Who was scarier - Jimmy or Tommy?
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RobofNJ — 1 year ago(April 13, 2024 06:06 AM)
Jimmy was scarier. Based on the real history, Jimmy was not this father figure, and the movie sanitized him way TOO much in my opinion. Jimmy was like the mob's version of Charlamagne the Great. He borderline was racist against Nuyoricans, Italians and Irish (who are non-white [and in the case of Nuyoricans and Italians] Hispanic, Latin with Latin[or in the case of Irish, Latin-] English accents).
Jimmy wasn't really a Burke. He was a Scandinavian. Many in Ireland do have Scandinavian DNA, including Spaniard.
Anyways, Burke is every evil old caca "scumbag"-saying Allied Nordicist Yankee Friends-watching Seinfeld-hating asshole I knew in Brooklyn. Class A ****stain. The real documents show a very nasty guy who made the real Henry Hill frightened with fear every day of his life. Tommy was a violent hotheaded mobsters, but if you were cool with him, he generally was cool with you, and didn't hurt you. Of course he made the other mobsters kiss his ass, and yes I have to concede that the "I'm funny how?" scene was the mobsters laughing with him in fear. Joe Pesci confirmed. I just am annoyed at dumbasses who make up nonsense (don't get me started on the "Terminator 2 bar scene is comic relief" nonsense).
Jimmy on the other hand is every one of those creepy 60s and 70s milkmen. Like a darker version of Popeye Doyle in The French Connection. He's the type of guy who was like "the butcher" in every gangster movie from the 60s, 50s, 40s, 30s, and 20s. He would kill you and keep dead bodies in his closest. Then you had him strangling Morrie sadistically. That was chilling. -
Bashrat Din — 1 year ago(April 13, 2024 07:37 AM)
Buna, I belief you are say Jimmy more scarey then Thommy
But I am confuse in this one when Thommy is kill Sider and Jimmy is saying what's wrong with you like he us care and know it Thommy is do the bad things, hana
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The Kraken — 1 year ago(April 13, 2024 10:33 PM)
Tommy scared me more because he wouldn't warn u before killing you.
At least Jimmy gave a lot of warnings to Morry, and the Liftonza crew before he wacked them. Jimmy would have a good reason to kill somwonw whereas Tommy woukd kill you just cuz you pissed him off. -
RobofNJ — 1 year ago(May 14, 2024 02:30 AM)
That's not really true, at least the end it isn't. You're going off the movie, so fair enough, but even in the movie we see hints of him victimizing and almost killing people even before the Lufthanza aftermath, and him strangling Morrie didn't seem to be just a threat. He wanted to kill him. And it took Henry to stop him. And he got Morrie by trapping him. It wasn't like he say, "Hey asshole," and made his threat clear.
The real Jimmy Burke was closer to that. He wouldn't warn you. He would trap you. And had the evil creepy 60s milkman thing about him.
With Tommy, even if he didn't warn you, if you got him mad, he got verbally violent, yelled and got nasty and you saw it coming. The "you're funny" scene did not seem like he wasn't directly threatening Henry. -
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RobofNJ — 1 year ago(May 14, 2024 03:08 AM)
You gave me the finger, said the word "retard" to describe autistics. You were the aggressor in the fights. I still remember you. You're lucky I was trying to be nice and not downright call you mean names, and actually try to give you reason as to why I thought Jimmy was still bad. You're just an idiot who thinks they're right and that's it.
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The Kraken — 1 year ago(May 14, 2024 03:13 AM)
Why don't you go argue with your ****ty parents that ****ed up your mind so much that you see things that didn't happen in popular movies from over 25 years ago and then you try picking a fight with one of the movie's fans in an online message board.
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RobofNJ — 1 year ago(May 14, 2024 03:18 AM)
Because despite what you think not everything is my parents. You truly are an arrogant bitch. And I find your attempts at manipulation to be funny and unsuccessful. You are a bitch.
And there are truly mean people who don't like me, and it's not my fault, even if you're dumb enough to imagine something that would make it my fault.
And everything I said in this movie did happen. And Jimmy Burke wasn't considered the most scary by the real Henry Hill for NO REASON. And hence, there's reason for me saying it. You may have the maturity level of a high school kid, but that doesn't make me wrong one bit.
Now be a good girl and go watch unpopular
Friends
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AnthonySocksss — 7 months ago(August 26, 2025 05:28 AM)
Jimmy was scarier because he was smarter and able to deceive people easily. He would lure you in by pretending to be your friend and then have you brutally killed. Tommy was more obvious and prone to fly off the handle, but Jimmy was the brains.
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