Chinatown vs Taxi Driver

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  1. Xplosive

    Xplosive X-MOD Bad Motherfucker

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    Better movie?
     
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    Taxi Driver and is not even close!
     
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    Chinatown is a brilliant film but Taxi Driver is more substantial to me

    Chinatown is a particularly excellent example of neo-noir

    Taxi Driver goes beyond a particular genre and becomes maybe the finest depiction of isolation, in particular the paradoxical isolation that occurs in places with dense populations... urban alienation... in all of cinema. Hugely impressive film.
     
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    Taxi Driver is basically a neo-noir as well.
     
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    No way ... its storyline is completely unlike anything in Noir cinema
     
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    The narration and driving around is very noir
     
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    I like Chinatown Better. But i am a sucker for 1920-1950 Los Angeles movies.
     
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    As is the dark lightning and overall ominous tone.

    Taxi Driver is a neo noir and it's often categorized as such.

    Personally, I think Chinatown is the better movie.

    Performance-for-performance, DeNiro's was better than Jack's, which is saying a lot, cause Jack's acting in Chinatown was brilliant.
     
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    Got to agree with Anthony here.
    I love Taxi Driver but with Chinatown, the perverted Roman Polanski caught lightning-in-a-bottle with that one...
     
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    The scene in Taxi Driver where Travis fellow driver is giving him advice and Travis response was one of the most realistic and comical scenes I have ever watched. At that moment I knew that this was a great film.
     
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    The best scene in Taxi Driver is with Easy Andy the travelling salesman.
     
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    The scene where he shoots the guy robbing the store and the store owner shoos him away, takes his gun, tells him not to worry and then starts WHACKING THE BODY WITH A CROWBAR is insane and kinda hilarious
     
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    It is hilarious.
    Mainly because the shopkeeper starts mumbling something incoherently in Italian to Travis, while smashing fock outta the negro, after propping him upright first!!

     
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    That should happen to Panchy
     
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    lol @ Italian
     
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    He aint joking folks
     
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    You are so mindful and kind! Thank you!
     
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    He doesn't hate me. At all.
     
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    If murder wasnt illegal he would have you killed.
     
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    I know!
     
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    Have him killed? What's the fun in that?
     
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    Panch would whup your ass. You aint gonna step to him. How you gonna beat someone's ass who mentally beat the fuck out you.

    Panchy and Clogg:

     
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    You're still on this desperate narrative... read the Ask Clogg thread... I got to him and he cracked

    He's not whupping anybody, he's elderly and retarded
     
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    ...and he spies on a daughter in the shower*



    *(not sure whose daughter, though)
     
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    Spanish.
     
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    Precisely... it's definitely a daughter of some kind
     
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    boy did he put a mental beating on you
     
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    Lol he did the "you're just a coward that hides behind a screen!" angry crying routine and next thing I know I'm getting an emo message from you demanding I apologize to him OR ELSE... I promptly LOLd at the thought of apologizing and you banned me
     
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    Wasnt me that wanted you to apologize. It was punk. Take it up with him. I wanted you banned, Punk wanted you to apologize or be banned. Panchy said leave him the fuck alone. So next time you go to Punk, crying about changing your user title back because the truth hurts, ask him about that.
     
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