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What's your favorite Scorsese film?

Taxi Driver
1 (6.7%)
Raging Bull
2 (13.3%)
Mean Streets
1 (6.7%)
The King of Comedy
0 (0%)
After Hours
2 (13.3%)
The Color of Money
0 (0%)
The Last Temptation of Christ
0 (0%)
Goodfellas
7 (46.7%)
The Aviator
0 (0%)
The Departed
2 (13.3%)

Total Members Voted: 15

Voting closed: December 10, 2006, 02:53:52 AM

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« on: December 10, 2006, 02:53:52 AM »
I love Scorsese. Even the over-produced and over-acted Gangs and Departed were worth seeing. But this baby is at the top of my MS list. Yes, even ahead of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Griffin Dunne is perfect as the losery guy who sets out one night looking for a little action. Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom and Teri Garr -- Teri Garr! -- are all wonderful as the women who mistake him for a predator. I've actually had lucid waking nightmares long after watching this film when the Mr. Softee truck came down my street playing that jingle. The anxiousness that you feel through Dunne is as close to Kafka as I've ever come across in a film, including the Kafka films.
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« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2006, 03:27:37 AM »
Good question.  I've seen most of Scorsese's features, here's my list:

1.   Mean Streets
2.   Taxi Driver
3.   The Last Temptation Of Christ
4.   Goodfellas
5.   The Last Waltz
6.   After Hours
7.   The Age Of Innocence
8.   Kundun
9.   Raging Bull
10. No Direction Home
11. New York, New York
12. Cape Fear
13. The Departed
14. The Color Of Money
15. The Aviator
16. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
17. Gangs Of New York
18. Who's That Knocking At My Door?
19. The King Of Comedy
20. Casino
21. Bringing Out The Dead
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« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2006, 04:17:34 AM »
Goodfellas is mine, but After Hours would be somewhere near the top.  Its too much fun.
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« Reply #3 on: December 10, 2006, 06:52:54 AM »
Bringing Out The Dead, but from the list it's be Last Temptation...

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« Reply #4 on: December 10, 2006, 07:50:29 AM »
The poll limited me to 10 or else I would have included some of the other films you peoples mentioned. But thanks for picking up a newbie.
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« Reply #5 on: December 10, 2006, 10:19:16 AM »
I REALLY liked The Departed, so it gets my vote. I have seen some, if not all of the others,(I'm only 18, give me some time) and I probably like Gangs better, but The Departed was perfect. Jack Nicholson didn't overshadow anybody any more than Bill the Butcher did. I seem to remember Bill getting a lot of praise...
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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2006, 10:31:50 AM »
Not for nothing, but speaking of overlooked Scorsese films, Jerry Lewis and Sandra Bernhard were both excellent in The King of Comedy. That one scene where Bernhard is babysitting tied-up Lewis is as classic at Alec Baldwin's scene in Glengarry, Glenross. There are moments and there are moments.
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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2006, 11:32:22 AM »
I just loved Goodfellas. I still watch it whenever it's on...even if it's the edited for TV version...I can add in all the swear words on my own.
  Casino would run a close second.

  I think number 3 for me would be Kundun - due mainly to me strong interest in all things Tibetan.


  On a totally unrelated note - has Leo replaced De Niro as Marty's "muse"?
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« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2006, 04:14:23 PM »
Kundan is amazing.  I had forgotten about that.  The sound design for Kundun is amazing.  All those low frequency bells/gongs and wind instruments really hit you with a sense of majesty.  Also a great film to make you think outside your own box.
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« Reply #9 on: December 10, 2006, 07:36:52 PM »
Quote from: "marty_m"
On a totally unrelated note - has Leo replaced De Niro as Marty's "muse"?


Apparently. And it's too bad, I can just about take DiCaprio. The only thing I loved him in was Gilbert Grape, and it was all downhill from there to his mushmouthed Romeo. (Though, I liked The Aviator well enough as a film.)

I'll always be willing to speak up in defense of The Age of Innocence as worthy Scorcese.  Only on the surface is it just another period piece. I happened to rewatch it on DVD from the library not long after seeing Gangs of New York (which I didn't care for very much), and it was good to remind myself of what MS did right in that work, a vision that was much better realized than Gangs (to me, at least.)