Best Martin Scorsese movie

Scorsese--I've only written the name 10 zillion times, so it makes sense that I'm misspelling it.

Other than Goodfellas, "Life Lessons" is probably my favorite post-86 Scorsese thing.

^^^^ The guy has a couple of great films and a handful of good moments.

I say five for sure--the four that are too obvious to list, plus King of Comedy--and maybe Who's That Knocking at My Door, although I think that's more a film of great sequences than a great film.

Plus two or three great documentaries the past decade.

holy moses did i enjoy watching shutter island again at the cottage some weeks ago... this movie is MADE to be watched on home video, all the b-movie-ishness just makes so much sense

ditto to 'life lessons' love - i think that was the official entry to my scorsese love (and to my dylan love also)(procol harum love never set in though), i remember seeing that and some clips from a not yet released goodfellas on some pbs thing and just getting instantly obsessed w/ the guy. will rep for age of innocence also though i haven't seen that since it was in theaters and to be honest what i remember most is the saul bass credit sequence - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi65QJW-c6o. weird that casino, which combines basically the two good scorsese themes - mob story plus story about a guy with woman issues - was such a misfire.

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I'm excited about Hugo Cabret –- Paris, mystery, automata, Méliès, train crashes...

I would just like to point out that in Cape Fear, Joe Don Baker drinks Pepto Bismol mixed with Jim Beam

and why not?

that was from the behind the scenes footage, right

I thought The Color of Money was bleh for many years until I saw it again last night: man, the first nine minutes, with Newman scoping out Mastrantonio and Cruise while "One More Night" plays in the background, is superbly edited.

I'd say the first 59 or 69 or 79 minutes are pretty solid. However long it is till Newman and Cruise split.

Christopher Moltisanti: [to Martin Scorsese] Marty! "Kundun", I liked it!

Nobody's gonna rep for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore?

I don't remember if I voted but woulda voted Bringing Out the Dead

I've watched Alice a couple of times, years apart. It's so different from everything else; I have a hard time remembering specifics, except maybe Mott the Hoople over the opening credits. Bringing Out the Dead is such an unusual choice...not for me, but I did love the few seconds you get of "Rang Ting Ding Dong."

love the credits and opening to Alice.

Happy 68th!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RyqtrGnicc

watched Mean Streets for the first time in I dunno 20 years last night. He never really made another movie like this, did he?

he's tried though

Mean Streets and Taxi Driver both really stand out to me as films from a different (more interesting) director.

Mean Streets didn't have enough focus. It almost felt like reality TV.

I guess Bringing Out the Dead is maybe closest to Mean Streets? that sort of dreamy, episodic, highly stylized approach (I hated BOTTD though). can really see the Kenneth Anger influence in Mean Streets as well, in the way it marries pop music to feverish, striking images. And unlike a lot of his other films, MS is definitely lacking in the plot/narrative department. it just drifts along from one setpiece/vignette to the next. very little of it is actually mean or threatening in any way.

I did lol when I recognized chubby, long-haired Richie Aprile though

it just drifts along from one setpiece/vignette to the next. very little of it is actually mean or threatening in any way.

Which does make the end death scene ever more of a shock (It just seemed inevitable that somebody would die, but it was up for grabs who and when). Which I guess is a merit, but not a reason I'd triumph lack of cohesion any more over even just a semblance of some.

yeah by the time I saw this originally I had already seen Taxi Driver and Goodfellas etc and was expecting more of the same so I was more surprised by the LACK of violent outbursts than anything elese

shine a light could also use some violent outbursts imo

lol yeah god that is awful

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Kinda reminded me of Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward... oh fuck it. Like the name, the movie was pretentious and didn't really get interesting until the last 10 minutes in which Jesse James is actually, as the title struggled to deliver, assassinated. I kinda wonder whether it's my Gen. X ADD mentality or movies that dwandle and diddle around on purpose are really worth a shit in the first place.

watched Alice again for the first time since i was 15 this weekend. so, so wonderful.

tbh i've never understood why people love goodfellas so much. it verges on self-parody, it's sooo corny, the soundtrack is oppressive...everything is overly telegraphed

no one likes new york, new york?

that's a nice one-two punch of opinions there

the people who love goodfellas otm

it's not any of those things by accident you know dell

he set out to do self-parody? i guess i need to read the book it was based on.

well i though you might be referring to the arch potrayal of gangsters and their speech and behavior and and trappins. the movie is a spectacular more than a crime drama or an epic.

trappings

like i get that ray liotta's character was just one of the boys next door who somehow got mixed up in martin scorcese's mob jerkoff fantasies...and i get the cocaine paranoia layla helicopter scene or whatever. i just don't understand why people love that movie so much. it may as well have been a made for tv movie special of the week. taxi driver, say, otoh is real "ARt". there are more compelling snl sketches featuring joe pesce. meet the fockers is better than goodfellas. or that movie where billy crystal is deniro's guidance counselor/spiritual advisor.

the movie is a spectacular more than a crime drama or an epic.

fair enough. it's appeal eludes me.

dell otm

Well, excepting I never sat thru Meet the Fockers.

I'm not crazy about Scorsese generally and I understand the hesitation. I'm not bonkers over The Godfather either.

Is True Grit or High Noon corny and on the verge of self-parody? What about Spartacus?

You're not filling in any holes here, so I'm assuming you're basing this on Jimmy Two Times or Pesci's character wondering aloud why a Jew broad is prejudice against Italians. How do you say that the soundtrack is oppressive, but you "get" the 1980 bust sequence? Do you like the Fockers and Analyze This better because you think DeNiro's performance in GoodFellas is worse? Really?

If that's all you see in GoodFellas, I don't know what to tell you.

otm

lol

I'm going to close this thread close this thread.

I probably would have voted for Mean Streets but I'm bummed to see Alice got nothing

who the hell voted for Shine a Light anyway

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Mean Streets/Alice/Taxi Driver might be my favorite run of three movies by any director