Author Topic: TAXI DRIVER just came on (Read 5610 times)

Phoenix Dark · « **on:** February 10, 2007, 10:53:38 PM »

Just got back from Taco Bell too

It'll be edited I know, but I'm gonna watch it

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #1 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:54:11 PM »

Lemme guess, on Bravo?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #2 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:54:35 PM »

Most overrated film ever.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #3 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:54:55 PM »

Quote from: Willco on February 10, 2007, 10:54:35 PM

Most overrated film ever.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:55:38 PM »

It's true. Good film put on a God-like pedestal that must be kicked out from under it.

bagofeyes · « **Reply #5 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:56:10 PM »

Great film

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #6 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:56:48 PM »

Quote from: bagofeyes on February 10, 2007, 10:56:10 PM

Great film

NO ITS NOT CUZ I SAID SO!!!11

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #7 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:58:16 PM »

Has nothing to do with you. It's not my fault that you gravitate towards the massively overrated films, particular of the Scorcese variety. You're young, so I excuse it.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #8 on:** February 10, 2007, 10:59:02 PM »

Quote from: Willco on February 10, 2007, 10:58:16 PM

Has nothing to do with you. It's not my fault that you gravitate towards the massively overrated films, particular of the Scorcese variety. You're young, so I excuse it.

How is this film massively overrated? What's so bad about it, and what films would you place it lower than?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #9 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:02:35 PM »

Taxi Driver is usually put into Top 10 lists, where it doesn't belong. There's nothing really bad about it, and like most of Scorcese's overrated films, it's just a good or darn good film that becomes some kind of OMG BUST UR NUTZ-type film. As for what films I'd place lower, I have no fucking clue. It's not even in my Top 20. Probably not the Top 50. It's a good, three star film.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #10 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:04:16 PM »

Question: Would you place Spider-Man 2 over it?

bagofeyes · « **Reply #11 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:04:23 PM »

Your taste in movies is pretty terrible, Willco

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #12 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:05:10 PM »

Quote from: The Dark Shake on February 10, 2007, 11:04:16 PM

Question: Would you place Spider-Man 2 over it?

No. That'd be pretty distinguished mentally-challenged.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #13 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:05:51 PM »

Spider-Man 2 is better than The Departed, for sure. Probably Ghost Rider too.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #14 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:05:57 PM »

Quote from: bagofeyes on February 10, 2007, 11:04:23 PM

Your taste in movies is pretty terrible, Willco

Yup.

FlameOfCallandor · « **Reply #15 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:06:02 PM »

Raging Bull was pretty overrated.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #16 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:06:51 PM »

Quote from: FlameOfCallandor on February 10, 2007, 11:06:02 PM

Raging Bull was pretty overrated.

Yeah, that too.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #17 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:07:22 PM »

I don't know, I might take a snaggletooth Mary-Jane over a 12 year old Jodie Foster.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #18 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:07:49 PM »

What about the fat chick from Ghost Rider? PROBABLY NOT.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #19 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:08:21 PM »

Quote from: BrandNew on February 10, 2007, 11:07:22 PM

I don't know, I might take a snaggletooth Mary-Jane over a 12 year old Jodie Foster.

What about today's Jodie Foster?

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #20 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:08:33 PM »

That 12 year old Jodie Foster is sounding a bit better now.

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What about today's Jodie Foster? drool

Maybe Silence of the Lambs Foster. Definitely NOT post Panic Room foster.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #21 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:09:28 PM »

HIS HEAD WAS A SKULL AND IT WAS ON FIRE

People will be quoting that years from now while The Departed sits in bargain bins and we all laugh about how it was the worst Oscar win since A Beautiful Mind.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #22 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:10:50 PM »

Quote from: Willco on February 10, 2007, 11:09:28 PM

HIS HEAD WAS A SKULL AND IT WAS ON FIRE

People will be quoting that years from now while The Departed sits in bargain bins and we all laugh about how it was the worst Oscar win since A Beautiful Mind.

Nah, more people will be watching the Departed and laughing at Mary Jane's horrible line delivery and snaggletooth in your beloved Spider-Man films.

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #23 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:11:02 PM »

It was all like..."kkkkhhhhhh."

That shit makes me hot.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #24 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:11:51 PM »

It's on AMC. Just went on commercial. It's pretty good so far; nice pace, and De Niro is awesome. I love how you get a sense of the city as he drives around

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #25 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:12:10 PM »

Quote from: BrandNew on February 10, 2007, 11:11:02 PM

It was all like..."kkkkhhhhhh."

That shit makes me hot.

You heard it here first - The Departed can't touch the writing of GHOST RIDER.

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 10, 2007, 11:11:51 PM

It's on AMC. Just went on commercial. It's pretty good so far; nice pace, and De Niro is awesome. I love how you get a sense of the city as he drives around

Yeah, it's easily one of DeNiro's better performances. Although, I'll always love him in The Godfather: Part II.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #26 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:13:50 PM »

What's with the Departed hate, Willco? At least watch the damn thing (and not some shitty crime drama with a 90's era Richard Gere) before hating on it.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #27 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:14:29 PM »

Dude, I saw Infernal Affairs. I don't need to see no Scorcese knock off.

Himu · « **Reply #28 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:22:40 PM »

Sucks. I missed it.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #29 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:30:12 PM »

Commercial break. This is great.

De Niro is great in this movie. He's nailing the odd, social outcast role without being over dramatic, cliche, or contrived. You can see that Travis is extremely...sociall inept. But despite that he goes on a date with a hot chick lolz. Hearing him try to get her to like him made me smile. Not in a "haha that's funny way", but more in a way that it felt real. Like somthing I would say, or any other real person

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #30 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:36:53 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 10, 2007, 11:30:12 PM

Commercial break. This is great.

De Niro is great in this movie. He's nailing the odd, social outcast role without being over dramatic, cliche, or contrived.

You mean, like Tobey MacGuire?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #31 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:47:40 PM »

Quote from: The Dark Shake on February 10, 2007, 11:36:53 PM

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 10, 2007, 11:30:12 PM
Commercial break. This is great.

De Niro is great in this movie. He's nailing the odd, social outcast role without being over dramatic, cliche, or contrived.

You mean, like Tobey MacGuire?

Anyway, another commercial break.

When De Niro said he wanted to take her to a movie earlier in the movie I had a feeling he'd take her to a XXX one, but seeing him actually do it - and being oblivious - was priceless. He didn't understand why taking her there would be socially unacceptable to most people. Instead his reasoning was that since he saw other couples in there, it must be ok. Socially he watches what others do and attempts to mimic it in order to fit in, but it doesn't work.

This movie is awesome

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #32 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:48:25 PM »

That's one of my favorite parts.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #33 on:** February 10, 2007, 11:57:34 PM »

Did he meet Harvey Keitel's character yet?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #34 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:01:57 AM »

Quote from: The Dark Shake on February 10, 2007, 11:57:34 PM

Did he meet Harvey Keitel's character yet?

No.

He's extremely paranoid and is disgusted with the city. The movie portrays him as a realistic maniac with an serial killer mind instead of some boogie man picking up people at night. It reminds of Seven where one of Spacey's diary's reveals that he saw a man so revolting to him that he threw up on him; it's that kind of insanity

TVC15 · « **Reply #35 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:23:21 AM »

Dude, it's not worth watching unedited. I can't fathom why they'd even make an edited version.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #36 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:28:30 AM »

Quote from: TVC 15 on February 11, 2007, 12:23:21 AM

Dude, it's not worth watching unedited. I can't fathom why they'd even make an edited version.

You're probably right, but what I'm seeing is pretty awesome. I'm going to rent this movie as soon as possible, along with Goodfellas, to see them unedited.

Travis just blew this black guy away lol. Also he wrote a letter to his parents lying about himself; reminds me of G

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #37 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:29:57 AM »

I love how the card covers like four different occasions at once.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #38 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:41:53 AM »

Am I a pedo for getting a slight hard on when Jodie Foster gets ready to blow Travis?

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #39 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:42:36 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 11, 2007, 12:41:53 AM

Am I a pedo for getting a slight hard on when Jodie Foster gets ready to blow Travis?

Uh, yes.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #40 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:43:55 AM »

She's hella ugly though; very skinny with terrible eye makeup.

But damn she's a good actor, especially for a child

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #41 on:** February 11, 2007, 01:24:23 AM »

Wow. The movie was nigh perfect but I HATED the ending. WTF?

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He kills 3-4 people, goes into a coma, and then comes out - and isn't locked up? Instead he's out on the street, doing his job as if nothing happened? That doesn't make any sense. At first I thought it was some kind of dream sequence, and he was still in the coma.

But at least he didn't get the girl at the end lol. That would have been really stupid.

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9/10 from what I saw, but I NEED to see this unedited. If the movie ended after Travis held his fingers to his head and uttered "bang...bang...bang..." and then closing his eyes, it would be much higher imo

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #42 on:** February 11, 2007, 01:26:46 AM »

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Nothing's in stone, but the post-shootout scenes are largely perceived as Travis' own dreams, not what actually occured after the shoot-out.

I.E. After the shoot-out Travis either dies or goes to prison, and what we see are false, contrived scenes that he imagines would happen in his own perfect world.

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CajoleJuice · « **Reply #43 on:** February 11, 2007, 01:33:44 AM »

I've gotta watch this movie again. Didn't really impress me the first time around outside of De Niro's performance. I personally enjoyed Raging Bull much more.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #44 on:** February 11, 2007, 01:35:03 AM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on February 11, 2007, 01:33:44 AM

I've gotta watch this movie again. Didn't really impress me the first time around outside of De Niro's performance. I personally enjoyed Raging Bull much more.

Wow, I'm pretty much the opposite. Raging Bull has never quite seemed like a classic to me.

One more thing: PD, did you catch Marty's little cameo in the film?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #45 on:** February 11, 2007, 01:36:09 AM »

Quote from: The Dark Shake on February 11, 2007, 01:26:46 AM

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Nothing's in stone, but the post-shootout scenes are largely perceived as Travis' own dreams, not what actually occured after the shoot-out.
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That's the feeling I got. Although from a casual perspective it didn't seem that way. The movie featured many clear parts in which Travis created and propogated a fantasy world with respect to the way he perceived himself, such as the card to his parents or the story he told Iris at breakfast about working for the government.

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But yea, this was a good movie. De Niro was hauntingly amazing. While he's most known for playing badasses (Godfather, Goodfellas, etc), here he plays an extremely vurnerable, socially inept maniac.

I always say the most important thing to me in films is good acting. All the central preformances in this movie ranged from good to great. On the great scale is obviously De Niro, but also Jodie Foster. And complimenting the acting was the equally great writing, which was rooted in reality. It felt like real people were being presented, not some bastard writer's perspective on people. This was especially evident in De Niro's narrative. It wasn't perfect or contrived or anything; in fact it was a rambling mess at times, but it worked because it described the cluttered character.

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One more thing: PD, did you catch Marty's little cameo in the film?

I don't even know what he looks like

TVC15 · « **Reply #46 on:** February 11, 2007, 01:58:26 AM »

I think Martin's cameo would be one of the particularly edited parts. He has a potty mouth.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #47 on:** February 11, 2007, 01:59:04 AM »

I don't know what he looks like lolz

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #48 on:** February 11, 2007, 02:00:58 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 11, 2007, 01:59:04 AM

I don't know what he looks like lolz

IIRC, he's in the backseat of the cab talking about his wife fucking a black guy up in the apartment and he's talking about how he's going to kill them or some such.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #49 on:** February 11, 2007, 02:03:11 AM »

Quote from: CajoleJuice on February 11, 2007, 02:00:58 AM

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on February 11, 2007, 01:59:04 AM
I don't know what he looks like lolz

IIRC, he's in the backseat of the cab talking about his wife fucking a black guy up in the apartment and he's talking about how he's going to kill them or some such.

I loved that part

Although it would have been better if they looked up at the window and saw the shadow of this long dick hanging from a dude's groin area. That would be fucking hilarious

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #50 on:** February 11, 2007, 02:06:12 AM »

"You know who lives there? A ni99er lives there. And I'm gonna kill 'im. Then I'm gonna kill her. What do you think about that, huh?"

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #51 on:** February 11, 2007, 02:08:17 AM »

What's with these directors like Marty and QT saying ni99er in their movies

Solo · « **Reply #52 on:** February 11, 2007, 08:52:24 AM »

Oh, Willco. You have lost so many points in this thread. Scorsese, overrated? Hell no. Keep in mind its us internet film freaks that worship the man. AKA 0.009% of the population. In the larger, real world sense, Scorsese is criminally underrated and underappreciated. He's only the greatest American filmmaker of the past 30 years, yet people routinely flock to suck the teet of his peers like Spielberg, Eastwood, and, as sickening as it is, Lucas.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #53 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:39:51 PM »

I didn't saw Scorcese is overrated, but most certainly some of his films are, Solo! And do think that Spielberg has better range, a better track record and is by far and away a better technical director than Scorcese. That's about it.

Solo · « **Reply #54 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:43:29 PM »

Quote from: Willco on February 11, 2007, 12:39:51 PM

I didn't saw Scorcese is overrated, but most certainly some of his films are, Solo! And do think that Spielberg has better range, a better track record and is by far and away a better technical director than Scorcese. That's about it.

I will agree that Spielberg is better on the technical side (although they are both masters in this area). I would put them about even in terms of range. And I would say Scorsese has the better track record. They are close, but personal preference puts me in the Scorsese camp.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #55 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:48:38 PM »

I think Spielberg is just a better storyteller. Even to projects he's just attached to in terms of production and story, like The Poltergeist, rock. He's got more films that people love than anyone, that's for sure. Spielberg has covered way more genres than Scorcese.

My problem with Scorcese is that he's got a couple of horribly overrated films and several underrated gems. I can't call the man overrated when he doesn't have an Oscar, though. My favorite Scorcese film usually gets the shaft anyway.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #56 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:50:59 PM »

What's your favorite Scorsese film, Wilco?

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #57 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:51:56 PM »

THE AVIATOR.

I loved it. Should be the Holy Bible for anyone wanting to do a biopic.

Solo · « **Reply #58 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:52:24 PM »

Quote from: Willco on February 11, 2007, 12:48:38 PM

I think Spielberg is just a better storyteller. Even to projects he's just attached to in terms of production and story, like The Poltergeist, rock. He's got more films that people love than anyone, that's for sure. Spielberg has covered way more genres than Scorcese.

My problem with Scorcese is that he's got a couple of horribly overrated films and several underrated gems. I can't call the man overrated when he doesn't have an Oscar, though. My favorite Scorcese film usually gets the shaft anyway.

Well, rumors persist that Spielberg didnt indeed DIRECT Poltergeist, although I guess he'll never admit to that. I dunno about the genres thing, people tend to think Scorsese = crime films, and thats true to an extent, but the man also made Kundun, Bringing Out The Dead, After Hours, The King of Comedy, Age of Innocence, The Aviator, etc.

Anyways, I do also agree that some of Scorsese films are overrated, and also that he has several underappreciated films. So we agree more than it appears.

Also, give The Departed a chance.

EDIT: The Aviator was great. Rock on.

The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment · « **Reply #59 on:** February 11, 2007, 12:53:05 PM »

Quote from: Willco on February 11, 2007, 12:51:56 PM

THE AVIATOR.

I loved it. Should be the Holy Bible for anyone wanting to do a biopic.

The Departed was better. And so were Goodfellas, Casino, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, After Hours, etc.

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