Plus two or three great documentaries the past decade.
― clemenza, Thursday, 26 August 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― piranha karenina (s1ocki), Thursday, 26 August 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― balls, Thursday, 26 August 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
casinowned
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 26 August 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm excited about Hugo Cabret –- Paris, mystery, automata, Méliès, train crashes...
― SYNTAX ERROR (remy bean), Thursday, 26 August 2010 21:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I would just like to point out that in Cape Fear, Joe Don Baker drinks Pepto Bismol mixed with Jim Beam
― I drink your milksteak (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 27 August 2010 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
and why not?
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 August 2010 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
that was from the behind the scenes footage, right
― ('_') (omar little), Friday, 27 August 2010 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 October 2010 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd say the first 59 or 69 or 79 minutes are pretty solid. However long it is till Newman and Cruise split.
― clemenza, Saturday, 23 October 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Christopher Moltisanti: [to Martin Scorsese] Marty! "Kundun", I liked it!
― Princess TamTam, Saturday, 23 October 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Nobody's gonna rep for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore?
― Princess TamTam, Saturday, 23 October 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't remember if I voted but woulda voted Bringing Out the Dead
― iatee, Saturday, 23 October 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― clemenza, Saturday, 23 October 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
love the credits and opening to Alice.
― circa1916, Saturday, 23 October 2010 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Happy 68th!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RyqtrGnicc
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 November 2010 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
watched Mean Streets for the first time in I dunno 20 years last night. He never really made another movie like this, did he?
― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:07 (thirteen years ago) link
he's tried though
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Mean Streets and Taxi Driver both really stand out to me as films from a different (more interesting) director.
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Mean Streets didn't have enough focus. It almost felt like reality TV.
― heh (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― heh (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:48 (thirteen years ago) link
shine a light could also use some violent outbursts imo
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lol yeah god that is awful
― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
x xpost
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.
― heh (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
watched Alice again for the first time since i was 15 this weekend. so, so wonderful.
― Republicans voiced concern about young pages hearing the word uterus (stevie), Monday, 2 May 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― dell (del), Monday, 2 May 2011 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
that's a nice one-two punch of opinions there
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 2 May 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
the people who love goodfellas otm
― omar little, Monday, 2 May 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
it's not any of those things by accident you know dell
― the great HOOS made me lose my mind (rip van wanko), Monday, 2 May 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
he set out to do self-parody? i guess i need to read the book it was based on.
― dell (del), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― the great HOOS made me lose my mind (rip van wanko), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― dell (del), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
the movie is a spectacular more than a crime drama or an epic.
fair enough. it's appeal eludes me.
― dell (del), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
dell otm
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 2 May 2011 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― dell (del), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm going to close this thread close this thread.
― ginny thomas and tonic (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I probably would have voted for Mean Streets but I'm bummed to see Alice got nothing
― da croupier, Monday, 2 May 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
who the hell voted for Shine a Light anyway
― cum dude (Princess TamTam), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
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― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Mean Streets/Alice/Taxi Driver might be my favorite run of three movies by any director
― da croupier, Monday, 2 May 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
very heartening to see Raging Bull in its proper place here
― the great HOOS made me lose my mind (rip van wanko), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
meh, even Raging Bull > Goodfellas
― scissorlocks and the three bears (Eric H.), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
del (and Pauline Kael) rong.
if you think Goodfellas is self-parody, what would you call Casino?
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Monday, 2 May 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link