Martin Scorsese YIKES

[Old School]

the talk about AVATAR got me to thinking about guys who put out great flicks..

a list of some Martin Scorsese flicks..

I sure have seen a lot of them..

I would think the critics here have as well.

any favs...

:0corn

Feature Narratives<TABLE class=wikitable><TBODY><TR><TH>Year</TH><TH>Film</TH><TH>Oscar Nominations</TH><TH>Oscar Wins</TH><TH>Golden Globe Nominations</TH><TH>Golden Globe Wins</TH></TR><TR><TD>1968</TD><TD>Who's That Knocking at My Door</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1972</TD><TD>Boxcar Bertha</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1973</TD><TD>Mean Streets</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1974</TD><TD>Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore</TD><TD>3</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1976</TD><TD>Taxi Driver</TD><TD>4</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1977</TD><TD>New York, New York</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>4</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1980</TD><TD>Raging Bull</TD><TD>8</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>7</TD><TD>1</TD></TR><TR><TD>1983</TD><TD>The King of Comedy</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1985</TD><TD>After Hours</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1986</TD><TD>The Color of Money</TD><TD>4</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1988</TD><TD>The Last Temptation of Christ</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1990</TD><TD>Goodfellas</TD><TD>6</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1991</TD><TD>Cape Fear</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1993</TD><TD>The Age of Innocence</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>4</TD><TD>1</TD></TR><TR><TD>1995</TD><TD>Casino</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>2</TD><TD>1</TD></TR><TR><TD>1997</TD><TD>Kundun</TD><TD>4</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>1</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>1999</TD><TD>Bringing Out the Dead</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>-</TD></TR><TR><TD>2002</TD><TD>Gangs of New York</TD><TD>10</TD><TD>-</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>2</TD></TR><TR><TD>2004</TD><TD>The Aviator</TD><TD>11</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>6</TD><TD>3</TD></TR><TR><TD>2006</TD><TD>The Departed</TD><TD>5</TD><TD>4</TD><TD>6</TD><TD>1</TD></TR><TR><TD>2010</TD><TD>Shutter Island</TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD></TD><TD>21 Total Features</TD><TD>64</TD><TD>15</TD><TD>51</TD><TD>9</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

[gjn23]

comical that casino, goodfellas, raging bull and taxi driver have 3...THREE.....TOTAL oscar wins while the departed has 4 and the aviator has 5

neither of those movies is anywhere near as good as the other four

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Here are my favorites in order:

Goodfellas
Casino
The Departed
Taxi Driver
Raging Bull

 

[safrank99]

Picking between DiCaprio and DeNiro is a completely generational argument and I'm not denying one bit that I would choose DeNiro but it clearly shows that Scorsese finds an actor he likes and stays almost completely exclusive with him and how you can you argue about either of these two talents.

Favorites In Order

1. Taxi Driver
2. Raging Bull
3. Departed
4. Goodfellas
5. Color of Money (Big Newman fan)

The real question is why hasn't Scorsese brought DiCaprio and DeNiro together for a film? Besides a film when DiCaprio was really young as far as I know they have never worked together as adults.

 

[Old School]

comical that casino, goodfellas, raging bull and taxi driver have 3...THREE.....TOTAL oscar wins while the departed has 4 and the aviator has 5

neither of those movies is anywhere near as good as the other four

couldn't agree more..

 

[Old School]

The real question is why hasn't Scorsese brought DiCaprio and DeNiro together for a film? Besides a film when DiCaprio was really young as far as I know they have never worked together as adults.

simple search did not show a movie together..

others may know differently

:0corn

 

[safrank99]

I remember seeing a movie with them, I believe it was called "This Boy's Life" DiCaprio was like 12 and DeNiro was a drunk dad and beat him all the time. Perhaps he knew something that we didn't but it would be cool to see them work together now.

 

[Old School]

you da man:00hour

• Director: <DEADILNK topic_id="-1" entry_id="-1" ds_id="2366" entry_key="P 84491">Michael Caton-Jones</DEADILNK>
• AMG Rating:
  
  
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Family Drama, Coming-of-Age
• Themes: Domestic Abuse
• Main Cast: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku
• Release Year: 1993
• Country: US
• Run Time: 120 minutes
• MPAA Rating: R

<! --------- plot-------- -->Plot

A single mother and her difficult son find family life isn't necessarily all it's cracked up to be in this drama adapted from writer and professor Tobias Wolff's 1989 memoir of the same name. Nomadic, flaky Caroline (Ellen Barkin) just wants to settle down in one place, find a decent guy, and provide a better home for her handful of a son, Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio). When she moves to Seattle and meets the respectful, respectable Dwight Hansen (Robert DeNiro), she thinks she's got it made. Toby, however, feels differently after spending a few months with Dwight and his children and away from Caroline. The boy's stepfather-to-be seems to want to mold Toby into a better person, but to do so he emotionally, verbally, and physically abuses the kid. The marriage proceeds, and soon Caroline, too, recognizes Dwight's need to dominate everyone around him. She sticks with it, though, convinced it's the best thing for her son, and several years of dysfunction ensue. During this time, Tobias befriends another misfit, the possibly homosexual young Jonah (Arthur Gayle), while continuing to chafe under the yoke of his repressive stepfather. This Boy's Life provided the first lead role for future superstar DiCaprio. The film was written by Robert Getchell, who also penned such mother/son fare as Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and The Client. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide <! --------- review-------- -->
Review

It's obvious that This Boy's Life shares an affinity with Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore even before one realizes that the films share the same scribe. Like a '90s take on a '50s version of Martin Scorcese's classic '70s women's picture, This Boy's Life concerns the relationship between a kooky but lovable single mom and her excitable son. To achieve this symmetry, screenwriter Robert Getchell shifts the focus of novelist and short-story writer Tobias Wolff's original memoir so that it concentrates as much on the relationship between Ellen Barkin's Caroline and Leonardo DiCaprio's Toby as it does on Toby's inner life and the effects of his dysfunctional upbringing on his sense of self. For the most part, though, the material survives the transition, thanks in part to strong turns from the eminently likable Barkin, the meticulous Robert DeNiro, and the charismatic, mischievous young DiCaprio. The plot through which their characters walk may be familiar and it may lose its nuance when removed from the written page, but it's well-rendered, nicely acted, and relatively subtle for a family drama. The jackhammer, yet mealy mouthed cadences of DeNiro's Dwight eventually grow as tiresome as his character's unflinching brutality, while the film's emotional climax seems like a standard-issue ending tacked onto a less predictable character study. Still, it's hard not to like a picture sweet enough to include a chaste kiss between DiCaprio's Toby and Arthur Gayle's eccentric, devoted gay best friend. This Boy's Life may be the Hollywood version of Wolff's autobiography, but it comes off like a real life nonetheless. ~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide <! --------- cast-------- -->
Cast

• Robert De Niro - Dwight Hansen
• Ellen Barkin - Caroline Wolff
• Leonardo DiCaprio - Toby Wolff
• <DEADILNK topic_id="-1" entry_id="-1" ds_id="2366" entry_key="P 6728">Jonah Blechman</DEADILNK> - Arthur Gayle
• Eliza Dushku - Pearl

 

[gardenweasel]

comical that casino, goodfellas, raging bull and taxi driver have 3...THREE.....TOTAL oscar wins while the departed has 4 and the aviator has 5

neither of those movies is anywhere near as good as the other four

also couldn`t agree more......

liked "this boy`s life"....and "the king of comedy" was so fricking odd,i liked it...

on more that flies under the radar is "after hours"......another oddball movie that was highly entertaining...with a great cast(always had a thing for linda fiorentino)....

definitely worth a look if you haven`t seen it...