Whoops, I resurrected a thread.

Gangs of New York is basically a revenge film. Scorsese crammed too many characters and stories into a single film. Why didn't the writers just take one of the stories from Herbert Asbury's book? No, the film has very little to do with the book only in title, setting, and historical figures which the film takes massive creative license with rather than historical accuracy.

Whereas, Goodfellas is probably the best mafia/mob film ever made. A classic. I love the transformations Henry Hill undergoes through the film especially as a paranoid coked-up dealer.