I watched Blow a while back on HBO, and I remember really liking it. Now I'm reading the book (which is quite good by the way) so I thought I'd rent it and watch it again. I did, but after watching the film a second time I found that I liked it considerably less this time.

I think it's partly to do with reading the book and knowing what isn't quite right, but I also thought that the movie was trying too hard to be like Goodfellas, especially the scenes around the birth of George's daughter.

It's still a good movie, just not nearly as good as I thought before.

Any thoughts?