Best Martin Scorsese movie

i actually thought 'hugo' was quite good and was kind of shocked at how much everyone else seemed to hate it. agreed on the awfulness of 'gangs of new york,' though, and am more or less on board with your top 5 (would probably switch 'goodfellas' with 'taxi driver').

I haven't seen After Hours since it was first released, I think, but don't understand why ppl think it's more than a good little nightmare comedy. Back then you could have a much weirder RL experience any night in Soho.

(God knows it's better than anything he's done lately tho)

i actually thought 'hugo' was quite good and was kind of shocked at how much everyone else seemed to hate it. agreed on the awfulness of 'gangs of new york,' though, and am more or less on board with your top 5 (would probably switch 'goodfellas' with 'taxi driver').

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, June 15, 2013 1:09 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everybody else loved hugo! it had great reviews!

i watched raging bull again recently. i appreciate it as pure cinema or w/e but i dont really connect to it. it was funnier than i remembered though

i actually like the aviator a lot

I like Cape Fear and Gangs. It's Casino I hate.

the only thing i really like about cape fear is the long scene between de niro and juliette lewis

I'm prepared to move The Age of Innocence into the low reaches of the top ten.

I'm with Morbius on After Hours. I rewatched it a year or two ago. It's well made--I heard Scorsese say somewhere that his objective was to make a movie quickly and bring it in under x-millions of dollars; it'd probably be a career film for lesser directors--but feels slight. Allowing that there are isolated moments that feel vintage, or that have some urgency to them (there's a striking shot when he goes back to Linda Fiorentino's studio...forgetting specifics), plus some great music (favourite: Robert & Johnny's "We Belong Together"), it feels slight; even more than Alice, it's the first genial Scorsese movie up to that point, and it represents the start of something new and (I think) lesser. Like a lot of people, I count Goodfellas as the only truly great film he made after that.

Apparently it feels slight, so I had to use that phrase twice.

I'm with h4a on raging bull, which I guess i recognize as a technical achievement and really enjoy as such but it's second tier scorz for me. Also really like the aviator. I think his post goodfellas run is generally pretty impressive, if not consistently great. casino the best of that era by a fair distance, departed or maybe age of innocence second imo.

after hrs & alice would def be closer to the bottom of my rankings than the top

After Hours is still my fave Scorsese, though it certainly has its challengers.

Hugo was exactly the movie that "Martin Scorsese making a 3D family film" sounds like it would be.

after hours finds a really unsettling mix of comedy and horror and just keeps upping the ante. it's perfectly modulated. i always leaves me feeling somehow both exhilarated and totally stressed out.

obv king of comedy treads that line too

Hugo was exactly the movie that "Martin Scorsese making a 3D family film" sounds like it would be.

― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Saturday, June 15, 2013 9:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not the biggest scorsese fan, but even i think there were basically no precedents in his filmography for how fucking boring that movie was

Alice is just wonderful

after hours was the first time i heard bad brains, so thats the main thing i remember about it

c'mon that's pretty important right there no?

Post-"Goodfellas," "Cape Fear," "Age of Innocence," "Kundun" and "Casino" kind of a fascinating period in his filmography, two totally in his wheelhouse, two totally not, "Kundun" and "Age" kind of amazing, if you think about how they look on paper.

I've pretty much not liked anything he's done from "Bringing Out the Dead" onward, to various degrees of dislike. "Hugo" was perfectly fine, but I don't like any of his Leo movies. And his Dylan and George docs are pretty dubious.

The Harrison doc was almost as boring as Hugo.

i couldnt even finish the harrison doc. such a snooze. maybe if i cared about the beatles it'd be better

i never saw that, why would I watch two hours of the most boring beatle?

next up, a HBO miniseries about a guy who was the small faces's bass player for six months

its 3 and a half hours!

George = Small Faces' bass player for six months? (I know--jokes.)

I love the Dylan film. How much it has to do with Scorsese, I don't know--very little, apparently.

just a joke about the steadily diminishing significance of the people MS makes extra-long documentaries about

I've pretty much not liked anything he's done from "Bringing Out the Dead" onward, to various degrees of dislike. "Hugo" was perfectly fine, but I don't like any of his Leo movies. And his Dylan and George docs are pretty dubious.

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, June 16, 2013 10:44 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought Dead was OK for the most part, and then suddenly he was all, "Oh right, I'm Catholic. Better shoehorn some of that in here."

Possibly the last truly great use of music in one of his films, though ("Bell Boy," "Janie Jones," whatever that Van Morrison song was).

can't wait for relevant Marty doc on Kanye-Kardashian baby

also when is he finishing his History of Britfilm?

Speaking of the most boring film project imaginable.

:p

as long as he leaves Hammer out, obv

his next movie sounds completely pointless http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/

Possibly the last truly great use of music in one of his films, though ("Bell Boy," "Janie Jones," whatever that Van Morrison song was).

Bringing Out the Dead is pretty turgid, I think, but it does have "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman)."

Entertainment Weekly did a soundtracks issue years ago, and they interviewed Scorsese. One of the questions was 'what song have you wanted to use, but haven't been able to?" His answer was "Transfusion" by "Nervous" Norvus; he added that he almost got it to fit into BOTD.

Great song--obviously should have replaced "Jumpin' Jack Flash" in Mean Streets when Johnny Boy walks into the bar in slow-motion.

his next movie sounds completely pointless http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/

― i wanna be a gabbneb baby (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, June 16, 2013 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAjFESb6WGk

this looks terrible

except for matthew macconaheyhey

Looks hilarious to me, in a good way.

my nephew just tweeted that, raving about it. i think it looks like a bloody comic book film.

but generally I'm just tired of the 'guy becomes big shot in city and has quirky friends' formula

the tone feels off, jokes feel flat

Written by Terrence Winter, hmm.

Bringing Out the Dead also had "You Can't Throw Your Arms Around a Memory." Great trailer, too. Lottla cool camera moves in the flick as well, for such a bust.

"Gangs of New York," aside from Day-Lewis, is totally worthless. Might as well be shot in Disneyland. I hate when filmmakers build these sets so massive and elaborate they never leave them.

Before I opened that trailer, just looking at the still image, I started hearing Rupert Pupkin: "I'll give you anything, but don't ask me to do six weeks! I can't take over the show for six weeks...I can't even take over my own life for six weeks!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PAjFESb6WGk

― Number None, Monday, June 17, 2013 5:48 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

ahh! im hot! im big!

shoulda been wahlberg. sorta despise leo these days

Scorsese belle lettres:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/aug/15/persisting-vision-reading-language-cinema/

I'll put this here rather than the proper thread. Some film posters I like have written about how much they liked The Wolf of Wall Street, and I don't want this to seem in any way like a response to their posts.

I really hated it--so much so, I'll keep this short. I liked the quiet ending, liked the FBI guy, liked five seconds of somebody dancing to Bo Diddley. Three long, shrill scenes where I felt embarrassed for Scorsese: DiCaprio's speech before the Steve Madden IPO; the quaalude overdose; the divorce argument. A couple of films into their collaboration, I used to think Scorsese needed to ditch DiCaprio. I've really changed my thinking on that.

just curious, do you like any movies where people scream a lot