Round one is here. 61 years of film with 3 convenient ties. What film will come out on top? For this round, we start with: THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, a film about greed and crime that tells the truth; there may be some token arrests and some companies might come down, but there are almost no consequences for robbing the American people as long as you do it with the stock market instead of a gun. Against... RAGING BULL, a cautionary tale about how the seeds of our own destruction is ultimately sown by ourselves. While everyone understands that to an extent, feeling hungover at work after a night of drinking or loosening a belt strap after a rough week, we can fall much farther than that if we reach enough of a height. The winner will move on to the next round. The full bracket is attached below.
Maybe sacrilegious but I went Wolf of Wall Street. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen Raging Bull though, long enough that I should revisit it. It is a masterpiece. I just think Wolf and Goodfellas are about as good as pop Scorsese gets
this is bullshit. i feel like @Jason Tolpin having to choose between these two. went with raging bull and it feels terrible.
Raging Bull is top 3 Marty, and Wolf of Wall Street (while excellent) isn't top 3 Marty, so Raging Bull wins.
Raging Bull was a wake up call for me. I had a minor concussion from too much boxing and then fell over playing tennis with a friend. Afterwards I started having emotional problems, getting waves of paranoia, anxiety, becoming irrationally angry. I had a massive augment with my dad and the colours started flipping out, like someone started messing with the hue slider, it became an outer body experience, I knew I was acting crazy and couldn't do anything to stop it, a raging bull. Its a sad cycle, boxing makes you insane, your life falls apart and boxing the only thing that makes sense. In the movie Ray eventually goes to prison gets out and does comedy, My coach was an Olympian who was forced to retire at 24 because he failed brain scans, he was never allowed to compete again, he's 48 now, he can't talk and boxes every day.
Wolf of Wall Street. I finally watched raging bull a few years ago and I didn’t find it near as good as some people were praising it to be.
I don't know the name of the actor who plays Rugrat but he's one of those character actors you start to recognize over time. He's great in everything he does.