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Post by LivingDeadGirl on Jan 20, 2005 19:03:33 GMT -5
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Post by Bartwald on Jan 23, 2005 6:17:36 GMT -5
De Niro, 61, says, "I was talking with Martin Scorsese about doing what I guess you'd call a sequel to Taxi Driver, where he is older." Risky! But I'm interested anyway! I remember that Paul Schrader - the scriptwriter of Taxi Driver - flirted with this idea some time ago, so I hope he's still attached to it. |
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Post by Phoenix on Jan 24, 2005 13:51:26 GMT -5
A sequel would be soooo weird! I can't believe that crazy character would still be alive.
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Post by Pulpmariachi on Apr 9, 2005 17:06:52 GMT -5
Scorsese has got to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, though, like The Beatles, it kinda took me a while to finally appreciate his work.
GoodFellas was my vote. It's also my all time favorite movie. Yes, the one liners are great, the soundtrack is awesome, and the violence turns you off the mob lifestyle. Also, it is so well paced. You never realize that 2 and a half hours have passed. It's still the best voice-over in a film yet. Just as one character is about to get boring, we're listening to someone else. There has been no better Steadicam than the Copacobana.
The Last Temptation of Christ remains the most meaningful Christ film to me. It shows how he had this chance to do his own thing but chose not to for us (another reason why this ranks above The Passion).
Casino is like a sequel to GoodFellas, but it's still enjoyable in its own rights. The penned death...
Taxi Driver and Raging Bull are both extremley brilliant.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Whose that Knocking At my Door, and After Hours are all worthy. Even if the two former it was obvious he was still forming himself.
The Last Waltz remains the best rock documentary to date.
Gangs of New York was a major disappointment. I agree that the best parts were with Liam Neeson (who saves other such crapfests as Star Episode I: The Phantom Menace as well).
But GoodFellas is Scorsese at his best, obviously loving what he's doing and his story and his characters.
Haven't seen Cape Fear yet or a handful of others. I'll check his filmography.
By the way, has anyone tried the garlic thing? I haven't yet since I'm afraid of setting my kitchen on fire.
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Post by DrLenera on Apr 25, 2005 10:07:06 GMT -5
I voted for Taxi Driver,I think that De Niro in that film is one of the most compelling performances ever. A masterpiece of filmmaking,some of my favourite scenes are without dialogue,when De Niro is just cruising through the streets at night,with beautiful photography and Bernard Herrmann's haunting music. Despite it's sordid environment and still shocking violent climax,I think it's a very poetic film.
As for his other films,they'll all good,although Gangs Of New York,as some others have said,was a big disappointment especially considering Scorsese had been planning it for years and years. Great first and last half hours, but the rest just OK,for a start the love story was unnecessary and really slowed things down.
I love Goodfellas,Casino [although it went down hill the last hour], Last Temptation is flawed but a milliontimes better then Gibson's tedious piece of crap, Cape Fear very good though I prefer original version,Raging Bull as technically brilliant as Taxi Driver although unlike that film it leaves me a bit cold, the one major film of his I haven't seen is Color Of Money,sounds like a very 'commercial' 'exercise but so was Cape Fear.
He's definately one of the greats and deserves his reputation,although I can't say there are any of his films that I actually LOVE,[Taxi Driver comes closest]. Brilliant filmmaking and usually fun to watch,but they leave me somewht 'distanced'. It's probably a personal thing...
Sequel to Taxi Driver.......no,please dont'!
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Post by Bartwald on May 13, 2005 14:38:23 GMT -5
Don't worry, Doc, sequel to Taxi Driver won't happen. As Paul Schrader said in a recent interview -- the idea was for the film to take place at the present time, but after a short discussion Schrader and Scorsese came to a conclusion that knowing the Bickle character as well as they do, they both think he'd have been long dead in 2005.
As for Color Of Money: do watch it, it's a good piece of cinema. NOT one of Scorsese's very best but still a classy affair.
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Post by mabuse on Sept 5, 2005 20:07:03 GMT -5
I love Taxi Driver, but this sounds ill-advised! :0)
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Post by mikeinpittsburgh on Jan 4, 2006 11:47:32 GMT -5
For me, definitely GoodFellas.
I saw The Last Tempatation when it was in theaters and controversial. Having some Catholic theological training myself, I could appreciate the questions it raised. Scorsese's visuals were such that I could almost smell the marketplace, and his symbolism was very Catholic--the scene where Jesus takes his heart out of his chest of course made me think of the Sacred Heart (Michael Medved, an Orthodox Jew, found it "repulsive". I did not). Ultimately it was homage to Christ's redeeming mission.
It was hard to follow early on, however, and I really do think that without all the controversy it would have ended up a minor art-house movie, seen only by those who could evaluate it thoughtfully. The manager of the one theater in Pittsburgh where it was shown said as much in a newspaper interview--bring on the pickets, controversy is good for business.
Cape Fear was a good thriller but actually I like the older version with Robert Mitchum better. Robert DeNiro is violent and psychotic but Mitchum is just plain good old creepy. Interesting--DeNiro plays Max Cady as a religious fanatic, a dimension Mitchum didn't show at all.
There are those who claim that Scorsese added this as a rebuke to those who had attacked Last Temptation without seeing it.
Just an aside, and maybe I'm reading more into a movie than is there, but I saw a collection of three short films
combined as "New York Stories". One of them was a Scorsese film about an artist. There was a moment where the painter stepped back from his large canvas and appeared, to me at least, to be battered and bryuised like a kind of suffering Christ--and then I realized it was only paint splatters. I took that as Scorsese making one last comment about the whole
Last Temptation controversy.
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Post by Bartwald on Jan 4, 2006 14:36:30 GMT -5
Just an aside, and maybe I'm reading more into a movie than is there, but I saw a collection of three short films combined as "New York Stories". One of them was a Scorsese film about an artist. There was a moment where the painter stepped back from his large canvas and appeared, to me at least, to be battered and bryuised like a kind of suffering Christ--and then I realized it was only paint splatters. I took that as Scorsese making one last comment about the whole Last Temptation controversy. Well, who knows? Maybe he was. The similarity's there, yes, though it didn't occur to me while watching this. That's a good film, his piece from New York Stories, by the way. Nolte's great, Arquette's sexy and Buscemi is as good as always. |
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Post by Gabriel on Oct 3, 2006 15:12:06 GMT -5
Funnily enough my vote would be for the Aviator!!! But is not there.
Can't wait for the Departed either!!!
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Post by Heineken Skywalker on Oct 3, 2006 16:13:32 GMT -5
Funnily enough my vote would be for the Aviator!!! But is not there. Can't wait for the Departed either!!! THE AVIATOR was a good movie, but the poll was started before it was released, therefore it couldn't be included. Can't wait for THE DEPARTED either. |
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