Suggest a good movie…
Suggest a good movie…
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Can anyone explain why Taxi Driver is so revered? Just saw it and was underwhelmed. Acting is good, but not special. I mean, all around it’s good but I fail to see why it’s heralded as one of the great American films of its time period
- yeah I’m with you on this one.
I think The King of Comedy is a much better Scorsese/DeNiro flickRamanisky2 - It was a post Vietnam war era film that was released 1 year after the war endedYakuZoku
- it captured a time and place, gritty NYC in the 70's. Loners, criminals...Someday A Rain Will Come And Wash All The Scum Off The Streets_niko
- there's a certain rawness to it, an uncomfortable feeling watching it. I think it's deniro's best role_niko
- Travis Bickle is a very tragic yet likeable character, a stranger in a strange land naivety to him that you can't help but root for. He's noble but flawed_niko
- Everything niko said, and at the time it was a pretty brave assault on the idea of American exceptionalism. It came out the same year as Rocky ffs.garbage
- Unfortunately the perception of film has changed over the years. Our current generation of unfuckable white youth are too stupid to understand the obvious..garbage
- ..Travis ain't the hero.garbage
- gladiator is better....neverscared
- Obvious troll thread.cherub
- Fun fact: I tried to watch "The Dark Knight" 3 different times and never made it to the end. Fell asleep twice and 3rd time bored to tears...cherub
- the cinematography and pacing was a bit out there for an american film of the time, the subject matter risqué, the anti-hero etc.kingsteven
- very referential of cinematic and media tropes which geeks love (even the musical theme is lifted from basil kirchin's primitive london score)kingsteven
- but in turn taxi driver has been aesthetically referenced and parodied as a signifier of edge lord culture its lost its potency as a story telling devicekingsteven
- I liked the King of Comedy, but it made me feel uncomfortable - which was the point I guess. I'll rewatch Taxi Driver as I can't remember much about it.Ianbolton
- i love king of comedy, binged on it in my teens and 20s but haven't watched it in 20 years or so :-| maybe it is timekingsteven
- Hm I see. So would it be fair to say it was introducing America to a type of man that was now a part of our cultural landscape? The lonely, young vet?********
- Two great movies. Also love Mean Streets & Raging Bull from same era of Scorsese/ DeNiromort_
- not really nb, it emalgamates themes that would have been popular in 'b-movies' and european and asian cinema. daring for a mainstream film at the time...kingsteven
- I’ve seen maybe half of Scorsese’s movies, this was the first one that didn’t impress me.********
- Oh wait I take that back. the Irishman is terrible. Figured that one to be an outlier and an embarrassing mistake.********
- Never seen itrobthelad
- The best thing to come from The Irishman was when Nick Lutsko went nuts pretending to be rejected for his Irishman Theme Song.garbage
- Somehow Chrissy Teigen got rolled up in it, so he trolled the hell out of her too, posting videos of him pretending to be a sick, sweaty fan. Top tier stuff.garbage
- https://youtu.be/nMv…garbage
- I'm not a fan either. It's the same role De Niro did over and over and over again. I can't stand the fucker, personally. I guess it was novel at the time?Nairn
- I wouldn't fully discredit him as one note, he did have a range: Deer Hunter, Brazil, Casino, Jackie Brown. But The Irishman is terrible.garbage
- plus vito Corleone. Yeah, I think young deniro is vastly superior to old deniro. For me, I think heat was when he jumped the shark._niko
- Some people just don't get itcanoe
- My son. In this house we do not speak ill of HEAT********
- Oh I somehow I misread that as "jumped the shark after Heat". Seconding we do not speak ill of Heat in this house.garbage
- Heat is the best graphic design film ever.MrT
- yeah I’m with you on this one.