have been in it a bit longer