Originally posted by Chilltown:
It's a good movie, but it covers, literally, no new ground whatsoever. It did not have critic support, Lenoard Maltin hated it for example, and it was perceived to just be a rip off. i like it for what it is, but it is too long, and it took much of the heat that Goodfellas and GFIII brought on- overexposure of the genre. Both of the other movies have also become historic as time goes by, but Casino has not. Scorcese went to the well once too often.
I resaw Casino, and altough it's still a movie I enjoy very much (especially the first 45 minutes), I think Chilltown says it best.
What were they thinking, back in 1994/1995? Scorse, DeNiro, Pesci I mean... it's not as if it was anything revolutionary, they might as well have called it Goodfellas 2.
