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Critical Analysis: Martin Scorsese • Page 2

Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by OhTheWater, Nov 9, 2017.

  1. Serh

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    if y'all got a chance to see irishman in theaters definitely capitalize on it
     
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  2. EASheartsVinyl

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    I kind of want to see it again but I have so many others to fit in this month that I probably shouldn’t.
     
  3. OhTheWater

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    Might do Bringing Out the Dead tonight. Have never seen that one
     
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  4. Serh

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    if we ever truly bring critical analysis back we gotta do one for linklater
     
  5. riotspray

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    I tried watching all of his stuff when Wolf of Wall Street came out but I still have more than a handful I need to see. This thread is a good reminder.
     
  6. mike1885

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    Watched Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore for the first time last night. It was really good. Don't know why I avoided it for so long.
     
  7. phaynes12

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    color of money is probably my favorite of his. wildly underrated.
     
  8. Silence is a masterpiece
     
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  9. Morrissey

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    Who's That Knocking At My Door? is definitely a student film. I thought it was a lot better when I saw it years ago.
     
  10. OhTheWater

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    Goodfellas tonight. God it’s so good
     
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  11. Morrissey

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    Boxcar Bertha was a bore.

    It is interesting the ways in which directors evolve in today's climate versus previous decades. People like Coppola, Spielberg, Kubrick, and Scorsese had to take jobs for hire for quite a while to get the amount of clout that would give them the independence to make the films that they are so memorable for. They are often not very interesting and mostly skippable unless you are trying to see their roots. By contrast, people like Tarantino, Soderbergh, Wes and Paul Thomas Anderson, and Sofia Coppola were able to start right away making important work. It is indicative of the independent film route, which didn't exist in the same way in the Sixties and Seventies. A lot of these new directors made their best or most acclaimed films by film two or three.
     
  12. Serh

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    first-timed on goodfellas on the big screen. i don't have any interesting opinion here, that was spectacular. though it might be weird that i've seen irishman first
     
  13. Serh

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    watched gony last night and i definitely hope there are no worse films in the marty cinematic universe
     
  14. Morrissey

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    Boxcar Bertha is probably his worst movie, but that was a situation where he was a hired hand trying to make a name for himself.
     
  15. EASheartsVinyl

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    Funnily enough I just watched The Color of Money last night and was thinking of this thread. You’d have to go back to his super early hired gun days to find a movie that feels less specific to him. By itself it’s adequate, but knowing he directed it always takes it down quite a bit. It could have been so much more interesting if they didn’t feel the need to bring in a hot young star and just let the movie be about Fast Eddie.
     
  16. phaynes12

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    it’s probably my favorite of his lol
     
  17. EASheartsVinyl

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    Gangs of New York or Color of Money?
     
  18. phaynes12

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  19. EASheartsVinyl

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    What do you like so much about it?
     
  20. phaynes12

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    i love the main three performances and the dialogue is among some of his best imo. the cinematography from ballhaus is great. the soundtrack also rules lol. i get not liking it bc it feels like not a true scorsese work since he’s working within the confines of a sequel, but i love it
     
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  21. EASheartsVinyl

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    That makes sense. I also can’t stand Tom Cruise, so it’s not surprising that something he’s in would be pretty low on my list. Paul was great though. It’s too bad they couldn’t make it work to have Jackie Gleason return.
     
  22. phaynes12

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    oh, i mean, he sucks haha. but it is one of his better performances. and fantastic late-period newman
     
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  23. Morrissey

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    1. Raging Bull
    2. Goodfellas
    3. The King of Comedy
    4. Taxi Driver
    5. The Irishman
    6. The Wolf of Wall Street
    7. Silence
    8. The Last Temptation of Christ
    9. Mean Streets
    10. After Hours
    11. Who's That Knocking At My Door?
    12. The Departed
    13. The Age of Innocence
    14. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    15. Casino
    16. Bringing Out the Dead
    17. Cape Fear
    18. New York, New York
    19. Gangs of New York
    20. The Color of Money
    21. Hugo
    22. The Aviator
    23. New York, New York
    24. Shutter Island
    25. Boxcar Bertha

    I regretted making this list about halfway through. A lot of the lower films I only saw once and it was long before I had the amount of film knowledge I had now. When I was doing my Scorsese rewatch a few months ago I saw the runtime of New York, New York and gave up.
     
  24. riotspray

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    Surprised to see Casino so low. I'd probably move up that, The Departed and After Hours; and maybe move King of Comedy down below WOWS. Otherwise, I mostly agree with that list, though I still need to see about half a dozen or more of those.
     
  25. TJ Wells

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    I'm running through his filmography completely for the first time right now.

    First-time watches: Boxcar Bertha, New York New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun, Silence

    On NY, NY right now. The fact that Minnelli didn't even get nominated for this is fucking insane.