Best Martin Scorsese movie

It's a film alright.

when I was a kid and just starting to read movie reviews and writing about movies in the music press there was so much hyperbole about Raging Bull

Best Film of the Eighties

I bow

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.)

You're too short for that gesture.

lads

Best Film of the Eighties
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 24, 2023 12:26 PM

Such a relief to see Do the Right Thing displant Bull for that title

Marty's third or fourth best of the eighties (I do like it but...)

Not sure I've ever done this, but here are the ten I'd go to bat for, in my view:

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Taxi Driver
New York, New York
The King of Comedy
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Age of Innocence
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
The Departed
Shutter Island
The Irishman

The Hague

Shutter Island

Meh

After Hours
Raging Bull
The Aviator
Bringing Out the Dead
Gangs of New York
The Color of Money
Hugo

Sound, Solid

The Last Temptation of Christ
The Departed
Cape Fear
The King of Comedy
The Irishman
New York, New York
The Wolf of Wall Street
Kundun
Who’s That Knocking at My Door

Good to Great

Taxi Driver
The Age of Innocence
Mean Streets
Goodfellas
Silence
Life Lessons
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Casino

i watched raging bull twice because id honestly thought id missed the bull the first time

They should've called it BadFellas

I saw Raging Bull for the first time a few years ago. Maybe it’s that I’m not a boxing guy, but … I’ll never see it again.

They should've called it BadFellas

― fair but so uncool beliefs here (Eric H.),

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thread is now good

fellas

Shut yer island

need to rewatch after hours now that i know griffin dunne is joan didion's nephew (game-changing)

after hours and bringing out the dead are among my faves

Going next weekend to see Raging Bull in a theatre for the first time in at least a decade. Actually makes me a little sad to see it get raked over the coals like this.

After Hours is one of the ones I didn't like when I first saw it but am def willing to give it another shot

it's a perfect weird '80s movie, a spiritual cousin to repo man in some ways.

Find it heartening seeing xyzzzz__ say all these nice things about Scorsese...Saw both documentaries years ago, don't remember specifics but thought they were very good.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I remember gloating about Godfather II's downfall at the s&s poll. Everything else is a blank. Don't remember being nasty about MS.

I love Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy and I will def get round to Casino and The Irishman.

Maybe you and I are being conflated ... I actually don't hate The Godfather and am fine with its canonical status

it's a perfect weird '80s movie, a spiritual cousin to repo man in some ways.

― omar little

I never thought about it this way. And a precursor to Something Wild.

My memory of it is that it's not so far removed from The Warriors

xpost to clemenza: don’t let ‘em get you down. It still is and will always be a great film. Enjoy!

Stay resolute!

Maybe you and I are being conflated

More likely I'm conflating Coppola and Scorsese. Anyway, my mistake.

I rewatched Raging Bull a few months ago for the first time in about 17 years. I do think it's slipped down a bit in the canon and I'd always put it off as a lesser Marty as its such a downer and Jake is such a pos but it's up there with his very best on the rewatch. The levels of ridiculous machismo are darkly comic like when he's asking his brother to punch him until his stitches come out.

I must rewatch Bringing Out The Dead again. I didnt like it at the time. It felt overdriven to the point of incredulity.

Marty's classics imo (in no particular order) - Goodfellas, Wolf of Wall Street, After Hours, Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, The Irishman, King of Comedy, Raging Bull

Bringing Out The Dead is good - and it’s close to my heart since I watched MS film a scene from it one night for over an hour - but it’s the only one that often feels like a slog to watch.

Look, I think we can all agree that, if you enjoy a movie, fuck all the other noise

Even if that movie is Raging Bull

"Floundering Bull: A Cinematic Fiasco"

quiddities and agonies of the ILX film community

i always found raging bull too offputting a prospect for all of the usual reasons but made myself sit and watch it last year and yeah no doubt there's elements that if youve seen done once youve seen done enough but im not sure the beauty and the hardness of it still dont earn it all the plaudits it tends to get, it is a capital M masterpiece that knows it in every frame

I've seen raging bull several times but I should probably see it again to reconsider it.

Love Bringing out the Dead, it's definitely a weird one, off-kilter humor and a Schrader VO-laced screenplay adapted from a novel, really frenetic and colorful. I wouldn't say it necessarily always works but I've always been enthusiastic about it.

xp to xxxyzzzzzz both are great, especially imo as studies of scorsese doing exactly what he does but in a different mode than he might usually do it

i still remember an ilx post about mean streets/goodfellas/casino/irishman being essentially a walk through of the mob from street level to serious players and imo it absolutely works

and gangs of new york is his hobbit trilogy

Its funny how DDL basically played the same character in Gangs and There Will Be Blood

and my left foot

and in the name of the father

one of the things I really admire about The Irishman is the genuinely bleak emptiness at the end of it, no deadpan flippancy with faux gallows humour - just: I've lived an empty, amoral, servile life and now I'm going to purchase my own coffin ... lol classic!

fucks sake calz no spoilers

The Colour of Money is a seriously underrated one. The camera twirling around the pool table and Tom Cruise with perfect hair showing off to the sound of Werewolves of London. PURE CINEMA.

The pure cinema of an Eric Clapton theme!

phew, I'm glad you were joking there d-mac. Because the whole concept of "spoilers" in movies is ABSOLUTE bollox anyway. Especially when said movie is based on stuff that might have happened more than 5 decades ago and the whole screenplay has been built around a lurid best-selling US mafia non-fiction book.

mods pls pre emptively ban this man from the titanic (1997) thread

spoiler: he pushes her off

wringing out the dead

Titanic Driver.

the departed

I remember reading a Badshaw review of The Departed where he was hailing the dialogue in this movie as being so fucking razor-sharp - it's absolutely abysmal