Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 148

I enjoy the Departed. I don't remember much about The Aviator. I've never seen Shutter Island or Hugo.

 

lesser Marty is still a good movie

 

Shutter Island is his worst film if you don't count the Corman-produced director-for-hire Boxcar Bertha.

 

Shutter Island is good

 

Nobody ever talks about Bringing Out the Dead

 

still haven’t seen it. Maybe tonight!

 

it’s Cage! You gotta watch all Cage!

 

marty and cage I know I know.

 

Bringing Out the Dead is wild. I'm not sure functionally it's among his strongest stuff, but it's so manic that I remember it vividly. I love aspects of Gangs of New York, but rarely want to re-watch it because of the length. I found a DVD of Kundun at a thrift store the other day, I think it's the only Scorsese feature I haven't seen (apart from Killers of the Flower Moon).

 

Based on my Wikipedia reading, after Fincher didn't want to be involved in a director's cut studio execs added 30mins to sell more DVDs and called it an assembly cut.

If the director wasn't interested I'd rather watch the tighter runtime.

 

...I like Boxcar Bertha for what it is.

 

Trust me, he wasn't interested in the theatrical cut either

 

Haha that's not selling the longer run time

 

The assembly cut makes a shit movie into a watchable movie imo. It may not be a director’s cut but the whole point was to get it closer to Fincher’s vision, it just happened to be without him involved.

 

Alien³ (1992 theatrical) - Yeah this was bad. There's some good Fincher camera work and that's about it. I don't want to spend any more time with that movie. Who thought British religious prisoners is what Alien needed?? Very weak writing, characters, dialogue, acting direction. Charles Dance was great and even he couldn't save some of the gross scenes he was in.

 

I turned off Gangs of New York after about 45 minutes

 

what's so bad about gangs of new york

 

watched Bringing Out the Dead last night, why isn't this talked about more?

 

Much to think about

 

I guess we need to end this.

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

 

Raging Bull
The Wolf of Wall Street
The Age of Innocence
The King of Comedy
Taxi Driver
GoodFellas
Casino
The Aviator
The Last Temptation of Christ
Silence
Hugo
The Departed
The Irishman
Kundun
The Color of Money
Gangs of New York
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Bringing Out the Dead
After Hours
Mean Streets
Shutter Island
Boxcar Bertha
Cape Fear
Who's That Knocking at My Door?

Something like that.

I still need to see New York, New York

Also if we open the door to the docs, The Last Waltz is #1

 

1. Raging Bull
2. The Irishman
3. The King of Comedy
4. Casino
5. The Departed
6. The Wolf of Wall Street
7. After Hours
8. Goodfellas
9. Taxi Driver
10. Shutter Island
11. Bringing Out The Dead
12. The Color of Money
12. Cape Fear

Still got a lot to catch up on honestly, refreshing to see others listing Raging Bull at #1.

 

I don't like Raging Bull. I love Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

 

Revenge of the Sith - 8/10
Miles ahead of the other prequels. I mean, I love the podracing sequence in Phantom Menace, and most of this is on par with that, but the last 45 minutes of this is just as good as the original trilogy. I know the new films brought back practical effects, and that's cool, but I think this is my favorite looking Star Wars film. Anakin did nothing wrong (except for killing a bunch of children).