Actually, that's twice this week that Colasanto has shown up out of nowhere, first as the director of an episode of "Kojack" that TB stumbled on the other day. He comes back in "Goodfellas" as Billy Batts and then in "The Sopranos" as Phil Leotardo it doesn't end well in either for him.Īnd then there's Nicholas Colasanto, who plays the mob boss. Frank Vincent, who plays a key role in both, is in "Raging Bull" as Salvy Batts. It's a who's who from "Goodfellas," with a healthy mix of "The Sopranos" mixed in. He just doesn't have a great connection to the rest of it. ![]() He loves the back-and-forth banter between DeNiro and Pesci, especially early in the movie. "Raging Bull" just doesn't do it for TigerBlog. You also forget just how great a movie the original was. If you've seen the Rocky movies over and over, you realize that it's a great series, one that lasted a few movies too long. To TigerBlog, it's not in the same universe as another boxing movie, "Rocky," which came out four years earlier. TB hadn't seen it in years when he DVRd it and then watched it again recently. The American Film Institute ranks it among the top 100 movies of all time and the best sports movie of all-time, and it's universally considered a classic. His sentiment is hardly shared by the majority of the world. ![]() TigerBlog saw it when it came out in 1980. The movie earned DeNiro his second Academy Award and the only one he's ever won in the Best Actor category (he won Best Supporting Actor for playing young Vito Corleone in "The Godfather Part II"). The movie, starring DeNiro as LaMotta, centers around his relationship with his brother Joey, played by Pesci, and his second wife Vicki, played by Cathy Moriarty. ![]() "Raging Bull" tells the story of Jake LaMotta, who rises from the streets of the Bronx to become the middleweight champion of the world. If ever a movie figured to be in TigerBlog's wheelhouse, it was "Raging Bull."ĭirected by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci? A boxing movie? What could be better?
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