The Best Scorsese movie
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The Best Scorsese movie
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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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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Oh god yes. Goodfellas wins. The opening for the movie is one of my favoriite parts.
He wakes up to his wife on top of him holding a gun to his head. She's crying. And she says the first line...
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"Do you love her?"
AHHH! Beautiful!
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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.
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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Goodfellas without question.
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It's not a bad movie. But better than masterpieces like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Raging Bull?Robert Treder wrote:Why would I be? That movie is amazing.
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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.Joe wrote:It's not a bad movie. But better than masterpieces like Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Raging Bull?
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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