Goodfellas is a great movie because it created a new sense of the mob movie. Up until that point there was the Godfather which showed them as men of honor. Goodfellas shows the mafia soldiers as what they really are. I was disappointed in gangs considering it was Scorsese's dream project. It wasn't bad it just wasn't that great. It felt more like a western movie. Supposedly Scorsese said that the original idea was more violence and more historical facts. Even though the characters are based on real characters they just made it into a revenge movie.