Best scene in GoodFellas:

[Taverner]

[redqueen]

1. Helicopter scene for me.

Love that song... and the camera work is superb.

[Taverner]

2. You know the camera work was by accident

It was supposed to be hand-held camera - but originally the scene was 20 minutes longer. The whole quick cut thing was done to trim it down. What can I say, it worked!

[redqueen]

6. I didn't know that...

it sure did.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

3. The "Layla" scene, but the whole movie is excellent.

[fishwax]

7. agreed--the whole film is great, but that sequence is something else

[DS1]

4. Spider

[HEyHEY]

15. "No you ain't alright, spider"

[Symarip]

5. This one

The eating scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-rGnI9XNo

[SPKrazy]

8. Helicopter scene for sure

:woohoo:

that one kills me everytime I see it

feels so er, familiar :P

[Paladin]

9. How About The Pistol-Whipping Scene......

....where Ray Liotta walks across the street from his girlfriend's house and just beats the shit out of that creepy neighborhood kid with a .38?

What a glorious movie. It never gets old or boring for me.....

[driver8]

10. That's my favorite scene.

There are so many great scenes in the movie, but I love when Ray Liotta takes care of that creep.

[Danger Mouse]

11. Where they dig up and rebury Billy Batts...holy shit that scene cracks me up...

first time I saw it I laughed till it hurt.

[The Inquisitive]

12. When their lives crumble around them

[Kat45]

13. I couldn't vote. I can't pick just one; it's my favorite movie evuh.

But I will say that the use of "Layla" while showing the bodies was inspired.

[OmahaBlueDog]

14. The scene in the bar where they're naming all of the gangsters

... and the scene when he describes the downfall of the bar and then they torch the place

[Duer 157099]

16. Isn't there a scene where the Feds are busting all the gangsters?

Or am I mixing up my mafia flicks?

Because that scene is the sort of thing I like to imagine happening one day to Bush and Cheney and Rove and Rice and Rumsfeld and Gonzalez and on and on and on. Just like in Goodfellas.

And set to music, too.