Scorsese's best since GoodFellas?
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henrikvinther — 9 years ago(August 08, 2016 01:41 PM)
Best since Goodfellas? I think it was the worst since Cape Fear!
It's just excess, excess, excess and nothing else. No storytelling, no character development, no consequences. It's awful. Totally exhausting to watch in the worst of ways.
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kfw9257 — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 08:46 PM)
No consequences? No sh@# that's what happens with Wall Street @ssholes. And a bunch of them did go to jail and Jordan lost a lot too. This movie was entertaining as f@#k and there was some character development, but more like characters devolving and not learning from their mistakes and just getting deeper and deeper into sh$%.
This movie perfectly encapsulated what almost every guy, if they were in Jordan's position, would want to do. It's a very honest no BS look at the dark part of our nature where greed and excess are really intoxicating. There wasn't much character development in Goodfellas either but do you hear people complaining about that?
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Bergman_Fellini87 — 9 years ago(August 27, 2016 05:23 PM)
No. Frankly, it is one of his weakest, along with The Departed. Both a shallow, lazy films that don't do anything new that Scorsese hasn't done before.
The Age of Innocence, Shutter Island, & Hugo are above & beyond these films. I'd also say Casino, Bringing Out the Dead, Kundun, Gangs of NY, & The Aviator are also much better.
Some of these films (like The Age of Innocence, or Bringing Out The Dead), get ignored by a lot of so called Scorsese "fans." People that claim to love his work, but only watch either his most famous (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas), or profanity or violent driven stuff, like this & The Departed (of course Goodfellas is violent & full of language, but its a masterpiece). Bringing Out The Dead might not be one of his best, but I find it more interesting than this or The Departed.
I expect Silence to be one of his best, but I can tell that a lot of the people that drool over movies like this won't bother going to see it. -
m-slovak79 — 9 years ago(December 25, 2016 11:07 PM)
short answer No, not for me.
longer answer
looking at the 1990's to date, here are the only movies of Scorsese's that stand out (i.e. 7/10 or higher) for me
1.The Aviator (2004) - 7.5-8/10
2.Casino (1995)
3.Gangs of New York (2002) - 7.5/10
4.The Departed (2006) - 7/10
-.The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)but here is my favorite Scorsese movies in general
1.The Color of Money (1986) - 8/10
2.The Aviator (2004) - 7.5-8/10
3.Casino (1995)
4.After Hours (1985) - 7-7.5/10
-.Gangs of New York (2002)
6.The Departed (2006) - 7/10
-.The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)My Top 100-ish Movies of All-Time! =
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uzielis — 9 years ago(January 19, 2017 04:16 AM)
I think it's the best since Goodfellas, and it's Martin's funniest film, especially that part when Leo's character gets arrested while filming a commercial, XD. Never have I laughed so hard while watching a SCORSESE film!
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AnthonySocksss — 6 months ago(September 05, 2025 10:44 PM)
Not even close, this was Scorsese making his own version of American Pie or Old School, basically a National Lampoon frat comedy with a Wall Street backdrop.
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JustinCase — 6 months ago(September 06, 2025 09:18 AM)
Agreed.
I seriously doubt they were openly having sex and doing drugs like that.
Orgies on a plane?
Yeah, right.
Exaggerations by the author.
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