Greatest Scorsese Movie of All Time - First Round

[Turkish Mickey]

raging bull ftw

[mrkilla]

gawd , Casino vs Gangs , that was a hard one i liked both and Casino is a better movie I have Gangs of NY love because I am a NYer and I feel it won't matter anyway [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]


everything else was pretty standard votes

[Mondogarage]

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Greatest directors of our time? Give me a break, he's average.
Goodfella's was alright, Casino was much better.

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I would love to find out about the directors out there which make Scorsese average by comparison.

Thanks,

Swede

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Nobody can make Scorsese "average", but the greatest director of our time? No. He is a master of his ouevre (however it's spelled). But the Coens, and Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino....

I dunno...I just don't think one can truly stand out as "the" greastest. However, I can't think of a single film Scorsese's ever done that was at not at least good, if not great, and he's got a track record longer than most...

[cbloom]

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The King of Comedy
Mean Streets


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This is one of the closest IMHO, King of Comedy is way underrated.

Goodfellas prolly wins because so many people haven't seen many of the others.

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[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] goodfellas.

[bisonbison]

1. I like Goodfellas, but I didn't see it for the first time until about 3 or 4 years ago, and, I just don't think it's that great. If you've seen the later mob stuff that was clearly following in its wake (Casino, Donnie Brasco, Sopranos) there's no part of it that really knocks the crap out of you on style or quality. It was a good story, but not monumental enough to dwarf its imitators.
2. The last scene of Color of Money makes me like it more than I should.

3. Taxi Driver I need to see again.
4. Age of Innocence I don't need to see again.

5. The Departed was fun. It was also ridiculous at points, and not in a way that worked and built to something. But it's still better than Crash or Gladiator for BP.
6. Kundun - never seen it

7. Raging Bull - A good movie.
8. Cape Fear - The acting in this movie sets me on edge. Nolte, Lange and Juliette Lewis are all just weird and DeNiro is weirder.

9. Casino - does not age well
10. Gangs of NY - convoluted, eminently watchable

11. The Aviator - a pretty good movie but in the end, so what?
12. Alice doesn't - never seen

13. King of Comedy - such a weird movie, would rewatch
14. Mean Streets - never seen, which is apparently a mistake

15. Last Temptation of Christ - never watched the whole thing
16. After Hours - never seen

[pryor15]

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The King of Comedy
Mean Streets


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This is one of the closest IMHO, King of Comedy is way underrated.

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yeah, that's a really tough call.

it's too bad, b/c i was hoping the King of Comedy would last a round or two

[UncleSalty]

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But the Coens, and Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino....

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How can you compare them? I mean, Tarantino totally bites everything from Scorcese.

[Rushmore]

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Greatest directors of our time? Give me a break, he's average.
Goodfella's was alright, Casino was much better.

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POTD?

[Rushmore]

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Taxi Driver is like Dostoyevsky on screen.

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Imagine, THREE pages into this thread and only now does anyone trot out any real praise for Taxi Driver.

Look, Goodfellas is an entertaining film, and, I think, even "great."

But Taxi Driver is definitive. Travis Bickle is one of the greatest characters in movie history ("I think I got stomach cancer."). The entire film is the peak of cinematic achievement, seriously. It's so much better than junk like the Color of Money, I don't even know what to say.

Hard to say much bad about Raging Bull, either. The scene where they drag him into the lockup? I just got a freakin chill. And..."You never got me down, Ray...you never got me down." Brrrrr. How about when he's WEEPING after he throws the fight, and even the grizzled old trainer guy just busts out too? Excellent.

1. Taxi Driver
2. raging Bull
3. Goodfellas

And for what it's worth, I LOVE Goodfellas. I think the scene where they're eating at Pesci's mama's house in the middle of the night when they stop to pick up the knife is just excellent.

"The HOOF." Great.