Bill Burr on Casino

Bill Burr reacts to Martin Scorsese's 1995 classic Casino.
Source: Monday Morning Podcast, Anything Better?
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[@billg3356]

The best part of that scene where Pesci gets his beatdown is that he's narrating that part of the movie right up until that bat hits him. His yelp.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

Honestly, the scene might be fucked up but that moment never fails to get me laughing. It's such an original idea😂😂

[@walkerzupp8393]

"some James Wood degenerate" - it seems to be the Scorsese picture I always return to. I loved it the first time I saw it, and I've loved it every time I've watched it since.

[@HeisenbergTheFirst]

So poetic how Philly and Tommy beat each other to death in two different films.

[@andrewbrend777]

It's like poetry. It rhymes

[@dlxmarks]

I always appreciated Frank Vincent getting cast in the two roles to balance out what happened in those movies.

[@davidortega3393]

Don’t forget that brutal fight in Raging Bull (wasn’t to death though).

[@robertw8861]

I've seen both these films too many times to mention and I honestly never noticed it was the same guy, and now you've mentioned it, it was so obvious, how did I miss that for all these years. wow!

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

Now go home and get your fuckin shine box

[@iggypyro78]

The scene where DeNiro is asking Sharon Stone what she spent all the money on kills me. He knows she's not going to tell him, and she knows she can't tell him because he'll just get more mad - and he just can't let it go - and it just makes him more mad. They both know he just needs to let it go, but he keeps jabbing and jabbing at her, and getting digs in about Lester - but it's just so futile. Lol. Even if she did tell him, she'd probably lie, and that would make him mad, but telling him the truth would make him mad - so it's just total misery and jealousy and anger. And he's also realizing that it's going to be his whole life with her - that they're going to have this same conversation over and over again - and he's always going to be miserable. It's so real to me because I've had that conversation, and it just becomes self-punishment. Total self-abuse. I love that scene.

[@temite80]

Clever pun from Scorsese casting Billy Bats from Goodfellas for the bat scene.

[@dumpsta-divrr365]

Also nice for him to get his revenge

[@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044]

Ha. I would like to think that Scorsese isn't working on this level...but he is.

[@HeadbutKneecap]

I don't know why, but the scene where De Nero tries to give the guy his pen back and just before Peschi starts stabbing him he's like "...I'm just trying to give you back your fuckin pen?" makes me laugh so hard and I don't know why

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

"What's that, you hear a little girl Frankie? What happened to the big tough guy that told my friend to stick it up his fuckin' ass?"/"While I was trying to figure out WHY the guy was saying what he was saying, Nicky just hit him"😂😂😂

[@floop74]

for me it's his face when Sharon Stone is freaking out in the front yard

[@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044]

Casino's incredible, but there are several scenes that are really tough to watch. Joe Pesci begging for them to stop hitting his brother at the end - so rough!

[@brianisebay]

i remember seeing casino on cable when I was like 12 or something, they cut that scene down a bit but left a lot of the gruesome shit in. always disturbed me but now it's one of my all time favorite movies

[@Fiveash-Art]

That's what he gets for spitting on delicious sandwiches.

[@nebuloushammer8773]

I feel a ton of catharsis in that scene so that one makes me feel good. The part where Joe Pesci puts the guys head in the vice is a lot harder to watch.

[@rankinlas]

The head in the vice scene 🤢

[@Fiveash-Art]

@@rankinlas And all that for Charlie 'M'

[@Vaporvice84]

Technically Pesci's still got 1 over Vincent since he slammed his head in a car door repeatedly in "Raging Bull".

[@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044]

😂😂😂

[@Mr.EastCoast-oj2xk]

"How ya doing Les? It's Lester right?? Sam.."

[@ct6852]

Sharon Stone nailed that part. They were all good...but she really brought something special to that movie.

[@Fubud]

I love that movie more than most but totally agreed with bill on the bat scene. Been avoiding it since the 2 tape VHS.

[@miami8089]

Man, I thought I was the only one that has a hard time watching the Pesci’s brother getting killed scene. I’ve watched this movie probably 20 times and will always fast forward that scene

[@Psyclonus7]

You're sporadic with your censorship

[@vitorafmonteiro]

The least censorship is the best censorship.

[@floydzeppland]

​@@vitorafmonteiroIf it was the least, there would no fucks heard atall 😂 there's fucks included then a fuck cut out seconds later 😂

[@classiclife7204]

"We've all been there ..." Well, we've all ASPIRED to be a in a toxic relationship with a beauty queen, yes. I doubt anyone on this page has had game enough to be in a relationship with a woman like Ginger long enough to find out that she still loves her old pimp boyfriend. There are less grand versions of this story - those are the versions we know.

[@oliverholmes-gunning5372]

Ok that's it, it's been too long. I'm rewatching Casino tonight.

[@GoldenBear_]

Casino based on a true story. I always have a harder time watching Stone and Pesci make out over the cornfield field scene. You can see the bats are obviously fake in a few angles. As with all the Scorcese movies I've seen, great use of music, never tire of watching this.

[@andrewjackdaw2511]

I've seen the movie about 8-10 times, I've seen the beatdown twice. Even now I had to look away.

[@anthonysteen56]

I’ve managed - and by managed I mean white knuckled my way to avoid falling into it by the skin of my teeth - to have a relationship with a Sharon Stone type woman. I wasn’t the low life or baller but I was the only guy with good enough game and was just really honest with her. I don’t think anyone has ever been honest with her over her entire life so she loved me for it. If I being honest I could tell from the beginning that she was probably too much for me. It’s been scary, delightful and eye opening. It’s been winding down for the last 4 or 5 months but what a ride and I move in July.

[@Mickey-1994]

8/10, it's not The Godfather or Goodfellas but it's a good movie.

[@mrhassell]

Seen the follow up? Its called Pokies.

[@mogilews]

"The amount of people you could apply that to . ." is definitely a lot fewer than the teeming millions such people always leave behind them in the world, a cresting wake of human suffering that sometimes washes over our little beach. The ones who didn't have it all, didn't have much, or had nothing at all, but had it flensed from their carcasses all the same.

[@steveconn]

De Niro as Sam Rothstein is fascinating, in thrall to the mob and Ginger. Deserves better than Burr's barroom whatever analysis.

[@jimsauer2453]

I love this movie however. I would use an axe.

[@EddieHenderson92]

Flawed movie but still like an 8/10.

[@Ch33ziTzsk8R]

I’ll get food and all, not buying clothes… you look good how you are why do you need a 20000 coat. Where’s my money going the fuck???

[@Fiveash-Art]

Casino is a great movie, but every time I sit down to watch I wonder to myself .. Why am I not watching Goodfellas instead?

[@johngant3991]

Because Casino is better than Goodfellas

[@Fiveash-Art]

@@johngant3991 Uh.. no.

[@bb1111116]

It continues the story of the mob. Goodfellas, (The Irishman), Casino. It’s the rise and fall of the mob. Started out hitting taxi cabs and clubs, then they took over the Teamsters and the airports, then they took over Las Vegas. And then it all came crashing down with them killing each other or going to prison for life. It’s brutal but I keep watching.

[@Fiveash-Art]

@@bb1111116 I know what the movie is about. I love it, but not nearly like Goodfellas. I turned The Irishman off. The CGI was extremely distracting and it just felt like Scorsese trying to relive the glory days or something.

[@kevinfinnerty8414]

The Irishman is better than both. It just takes a while to realize it.

[@dragline.]

Bill's movie takes are poorly articulated and mid.

[@kdcndw1]

You know that the actual guy Deniro's character was based on was physically abusive to his wife and the movie downplayed that aspect.

[@SocialAssasin89]

Like he said that ending is brutality at its Epitome The aound of the bats the the sounds against the body as it slowly runs out of air gasping for life Scene that when I was 12 Woke up to that on USA network N the ending why that movie was on at 730am idk but damn made me never wanna cross any mafioso ever😂

[@philipjoannou]

I’ve seen some of the most violent films and real life videos of accidents and deaths and still am haunted by the cornfield scene! How they continue to beat them within an inch of their life only to bury them alive in only their underwear and being the same guys who worked for them and were friends with, Real Greaseball Shit as Henry Hill said it

[@criostoirocuinn]

I love Casino. Pesci was immense in it, the scene in the desert, the scene with the bozos collecting scammed money, the secret conversations with Frank Vincents character "Look at this fucking fed" 🤣

[@fiarandompenaltygeneratorm5044]

I think he's better in "Casino" than in "Goodfellas." That scene at Ace's house with the banker. "I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do..." 😂😂😂

[@c.nelson3747]

I've always loved the moment where Frank Vincent gets an internal monologue, just for that one scene where he's talking to one of the suits. I remember laughing when it first happened because of how unexpected it was.

[@Stevef2022]

This is one of the greatest movies of all time. I like it even more than Goodfellas.

[@johnpendarvis7885]

I never found Sharon Stone particularly attractive.