Martin Scorsese's best?

[Tanuki_23]

Martin Scorsese - Zero oscars.

Three 6 Mafia - One.

 

[user99]

(don't forget he directed the video for michael jackson's bad)

Thats his best !!! : )

 

[Lord Mandrake]

One of the funniest moments in Goodfellas is where Tommy, Jimmy, and Henry stop at Tommy's moms house and she shows the painting she did and the guy on the boat looks like Billy Batts in the trunk. Tommy goes "hey, that look like somebody we know?" That was fuckin hilarious!

NOW GO HOME AND GET YOUR FUCKIN SHINE BOX!

LOL

 

[staypuft]

definately goodfellas...with casino in close second...i could never get into taxi driver for some strange reason

 

[psychetool]

You forgot raging bull. I voted for goodfellas though, and still would have.

 

[ego_loss]

I'd like to see Mean Streets on the list, but it doesn't mean I'd vote for it.

Scorsese has made dozens of movies that are on my "top" list. The Last Temptation and Kundun are among my favorite of his best "non-mafia" flicks.

Bringing Out the Dead is a great example of great direction/bad acting. Nicholas Cage and Patricia Arquette are horrible actors (HORRIBLE). In the hands of a director such as Martin (we are on a first name basis, btw) he managed to channel their mindless and over the top acting into characters that were at least decent.

My hatred for Nicholas Cage is rivaled only by my hatred for Leonardo DiCaprio... and Cameron Diaz. They are easy on the eyes but they had some real problems with fleshing those characters out in Gangs of New York. Daniel Day Louis is the exact opposite. He freaking nailed butcher bob dead on. He played the over-the-top character to perfection.

As far as his DiNiro films go, I hold Mean Streets in very high regard. It wasn't as much a "mafia" movie as it was a gang of mooks that had a pretty tight grip on their neighborhood and not much else. Keitel's performance was his best until Tarantino came along and gave him The Wolf. DiNiro was brilliant as the uncontrolable man-child. They were more of a family than any of the real mafia families to come. Take the family out of it and you get Taxi Driver. DiNiro made the man-child a bit more of a hardass psychopath and boy... was it great.

I loved Goodfellas. I also loved it's sequel (Casino), but I'll leave that for the mafia fanboys to discuss.

 

[Lord Mandrake]

...i could never get into taxi driver for some strange reason

Well, you're not the only one. My reason can be explained; the flow was slightly disjointed(editing issues) and the acting was sometimes a little stiff. But don't get me entirely wrong, there were a lot of really great scenes in the movie. Those actors were still in their early stages before their prime. If Scorsese made that movie TODAY, it would be amazing.

 

[AmorRoark]

I said Goodfellas but mostly because I don't like the filter they used on Taxi Driver... tough call though.

 

[drEaMtiMe*@#]

i need to see goodfellas again because i saw it a long time ago now, but still it's taxi driver for me most definitely.

 

[Lord Mandrake]

i need to see goodfellas again

YEAH YOU DO!

because i saw it a long time ago now

That's a SIN!,

but still it's taxi driver for me most definitely.

Get outta here and go watch Goodfellas' again. Goodfella's did for old-school la coza nostra films what Nirvana did for modern Rock.

 

[JerryBlunted]

1. Goodfellas
2. Casino
3. Taxi Driver
4. Raging Bull
5. damn near everything else, because they are all at least "pretty good" to "mindblowing."

I am a huge fan.

 

[alasdairm]

i voted for 'the last temptation of christ'. while i have enjoyed many of his movies - in particular goodfellas which i never tire of seeing - none of his movies have moved me emotionally the way 'the last temptation of christ' has.

the image, very early on, where he is measuring the cross he's making by standing against it with his arms outstretched is very powerful.

alasdair

 

[Infinite Jest]

No King of Comedy? For shame! And Raging Bull, of course, should be there (I went for Taxi Driver, though..)

 

[L2R]

i really wanted to pick up a scorsese complete boxed set when i was in china. it came in a big box and only cost about RMB$180 = AUD$30, but by that stage i had already bought a bunch of movies, and it would've annoyed the inlaws.

 

[EJ]

I'm gonna have to vote for The Gangs of New York. Goodfellas is a close second, but in my opinion, it dies in the ass just a little towards the end.

The King of Comedy is probably my third favourite Scorsese. Very underrated film containing probably my favourite DeNiro performance.

After Hours is also underrated and I love Cape Fear too. On the flipside, I think both Raging Bull and Taxi Driver are very overrated.