Goodfellas? Taxi Driver? Raging Bull? Mean Streets? King of Comedy? Cape Fear? Wolf of Wall Street? Casino? Other? Goodfellas might be the best, but King of Comedy is my favorite.
Taxi driver without a moments thought. The script, direction and lead performance all deserve mention among the best in film history
I'd say King of Comedy, Goodfellas, and Mean Streets are his three best movies. In recent years, definitely Wolf of Wall Street, that's a masterpiece. Can we at least agree that The Departed is his most OVERRATED movie?
Dunno tbh, who's rating? The constant demand for second and third order thinking make your threads quite challenging, . What's my opinion on the film and my opinion of what I think most other people's opinion is! We're past a keynsian beauty contest and into Derida, ive no good answers I thought departed was well made and enjoyable but unremarkable; but I kinda figured that was the consensus King of comedy is probably my second favourite too, love that
The Departed won Best Picture... that's why it's overrated. It's not even a top 10-15 all time crime drama.
Did it? Damn that's surprising I don't remember that. Definitely one of those 'yeah, he's well overdue one, better give him an Oscar' picks
Goodfellas is his best IMO. I guess 2nd would be Taxi Driver. He’s had so many outstanding movies. I liked The Departed a lot too, but yes, that was his “makeup” award
top tier: teksi driver, raging bull, goodfellas second tier: king of comedy, casino, cape fear third tier: departed, wolf of wall street can't remember mean streets much
Taxi Driver and nothing else he has done after that has come close. btw I recently rewatched the film with my daughter, who had never watched it before and the ending had us debating what really happened there. She states that the last scene where he rides Betsy (Cybill Shepard) never happened, that it was all part of Travis psychosis. I argued that it did happened. She pointed to a shot after he dropped her where the camera moved very fast and the audio had a weird noise as intentional, like Scorcese saying 'this guy is nuts, this might be an hallucination'. After all, he was supposed to be still recovering in the hospital from all his wounds. I never caught that before and she has a valid point. What you guys think?
There’s long a debate that the ending is Travis’s dying dream. I think the ending really happens though. Travis recovered in the hospital, as the newspaper clippings show, and I think he has a mark where he got shot in the end.
There is a whole argument that he did died as when the cops arrive the camera shots are from above like if his soul is floating above them, going down the stairs and still floating above outside when the ambulance arrives. The scenes that follows with a happy ending (paper clips & Iris parent's letter calling him a hero, Travis chatting very sociable & friendly with the other cabbies, plus Betsy staring at him ) all could be that he is in heaven and everything is okay for him.
I think you watched the movie with your daughter to somehow symbolise and/or justify your own latent paedophilia....re: 12-year old actress playing a hooker.
Taxi Driver with Goodfellas a close second. Departed was excellent. His most overrated film is Gangs of New York, DDL saved that film from being shite.
Goodfellas. Departed is enjoyable. Agreed on GoNY. Anticlimactic ending and a film saved by one of the most menacing characters in film played to perfection by DDL. Wasted on that film.
haven't even ever rewatched GONY after seeing it at the cinema. was awkward and generally underwhelming as i remember it
