Has to go to Goodfellas. If you would have asked me this question a few years ago, I probably would have said Casino. After watching Goodfellas a couple of times in the past year or two, this one wins in a landslide. The scene at the Copacobana where Ray Liotta parks his car on the street, walks into the club's secret side entrance, greasing every guy on his way, walks through the kitchen laughing and talking to every person on the way, and as soon as he gets to the auditorium, they make him a table right front center and some other mafiosos in the table next to him, have him a bottle of nice wine waiting for him as soon as he sits down. This possibly may be my favorite scene in ANY movie. Ray Liotta is the definition of a gangster in this scene and it is shot on a handy-cam SINGLE shot, which is incredibly rare considering how long the take goes on for.
Best Scorcese Mafia Movie
it's NOT Goodfellas or Casino BUT Scorsese's 1973 Mean Streets is the first feature film he directed by his own design. had early work by both Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro before they became stars. it is an important enough work that in 1997 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
personal Goodfellas favorite. Henry Hill: [narrating] "Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops?, deliveries?, Tommy?, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week, no matter what. Business bad? Fukk you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fukk you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fukk you, pay me".
it's NOT Goodfellas or Casino BUT Scorsese's 1973 Mean Streets is the first feature film he directed by his own design. had early work by both Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro before they became stars. it is an important enough work that in 1997 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
personal Goodfellas favorite. Henry Hill: [narrating] "Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops?, deliveries?, Tommy?, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week, no matter what. Business bad? Fukk you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fukk you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fukk you, pay me".
it's NOT Goodfellas or Casino BUT Scorsese's 1973 Mean Streets is the first feature film he directed by his own design. had early work by both Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro before they became stars. it is an important enough work that in 1997 it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Scorsese's last great film was the Departed. Too bad he jumped the shark with all the medicore garbage he's done with 
DiCraprio and hasn't made a good film since that Oscar winning film.
Has to go to Goodfellas. If you would have asked me this question a few years ago, I probably would have said Casino. After watching Goodfellas a couple of times in the past year or two, this one wins in a landslide. The scene at the Copacobana where Ray Liotta parks his car on the street, walks into the club's secret side entrance, greasing every guy on his way, walks through the kitchen laughing and talking to every person on the way, and as soon as he gets to the auditorium, they make him a table right front center and some other mafiosos in the table next to him, have him a bottle of nice wine waiting for him as soon as he sits down. This possibly may be my favorite scene in ANY movie. Ray Liotta is the definition of a gangster in this scene and it is shot on a handy-cam SINGLE shot, which is incredibly rare considering how long the take goes on for.
Goodfellas edges both Mean Streets and Casino. All among my favorite films.
A couple of lines from Goodfellas:
Pesci: What kind of people are these?
Make the coffee to go. What are you doing with the coffee pot, it was a joke.
This is right after Tommy=Pesci puts 5 bullets in Samuel L. Jackson who played Stacks who who'd come in and play guitar. Too bad he got stoned and left the drop car which the cops found and that was the beginning of the cutting off the people DeNiro = Jimmy Conway started takig folks out so he could keep the $ from the Latonza heist lol
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