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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat's your favorite Martin Scorsese movie?
Last edited Sat Jan 27, 2018, 08:20 PM - Edit history (1)
No Direction Home
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Taxi Driver | |
4 (44%) |
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The Aviator | |
0 (0%) |
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The Age of Innocence | |
2 (22%) |
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Raging Bull | |
0 (0%) |
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Goodfellas | |
3 (33%) |
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Hugo | |
0 (0%) |
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The Departed | |
0 (0%) |
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No Direction Home | |
0 (0%) |
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Casino | |
0 (0%) |
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Mean Streets | |
0 (0%) |
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Skittles
(153,180 posts)Two votes for After Hours
FSogol
(45,524 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)FSogol
(45,524 posts)Skittles
(153,180 posts)it is in a class of its own
mockmonkey
(2,829 posts)I can watch that one over and over again.
DinahMoeHum
(21,806 posts)HOW COULD YOU ????????
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)The Wolf of Wall Street got Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, and was one of his best films; but which one do I take down to make room for it?
whathehell
(29,082 posts)with Daniel Day Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer and Winona Ryder... Funny, you didn't even list it.
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)The Age of Innocence was a great film; but which one do I take down to make room for it?
Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)"The Age of Innocence" would look much better in your poll.
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)The Age of Innocence is now a poll option.
whathehell
(29,082 posts)I see your point.
In answer to your question, though, I can see it replacing at least one of the gangster flicks.
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)I'm not sure that film qualifies as a "gangster flick"....i(t's been a while since I saw that one)
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Depressing, but well done and quite true to the novel.
whathehell
(29,082 posts)that one person on the thread agreed with me on the Age of Innocence...
What I liked about it, besides the thwarted, and yes, depressing love story, was the revealing view it gave of the old New York families, the One Percent of the time....The vacuous, intellectually constipated and socially rigid nature of that society...Thinking on it later, I realized that this was the society from which Franklin Roosevelt emerged, and that, in itself, is rather amazing.
whathehell
(29,082 posts)I walked out of it, something I rarely do.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I knew ten minutes in how it was going to end.
whathehell
(29,082 posts)gratuitous misogyny and vulgarity. I hated virtually everything about it.
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)It was a "Sneak Preview" and I got up & walked out while the opening credits were running.
(I saw Barbra Streisand's name....I couldn't stand her back then; but I love her now!)
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)and also won a Golden Globe Award for Best Director.
(I hate to admit it, but I never saw that one)
whathehell
(29,082 posts)but they also once gave an Oscar for Best Song to "It's Hard Out There for a Pimp".
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)Best Director, now that's a real honor, don't you agree?
whathehell
(29,082 posts)in any case, my point is that the Academy makes poor choices on occasion.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)red dog 1
(27,845 posts)"Bet you just can't eat just one"
FSogol
(45,524 posts)red dog 1
(27,845 posts)I have 5 favorite Martin Scorsese movies:
- Raging Bull
- Goodfellas
- Taxi Driver
- The Aviator
- No Direction Home [probably my "most favorite"]
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Scorsese impossibly continues to deliver better and better films.
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)So you can now vote for it.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)red dog 1
(27,845 posts)Scorsese produced, directed and wrote "Silence"
(I'll put it on my wish list)
ms liberty
(8,592 posts)Probably one of, if not the, greatest concert film ever.
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)That was a great concert film.
I know Winterland well, since I went there many times, (mostly to see the Grateful Dead).
I could remove Mean Streets to make room for it, I guess, since no one has yet to vote for it.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)I always knew I wanted to be a gangster."
Great opening line to a GREAT movie.
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 27, 2018, 10:38 PM - Edit history (1)
Remember that line?
(Goodfellas is a truly great movie!)
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Martin Scorsese is one of my favorite Directors.
Squinch
(50,993 posts)Kristofer Bry
(175 posts)LeftInTX
(25,515 posts)I couldn't make through the Aviator. It was awful.
jrandom421
(1,005 posts)It probably wasn't Leonardo DiCaprio and Scorsese's best film, but he perfectly captured the genius and madness of Howard Hughes.
red dog 1
(27,845 posts)I'm surprised that it hasn't gotten any votes at all.
I thought Leo did a pretty good job as Howard Hughes.
Howard Hughes had that pencil-thin mustache from an early age, probably while still a teenager, but Leo doesn't have it until the last 45 minutes or so of the movie (Weird)
TexasBushwhacker
(20,210 posts)Good adult romances are so rare, and Kris Kristofferson was hot 🔥