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Alas poor Goodfellas, I knew them well. The battle for the Oscar was fought and lost by Goodfellas (relaeased 1991).

Both films are being shown today, although Goodfellas suffers from the editing of content for TV more than Dancing with Wolves.

Dancing with Wolves is a fine movie. I prefer Goodfellas, as you may have guessed.

Dancing with Wolves is a luxurious ocean cruise. It's a relaxing ride, with action, adventure, beautiful scenery and a great score. Costner is well suited here as actor and director. It was a huge risk, with a great percentage of the dialogue subtitled.

Goodfellas comes at you at machine-gun pace. Each scene is fun on its own. Lot's of action, the duality of the mob and family, gritty language, gallows humor galore.

The cast is, well, a great cast, Deniro, Pesci, Liotta etc. and the director is Scorsese.

For me it's like watching an old, I meant vintage, boxing match. Two fighters at their prime. One the stylish fighter preferring to win long fights on style points... the other: The pug-nose firing knock-out punches the entire fight.

In this case, style points went to Dances with Wolves.

I scored it for Goodfellas.

Am I here to amuse you?

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