absence of gags
― goole, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:40 (fifteen years ago) link
oh I'm sorry; they're releasing Cassavetes titles from an old Criterion box as singles. My mistake.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"Marty! Kundun! I liked it!"
lololololol
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I like New York New York (first one I saw in a theater)
Italianamerican is a hoot
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 15 August 2008 19:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Ever see the Freaky Friday remake with Lindsey Lohan? Her waking up out of bed with her mom inside her body was straight up "Rubber Biscuit" Harvey Keitel.
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 15 August 2008 20:01 (fifteen years ago) link
wish this would come out on dvd already
― Edward III, Friday, 15 August 2008 20:05 (fifteen years ago) link
but for now unfortunately and appropriately Italianamerican is a boot
― omar little, Friday, 15 August 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i think these ones are great (to varying degrees): taxi driver, king of comedy, goodfellas
honorable mentions: mean streets, last waltz, after hours
ho-hummest: the departed
overratededest: raging bull
best film since goodfellas (challop): gangs of n.y.
other ones that i would watch again: new york, new york; last temptation; age of innocence
still need to see: casino
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 15 August 2008 21:34 (fifteen years ago) link
(voted taxi driver because i saw it at an impressionable age and it pretty well blew me away)
goodfellas.
― latebloomer, Friday, 15 August 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
King of Comedy. I was tempted by Last Temptation - I recently re-watched it and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. I don't enjoy much of the rest of his work, even though I admire some of it.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 15 August 2008 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Just a quick bit of love for "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," which is devastating.
― Savannah Smiles, Friday, 15 August 2008 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
(and which I just fucked up and failed to vote for)
With apologies to Jerry Lewis, that's the Scorsese movie I'm most looking forward to seeing.
― Eric H., Friday, 15 August 2008 22:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Casino just felt like GF2. Watching it that way, it fell way short.
I saw Casino in the theater, before ever having seen Goodfellas. That being the case, I've always perceived Goodfellas as sort of a rough draft and incomplete tale that was later retold and perfected with Casino. It's all about context I guess, but I think I'd even prefer Casino if I'd seen Goodfellas first. Casino has the meatier story.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 15 August 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Most overrated: Goodfellas -- Eric H., Friday, August 15, 2008 2:32 PM (2 hours ago)
silly. wouldn't most overrated go to say, taxi driver? or raging bull? -- s1ocki, Friday, August 15, 2008 4:54 PM (1 hour ago)
Goodfellas, easy. -- nate woolls, Friday, August 15, 2008 7:07 AM (2 hours ago) -- rent, Friday, August 15, 2008 2:21 PM (3 hours ago) -- Jordan, Friday, August 15, 2008 12:45 PM (Friday, August 15, 2008 12:45 PM) -- Pleasant Plains, Friday, August 15, 2008 6:32 PM (6 minutes ago)
-- Eric H., Friday, August 15, 2008 6:41 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link
o man, 4 ilx posters like this movie. i can see why you needed to get out there and shake up the establishment, that shit is stifling.
― s1ocki, Friday, 15 August 2008 23:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Ugh, Cassavetes. You people need to realize that 3/4ths of his catalogue is shit.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 16 August 2008 00:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i'd post that in the RONG thread but someone already did that to me today so i'll end the vicious circle of violence
― velko, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:13 (fifteen years ago) link
never been a fan of jc
― s1ocki, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:14 (fifteen years ago) link
haha -- I made my comment fully aware that it might go in the RONG thread.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Just ask yourself, Soto: WWJCD?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Casino: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz-SCARYTRAUMATICASFUCKHEADINVISESCENE-evenmorezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz-SCARYTRAUMATICASFUCKBODIESINCORNFIELDSCENE-theend
Goodfellas was a much better movie, but the Pesci scenes aren't anywhere near as good. "You think I'm funny?" scene = way overrated.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Hm?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm voting for No Direction Home.
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
What Would John Cassavetes Do? xpost
― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
He'd listen to Le Tigre.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 16 August 2008 01:35 (fifteen years ago) link
All the Bringing Out The Dead lurve is pleasantly surprising. That's my pick. I've seen probably half of Scorcese's films and I generally find his stuff pretty underwhelming. I just think he's maybe not really my thing, and Bringing Out... is different enough from his usual shtick that he managed to move more into "my thing" territory.
Goodfellas and The Departed were "fun" enough. Taxi Driver and Raging Bull are two of the most overrated movies of that era. I can barely remember anything about the other Scorceses that I've seen, aside from the fact that they didn't leave much of an impression one way or the other.
― Deric W. Haircare, Saturday, 16 August 2008 02:33 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, when the results go up and GoodFellas gets no more than 4 votes, you can feel free to throw that back in my face. And I'll take it back and say no it's not his most overrated. Just his worst.
― Eric H., Saturday, 16 August 2008 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
That said, I'm no big Scorsese fan in the first place. Taxi Driver and Last Temptation are about the only two films of his I really love.
― Eric H., Saturday, 16 August 2008 06:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Say what you will about one Best Picture nominee being more overrated than the five other Best Picture nominees, but to call GoodFellas his worst? you crazy.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 16 August 2008 08:18 (fifteen years ago) link
it's contrarianism gone amuck!
how about this: whichever wins this poll is his most overrated unless it's the one i picked.
― s1ocki, Saturday, 16 August 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, Eric being a real Paulette re Goodfellas!
(Kael was cold about it not having a "gangster hero," which is kinda wtf)
and yeah Kundun is his last interesting one (aside from the film-history surveys)
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 16 August 2008 19:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I watched it so many times that I doubt I'll ever be able to fully enjoy it again, but After Hours. Then King of Comedy. Then Mean Streets, which is a much better film and De Niro performance than Taxi Driver and I can't figure why it's not getting more love here.
― J0hn D., Saturday, 16 August 2008 19:26 (fifteen years ago) link
mean streets is really good. maybe i'd upgrade it to "great" on my list. but taxi driver i think is the apocalyptic american movie that nashville and, uh, apocalypse now and various other '70s heart-of-darkness excercises aspired to. dystopian sci-fi without the sci-fi. i saw an interview with scorsese talking about filming night scenes at 42nd and 8th, how much he hated being there and how scared the whole crew was the whole time they were doing it, like they were filming in a war zone or something. probably excessive paranoia, but it comes across in the movie, it's so nervous and jangly. but funny too, especially the scenes with de niro and cybill shepherd.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 16 August 2008 19:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Goodfellas just shading Taxi Driver, with Mean Streets third.
― Boxing Kangaroo, Monday, 18 August 2008 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently he had fuck-all to do with that, other than doing a brief voiceover and slapping his name on it.
― Formerly Painful Dentistry, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
no. The Dylan interview footage was pre-shot. He was chief assembler, is my understanding.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah he was basically asked to direct the entire editing process
― omar little, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
wow, Eric being a real Paulette re Goodfellas! (Kael was cold about it not having a "gangster hero," which is kinda wtf)
Nah, I just don't think it's any good.
― Eric H., Monday, 18 August 2008 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
It's a movie that shows how a subculture works, so I love it for the same big reason I love Paris Is Burning.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
i voted Goodfellas. i've never seen King of Comedy but i'm thinking i prolly should.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
um, yes
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Voted "Mean Streets" in the end, ya mooks.
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 August 2008 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i'll take deniro as smartass fuckup (mean streets, king of comedy, er, jackie brown) instead of wise man (everything else) any day
i've never seen after hours but i "obtained" it a week ago - it's sitting there, lonely and unwatched.
i remember being crazy impressed by sharon stone in casino. is that the only outsized, convincing female role in all of scorcese's movies?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 10:58 (fifteen years ago) link
"After Hours" is great
― Tom D., Tuesday, 19 August 2008 11:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Haven't seen Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, but I suspect you haven't either.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 19 August 2008 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Correct
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 11:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Sandra Bernhard is def "outsized" and great in tKoC.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Miriam Margoyles in The Age of Innocence too.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
although Taxi Driver is better and prob. the best, i'll go with Mean Street, cause it's less of a boring answer. personaly, i adore Alice as well.and i wanna see The Age of Innocence again
― Zeno, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link