Goodfellas or Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction is my favorite movie so my choice is obvious

Goodfellas

never like that overrated Poop Fiction.

Both are great.

Goodfellas is the better film (for me) but I watched Pulp Fiction more times...

Tough call, but I think I like Goodfellas more.

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Goodfellas

I like both, but I definitely prefer Goodfellas.

Goodfellas, by a small margin. Pulp fiction is really good

Jackson and Travolta scenes alone solo this contest. I wasn't overly impressed with Goodfellas either, so, there is that.

No question...Pulp Fiction. It was a better movie and pretty much everyone of the bad guys were either redeemed (sort of) or got what they deserved by the end of the movie. What did the lead in Goodfellas get as punishment? A "boring" life paid for by the taxpayers that most people would dream of living. Screw that movie.

Goodfellas.

They're really different movies. Goodfellas is pretty much perfect. Every scene is a punchline and it's masterfully written. A top tier crime/gangster film. Pulp Fiction is great and all, but it really isn't as good as Goodfellas. It's more of a pop culture type thing.

I think pf is more rewatchable but i hvent seen gf without commercials so i might be wrong

Let's think about it.

On one hand, we have Uma Thurman.

On the other, we could not have Uma Thurman.

Seems like a cut and dry case if you ask me.

That's a really interesting way of putting it. I'm thinking back to every scene that I remember, and you are largely right.

@heroup2112: "Goodfellas" was based off real event's. Henry Hill is very real and very much alive living in the witness protection program.

The movie couldn't just kill him when that isn't what happened.

On topic. I prefer Pulp Fiction but love GF

Yeah, and also even if it wasn't sticking to reality, I don't think a movie needs to punish all evildoers by the end. Goodfellas isn't trying to be that type of movie, wrapping it all up like that is just way too neat and standard. Henry's punishment is appropriate if you ask me. All he's ever wanted his whole life was to be a gangster. He can no longer be the person that he is and wants to be.

Goodfellas!

Goodfellas.

@the_hajduk: Exactly. To guys like that, the quiet life is torture. He isn't even sharing with his wife and kids anymore.

He can't even go on vacation. He has to stay in his small ass community forever.

Not to mention the worst of them were killed or incarcerated for life.

Nevermind he died and remarried.

We just have a different standard for movies. :) You have no idea how many times I was saying shoot him, shoot him, shoothim, shoothim shothimshoothim SHOOT HIM when his wife was standing over him with the gun. :)

@heroup2112: It's not even as if Pulp Fiction was significantly better in that regard. After all, Marsellus Wallace will continue to be a crime boss after the movie is over, and Sam Jackson's character never got any punishment for being a mob enforcer besides deciding not be one from now on.

Then again, Pulp Fiction did depict its criminals as lovable idiots, whereas Goodfellas depicted them as people who you think are great friends until they put a bullet in your head because they have something to gain from it.

Well, like I said they either got what they deserved (mostly...to which I was referring to Marsellus...though he DID get a little of what was coming to him), or were redeemed by which I was referring to Julius (Sam Jackson's character).

The only area Pulp Fiction can be argued to be better than Goodfellas in is the dialogue. The directing, the acting, the cinematography, the editing etc from Goodfellas was superior. In terms of the script, it was adapted from Wiseguys whereas Pulp Fiction was drafted from scratch by Tarantino so he could get more props there.

For directing, there isn’t a scene as masterfully crafted with metaphor and nuance in Pulp Fiction as the club scene from Goodfellas.

Goodfellas was based on a true story anyway so talk of what the main character did or didn’t get in punishment is kinda weird since Scorsese stayed faithful to the source material and real life story of Henry Hill.

That’s life, sometimes bad people get away with shit.

Pulp Fiction. Some of the best circular storytelling you'll find.

Goodfellas.

Which is the club scene?

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I preffer Pulp Fiction but that moment "am I funny how" is just cinematographic gold.

@the_hajduk:

Which is the club scene?

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The "and then he kissed me" scene? I checked out your blog, and it was a good blog, but I don't think there is enough there to skyrocket it as far ahead of Pulp Fiction as you are saying. I think a lot of the symbolism you listed falls under the category of searching for nuance, but I can point out a scene in Pulp Fiction with red walls and say this represents them entering hell as well.

GOD DAMN YOU FOR MAKING ME CHOOSE! Goodfellas, though. By just a hair.

Goodfellas easily

Pulpy for me. It's a lot more fun.

Goodfellas is such a great movie. Pulp Fiction is one of Tarantino's less entertaining movies IMO. Samuel Jackson is great like he always is, but the rest of the movie I can fast forward through and not care so much.

Goodfellas, easily. Pulp Fiction was a classic, but I wouldn't even say it's Tarantino's best. I personally preferred Reservoir Dogs.

Wow. Close, but going Goodfellas

I'm going with Goodfellas

Surprised at all of this... in what way possible is goodfellas >>> Pulp Fiction???

Character development - Pulp Fiction

Dialogue - Pulp Fiction (obviously)

Screen play/plot- pulp fiction (easily)

Hell, even cast VS. cast, I can make a solid argument for pulp fiction.

Pulp fiction out shines goodfellas in everyway with the one exception of being a mob movie, but Pulp Fiction is that and sooooo much more.

@captain_inverse: I think Goodfellas had better perfomances, plot, characterization (though yeah, not all that much in terms of development), cinematography and themes. So yeah, those are the areas I'd call it superior to PF.

i only liked the first half of pulp fiction

goodfellas for me

Pulp Fiction thanks to Sam L. Jackson. Tough choice though.

I can get your point, but for that, you had other major criminal figures, such as Jimmy Burke and Paul Vario rotting in jail, Tommy Desimone who was Tommy DeVito in the movie, was tortured to death for weeks, many say John Gotti stabbed him in the face with a knife, he broke his knees with a hammer, he pulled out his teeth and so on, while in the movie, he was whacked by the Gambino Family, of course, Henry Hill was a messy piece of shit, but he was a nonfactor, the others poisoned the American people with way more illegal narcotics than Henry did.

OT:

Goodfellas.

One of the most intense moments in the movie, which tells a lot.

@bullpr said:

Goodfellas