That's what makes them such good companion films imo. It's like De Niro thought Martin Scorsese movies were too subtle so he made a movie that just spells out pedestrian platitudes like da workin man is da real hero, while Chazz 'Vanilla Coke' Palminteri does his best caricature of a. It's just a really shallow, basic-bro, idiotically watered down cheesedick version of a real movie. In particular, it draws from his 1990 classic 'Goodfellas,' borrowing that movies. A Bronx Tale might as well be called Goodfellas: For Dummies. The two films together, I think, detail the lives of two different men who found themselves in and out of the mob world, and how they each come out of it with vastly differing outlooks. On the surface, 'Casino' is a neon-lit, stylish retread of Martin Scorseses earlier work in the gangster genre. By contrast, Ace in Casino reflects on his time in vegas as an old man, still getting work, with a good house and a family, and in the end pretty grateful for everything he has left as the film fades out, slow classical music sending him off as he remarks 'Why ruin a good thing?'. We run down a list of great movies to watch if you enjoy Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas. I think the endings to both films are a perfect contrast: At the end of Goodfellas, Henry gets out of everything pretty unscathed with his family, even after ratting out all his friends - and after all that, he has the audacity to bitch about shit as inconsequential as spaghetti, and he's rather appropriately sent off into the credits by a grating whiny cover of 'My Way', which captures his total inability to grow or change or move on, and his pathetic nature by the end of the story. 25 Perfect Movies to Watch After ‘Goodfellas’. Casino and Goodfellas are such good companion pieces.

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