Hey everyone, so finally got around to seeing Mean Streets and absolutely adored it. I rarely hear this one brought up among his more famous Mafia movies. Personally, and don’t kill me for this, but I put it above Casino. What do you guys think? Does it hold its own against his later attempts at the genre?
So since I saw Casino was leaving Netflix and I been meaning to get around to it, I watched it for the first time. And y’all remember how everyone hated Skylar in Breaking Bad (I didn’t)? But that’s the way I feel about Ginger in this movie. Her tryna steal cash throughout the movie, but especially when her and Ace’s daughter went to LA w the pimp, made my blood boil. I love good fellas it blew my mind and was wild, but this one made me emotional, I might like it better
I just thought randomly about how a biopic about Bobby Fischer or Mikhail Tal (or any of the other GOATS) from Scorsese has the potential to be pretty good. As a massive chess nerd theres not enough good chess films out there and I feel he could be the one to make an awesome film about it
Personally liked the remake better than the original film.
I think Margot Robbie is the better looking person, but Sharon stone is the better actress by far.
I'm not an crypto bro or neolib at all but I do like Wolf of wall street. But one thing makes me prefer Casino over it: The performance of Sharon stone. How she portrays the money hungry mentally instable society and casino whore is simply brilliant. I think casting Stone was the best decision marty could have made for that film.
I like Robbie as DiCaprio's wife but i think her performance falls behind Stone's. I think both are (or were) good actresses at their time, but i think the usual issue of maintaning tension marty has is outweight by Stones performance what makes Casino the better movie.
I hopr i didn't sound sexist or anything
Why is he moving the beef to another side?
I know he sell more beef to razor this time, but why is it empty this time? What did he expect from the outcome?
This clip is from a 1978 episide of the Dick Cavett Show
I'm working through Scorsese's filmography at the moment and recently got to Silence. I have this odd desire to have all of his movies on physical media due to the fact that he shoots mostly on film, so obviously I was seeking out a disc for Silence. As it turns out, there just isn't one - in stock, at least. I can import it from the UK, but it won't work with my player. Beyond the available European copy, every Silence Blu-ray is out of stock everywhere with no restock and no 4k in sight. Why does this happen? Moreso a rhetorical question than anything, but it frustrates me that one of the greatest living filmmakers is treated this way.
In case you're not aware, Scorsese has a well-documented history of film projects which either fell through or which he refused to direct.
Forgetting about the films that he personally turned down, and just focusing on the ones he actually wanted to direct but couldn't for whatever reason, which three do you wish he'd been able to make?
For my part, here my picks, in no order:
For my part, I have always been fascinated by Walter “Monk” McGinn ever since I first saw Gangs of New York.
Even putting aside the fact that he’s got one of the coolest weapons I’ve ever seen in a film (and thanks to that film, I now know what a shillelagh is), Monk’s story raises so many questions with endless possibilities for answers. It’s clear that he and Vallon go way back, even if they had fundamental disagreements (the fact that their nicknames are Priest and Monk also raises questions as to how they got those names). Monk poses as a cold-blooded mercenary, in it only for the money, but we see that that isn’t the whole story. Plus, how did he go from being a mercenary to the respectable owner of that big barbershop? Did he already have it when Priest died? Because it hasn't changed its appearance all that much in sixteen years. How did Monk maintain independence for all those years while Bill ruled supreme?
I‘d gladly watch a series about Monk’s life, both before and during the events of the movie.
If we're talking the movies he directed, my first one was The Aviator.
But if we're talking about all his projects, the first one I was aware of was his produced miniseries on the blues. Weirdly, I was made aware of it not by the actual miniseries itself, but by a CD of Stevie Ray Vaughan's music that my dad got me. I was big into blues music as a teenager, and he got me that because he reckoned I'd appreciate Vaughan's music. In that, he was absolutely correct; I still have the CD to this day. Though it's funny to me how Scorsese's Blues project released this compilation album of SRV music when, far as I can tell, SRV wasn't featured in the blues documentary itself.
Technically an 18 min short film, Michael Jackson’s “Bad” has a quick shot of a wanted poster being ripped off the wall. The man in the poster is Martin Scorsese who directed the film.