A concise comment indeed sir

Considering how part 3 was im not surprised

I mean...Godfather III sets the bar about as low as can be. What an absolute fuckin travesty of a "movie"...

@@Larry_Sportello Honestly just watched 1 which was a masterpiece and stopped there.

@@surprisecat7401 good for quitting while you were ahead

And you know, if the mob just left these guys alone and let them leave, they wouldn't have had to turn to the Government for protection and give them all this information. But they won't let people leave, people who made a mistake joining when they were young and they grow up and don't want to be involved. If they just actually let them leave, the guys wouldn't be giving all this information to the Government. Yes, a lot more would be leaving if they were allowed to go on their way, but don't they want people who really have their hearts in it and aren't looking to get out by the only means possible which is to inform and make Government deals to get out? They have no choice but to inform because the mob doesn't leave them a choice. And like this guy said, the whole perception of all this great honor and such is not really how it goes. That's Hollywood. These are criminals who snitch out each other all the time and have very little honor, it's about money and greed and getting away with what you can get away with. Not just in society, but within their mafia system as well. Still, I'd rather it be the mob we know, the Italian Mafia, rather than other kinds of mobs from various countries that try to get a piece here. While I don't think the Italian Mafia have that much respect and honor and it's more about what you can get away with, I do think they still have more honor than a lot of mob groups from other countries that have tried to get seeded here. And so as long as we're forced to have these kind or organizations around, I still kind of hope the Italian Mafia remains the dominant criminal organization in the US, as ridiculous as that may sound.

MF never gave any information on anyone

​@@MewmewGrrlHey I hear you man. It's as they say. Better a devil you know, than the one you don't.

@@tobe1207 That's what he says - he is the master of the narrative. But he can be quite loose with the truth

No heroes in goals

Check out larry Lawton he was in prison for a decade and does a lot of prison movie reviews

Good point.

He looks good for 17 years

17 years in the can.

Too soon

Somehow filmed from beyond the grave.

Not even remotely funny

@@rafael2499 it's pretty funny

10 suicide bombers explain what it was like to be suicide bombers

They're a glorified crew

There's no sword and gun on table, guys don't get there finger picked 🤌

🤣🤣

this is based on real life, the nj family didnt follow protocol during ceremonies, when Gotti found out, he told them to do it over again with their guys or the gambinos wouldnt recognize them as made.

@@eurobubble7068 Bravo once again, Chase. Untouchable writing.

He looks and talks like all my cousins!! 😬

We ( all italians) speak like this in NYC, Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania

@@jfg1104 not Connecticut or Pennsylvania, I’m from nyc whenever I leave and go to pa or ct or upstate everyone sounds like a damn canadian

What’s so funny

So, you discovered the Italian accent. Congrats for u kiddo

He gave Godfather a 7

@@usmantariq7997 There were multiple scenes from The Godfather. At 3:43 he gives it a 0/10. He gave a lot more of the Futurama scenes a lot of serious nods towards the aspects it was portraying, which I found to be kind of funny.

@@ttanizawa901 Yeah that's funny

* Godfather 3

@@ttanizawa901 godfather 3 was quite unrealistic compared to the first one

Yup. The two kinds of folk in this world. Mafia. And non mafia.

it’s not as a bad of a movie as people make it out to be

@@louis8487 To be fair, that *does* describe everyone on Earth.

Because they mostly do things the right way and if they dont it’d just be a dry fuckin rating

Like Carmine said "they're a glorified crew".

Haha yea I think a lot of the mob guys don’t understand what the Sopranos is really all about like you were saying and you know it’s really a show about society and life and social commentary through the lens of mobsters

The Sopranos also sacrifices realism for artistic freedom on multiple occasions. That’s just the kind of show it was, it didn’t try to hide it. Take the episode “Pine Barrens” for example. The surface level plot of that episode makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. That dude got shot in the head and got back up, then he straight up disappeared, and Chris and Paulie’s tracks didn’t lead back to the car for some reason. But all that stuff symbolically constructs a story with a functional narrative and it’s easily one of the best episodes of the series. If a work of fiction makes no attempt to make sense, then I give it a pass. If everything had to be realistic then it would automatically make any science fiction or fantasy movies bad by default. Plus, The Sopranos utilizes absurdity and unrealistic scenes for comedic purposes. The show is honestly hilarious.

@@sprawlz6466 LMFAO Dude I don't think the Pine Barrens episode was that deep. First off the Russians head got grazed by the bullet. A small caliber bullet from at least 30YDS away. That fact that Paulie even hit him with a hand gun from that distance is pure luck. I've been shooting guns for a long time, and I can't hit anything that accurately from that distance. Secondly Valery "the Russian" was a member of the Spetsnaz or Special Forces. So surviving a flesh wound, even in the head, and than running a decent distance in the cold in New Jersey and later dying (if he did) isn't really a stretch. Years ago I watched and interview with a former mob member who's crew thought he was snitching, and they actually shot him in the back of the head twice with a .22 from point blank range and the bullets didn't even penetrate his skull. He survived and though he was not snitching before he immediately went to the Feds. Granted he was a big boy and more than likely had a pretty thick skull but still. Anyways I think Valery climbed a tree, as they do show a downward view looking at Chrissy and Paulie. At the very least he ran off and died somewhere else. Third I would trust Chrissy and Paulie to find their way out of the woods about as much as I would trust a daycare ran by Jerry Sandusky and Jeffrey Epstein. Those two guys probably walked in circles a couple times, also it was probably hunting season and the tracks got confused for older ones. It wasn't super fresh snow either so the tracks could have been hard to pick up. Not to mention the snow covered woods in the winter time is an easy place to get lost. I lived in Michigan for a long time and had a cabin up north. In the summer I knew my way around the woods very well, but I went up there during the winter one time and after a snow fall was a different story. I think that episode was more about Paulie and Chrissy being friends but under the surface of their friendship there wasn't much holding them together. They would turn on each other real quick. Also did Valery survive? From the first time I saw that episode I always was weary of the Russians coming back for revenge.

@@jayr3381 I think John said that right?

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A rat

Well, don't. He's a murderer who only switched sides because his own life was in danger. He's never done a single thing in his life that should be respected.

I think he just had a breakdown. That why he was acting like that.

For me, it was the casting of Janet Reno as Michael Corleone. Disgraceful.

Well its a comedy and we all know every joke has a hidden truth

I have a Haitian transgender servobot living next door. 100% accurate show

I’d say 90% of viewers never understood godfather III because they never studied particularly what was going on in italy at that historical time, Vatican banks, casinos, mafia, masonry ecc

@@FreePalestineJahRastafariit not about understanding it’s about the appalling acting, irrelevant characters, bizarre character changes and poor overall product.

@@rilasolo113nope I don’t agree sorry, I study history as a ho by and that time of Italian history was one of the darkest in history for us, and it was very well reflected in the movie

Well the Sopranos was less accurate than others, because the family Tony ran did things wrong, which was even brought up in the show and caused the New York family to go to war with the Jersey family.

Actually, everything he pointed out was brought up in another part of the same episode. Yeah Sil cracked a joke at the beginning before the ceremony started, but the bird being a bad omen, being made being one of the lowest points in that character's life, and it taking 10+ years for Chris to be made were all discussed. I kinda feel like this scene needs more context.

@@Mason-iy4cxthe sopranos is actually very accurate, so accurate that agents told creator David Chase that they had wire taps on mafia members and they were talking about the sopranos, wondering if they had a rat cuz sopranos was so accurate

Thank you, Michael

Yeah, I'm so tired of him.

Franzes is a stunad of the highest magnitude.

This comment is very accurate and after seeing lots of his content, I agree. It seems he may be a little concerned about "stepping on toes" still, which is understandable.

Since when did Franzese glorified the mob? He's literally the antithesis of one. If there's someone that glorifies the mob, it's Sammy Gravano.

give me some examples.

The Mafia has recognized its better to reform their image to the public. Than to continue the old way of things. Just like lucky Luciano rewrote the book back then, these guys are doing it now.

@@ericbrown-yq2ey reform in the front but 'backstage' same old story.

@@thesaints-7-andrew. most likely but it's still a smart move

he mentions it in the other insider video but he has to plan whatever he does and wherever he goes. He can't visit his family that much. He's gonna be looking over his shoulder his entire life. He's just being cautious and smart about it but it must be so draining to do this day in and out.

The Mafia isn't what it was. Henry Hill snitched and still went to NY and wasn't touched. The Mafia used to be everywhere in America and the only way for someone to generally escape was snitch and enter witness protection but these days you could just leave your area and you'd be mostly fine. Rico decimated the mafia in America and while they're still about, they don't hold the power they used to and most families are really small.

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The RICO statute made guys flip

@@EresirThe1st Somewhat untrue. As in, the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, the current world's biggest mafia (making 60+ bilion a year) is known for maintaining actual familial blood ties. Meaning, it gets passed down from father to son. It's actually kept in the family. This has led the 'ndrangheta to both become the biggest mafia in Italy (alongside their near monopoly on European coke) and the most wide-spread and wealthy organized crime syndicate in the world. Their members barely snitch, because it's much more rare for an Italian to snitch on an actual blood relative. And the so called "'ndrangheta kids'' (kids who grow up with mafiosi families) are trained from a young age to follow in their family's footsteps. It's a rather sad thing, especially because the Italian mafias bleed our country dry.

Way back, in this area, they were almost all related or at least intermarried, and from the same village or at least the same province

It was fun filming it- John Pennisi ( Sitdownnews podcast)

No more of this, Butchie, no more of this.

Thank you Keybumps - John Pennisi

what's his channel?

@@Sitdownnews thanks

@@Sitdownnews subscribed

@@jackjackson39 thank you

He hadn’t fully watched it at the time of this video.

John never had the makings of a varsity athlete

Listen to him, he knows everything.

I disagree with that take. Yes, one theme is it’s about the decline of the mob (though tbh, it starts like that, but it kind of jettisons that a bit). But that doesn’t explain every mistake they made about how it operates. A lot of that is just that there was a lot less info out there on how the mob worked at the time that The Sopranos was made. In the last 20 years, and particularly in the last five years, the number of former members who have written books, done interviews, and now started UKposts channels, is huge. There is vastly more knowledge about how the mob functioned/functions now than there was in the late 90s. Plus, I think they changed some things up for dramatic/comedic effect, as movies and tv shows always do. Having the two guys getting made together could be a genuine mistake (personally I don’t think it was some statement about declining standards in the mob), or, it could be that when you are making a tv show, you have a limited number of scenes to get your story across, and it would just be boring to have them go in one at a time and repeat the same thing, so they ran them together. And I definitely think that they inserted jokes and verbal conflict into a lot of situations where it wouldn’t have happened in real life, because it’s a tv show, and it has to entertain and engage the audience.

Umm they don’t Spricken Z English. (Italian penguins?). However, I Spricken….

Sasquatch: RAAAAAAAW AGGGGGHR ( translation: 6/10 that bigfoot is not heary enough)

@@chaoticneutral7573 xDDDD

These guys were trained to lie... Michael likes to exaggerate.... They all do

He says the same night. That doesn’t mean they were all in the room at the same time

Yeah there were multiple people being made but it was one after the other. They had to wait their turn

Lvl 30 in a IOI Hitman game is very low.

@@die_buecher7090 i'm talking about real games Mafia city

@@pghwhpffw9051 Oh I see,you mean the best mobile game in the world.

@@die_buecher7090 the best game in the world

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I mean that's possible to make 😁

📌📍 this legendary comment 🔥🔥😂😂

And the way they do it is all fucked up.

Historically, Carmine always said the Sopranos are nothing more than a glorified crew.

It’s five fucken families and that Pygmy thing over in jersey

@@ShitinWithNoBathroom Guys don’t get their finger pricked. There's no sword and gun on the table...

Welp......looks like you've told us a couple of three thing.

Thank you and a big shout out to OC Shortz

"god rates 10 god movies"

@@micro11. u are killing the suspense for after life. Only then we are about to find if he exists or not. If he does we would ask him to make a youtube for afterlife and.... Eeh getting long im out

Knew a guy that moved to NYC in late 1970s. Within a couple weeks he was working for them and running around with them.

They're not long gone they stay out of social clubs,streets and try to stay off the FBI's radar. And they've figured there's lots of money to be earned in white collar crime than the streets.

Along withmost the Italian ethnic enclave neighborhoods around the country,that never saw or heard or said anything

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*YESS*

why the definite edition though and not the old one?

Be careful hun

@@loveinthematrix he's not very discreet 😂

Could someone that’s half Italian and half black get involved if they wanted to

@@jacksonchontos2910 Not to an already made Italian crime family. You could possibly make your own. If you hypothetically started to work for an already made family, there's only so high up in rank you would go. You "might" get lucky with the right knowledge and skills to be a families concierge, but you will Never be a Don. Unless you create your own crime family. I just know these things from lots of research about the Italian families.

@@mandolyngambino9327 ty just curious lol

​@@jacksonchontos2910They can always get involved, they just won't be made members of a family, they'll just be an associate. Doesn't mean an associate can't hold power though, Joe watts, Jimmy Burke and many others were extremely powerful associates. The Chicago outfit is different and non Italians have been allowed to join.

I was wondering too

I'm sure he still has to be wary of where he goes to a degree, but the mafia's nowhere near what it once was. Smartphones, street cams & drones, and the surveillance state have changed the game. Not tryna be dramatic, they can't always just randomly spy on people & they don't always know who to spy on. But it's so much easier to get busted for organized crime now in the US with new technology & post-9/11 laws and policies

He’s already on the hit list for informing. Once they decide to come after you there’s nothing else keeping you quiet.

In Italy,the government puts the Sicilian Cosa Nostra,the Calabrian N'Draghetena,the Camorra,etc all under the umbrella term of being a "Mafia". Not to mention all the different groups have people operating all over Italy iand the world,kind of like "Branch Offices" who over time may or may not seek and obtain independence. That's what happened here in America in many cases.Guys started in NYC or maybe New Orleans , Chicago Then for one reason or another went to small cities and towns around NYS , West Coast ,Midwest The South or the country. Or maybe ,some were just home born and bred in smaller towns

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ye tbf that movie was awesome

The movie wasn't that good. But Assante did a great job portraying Gotti.

Thanks Franzese

@@richardsantanna5398 You're crazy, that was one of the most authentic mob movies of all time..

@@Guillermo_Carratero It may be authentic, but that doesn't make it a good movie. It was trying to portray reality in the life so accurately that it failed as a work of art and it was rather dull.

There's no sword and gun on the table.

The way they make guys over there is all fucked up!

Let me tell ya one of tree things

Right everybody else be too generous he too intense