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mwah mwah

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

My, this thread is active.

scorsese should've directed the breakfast club!

It could have only improved that movie. Would Anthony Michael Hall been a killer or a victim?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

it would certainly make that scene where they're smoking pot and running around a lot more intense

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

And the eighties soundtrack is already in place!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

"Don't you EVER forget about me!" *fires gun*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

some friends of mine in college were talking a "topics in directorial approaches" class or something, and an assignment was to do a treatment of a "scorsese western." which seems to take auterism to a whole new asinine level, but the results were kind of interesting nonetheless.

― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I wholeheartedly recommend Joe Queenan's If You're Talking To Me, Your Career Must Be In Trouble and Confessions of a Cineplex Heckler to everyone here. Excerpts from the index should explain why.

"DeNiro
appropriate casting as character named Noodles, 76
first Spanish conquistador with Mott Street accent, 130-131
and Mickey Rourke, 72
and seal of confession, 58
and slime, 72
and slugs, 72
hair in Cape Fear resembling rat marinated in Vaseline, 148

Dunne, Griffin
traumatized by Joni Mitchell music, 142

Mastrantonio, Mary Elizabeth
influence of Pam Grier on, 38

Pacino, Al
trouble pronouncing the word "shit," 36

Scorcese, Martin
surprising ability to keep getting dates, 139"

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

poor scorsese, forever stereotyped on the basis of his gangster melodramas.

― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:46 (nineteen years ago) link

he only REALLY made one

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Well, we could talk about Bringing Out the Dead if you like.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

can we not please?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG that movie was so boring.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

From Mott Street, an unproduced Paul Schrader screenplay (acc. to Queenan):

A mook and a palook a are playing nine-ball for $1.69 a game in a dingy Little Italy social club. Suddenly a blonde named Carmella dressed all in white (camouflaging the semen on her skirt) gets out of a big yellow taxi and drops a rosary on the ground. As an aria from Donizetti wells up in the background, switch to an overhead shot of a wise guy firing five bullets, four of which miss, into the mook's neck, while three old men named Tommy holler "Yo, Mikey, whatsa matter with you?" The film now fades from color to black and white, save for the huge red neon light in the distance reading "JESUS SAVES."
"Hey Joey, didn't you used to be somebody?" the vamp asks the wounded man.
"No, that was my brother, Vinnie," he replies.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

there's a film that was quickly forgotten. i thought it had some good stuff in it, and some fucking horrible stuff, like self-parody bad.

― amateur!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

That was Nic Cage's attempt at penance for starring in Con Air, right?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

miccio these jokes are tired and dumb thx.

― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link

well, yeah, anybody who can earnestly say "poor Scorcese" would think that.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

dude it's a figure of speech

― amateur!!!st, Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Casino is Scorsese's western!

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

and I loved Bringing Out the Dead =/

― Gear! (Gear!), Thursday, 19 August 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

CON AIR IS BETTER THAN BRINGING OUT THE DEAD.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

THE ROCK

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link

CON AIR IS BETTER THAN BRINGING OUT THE DEAD.

well there goes all desire to check THAT scorcese flick out

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

The Color of Money is my favorite Scorsese movie from the eighties. Paul Newman's wonderful, Tom Cruise makes the dumb punk role work for him, Forrest Whittaker is sublime in his cameo, and "It's In the Way That You Use It" is definitely one of the better songs that Eric Clapton did in that decade.

Some of you are starting to sound like Jimmy Two-Times, "Mean Streets is so camp, Mean Streets is so camp..."

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link

scorsese

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Pointing out typos on a message board is soooooooo camp, RJ.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I like Mean Streets, but more as an interesting warm up to what came later. It never occurred to me that people might think of it as some kind of masterpiece (I haven't seen it for years though, maybe I should).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not perfect, but no Scorcese film is. There's just more in it that I really like than in most of his stuff.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link

goodfellas is my favorite gangster movie evah. i prefer it to any of the godfathers.

and it's definitely my favorite scorcese film.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

scorsese

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link

The spelling of Scorsese's name is a bit weird when you look at it repeatedly. The repeated "se" at the end is kind of like a typographical stutter. Actually it reminds me of the "organizized" joke in Taxi Driver - in fact, is that line perhaps an oblique directorial self-reference?

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

haha holy shit "scorsese". just looked it up. sonuva bitch

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link

but who the hell really slices garlic that thin? spicey fucking meatball!

― kephm, Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

'Sympathetic characters'

yes.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I actively dislike Goodfellas and don't especially like Scorsese generally, though Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy are ok and the Jesus movie is interesting (and maybe I like his part of New York Stories - I don't remember - and I really like The Last Waltz, but that has more to do with the music and the cameramen). Would New York, New York be worth watching?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:51 (nineteen years ago) link

WAIT. I was right. I NEVER MAKE TYPOS ON THE INTERNET.

Scorsese, Scorsese, Scorsese.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

who's camp, now?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 19 August 2004 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.juggling.org/movies/Pics/Jane_Austins_Mafia.jpg

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

New York, New York is really, really interesting but I can't say its actually successful.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

color of money is indeed pretty great

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:18 (nineteen years ago) link

hey i gotta question, maybe someone can answer it. what's up with henry hill? he appears on the dvd, he was at the disc launch, he seems pretty much out and about these days--isn't there still a price on his head? is he still in the "program"? what's up with that?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Bringing out the Dead is awesome. Or it was the one time I saw it. I should see it again! It felt fantastically claustrophobic and mood-driven, like Von Trier's Kingdom except moreso and less spooky. I totally identified with it.

Color of Money was good too, but didn't have the same d-d-damn impact on me.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Color of Money is so pathetic compared to The Hustler that it just hurts me to think about it.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not that bad! But it has no ending, which is pretty frustrating. What's the stylistic point in spending 20 minutes setting up a final pool showdown, and then not showing us the showdown? Newmanus interruptus.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:28 (nineteen years ago) link

s1ocki, I ask myself that question constantly. Tom summed it up for me as such that the program people can only do so much, if the dude wants to keep making an ass out of himself, they aren't going to go above and beyond to prevent him from doing so. As for him going ahead and doing it, that's just him, glamour-luvvin' dickhead.

OTOH I mean the facct that he is pretty famous now makes him kind of a bad target to go and whack because there will be so much publicity.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah! but you figure maybe some low-level gangster would go ahead and do it for the status points or something. i mean i know he's allowed to do whatever he wants, my question is why hasn't anyone killed him yet?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:32 (nineteen years ago) link

it's funnier to let him make a dick of himself on Howard Stern once a week?

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

he has a website!!

http://www.goodfellahenry.com/

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Henry Hill is the author of The WISEGUY COOKBOOK, A GOODFELLA'S GUIDE TO NEW YORK, and GANGSTERS & GOODFELLAS.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I like how the subtitle to the book the film was based on includes the phrase "Life on the Run". I think Henry is confused as to what that actually entails, ie not multiple books, film consulting, photos of yourself on the internet, and calling Howard Stern daily.

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Thursday, 19 August 2004 17:35 (nineteen years ago) link

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