Best Martin Scorsese movie

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hahahaha

but seriously I hated that movie

John-Goodman-backwards-snow-scene notwithstanding

o i hated it too and have almost completely forgotten it (totally forgot ving rhames was in it). at the time i was selling myself on 'he's biding his time til gangs of new york' - JOKES ON ME!

i had a friend that was a huge nic cage fan and was primed for botd to be some sorta redemption/return to form after the bruckenheimer stuff. NOPE!

I loved Bringing Out the Dead! Don't understand the animosity at all.

re: After Hours - the protagonist (I don't even remember his name, is it anything as goofy as Pupkin or Bickle?) spends most of his time being alternately confused and abused by his city. [..]in a way, as the city taking its revenge on him for this attitude.

interesting thought, it sounds plausible.

if DiNiro and Scorsese weren't at least in partial thrall to Bickle, the movie would be half as good, honest or challenging.

I have to agree. I seem to remember the filmmakers saying in a documentary somewhere that they made TD because they wanted to put onscreen a particular way they all felt about New York. I honestly wouldn't put racism and paranoia past either scriptwriter or director, but do think they at least deal with it and don't romanticize it. The weirder twist, for me, is the anti-racist Paul Simonon and the Clash quoting the "some day a great storm" speech in their song heroizing... the Guardian Angels?!?!

how in the hell could anybody vote for Shine a Light?

The weirder twist, for me, is the anti-racist Paul Simonon and the Clash quoting the "some day a great storm" speech in their song heroizing... the Guardian Angels?!?!

yeah i've never understood the p.o.v. of "red angel dragnet." then again in interviews around that time they all seem completely hopped up on god knows what, so they may not have been thinking clearly. probably they just liked the berets.

the Clash loved a good uniform, no doubt about it

"no direction home" would've been my no. 2.

Cape Fear is such a goddamned silly movie. 2/3rds of must be close-ups of Nick Nolte's sweaty face. Love all the hammy acting tho

yeah on the 'how do you pronounce lawyer' thread i was tempted to post a clip of 'COWN-SUH-LUH'

still can't believe raging bull's poor showing up there

in the words of Lou Reed, "there's just so many favorites to choose from"

kinda most surprised by the high showing for After Hours. Which is great and all.

Cape Fear was where it all went south. Above and beyond the fact that it was a film that just didn't need to be made--the original's quite good enough--it was absolutely hysterical. Those scenes near the end of De Niro ranting and raving...There'd just never been anything remotely so embarrassing in a Scorcese film up to that point.

The Color of Money was pretty lousy. That's the point where I was like "okay Martin's maybe running out of ideas."

Raging Bull is my jump-the-shark moment.

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

There's a lot that I like about The Color of Money, starting with Cruise's performance and the "Werewolves of London" set-piece. Not as good as The Hustler, and Newman's Academy Award was strictly a lifetime-achievement thing--I think he's mostly pretty good, though--but I was still with Scorcese at that point.

i'm sure Cape Fear was just fine to the kids raised on those stinko '80s horror films

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