Do people not realize this actually happened? That's what makes it so disturbing.
This has quickly become one of my favorite Scorsese films. The first time I saw it I didn't like it. The second time I liked it quite a bit more, and since then I've found myself coming back to it again and again. I get why a lot of people didn't love it, but I find it to be an oddly cozy film. Some people sit back with an Agatha Christie novel or an episode of Columbo for their fix of comforting violence, I rewatch The Irishman.
Emotional, meanspirited, heartfelt, and brutal all at once. Great imagery, great soundtrack, great set pieces. The closing bridge shootout sequence set to free bird is some of the most kino shit I've seen in my entire life. Anytime someone says Rob Zombie is a bad filmmaker simply point them to this one picture.
A modern vampire story which manages to be very fresh, but without shirking tradition. The home invasion sequence is easily the most technically competent of its kind I've seen. One of Mr. Romero's best.
A perfect action film. Hardly an action movie, really. More of a drama. A perfect dramatic telling of the life and struggle of an American veteran who has returned home. Where the real war is.
If you ever want to explain modern America to somebody, show them this film. It's all you need to understand.
Possibly the greatest film ever made.
I watched this, Joker, and The House That Jack Built in one night and this was by far the most enjoyable of the three.
One of my all time favorites. If you ask me it's both Leone's and De Niro's best. Most people remember De Niro as Jimmy the Gent, Jake LaMotta, Travis Bickle, or young Vito Corleone, but to me he will always be David "Noodles" Aaronson, streetwise Jewish kid from the Lower East Side turned criminal kingpin. The famed "European Cut" is great, but if possible go after the 251 minute directors cut. You'll be glad you did.
Favorite Noir I've seen. Infinitely rewatchable.
THE classic October slasher flick. Kids nowadays don't get it, I guess.
A child prodigy-turned-blue-collar-laborer returns to his family home to visit his dying father. This experience doesn't improve him. He doesn't become "rehabilitated". The movie ends with him changed, but just as much of a burn out as he was before. That's the point.
Two word review: "Holy Shit"
One of the greatest closing scenes ever filmed.
God this movie is terrible. I love every second of it.
Easily the greatest musical ever made, not that it has particularly stiff competition.
There are few horror movies that actually scare me, but this one is legitimately unnerving.
Almost certainly Tarantino's best effort.
Most based movie ever lmao
There are many Vittorios, but there is one Accattone.
That scene where Hitler and Speer are looking over the model of Berlin... soulcrushing.
The final line made me laugh harder than I've laughed at anything for as long as I can remember.
Really exposed the emptiness of the art industry. Made me hate Jeff Koons. Made me hate everyone, really. The self-aware German-Jewish guy was the only person in the film I liked, I thought he was great. The retired artist was good too. The point of the film is not to make you like art, or anything. If that's what you want, look elsewhere.
70s Narco crime done right!
This is an unavoidably political film, and I have always held some sympathy for Nixon, so my bias should be noted, but this may be one of the finer docudramas of the twentieth century. Stone humanizes Nixon, with equal deference given to his faults as well as his strengths. The writing is superb, the performances are exceptional... a fine film all around.
An incredibly overlooked Weird Thriller. Highest recommendation.
I can't quite explain it, but I really loved this film. Flaws aside, you can tell it was made by somebody who cared. That means something.
I'm kinda shocked at the somewhat poor reception this one gets because I really loved it. Obviously it's a bit ridiculous, no old man can really fight like that, but who cares? It's a Jackie Chan style action comedy (starring Jackie Chan's teacher!), so everything is a bit silly, but that's what makes it so fun. Lot's of great LA locations used to superb effect, wonderful fights, a goofy disco scene (it was 1979, after all) come together to form what I think may well be Kuo's best film. Criminally underrated.
All I can say is wow... I don't know what I was expecting, but it sure as hell wasn't that.
Wow... I was not expecting that!
OK man, what the fuck?
