Goodfellas is the more accurate description of the mafia now and how it has always been, regardless of era. The mafia has always consisted of uneduated, poor, moral weaklings that barely scrape by economically. These members are ruled by mean, ruthless sociopathic killers who are more conniving, ruthless and mean than their members, and take the bulk of the money. No glorified life, just death, jail, murder, sadness, and ruined families.