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Super... I'd give it a 7/10. Pretty good farce until it felt obligated to justify all its preceding snarky cynicism with a sentimental ending.

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or Cape Fear

The execution is everything and Hugo felt artificial and very formulaic, Hugo is maybe the worse movie Scorsese ever did.

The Departed had some edge, at least. I though it was very good movie.

Or Who's That Knocking at My Door or Boxcar Bertha or Mean Streets () or ...

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But those were either okay or with Mean Streets good. New York New York was actually a bad movie.

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In the 10 Ring: Gunslinger45's reviews

I liked them all less than New York, New York, which isn't saying much for all four.

Boxcar Bertha I can understand, but Mean Streets has me scratching my head.

Been a long time since I watched Mean Streets. Good movie.

Nonsense poopy pants!

You got me on that one. It's the only one I haven't seen, though.

Iron Man 3: B+ -- Could have milked the release a whole lot longer spending time to develop a better story.

Unless you feel you cannot rest in peace without seeing every Scorsese movie ever made, I say you can skip it.

Continuing my Scorsese Odyssey...

Casino



Casino, another film about the mob by the "master" of the mob movie, stars Robert De Niro as Sam "Ace" Rothstein, an associate of the mob and a sports handicapper, who is sent to look after the Tangiers Casino in Las Vegas on behalf of the bosses. What transpires is a decade long saga of ups-and-downs, with the dream of Las Vegas gradually slipping away from him.

This is by no means a bad film, in fact at times its brilliant, especially scenes De Niro shares with Sharon Stone (who, incidentally after me thinking half way through, "I bet she got an Oscar nomination for this", got an Oscar nomination for this). Joe Pesci does his usual Joe Pesci routine which never fails to entertain.

Where Casino falls down is in its running time (three hours seems a bit too long here) and its similarity in themes to Goodfellas, which I feel answered many of the questions here posed by Casino a lot better. Perhaps for these reasons Casino will never be looked upon as a classic of Scorsese's directorial career, but it is entertaining nonetheless.


Mean Streets

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Mean Streets is widely considered to be Scorsese's first great film of his career. Starring Harvey Keitel as Charlie, a soldier in the Mafia under his uncle, his caporegime. However, his natural advancement in the organisation is thwarted by his attachment to his friend, Johnny Boy (fantastically portrayed by Robert De Niro) a low-life gambler who owes a debt to local loan shark Michael. Things are not helped by Charlie's illicit affair with Johnny Boy's cousin Teresa, who has epilepsy and is therefore shunned from the mainstream of the mob.

Scorsese serves up a dream-like quality to this film, a film where the characters themselves are much more important than any semblance towards the plot. It makes for a thrilling almost two hours, strong characters, and a visual style that perfectly compliments the film.

If there was any criticism to be had, it would be that the supporting cast are not given enough time to cement their characters to the film, leaving it a triangle between Keitel, De Niro and Robinson. However, I'm fine with it. Watch this.

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Re-watched A Wednesday (2008)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1280558/

Still a great watch! 7.4/10.

I watched two movies, one called "Trainspotting" and the other called "Special". To my surprise, both of them were very good, even if I think that Trainspotting had moments where it got sidetracked. However, that's understandable considering what the story is about, and I found for Special to be surprisingly sentimental considering what its story is about.

Trainspotting: 7.2/10.0
Special: 8.2/10.0

Trainspotting is an amazing movie.

I have to see how special is. Which year is it?

Is it this one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479162/

The Breakfast Club (1985) -

I only have two things to say: I wish I lived in the 80s, and I wish I experienced something like this during my time in high school (for me it sucked, in the real sense of the word). But this is why I love movies, you can feel like you've truly escaped from the real world, even if it's for only 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Breakfast Club is a great movie I give it a 9 out of 10






I liked it a lot the characters are original and I thought the story was unique and well done. The only thing that I didn't liked was that there was some things that didn't made sens at all.

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That's it, it's mostly a comedy but the sentiments and acting really helped the movie excel in my opinion.

As for the thread, I just now finished watching the Maniac remake with Elijah Wood, and I liked it. I don't think that it brings much to the table in-terms of originality, but the movie excelled because of Elijah's genuinely creepy performance.

Faster with Dwayne The Rock Johnson.

Quite a simple movie, immediately starts off with the rock getting out of jail and wanting revenge. The plot never gets more complicated than that, but he's constantly killing people and moving on to the next target. It has two great car chases and all of the fights are really quick. Mostly gun murders. This movie did not try to be anything more, and it excelled perfectly and what it's trying to be. A simple, face paced action movie.

Surprised they didn't cast jason statham in the role, seems to have been right up his alley. rock did a great job, although I wasn't totally sold on his pain and fear in the flashback.


4/5