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I was in Vegas over the last Thanksgiving weekend - end of November. I hadn't been since 1999. It's drastically different than it was back then. It's way more like Disneyland now. I saw sooooo many kids and dogs on the streets, in the casinos, everywhere. In 99, I was there Halloween weekend and saw maybe 3 kids. The streets would be deserted during the day and packed at night. Nope, packed 24/7 now. We stayed in Ceasar's Palace, with a view right over The Strip. The whole Strip is just different. Also, the Mirage building is still there. I think it's in the process of becoming a Planet Hollywood hotel and casino, if I recall the billboards around the place correctly. And Excalibur - the castle casino Simone mentioned - is definitely still there. It's the only casino on the Strip I've never been in. They did shut down the pirate show (the thing with the boat shown near the end) at Treasure Island casino a while ago. The boat is still there but the little man made lake is empty. They were in the process of putting some kind of multilevel stand in front of the fountain at The Bellagio. It's likely gonna be hideous when it's finished. Ruins the whole vibe. I'm assuming it's so they can let numerous people watch the fountains at night without a massive blockage on the sidewalk.
Donna Castellano
2025-06-18 21:50:09 +0000 UTCRaging Bull
Jeremy T Edwards
2025-06-15 13:59:49 +0000 UTCOh I'm glad y'all liked this one : ) Not sure if it's my favorite Scorcese movie but I really enjoy how tight the story is in this one (which is wild considering it's three hours lol). And it was a lot of fun to rewatch with you guys! I think someone already said but imo The Irishman is also super worthwhile. It's long as hell but I love getting to watch Scorcese do another big organized crime movie, only this time it's about getting old in that world. Much more introspective in a way that I thought was really interesting.
Marylou inProgress
2025-06-13 07:38:54 +0000 UTCNot a "bad" Scorsese by any means, but a severely overlooked one is (yes, not tired of pushing it!) "Brining Out the Dead" with Nicolas Cage from 1999! I remember "Silence" geeting some blowback, but I haven't watched it myself yet and since it's a very different genre than most of his other bangers, it's not a fair comparison, I think.
olly.enn
2025-06-10 09:36:25 +0000 UTCIt may be true that Nicky is joking when he asks, but I also think he is so stubborn and egomaniacal that when he and Ace argue in the desert, Nicky literally believes the conversation never even happened.
Tyler Foster
2025-06-02 15:29:06 +0000 UTCEach of those movies are amazing watches! I was only 7 years old in 1995 - but I've watched all of those numerous times and most before I was an adult.
Logan Kerlee
2025-06-02 04:52:39 +0000 UTCI enjoyed watching this with you both! Such a great, dark movie! :)
Logan Kerlee
2025-06-02 04:49:21 +0000 UTCThis is my favorite Scorcese movie. I've never listened to an audio book but this definitely feels like I'm reading a book, so much detail, and that essential element that makes true stories so great, human chaos, just people making decisions, for their own purposes, other people not understanding their motivations, that completely change everyone's tragectory. (I realize I just described EVERY story lol, but real life is infinitely more random because there are infinitely more variables in life than any human can foresee, a slight change in the weather has affected history so many times, a shooting star, someone got food poisoning....) And I like it more than Goodfellas because it's almost a whodunnit, you start knowing (thinking) Ace is going to die, who did it? among this cast of villains basically. And visually I love it, so much great use of light and angles. Also, Nicki didn't ask Ace for permission to move out to Vegas, if you rewatch it you see he's smirking when he says, "So I have your permission?" because he's being sarcastic and Ace misses that. Now you have at least one Scorsese/De Niro/Pesci movie left, their first collaboration, "Raging Bull" (also "The Irishman", but, eh).
MacGuffinStuff
2025-06-02 03:39:38 +0000 UTCCinebinge can we have any Dice Trivia!!!? I was expecting that from one of you lol. George you once ask in this reaction if a person can be ban from a city? I learned long ago that you need to have a barrier or the area needs to have walls and an entrance to have someone ban from it.
FranciscoGios
2025-06-02 01:51:28 +0000 UTCI know you two got super stoked everytime Don Rickles appeared on screen. It was like "Oh my GOD! Is that Don Rickles?" and "We need to see more movies with Don Rickles" and "I can't believe we haven't seen more movies with Don Rickles, Patrons can you recommend some funny Don Rickles movies we could watch?" and on and on. So I recommend Dirty Work. He's only in it for a few scenes, but it'll still scratch that Don Rickles itch. And you also get Norm Macdonald as the lead :)
akaTheBORAN
2025-06-01 22:08:55 +0000 UTCThe Irishman is terrible
matthew berry
2025-06-01 20:46:03 +0000 UTCI'm glad you guys finally reacted to this one. I hope you'll react to The Irishman at some point in the future. It's even longer than this, but it explores yet another aspect of organized crime that Goodfellas and Casino barely touch on: the unions. The acting and character work is some of the best stuff Scorsese has given us. On top of that, you get De Niro and Pacino together again in their later years, when they're both slowing down and could end up 'retiring' from acting altogether like Jack Nicholson. It's tough, but I think this one edges out Goodfellas for me by just the smallest bit. Some people love to say that it's just 'Goodfellas in Vegas', but that just touches on the basic similarities like organized crime and many of the same actors appearing. Each movie explores different themes. I think Casino really highlights what a master of gallows humour Scorsese can be. There are so many instances of intensely dark moments with a brief comic touch in it. One of the best is the one Simone pointed out, where Pesci is narrating right up until the moment he gets hit with a bat and you hear him groan in pain within the narration itself. I also really need to gush about the cinematography done by Robert Richardson. He's been Tarantino's director of photography of choice since Kill Bill. Every good director has their style, but so do good DPs and you can see a lot of the same style in lighting as Tarantino's films. Richardson loves to blow out his bright lights for an artistic look. The way bright lights shine on De Niro's suits and blow out completely, so you don't see any color or detail in specific spots on the suit is amazing to me. How he makes it looks so good and not like amateur hour is wild. He also pushes the limits on the halo/rim lighting you always see along the top of people's heads in movies so it's almost blown out, but not quite. In this movie the lighting helps heighten the feeling that you're listening to a story and the visuals are what your mind's eye sees.
Brandon
2025-06-01 18:54:12 +0000 UTC1995 might be my favourite movie year. It's crazy how many absolute bangers came out that year. This one. Heat. Braveheart. Seven. The Usual Suspects. Apollo 13. Just to name a few.
Maiki
2025-06-01 17:32:36 +0000 UTCThey don't do movies like this anymore, so sad.
Martin Roca
2025-06-01 17:29:13 +0000 UTC
