film: taxi driver

[jasonlee]

taxi driver

now was it realistic at the end, could DeNiro get away with killing all those peeps and shit? i mean they were gangsters, but still, how'd he get away from it? and why not just call the police? they would've helped jodie foster.?

 

[wanderlust]

lots to be said about this great film... start a poll, though i am sure not too many people would give this low stars, and get the discussion going.

fabulous preformance from deniro, of course.

 

[jasonlee]

I thought it was a truly great film, but I have to ask about these little things in it that bothered me, such as realism, how did DeNiro murder those ppl and then walk off immune from the law? now in some ways i almost thought that the end was like he was dreaming, how he would've wanted things to turn out, and that it was his death. but not too sure, and the movie didn't really go for that, but great god damn movie.

 

[jasonlee]

the movie was scorcese too.

 

[wizekrak]

I'd guess self defense, plus the fact that they were criminals combined with a lenient judge and the court of public opinion. I don't think many jury members would convict someone of killing a 12 year old hooker's pimp.

 

[singularity]

Ebert had a theory that Travis had not gotten away with killing all those people but had died durring the shootout and the end was like his dream. Usually that seems like a cop out but I don't think it would have been with the tone of the film for him to go to jail or to end the movie with the shootout. Great film, classic.

Edit: sorry I didn't read jasonlee's post, yeah that would have made the most sense.

 

[jasonlee]

yeah the ending just made me think a little, but true, he could claim self defense, but i dont think harvey keitel had a gun out pointed at him.

 

[L2R]

There has been talk (by Scorsese, Shrader & De Niro) about a possible sequel.

 

[onetwothreefour]

^^^ really. wow, i hadn't heard about that, but suffice to say i'd sell my non-existent children to make it happen

i love this film like a child. no, more, as the paragraph above demonstrates.

anyway, it's brilliant. the aesthetic of it is perfect - as good as i've seen any scorsese film, and though it isn't as fleshed out or layered as something like goodfellas (though really, how could it be?) it's brilliantly written and directed.

it really annoys me when you sometimes hear people speaking about this film as if it's just an 'action film' or just a 'crime movie' or whatever; it's clearly a pretty damning indictment on the whole vietnam thing, and the process of reintegrating returned servicemen into the community, and i think it comments really poignantly a lot of the time.

one of scorsese's masterpieces.

 

[lostNfound]

ooooh oooh a sequel, yes lets.
I can see how that would work.
Travis (DeNiro) doing ok in the end, I'd like to see him go out and visit Iris (Foster) and her parents to see how she's doing.
See how Palantine cleaned up the city. You know, he couldhave taken Travis advice after their encounter in the cab.
We see all the good that came of the decisions that Travis made.

I loved this movie.

Although, he was abit of anut in the movie.

 

[mariacallas]

I FUCKING LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!
*pays homage*

 

[michael]

i think the movie has aged really badly, i think the plot is kind of weak, i think that it's absolutely impossible for me to empathize with any of the characters. plus the part with scorsese in the back of the cab is just stupid. oh yeah, and gratuitous violence and gore. 2 stars from me although i did like it a lot when i was about 15.

 

[Achaemenian]

Taxi driver is as overhyped movie as scorcese is overhyped as a director.

And even if the movie did, back in the days it was made, address the issue of unsuccessfully resocialised war veterans, this remains rather incomprehensible to viewer today, so what remains is a rather banal story with some good acting (enough to guarantee some lasting interest).

I'll give it 3 stars due to later.

 

[marionbarrie]

Taxi Driver

Can someone please explain the end to me?

 

[felix]

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=199407

 

[TALLY]

Honestly, it took me a couple of times to really appreciate it. At first i thought the beginning was a little slow and it took a while to get off the ground. Now, its one of my favs. Four Stars

 

[DarthMom]

knowing it was a classic, i tried to watch it recently, and turned it off 45 min into it. very boring. at that point, i read the synopsis, and felt i had no need to finish the film. just my 2 pennies.

 

[tribal girl]

^I had the same problem at first. When you sit down to watch a movie that you know is supposed to be classic, you have high hopes for it. I used to make that mistake a fair bit. The trick is to try not to listen to critics and whatnot otherwise it only leads to disappointment.

I'd watched it years ago and couldn't get into it. I too thought it was incredibly slow moving and boring. However, I think it was last year that I caught it on TV when I finally 'got' it. I just felt that I understood the character a lot more, and got into the pace of the movie a lot easier this time.

I was even inspired to paint this (SELF PROMOTING WHORE ALERT!!!):

 

[youarewhatyouis]

^^ nice! i like

listen you fuckers, you screwheads, here is a man that would not take it anymore.....here is a man who stood up against the cunts the filth the dogs the shit, here is someone who stood up

goddamn I love this movie

 

[DarthMom]

awesome job, tribal!