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The Best Scorsese movie

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well since he's got a very long career and made quite a few different types of movies, what do you consider the best movie thus far of Scorsese?
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Well, I don't know the earliers from 1985, but my fav so far is "Casino"! Also liked a lot of "Goodfellas". Haven't seen "Aviator" yet, though...
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Well I still use the "Scuicide Salute" from taxi driver.....
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Taxi Driver. Though Goodfellas is a close second.
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Extremely tough to choose ... the raw small-film quality of Mean Streets was so great ... but I think I'll go with The Color of Money.
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Probably my favorite director of all time...

Goodfellas.
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Oh god yes. Goodfellas wins. The opening for the movie is one of my favoriite parts.

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Goodfellas, baby. There are so many imitators that just how original it was at its time is now generally unknown.
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Goodfellas and After Hours.
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Goodfellas, with Taxi Driver a close second, Aviator third, and Gangs of New York a distant fourth, I never saw Casino unfortunately.
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Goodfellas was a damn good movie. I would have liked the Gangs of New York more but it was too drawn out.
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Gotta be Goodfella's... shame he didn't win, but he didn't lose out to shit, anyway.
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It's really hard to rank 'em, but if I had to, it'd go like this (from best to least best) :

Bringing Out the Dead
Kundun
After Hours
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
The King of Comedy
Goodfellas
The Aviator
Casino
The Color of Money
Gangs of New York
The Age of Innocence
The Last Temptation of Christ
Raging Bull
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Boxcar Bertha

I never saw Cape Fear, though (or anything else that I didn't list). I really like every movie on that list; Scorcese's probably my favorite modern director.

Incidentally, does anybody else agree that Raging Bull is easily his most overrated movie? I mean, sure it's great and all, but most artsy people think it's his best, which it certainly isn't. I think the key is that I had no sympathy or even empathy for Jake. It's a great character study, brilliantly acted (by all players), but I just wasn't feeling it. I've watched it a few times, and it's never quite clicked.
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how about:

The last waltz
Thee Age of Innocence
The last temptation of christ

ok three films that don't quite fit wit hthe rest of his filmography...
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The Yosemite Bear wrote:how about:

The last waltz.
I wondered if I'd be the first to make mention of it ;)
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well since I'm a great big movie fan, and a big folk music fan so of course I've seen it.
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Bringing Out the Dead
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Why would I be? That movie is amazing.
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Goodfellas without question.
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Robert Treder wrote:Why would I be? That movie is amazing.
It's not a bad movie. But better than masterpieces like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Raging Bull?
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Joe wrote:It's not a bad movie. But better than masterpieces like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Raging Bull?
Out of those four, Goodfellas was the only one I saw, and I'd put Bringing out the Dead above it, though I really did enjoy Goodfellas.

A masterful depiction of stress burnout. I loved how he ended up freaking out everyone he worked with. Plus I so grooved on the 'You said if missed one more day, you'd fire me! YOU PROMISED!' scene. I caught that snippet on cable at a buddy's house and decided then and there that I had to have that movie.

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