KnightswoodBear Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 (edited) Saw this today, and I can only assume that it has been drawn up by someone that has only seen those specific 10 Scorsese films and had suffered some kind of head injury before going in to see The Departed. No Mean Streets, no King of Comedy, no fucking Casino??? But The Irishman, Shutter Island and Cape Fear all get on there along with The Departed? Nonsense. edit: They appear to have deleted the tweet, so here it is: Edited October 19, 2023 by KnightswoodBear 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 52 minutes ago, KnightswoodBear said: Saw this today, and I can only assume that it has been drawn up by someone that has only seen those specific 10 Scorsese films and had suffered some kind of head injury before going in to see The Departed. No Mean Streets, no King of Comedy, no fucking Casino??? But The Irishman, Shutter Island and Cape Fear all get on there along with The Departed? Nonsense. Indeed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Can't make the link work for me but i love making a list. I've seen 18, although i was dozing on and off through the last temptation of christ and can only remember one scene from the colour of money. Miss world order: 10 - Casino 9 - Gangs of New York 8- The Departed 7- Shutter Island 6 - The Wolf of Wall Street 5 - Raging Bull 4 - Mean Streets 3 - The King of Comedy 2 - Taxi Driver 1 - Goodfellas Top three could probably be in any order tbh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted October 19, 2023 Author Share Posted October 19, 2023 Just now, coprolite said: Can't make the link work for me but i love making a list. I've seen 18, although i was dozing on and off through the last temptation of christ and can only remember one scene from the colour of money. Miss world order: 10 - Casino 9 - Gangs of New York 8- The Departed 7- Shutter Island 6 - The Wolf of Wall Street 5 - Raging Bull 4 - Mean Streets 3 - The King of Comedy 2 - Taxi Driver 1 - Goodfellas Top three could probably be in any order tbh. It appears Total Film have realised what a rip roaring c**t they have made of themselves and deleted the tweet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Think his career is much the same as Robert De Niro's. Spectacularly good in the 70s and still great up to the mid-90s and then a slow descent into mediocrity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accies1874 Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 I'd have King of Comedy as my favourite, but I'm on 13/25 so I'm not saying that with much confidence, especially as it's been a few since I watched most of those 13. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 No Last Temptation of Christ either. Shutter fucking Island and Gangs of New York, FFS. There's a recent Scorsese Top Fives in the requisite forum, if anyone can be arsed looking. I do quite like the fact that, despite being mainly known for his hard-boiled crime dramas, he's regularly made attempts at different genres and styles of film, some of which you forget were directed by him. After Hours is one that I didn't know was a Scorsese film for years, but is well worth a couple of hours of anyone's time if you're in the mood for something a bit weird. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Seeing a lot of disrespect for Scorsese's more modern stuff in this thread. Films like The Irishman (Robert De Niro fight scene a side), Shutter Island, Wolf of Wall Street & The Departed are all absolutely brilliant films and this new one is meant to be very good as well although I've not watched it yet. The above films don't hold a candle to the likes of Casino, Goodfellas, Raging Bull and The King of Comedy (which is a superior version of The Joker IMO) but that's not proof of Scorsese declining, it just shows how stacked his filmography is. The GOAT for me. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted October 19, 2023 Author Share Posted October 19, 2023 2 hours ago, Ludo*1 said: Seeing a lot of disrespect for Scorsese's more modern stuff in this thread. Films like The Irishman (Robert De Niro fight scene a side), Shutter Island, Wolf of Wall Street & The Departed are all absolutely brilliant films and this new one is meant to be very good as well although I've not watched it yet. The above films don't hold a candle to the likes of Casino, Goodfellas, Raging Bull and The King of Comedy (which is a superior version of The Joker IMO) but that's not proof of Scorsese declining, it just shows how stacked his filmography is. The GOAT for me. I love Wolf of Wall Street and I think it stands up well against his "classics". The Irishman left me cold. I didn't dislike it, but it just didn't do very much for me. I thought Shutter Island was very meh and, as I've said, I actively disliked The Departed. I am extremely excited about his new one, though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Mindblowing that there are people who saw Shutter Island and thought, "aye, proper good film, that". I guess there's bound to be someone in the world who unironically loved Manos: The Hands of Fate too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jupiter Jazz Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 I prefer his character driven stuff -- King of Comedy, The Color of Money, Taxi Driver and Bringing out the Dead which is underrated IMO. Never understood the appeal or even the point of Cape Fear, it's nowhere near the level of the original. Not too keen on Wolf of Wall Street either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 The wolf of Wall Street isn't just his best film, it's in the top 5 films ever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
printer Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 20 hours ago, Ludo*1 said: Seeing a lot of disrespect for Scorsese's more modern stuff in this thread. Films like The Irishman (Robert De Niro fight scene a side), Shutter Island, Wolf of Wall Street & The Departed are all absolutely brilliant films and this new one is meant to be very good as well although I've not watched it yet. The above films don't hold a candle to the likes of Casino, Goodfellas, Raging Bull and The King of Comedy (which is a superior version of The Joker IMO) but that's not proof of Scorsese declining, it just shows how stacked his filmography is. The GOAT for me. Not sure he's the GOAT (hate that anyway), but agree with everything else. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 Is the Wolf of Wall Street that propaganda film for a convicted fraudster, outright lying about him being a reformed character despite him dodging repayments to his victims and being well into crypto scams these days? Fucking amazing what Hollywood gets away with when it comes to real-life people. The number of folk they've slandered and whitewashed purely for a better story is unreal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 8 hours ago, Derry Alli said: The wolf of Wall Street isn't just his best film, it's in the top 5 films ever. I feel like I'm going crazy when I read this and other posts. I couldn't abide that movie mainly as the main character was utterly horrible as was everyone around him. I got the feeling that I was almost supposed to admire him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capt_oats Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 Enjoyed The Big Picture's Scorcese Hall of Fame episode. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 12 hours ago, Derry Alli said: The wolf of Wall Street isn't just his best film, it's in the top 5 films ever. ^^^ has only seen six films type post 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 The Departed is an absolutely sensational film, anyone who says otherwise a damn fool. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flybhoy Posted October 20, 2023 Share Posted October 20, 2023 11 hours ago, BFTD said: Is the Wolf of Wall Street that propaganda film for a convicted fraudster, outright lying about him being a reformed character despite him dodging repayments to his victims and being well into crypto scams these days? Fucking amazing what Hollywood gets away with when it comes to real-life people. The number of folk they've slandered and whitewashed purely for a better story is unreal. I don't think anyone with a semblance of intelligence really thinks that Jordan Belfort, before and after his downfall, is and was anything but an absolute scumbag no matter how he came across in the film but, it is an absolutely sensational performance by LDC and, frankly the film is hilarious. Several scenes where, on first watch I was doubled up in laughter... not least when Donnie first sets eyes on Nadine at the party 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb_diamond Posted October 21, 2023 Share Posted October 21, 2023 I stand alone in my circle of friends and I suspect the same will apply here based on the fact that for me if I could only watch one Scorsese film again, it would 100% be Casino. By a good way my favourite thing he's ever done among all of his classics. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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