TOP "The Death of Tommy DeVito" Reactions! Goodfellas (1990) Movie Reaction *First Time Watching*

[@F-Zero-yf3bh]

Fun fact. The true reason why the mother had a closed casket funeral was because it was empty. His body went missing.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

That’s rather disturbing.

[@donaldshotts4429]

@@F-Zero-yf3bh He was also 28. Wasn't some middle-aged guy

[@robertriojas2639]

That fact is fun to you? 😂

[@leanbeeffatty1]

@@robertriojas2639I had a good time

[@theduck2970]

Also, the real guy was way worse, like an absolute monster. Joe Pesci played a rather sympathetic version of him, though still nuts.

[@Fernando_616]

The funniest thing about this movie to me growing up, was how Animaniacs adopted Henry, Jimmy, and Tommy's characters into pigeons. The Goodfeathers 😂

[@devlinallistair-zx5by]

Last great animated series from Warner Bros.

[@aerthreepwood8021]

And Vito Corleone as their boss.

[@greeneyedmonster6694]

Bobby, Pesto, and Squit 😂

[@rayelee1301]

The best "cartoon" of all time

[@hollycook5046]

I miss the days when you could slam a phone. RIP Ray Liotta

[@barrelsynapse]

Well, you still can do it. Just once😂

[@markmac2206]

Costs $2000 to do it now.

[@p.j.graham9395]

No doubt!

[@jimkelly7908]

Even freakier, in real life there never was a funeral because Tommy “disappeared” a couple weeks after the heist. His body hasn’t been found.

[@MatthewMortensen1]

According to Henry Hill, John Gotti did it himself.

[@corvega_joe]

@@MatthewMortensen1Yep. Gotti was friends with Billy Bats and he personally tortured Tommy for days before killing him.

[@bigmikem1578]

Yup all true but Also a bit more complex. Pauly apparently allowed it because Tommy was also hitting on Karen and harassing her and pauly was apparently having an affair with Karen.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@bigmikem1578 This is the sort of things they should have kept in the movie. I hope at some point they do it exactly like it happened.

[@666FallenShadow]

@@bigmikem1578 he tried to actually r@pe her

[@donp1964]

Growing up in NY in the 70’s and 80’s, this was life. I remember the day my friend’s dad was “hit” . He was leaving for work and found his car had a flat tire. When he went to the trunk to change the tire, guys parked in a car across the street cut hum down with shotguns. His dad was a union rep, tied to the mob.

[@riudeguise4106]

Yes very avoidable death.

[@ajb541]

His "Casino" character got it way worse.

[@BarryHart-xo1oy]

Very true.

[@AgustinRodriguez-dd6mj]

That scene is BRUTAL

[@RandyYalch-iq4sz]

With his brother!!!Which was made from a true story as well.They were both beat to death in a basement in Chicago then buried in a cornfield. They were found quickly by the farmer though

[@AbeVicious]

They're not just characters. It's what actually happened to them in real life.

[@haywoodchablomi8037]

He has two of the most pointless murders in movie history. Spider in Goodfellas and the Pen Guy in Casino.

[@corvega_joe]

Real life Tommy was even more evil than movie Tommy. They had to tone down his evil because they thought audiences wouldn’t believe how insane he was.

[@riudeguise4106]

Not to mention casting Ray Liota looks wise, Henry Hill was marginally better looking than the elephant man.

[@curtismartin2866]

Tommy DiSimone once shot a man for no other reason than to see if his new gun worked. True Story.

[@mortensen1961]

@corvega_joe : Tommy DeSimone was far more psycho than Pesci's character could even think of being. And he was nearly a foot taller than Pesci. . .

[@blacksunday4231]

Real POS. Dude would shoot some random person just to test out a new gun.

[@billyhill7630]

that's what happens when you focus on a really big tie.

[@scottjulie27]

And having a really bad attention span like the majority of the first time reactiors.

[@markmac2206]

It was a made tie...nothing we could do about it.

[@facundomontivero2299]

Wasn't even a big tie. The collar of the shirt is just very closed.

[@AregPone]

SQUIRREL!!

[@brettkenschaft4239]

This scene caught me off guard the first time I saw it, too. But it's all well explained and understandable, and he did have it coming.

[@smokyondagrass2353]

tommy getting whacked is a lot worse than how they show it. Tommy found out that Paulie was having an Affair with Karen & while Henry was locked up he tried to have s*x with Karen but she refused so Tommy tried to r*pe Karen but Karen fought him off so he beath the daylights out of her. so Karen told Paulie about it & on top of the fact that tommy had another of Gotti's friends Ronald Jerothe because Tommy was dating his sister & one day beat the hell out of her too, Ronald tried to confront tommy about it but tommy lured him into some room where tommy blew his brains out. & those 2 murders convinced Paulie to get this nutcase Whacked. hence the among other things when said by Ray Liotta. also there was no funeral Tommy's body was never found

[@camicawber]

It's fun to see these reactions. A lot of, "WHAT?!?! OH MY GOD!!! WHY?!?!?!" And then when Henry says, "It was revenge for Billy Batts," those all turn to, "...oh, yeah, that makes sense."

[@MrRiddler6]

I felt nothing for him when he died. he was too much of an A-hole to have any kind of sympathy for me

[@smokyondagrass2353]

the real history about tommy is way worse than shown in the movie

[@Ildar_Bulatov]

Well said, I have the same opinion.

[@johnspringer6003]

Same.

[@flycast641]

Same. He had it coming.

[@datacipher]

Nobody did, but reaction people aren’t the brightest bunch of bulbs… of poor Tommy!! The guy who killed people for fun and thought it was funny lol.

[@daviddarko5837]

LOL! "What did he do wrong!" Everything.

[@ceekay4649]

The most surprising thing about this is every reactor is sad that Tommy died, even after seeing all the murders he committed in the movie.

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

Well I sure ain’t⚛️❤

[@mckenzie.latham91]

I didn’t care for tommy, but i did feel bad for his mother

[@RobertJuzstone]

and the real Tommy, was way, worst than the Tommy in the movie.

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

@ yes I heard that also he wasn’t a short guy like Pesci ⚛️❤️

[@DiviAugusti]

@@FrankOdonnell-ej3hdHe was a big athletic guy but once murdered a random stranger on the street to show someone how “badass” he is. The guy was no good.

[@sagegoodwin1]

Tommy’s mother is Scorsese’s real life mom :)

[@corbinhbucknerjr558]

I was wondering where they found a woman shorter than Pesci to play his mom.

[@3ggh3ad]

and the gangster who puts too many onions in the sauce, in prison, is his dad

[@josephespitia5084]

In this scene Robert De Niro pretend Joe Pesci had actually die and this was his true reaction. Those two have a very close friendship

[@dvcasey1]

In real life it wasn't Just for Billy Batts, he was a live wire, when Henry was in jail, Paully was dating his wife Karren on the side, and Tommy tried to r-word Carren as well, so When Paully says she will listen to him, when they tell Henry to get back with his wife, that's the subtext to that convo, and everything built up and Got Tommy that greenlight.

[@VegasAlien1]

I've seen the movie about 100 times and just now noticed there are 2 songs in a row with the same drummer, but different artists. Both "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes and "Jump Into the Fire" by Harry Nilsson feature Jim Gordon on drums, who was a very talented and prolific studio drummer. He heard voices in his head and later killed his own mother. He died in prison last year. Thought you would enjoy that bit of sunshine.

[@stanzelot]

Interesting how people feel sympathy for murderers getting murdered.

[@mastermill79]

Main characters of a story can get away with murder in the audience's eyes.

[@thomasgriffiths6758]

The interesting part about that scene is that the Derek and the Domino's song Layla is playing in the background which is about Eric Clapton's love for George Harrison's wife who eventually leaves George Harrison to marry Eric Clapton, so in a sense the song is about betrayal.

[@cadicamo8720]

The song was published when she was still with George?

[@MatthewMortensen1]

It's rumored that John Gotti himself pulled the trigger. He was friends with Billy.

[@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat84]

Paulie was supposedly the one to tell Gotti where to find him. Gotti was ready for war after the death of one of his closest friends. Paulie was trying to prevent a bloody war between the Lucchesi and Gambino families

[@rafaelmoura2103]

Jimmy weeping and thinking "Whos gonna shine my shoes now?"

[@JudesFerry3269]

EASY

[@ThunderPants13]

4:30 "It wasn't about the Lithuania thing..." 😅😅 Lufthansa, not Lithuania

[@hullbarrett]

Yea, she's bad with names. Like the horse in The Godfather, _"what was his name? Croatia?"_

[@Heller103085]

Cassie gets a pass lol this aint her kinda thing

[@jamesrowe3606]

The main thing about being a made man is that no one can harm you without authorisation from the bosses. Billy Batts was a made man and Tommy killed him. That was literally a fatal error. Jimmy escaped because he was just an associate, plus he made shitloads of money for the bosses.

[@O_Towne_Bear]

Simone turned into Seinfeld there for a minute: "I missed it, you said tie so I was looking at the tie..."

[@Til_I_Collapse]

😂😂😂😂😂 I had to re-read your comment on his voice!

[@stuckinarkansas1]

Heard a story that in real life Karen had an affair with Paulie, and she was the one who tattled on Tommy killing Batz.

[@corvega_joe]

Which is what I always found funny because in the movie, they show Henry as a cheating scumbag when real life Karen was banging his boss.

[@stuckinarkansas1]

@corvega_joe Good point.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

it's Paulie that turned in him because Tommy was harassing her.

[@smokyondagrass2353]

it's a lot worse than that. Tommy found out that Paulie was having an Affair with Karen & while Henry was locked up he tried to have s*x with Karen but she refused so Tommy tried to r*pe Karen but Karen fought him off so he beath the daylights out of her. so Karen told Paulie about it & on top of the fact that tommy had another of Gotti's friends Ronald Jerothe because Tommy was dating his sister & one day beat the hell out of her too, ROnald tried to conront tommy about it but tommy lured him into some room where tommy blew his brains out. & those 2 murders convinced Paulie to get this nutcase Whacked. hence the among other things when said by Ray Liotta

[@doublehockeystix]

blows my mind how hard it is for some of these kids to follow the story

[@afroahmed3989]

This movie was a wake up call from that honeymoon phase the audience had with the Mafia trope thanks to " The Godfather" Scorsese wanted to show how evil these organizations are and to show the Irony of it he called it " Good Fellas" .

[@gr3yh4wk1]

So "evil" he paid a mobster a couple of million bucks for the story. After I found that out, that was the last time I watched a scorcese movie.

[@afroahmed3989]

@gr3yh4wk1 He bought the story rights, the story was already in a best selling book called " wise guy" written by the real Henry Hill , and guess what , the godfather was also a best selling book written by mario bozo and Francis Ford Coppola paid top dollar to but the rights to the book as well .

[@bluehealer81]

Ashleigh: "What did he do wrong!??!!!" "It was revenge for Billy Batts" Ashleigh:"Ohhhhhh..."

[@JP-jm9fy]

Batts wasn’t the only reason. It was the reason they used to justify their actions but not the only reason. Getting right down to the nitty gritty it’s because guys like Tommy don’t last. Sooner or later if the mob didn’t get him the law would and if that happens who knows who else goes down with him.

[@timothypolanco8622]

One of the greatest movies ever made. There are so many great scenes, can you please do the scene when Jimmy tried to whack Karen ??

[@TheMerryPup]

“It was real greaseball shit. And no one could do anything about it.”

[@TheDriller-Killer]

"And dat's dat" 😂😂😂

[@riudeguise4106]

The reactors thinking these guys were going to ride off into the sunset was great

[@The911knight]

"...And a lot of other things." Me: I wouldn't be surprised if Spyders was one of those things.

[@MensaGiraffe]

She missed it because George talks over almost everything.

[@KevyNova]

True

[@cshubs]

That happy music is the instrumental from Clapton's Layla, full version. If you love that, check out his Derek/Dominos Jams 1-5. They're sick!!

[@chrisdoyle5450]

Another great compilation! Thanks for sharing.

[@GabrielBoorom]

Once, when I was homeless, broke & on probation, I slammed a phone in a rage like that. I had lost everything, was sleeping under a bridge and had nothing but the shirt on my back.

[@BH-h6l]

It's funny that after all these years I finally realized why Tommy said "oh no" just before he was shot. The room was empty. There was nobody there for a ceremony. That's why he suddenly knew what was coming. Took me long enough to figure that out haha. D'oh!

[@Sw4de]

All I can think about is the guy on the phone saying “ehh we had a problem” 😂😂😂

[@SLA1975AMA]

I’ve watched this movie at least 100 times since it was released and that scene still gets me.

[@ChoiceEnvironments]

Simone immediately turning Italian when she missed the shot. Classic.

[@al.n.darodda6183]

It’s amazing how non-Italians still don’t understand the Cosa Nostra way 😂

[@donaldshotts4429]

It amazing how anyone with a last name ending in A, I, or O acts like they're John Gotti

[@O_Towne_Bear]

Mmm...is it though?

[@riudeguise4106]

Some of the reactors aren’t American, so it’s not surprising

[@dogsmusicbookstravelscience]

Yes because every non-Italian should just understand everything about that.

[@jsharp3165]

I don't want to understand it. Who wants to live like that?

[@mikeat2637]

Joe Pesci's character in real life, Thomas De Simone, was even worse than Tommy DeVito in the film. He would think nothing of killing anyone who angered or disrespected him. That's what got him killed in the end.

[@BlackFlightNY]

In reality, ONLY Tommy getting whacked, not Henry & Jimmy was a compromise Paulie had worked out personally with John Gotti. It was SUPPOSED to be all 3 of them. The bar WAS Henry’s bar!- and Jimmy was looked at as the person “responsible” for Tommy & Henry. So they would have ALL went down if not for Paulie being friendly with John Gotti at the time.

[@lonestar6709]

Tommy was a Luchesse associate, and Batts was Gambino, and made. That was an absolute no no, what Tommy did. Tommy Luchesse and Carlo Gambino had married their kids (Daughter and Son respectively) into the other family, as safety. There was blood ties between them. You needed permission from the top, to go against the other mob, which Tommy didn't get. The rumour is, it was John Gotti himself, who did Tommy in.

[@MarcPagan]

Lot's of bodies found in car trunks off and on the Belt Parkway during the 70s.

[@brianvernon249]

The belt parkway. Uncomfortable to drive & ride. The Teconic PKWY in the rain is the only equivalent.

[@timothydoherty5337]

Goodfellas is the best gangster/mob movie of all time... hands down.

[@BlackFlightNY]

Think about what you DONT see the entire movie…you never see Paulies reaction to Tommy getting whacked, because it wasn’t necessary…he KNEW!!💡 Because HE allowed it to happen, he sacrificed Tommy, to save Jimmy & Henry😢 Notice how u ALSO never see Paulies reaction to the news that Tommy was going to be “made”

[@datacipher]

All the millennials acting like Tommy was a sweet innocent boy… 😂😂😂. Except for the Italian sounding Fran drescher girl - she knows the score, it’s in 😂 her bloods

[@DFR55921]

It wasn't just Billy Bats, Tommy killed a couple more people who were related to some Made Men. They also killed one of Tommy's brothers as well. Rumor has it that Paulie gave the Okay on Tommy and his brother.

[@markemerson8399]

Live by the sword, die by the sword. Best to live a good life, be a good person.

[@brianboye8025]

But not a Goodfella.

[@indiana_bones5583]

Fun fact: Tommy Devito is starting next week for the New York Giants.

[@coolwata105]

It's funny how many people looked like they were ready to grieve for Tommy. They understood he killed a made guy but completely forgot him shooting Spider in the foot.....then humiliating the kid before he killed him. Everytime I watch one of these, I feel like rewatching the movie. I've got the remote in my hand Right Now😂.

[@DKay-gl3hv]

I find it wild that most reactors show sympathy for Tommy, even though he's a psychopathic monster!!

[@dogsmusicbookstravelscience]

True. Then again, they're young, and we were all naive in our day, I guess. But yes, it's odd to see the "oh no" reactions here. When I saw this in the cinema back then I celebrated Tommy's murder. Anyway, the real Tommy DeSimone (DeVito) was truly evil, probably much more despicable than portrayed by Scorcese & Pesci.

[@whiskybooze]

Facts. I grew up in Chicago...We moved there from Philly and my best friend was from New York. We both had to move there cause of our dads' jobs. He was a %100 Sicilian and I was Irish. We never got in trouble.....lol. My mom's best friend was in the witness relocation program cause the mob was trying to kill her ex husband.

[@grkpektis]

The movie doesn't say but Paul is the one that rated him out

[@rincon27weirdoG]

That's why I love seeing the reactions of our younger generations, they truly missed out on the better years

[@eddiewinehosen6665]

"What does being made mean?" Tell me you've never seen a mob movie without telling me you've never seen a mob movie before :P

[@user-ik8ts2lf1u]

"What did he do wrong?" Are people actually watching these movies?!

[@KevyNova]

Justice for Spider!

[@markmac2206]

You're a funny guy.

[@cadicamo8720]

​@@markmac2206Funny? Funny how?

[@rich1223]

Its amazing how tnis generation can watch a whole movie and couldn't understand why Tommy was being killed! without being told!!🤣🤣🤣

[@DoyleHargraves2025]

Many years later Henry Hill made the claim that in real life Tommy was killed by John Gotti.

[@davidgamble2673]

Hehehe "the Lithuania thing". I never flied Lufthansa either

[@GrouchyOldBear7]

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

[@mikey7189]

Robert DeNiro was crying in the phone booth because somebody called him and said that Trump won the 2024 election.....lol

[@claudej.montgomery9421]

2:01 “But, when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they'd been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing.”

[@maxpolaris99]

No tears should be shed for Tommy The Psychopath. RIH Tommy!

[@marcellofantini8991]

Very satisfying scene

[@foofighter7249]

this is where i display how clever i am with an interesting fact about the movie.

[@terencejay8845]

I believe it.

[@KevyNova]

Beat me to it.

[@dogsmusicbookstravelscience]

Thank you for making this comment section better, sir.

[@peterschairer488]

Robert Deniro's reaction in the phone booth was real. An innocent bystander walked by and didn't know what was going on.

[@mrbeaverstate]

Thats a really big tie....you don't miss a detail..hahahaha

[@danielepps8729]

They really never found Tommy Body

[@alonenjersey]

The woman playing Tommy's Mom also had a small role in "Casino."

[@88wildcat]

None of the reactors would last five minutes in the mob. Tommy saw that there was no one else in the room and the room had no decorations for the ceremony. The instant he saw that he knew he was a goner before they even pulled the trigger. Tommy may have been psycho but he was street smart and kept his guard up. His one vulnerability was his desire to be made so they used that to set him up and catch him with his guard down.

[@peposo7]

Decorations? I thought it was because he saw no one there to receive him. An empty room.

[@EricksonMedina-i7q]

Ash said he's never seen De Niro emotional. You see him when he cries over Trump. 😂

[@xbubblehead]

The tears were for the people who voted for Trump because of what's in store for them.

[@justayoutuber1906]

It took me 20 years to realize this was all based on real events

[@jdssurf]

God I hate when reactors aren't paying attention to the fkn shit happening and dialog.

[@mrgraham5521]

Not only did the real Tommy just disappear, rumor had it that John Gotti killed him over him killing Billy Bats. Bats was Gotti's close friend. Also, Bats died so Tommy and Jimmy didn't have to give back his loan and gambling businesses they took over when Bats went to jail. The insult just set it off.

[@danielskinner5346]

Henry and Jimmy weren't killed because they were good earners.

[@raycope2086]

That happened to me once. I found myself trapped in a phone booth, and there was nobody around. I simply had to take the phone off the hook and batter down the windows so I could extricate myself. So that was alright.

[@mitchellmelkin4078]

Hannah is so much more perceptive than Ash. "This is so disrespectful." Uh, really, Ash?

[@MrTech226]

Real Tommy aka Tommy DeSimone was taller and bigger than Pesci's Tommy plus more brutal. Sources stated that John Gotti had a hand in killing Tommy DeSimone as payback for killing Billy "Bats", made member of Gambino Family in which we known John is part of Gambino Family. As Henry (Ray Liotta) stated, Tommy broken main rule of Mafia need permission from Commission (group of all major Families plus others across the country) and Tommy wasn't made yet. There are channels on YT tells complete stories of all real members of Goodfellas from Henry to Tommy DeSimone to Jimmy "The Gent" Burke to Paul Vario plus others in which this classic is loosely based.

[@Fabyo8226]

when you watch a movie you have to do only two things: 1. watch the movie 2. SHUT UP!!!

[@Lawrence-k4d]

And they shot him in the face so his mother couldn't paint his picture no more.

[@maxpolaris99]

It's not Italian, it's Sicilian. Both parents have to trace their lineage back to Sicily.

[@booksteer7057]

According to Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, John Gotti was the one who pulled the trigger.

[@marksullivan8200]

Sadly movies like this can't be made anymore as it may hurt people's feelings as the world has gotten far too soft to see how Gen x grew when people where normal

[@MrAitraining]

"You know what I mean. He's gone"

[@everyonelovesmajima]

1:57 “oh my god the floor is beautiful innit I can’t believe they just killed him like that.”

[@bazil9394]

This was real? I saw it in the movie I thought it was bull$%t Raging bull#$t lol

[@vishnu79]

Sort of, yeah. Though, real-life Tommy was a total whack-job, and he didn't just get killed for what he did to Billy, there was other stuff too, like sleeping with other guy's wives and personal shit. Gotti might have even been the one that pulled the trigger on Tommy, as Batts was his friend from way back.

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@vishnu79 if you watched the Sopranos you would get it lol

[@88wildcat]

It's based off of the Nicholas (I'm going to butcher the spelling of the last name.) Pilaggi's book Wiseguys. The last names of the characters are changed in the movie (except for the Hills) but everything else is based on a true story. (Or at least Henry Hill's version of a true story.)

[@bazil9394]

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 it happens:)

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@bazil9394 ah ha

[@jefftalbot5192]

If you feel bad about Joes character in this scene, then i suggest watching "The Irishman":(Joe gets payback the same way but to Al:(with Bobby's help;)😊

[@davidhutchinson5233]

Tommy D had it coming. Murdered Batts, Foxy Jerothe and a few others. The story is John Gotti was the one who hit Tommy. but I guess we'll never get the real story.

[@barbados_ririfenty8553]

Yep it was only a matter of time

[@NickJohnCoop]

It’s also evidence as to why you *never* get involved in this life, because either you end up like this or in jail.

[@hulkslayer626]

That "Hold Down A" chick kinda looks like the actress who plays April on Parks and Rec.

[@cliffchristie5865]

It's fairly easy to push over a phone booth when it's a prop.

[@Chockys234]

In the moment of your best glory, the moment of your worst treason. Mob is not a child's play. And no one like Martin Scorsese to explain how it's be part of something so close but so lethal at the same time. Can you imagine having friends capable to kill you with a nice smile on their faces without remorses? (RIP Ray Liotta, of course).

[@davidsmith-uw2ci]

One thing i learned from this movie is dont go into a room with 2 or more ppl behind you.

[@88wildcat]

Also, when you are supposed to get rid of a truck, get rid of the truck.

[@Lee-Darin]

And they couldn't exact any revenge on the guys that whacked him

[@Shintigercurl]

simply put, tommy did too much, with the main thing being that he killed billy bats. henry and jimmy were spared because they were high end earners for the outfit. tommy? he was a great enforcer and hitman when needed but he was a loose cannon who did too much.

[@malachimiranda]

Tommy did a good job kid in Italian

[@michaeldevito7099]

Great part