Movies that Star Ray Liotta Where He Doesn't Play a Bad Guy

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Are there any? The only one I can think of is Field of Dreams. But wasn't he playing Shoeless Joe Jackson in that? And didn't Jackson throw the World Series? Or am I imagining that?

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Corinna Corinna, that one with Whoopi Goldberg.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Operation Dumbo Drop

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Unforgettable, which was actually pretty good.

Oh and No Escape.

And he wasn't really a bad guy as much as a fucked-up guy in Copland.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Muppets from Space.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Even in Field of Dreams he has that moment where he says none of the guys wanted to invite Ty Cobb back from the dead "so we told him to stick it!" and he emits a startlingly malevolent little laugh.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish that movie had ended with the Black Sox dragging Pete Rose back to Hell with them. It would have made that shit a lot better.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I ask because I think Liotta is a great actor and he should try and branch out some. I'd go see him in, I don't know, a romantic comedy with Joan Cusack or something.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

In Blow he does a pretty great job as Johnny Depp's well-intentioned pop.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Corrina, Corrina's actually sort of sweet.

See also Domminick and Eugene.

Wasn't he in some movie where he played a doctor Fighting the System (in a nice-guy way)?

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that was Article 99, and I didn't see it. However, it is a valid rule that if you ever find yourself in a dramatic situation involving Ray Liotta and the feds, DON'T TRUST RAY.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

He's sort of like a Christopher Plummer that could beat the living shit out of you.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

HENRY HILL IS NOT A BAD GUY YOU BASTARDS.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

he's still a snitch in GoodFellas, Ally. Again, DON'T TRUST RAY.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't he the dad in some Farrelly Bros movie? Was he a bad dad?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Also Shoeless Joe didn't throw the world series! He was unjustly held accountable for the actions of another because the real Shoeless Joe was not a very swift intellect. This was actually explained in Field of Dreams! And also Eight Men out which has a lot of attractive men in it. And Charlie Sheen.

A better question is whether or not there are any movies ever in which Joe Pesci isn't playing the same character he always plays.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow Pesci's only been in 3 movies since Casino

Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) .... Leo Getz
... aka Lethal 4 (1998) (USA: promotional abbreviation)
3. Gone Fishin' (1997) .... Joe Waters
4. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) .... Tommy Spinelli

I submit to you "The Public Eye", which was a slight departure from his usual style. Unless he beat a stoolie to death in that one, too.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Alright, so you're in a police drama where somebody is clearly giving information to the bad guys. Your fellow detectives include Ray Liotta AND Scott Glenn. Your chief is Christopher Plummer. Who would you assume is the culprit?

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Joe Pesci.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, bullshit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The farmer dude from Babe?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

that's a bit better. James Cromwell has played some shady politicans. He might be the mayor who knows what's up, but the REAL dilemma would be figuring out whether Ray Liotta or Scott Glenn is the leak (though actually, they're probably both on the take. Liotta's the one that's going to try to kill you and Glenn's the one who will shoot Liotta muttering "it's gone too far...it wasn't supposed to BE this way!").

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

If Henry Silva is in your cop thriller, run the other way.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Frank Sinatra a bad guy? Cos Liotta played him.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

according to Imdb, Silva's the voice of Bane on the batman animated series!

No, Sinatra ain't bad, but he will kick the living shit out of you. So it's within Liotta's range.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, people like Glenn and Liotta are actually actors with really broad ranges, it's just that they're so GOOD at playing dubious rats that you almost WANT them to either sell out the hero or beat someone with a baseball bat in every movie.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe they're just assholes in real life and this is just how they conduct day to day business. Think about it.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I wuz gonna say...he's really not a bad guy in "Goodfellas". He turns in his mob buddies at the end, fer chrissakes!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

oooh a cokehead career criminal saves his own hide by turning in his peers to the feds. My hero.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i like the idea of joe pesci v. burt young FITE!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

OH MY GOD. I would personally devote my life to funding a Joe Pesci/Burt Young baseball bat fight if I thought it was at all possible. And they'd have to be screaming at each other the whole time. Not that they'd need to be told to.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, Ant, that's pretty much exactly what I'd do to my friends, it's all good. I say you go, Henry. You go and snitch out those people. DeNiro was gonna kill Henry's lady!! I mean my god you probably think Tony Montana is a bad guy too. WHAT THE FUCK?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthony....how have you gotten this far in life without someone furiously trying to set your pungent, nonsense-spouting ass on fire?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

there has NEVER been an ILX burt young thread. i find that most distressing, b/c burt young was joe pesci before joe pesci was joe pesci.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i also love the idea behind rocky -- that people in philadelphia sound EXACTLY LIKE people in NYC b/c, like, the cities are 2 hours apart and have lotsa italians. like, wtf?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean that's not true? WTF?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You know...I see this woman...and I say to myself...she's a tiger...

Alex, I've been waiting for this forewarned beatdown since 3rd grade. It's yet to come.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, but it's coming, Antoine.... when you least expect it!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

you were a film major, right, anthony?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

And it won't be so much "beat down", so much as a righteous immolation. Children will dance merrily around your funeral pyre, while fat, mustachioed gentleman will roast succultent racks of lamb with the flames licking off your charred hide.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

dang tootin', Eisbar. Oh, I totally fucked up that line from Scarface. The original line was: "The first time I saw you I says to myself, she's a tiger, she belongs to me"

Alex, your post got seriously gay right about "fat, mustachioed."

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

but AFTER alex makes luggage outta yer carcass, of course. that was for dissing kiss and eatb, mind you.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

but anyway, anthony DUDE you should TOTALLY make a movie that's just a joe pesci v. burt young smackdown.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex, your post got seriously gay right about "fat, mustachioed."

Well, we're talking about your burning corpse, so "seriously gay" seemed to be the order of the day. Bitch.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the village people, or freddie mercury's ghost perhaps.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe they'd do it with wiffle ball bats and stage blood for charity. Burt Young's probably up for it (he was just in a movie starring Kevin Pollak called Mob Dot Com. ew.) but I doubt I could afford Pesci. Unless I told him Burt said something about his mother.

Enough threats, bring on the flaming corpses!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

headless and all alone, of course.

i think burt young's got a restaurant, somewhere in yonkers or the bronx. or that was what an ex-gf told me once.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

he's also supposed to be a teddy bear IRL.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, he does, according to Imdb. And it better be called Pauly's, dammit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

all about burt young.

and, apparently, his restaurant is called Burt Young's Il Boschetto.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to divert the thread from its natural course, but I remembered another one: Unforgettable. As I recall, it was supposed to be John Dahl's big Hollywood move after Last Seduction and Red Rock West, and it was supposed to be Ray's big Hollywood move after Goodfellas. Instead it ended up its own ironic title-punchline. In fact, I can barely remember anything about it except that Ray plays some kinda smart guy whose wife is killed and he injects some experimental somethingorother to . . . whatever.

In re Pesci vs. Young: Burt oughta be careful, cause if he goes upside Joe's head the wrong way, Joe's facelift is gonna unfurl and them that dies will be the lucky ones.

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex in NYC and Anthony Miccio getting into a fight and calling each other 'seriously gay' over Ray Liotta is either awesome or really sad and dumb or possibly both. Either way this thread is totally high school.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually make that 4th Grade. "Ray Liotta is a bad guy!" "He's a good guy! Burn!" "You are seriously gay." "You're seriously gay!" mnyeh mnyeh!! slap fight grass stains etc.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I called him seriously gay for fantasizing about Peter Ustinov look-a-likes cooking lamb on my ass while children watch. And you're so not above this shit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

You're the one who brought Peter Ustinov into this, man, not me. And another skeleton lopes joyously from his stifling closet.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ok, please describe what YOUR fat mustachioed men look like. James Coco?

ihttp://www.turnerartistmanagement.com/David%20Turner/Smaller/Ray%20Liotta%20&%20Girl.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude you guys are GAY

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:17 (twenty-one years ago)

or the dude from cannon.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ray Liotta is evidently a real Shar-Pei nut.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www5.airnet.ne.jp/ashiato/POLITICS%20of%20AUTHOR/PERSON/RAY%20LIOTTA/CAST%20OF%20R.JPEG

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

haha when did Luke get such a fly girlfriend, Tom?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, the LIOTTA PALACE??!

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

My god, this thread is some culmination of...something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:28 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my god. I just noticed all the messages in you guyses e-mail addresses. I had no idea you'd been doing this!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the best thread I ever started, no thanks to me.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

no way, NA. I totally give you props for noticing Ray Liotta is one suspicious cat.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I just watched Something Wild the other day, he was pretty scary in that, until he gets himself stabbed by Jeff Daniels. How embarassing.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

have alex and the antman ever met? or would that be like that "star trek" episode where if matter-man and antimatter-man ever met outside of that room, both the matter- and anti-matter universes would explode?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Jeff Daniels does the moonwalk to the Feelies in Something Wild. He's also a great lunatic in Unlawful Entry (where he eventually gets his ass kicked by Madeline Stowe & Kurt Russell). I haven't seen Turbulence yet. Actually, wait, he gets killed by Lauren Holly in that. Christ, has he ever gotten killed by somebody cool? I forget what happens to him in Copland.

Haha Alex hasn't shown up at either of the two NYC FAPs I've been at. I totally offered to scream Limp Bizkit lyrics outside his window but his fellow big city folks weren't up for it.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I evidently have written the word "totally" in 71 ILE threads and over 100 ILM threads. Wow.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, Jeff Daniels does the moonwalk to the Feelies in Something Wild. It might make my top 10 of the most uncomfortable movie moments ever. But I'm easily embarassed.

I feel like I've seen something else with Liotta recently, hmm...oh yeah, that Jon Cusack movie where they're all in some lunatic's head. I think that was a Liotta-bad-guy fakeout, where you were supposed to think he was the bad guy but he wasn't. Or he was a bad guy, but not the REALLY bad guy or something.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

it could be worse ... you could've written OMG WTF? in over 100 ILX posts.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I've used the word "boring" about 10 times today alone.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG WTF gets googlized

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Great Scott! That Liotta-as-Connery photo is verily the greatest thing of all time. Antoine, your ceaseless idiocy is momentarily forgiven.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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