Taxi Driver is overrated

[JohnnySic]

To follow up on my Casino thread - here's another movie that's considered a classic that I just dont get why. Nothing much happens in the first 80% of it, there is little plot development to speak of, Travis Bickle isn't that interesting (nor are the other characters), and ultimately its just boring.

The bloodbath at the end seems to indicate that vigilantism is justifiable and cool. OK.

I guess when it came out in 1976 its appeal was its shock value. All the sheltered Howdy Doody suburbanites who had fled the cities in the 50's and 60's were probably shocked to see the rough shape that NYC was in with crime and grit, and that characters like Bickle actually existed. But by today's standards, it doesn't hold up.

This movie sucks!

[Draz]

Never seen it

[ROCSteady]

Taxi Driver will always hold up. If anything, the ideas it presents were a little ahead of their time. It represents certain aspects of society even moreso now than when it was released.



All time classic.

[FillJackson]

To follow up on my Casino thread - here's another movie that's considered a classic that I just dont get why.
You're quite wrong.

Best film on loneliness, alienation and the inability to connect with people ever made.

The acting is fantastic. It's a character study more than a plot driven action movie.

One of the characters in the study is the underside of 1970's NYC.

[highwhey]

Never seen it
Don't waste your time. If you want to get a feel for the movie, step outside and watch a taxi driver taking a smoke break - that's essentially 75% of the film.

[DeuceWallaces]

Don't quit your day job.

Cinema critic isn't for you.

[CP3PO]

I think it is overrated, but DeNiro's performance is not and the movie is still very good.

[dazzer87]

Don't quit your day job.

Cinema critic isn't for you.
Welcome to ISH........

Where Fast n Furious and Daddy's Home are 10/10
Godfather and Taxi Driver are 1/10

[TheMan]

Don't quit your day job.

Cinema critic isn't for you.
This x infinity

Either he's trolling or his taste in movies is that of a retarded 11 year old :facepalm

[Godzuki]

so is raging bull, so is humphrey bogart, so is a lot of shit film geeks hype up before their time that most people today would find overrated as fukk :sleeping

the average person can never trust a film nerd. they're the worst at recommending entertaining movies. its like going off the academy what is good and bad, worst opinions in any medium ever other than mebbe boxing stans :facepalm

[JohnnySic]

The conclusion was also silly. Bickle achieves redemption and "saves the world" by killing one pimp and a couple of bums in a city with 100,000 scumbags in it. All to save a hooker that didn't want to be saved.

C'mon. I just dont get the appeal. Macho fantasy I guess.

[JohnnySic]

Welcome to ISH........

Where Fast n Furious and Daddy's Home are 10/10
Godfather and Taxi Driver are 1/10
GTFO. I like good movies not Hollywood dreck. Taxi Driver just isn't good.

[Overdrive]

so is raging bull, so is humphrey bogart, so is a lot of shit film geeks hype up before their time that most people today would find overrated as fukk :sleeping

the average person can never trust a film nerd. they're the worst at recommending entertaining movies. its like going off the academy what is good and bad, worst opinions in any medium ever other than mebbe boxing stans :facepalm

Not a Scorsese fan, either, but the big problem of today's movie goers is that they trained to 2 hours nonstop action. A film that doesn't move at lightspeed is seen as boring and bland. People call that crap that is the "new" Mad Max movie one of the best of all times. It has exactly one predictable plot twist, the characters don't evolve. It's just hours of chasing and nothing else.

Those same people will call movies that visually don't move along but try to develop characters junk.

[FillJackson]

The conclusion was also silly. Bickle achieves redemption and "saves the world" by killing one pimp and a couple of bums in a city with 100,000 scumbags in it.

Or perhaps that doesn't happen at all.

[Draz]

Don't waste your time. If you want to get a feel for the movie, step outside and watch a taxi driver taking a smoke break - that's essentially 75% of the film.
:roll:

-Highwhey,
Movie critic since 2016

[ArbitraryWater]

That movie was the shit

[Jasper]

old classics have little to any staying power , because yester-year classics were based on 50-60 movies that was about edi'cate.

Most old movies were simple with at the time a powerful message or story line.

To this day , I will take a western movie over anything put out today.

They always had a villain , story line and a hero.
Gun fire was not bloody and it was based on values.

The movie I saw today 1965 Bounty Killer was a great movie , for some it would be considered boring.

[Godzuki]

old classics have little to any staying power , because yester-year classics were based on 50-60 movies that was about edi'cate.

Most old movies were simple with at the time a powerful message or story line.

To this day , I will take a western movie over anything put out today.

They always had a villain , story line and a hero.
Gun fire was not bloody and it was based on values.

The movie I saw today 1965 Bounty Killer was a great movie , for some it would be considered boring.


80's+ mafia movies >>> everything else...

old classic movies are classy and gentlemanly romantic but overall boring :sleeping

most westerns have sucked IMO after the old clint eastwoods. the tv series like Bonanza, big valley, etc. were better than new gen westerns crap like Pale Rider and whatever else i can't remember.

2000+ the real shit are TV series. movies suck compared to the TV series of today. movies are mostly hyped up overrated crap these days. so many average movies get high ratings it just goes to show how pitiful the competition generally is. the movie industry is a sham :coleman:

[warriorfan]

Welcome to ISH........

Where Fast n Furious and Daddy's Home are 10/10
Godfather and Taxi Driver are 1/10

:lol

[embersyc]

Taxi Driver is a top film of all time, grow an attention span ffs.

Yeah the bs happy ending is bolted on, but the rest if the film is phenomenal.

[JohnnySic]

Taxi Driver is a top film of all time, grow an attention span ffs.

Yeah the bs happy ending is bolted on, but the rest if the film is phenomenal.
I love character study films.

There Will be Blood was great.

On the Waterfront, Sunset Boulevard, and Citizen Kane (to state 3 older films) were great.

Taxi Driver was shiit, for the reason I stated, amongst others.

[T_L_P]

The conclusion was also silly. Bickle achieves redemption and "saves the world" by killing one pimp and a couple of bums in a city with 100,000 scumbags in it. All to save a hooker that didn't want to be saved.

C'mon. I just dont get the appeal. Macho fantasy I guess.

The ending is woefully ironic.

Travis is hailed as a hero simply because he couldn't go through with his attempt to assassinate the presidential candidate and chose to shoot some pimps instead. It's a critique of American society -- as the whole film is.

I don't know why you say nothing happens though. I don't think that's a valid criticism in a character study. The idea is that you simply watch the character exist and draw your ideas from there. Nothing really happens in There Will be Blood either, but like you said it's a great film.

[Overdrive]

most westerns have sucked IMO after the old clint eastwoods. the tv series like Bonanza, big valley, etc. were better than new gen westerns crap like Pale Rider and whatever else i can't remember.

I really enjoyed Tombstone and Young Guns. True Grit was hailed and I liked the actors in it for their past movies, but I thought it was junk.

[Godzuki]

I really enjoyed Tombstone and Young Guns. True Grit was hailed and I liked the actors in it for their past movies, but I thought it was junk.


yeah i liked those also. i was thinking of stuff like pale rider and unforgiven, etc. stuff...

[Overdrive]

pale rider

Never seen that, maybe different title here.

[highwhey]

Taxi Driver is a top film of all time, grow an attention span ffs.

Yeah the bs happy ending is bolted on, but the rest if the film is phenomenal.
"Grow an attention span to watch paint dry"

No thx, there are better films to explore. This film, simply put, is unappealing.

[highwhey]

:roll:

-Highwhey,
Movie critic since 2016
Square up

[bladefd]

I love character study films.

There Will be Blood was great.

On the Waterfront, Sunset Boulevard, and Citizen Kane (to state 3 older films) were great.

Taxi Driver was shiit, for the reason I stated, amongst others.

Reminds me of No Country for Old Men.. Highly acclaimed but it didn't hold my attention. :confusedshrug:

[ArbitraryWater]

Reminds me of No Country for Old Men.. Highly acclaimed but it didn't hold my attention. :confusedshrug:

how... again, amazing movie :bowdown:

this different tastes thing huh

[BasedTom]

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[rufuspaul]

Or perhaps that doesn't happen at all.


This

[iamgine]

I agree. Watched it and thought whats so good about this? Even the acting's not that great and it's the one people always mention.

[Bawkish]

it's a matter of personal taste

i love everything Coens, but No Country for Old Men didn't click for me