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Casino is one of if not my favorite movie. I like it more than Goodfellas cause it's different. We've seen plenty of rags to riches NYC mob movies, but not many about the various Mid-West mobs' control of the casinos. The 70's/80's Las Vegas setting is also more visually appealing than dark and grungy New York. There's some beautiful looking scenes in Casino.

Robert DeNiro plays a slightly different character than his previous tough guy gangsters. Now he's an outsider to the mob and is caught between Nicky and the bosses. Joe Pesci is even better as Nick Santoro than Tommy Devito. He's also almost a dead ringer for the real life version too instead of being wildly different than the real Tommy, but funny enough DeNiro looked pretty close to the real life Jimmy, but is a lot different than the real Ace.

Sharon Stone as Ginger is a character you love to hate and she played her deranged, psycho, despicable character wonderfully.

Then there's the side characters who are great even if they're relatively small parts like Don Rickles as Billy, James Woods as Lester, or even Joe Bob Briggs as the dopey slots manager.

I think ultimately, while it's very similar to Goodfellas, Casino is different enough that it's more watchable to me. Now that I think about it, it's funnier also which also helps the replay value.
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