1 posted on
05/06/2016 1:56:29 PM PDT by
Borges
To: Borges
As opposed to “Taxi” which although pretty graphic, was a de Niro masterpiece.
2 posted on
05/06/2016 1:58:16 PM PDT by
Jim W N
To: Borges
Never bothered seeing it. The bits and pieces I got here and there were not appealing. Then again, NYC movies are depressing in the extreme.
To: Borges
Hyman Roth
I knew it was his fault all along
4 posted on
05/06/2016 2:00:45 PM PDT by
wardaddy
(ill buy the bodybags)
To: Borges
I had the wrong title. I get “Taxi” and “Taxi Driver” confused. Must have been “Taxi” that was the TV series with Andy Kauffman.
6 posted on
05/06/2016 2:01:39 PM PDT by
Jim W N
To: Borges
Why does De Niro grouse? He had a similar look in Goodfellas when he’s standing there at the bar, smoking, and repeatedly looking at the guy with the toupee who he was getting ready to whack.
7 posted on
05/06/2016 2:04:35 PM PDT by
Jim W N
To: Borges
Yup. Everytime they pushed Marilu Henner as being hot stuff, I rolled my eyes.
Ooops, wrong show.
To: Borges
Since the author "gets" neither Travis Bickle, nor the conclusion of Breaking Bad -- which bears no similarity whatsoever to the conclusion of Taxi Driver, except for the violence -- it isn't terribly surprising that the piece is so awful.
10 posted on
05/06/2016 2:07:57 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
(And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Fifth Avenue to be Born?)
To: Borges
I though Taxi Driver sucked and the “You talkin to me” scene as some of the worst over acting of all time.
I have NEVER been able to get through that whole movie. I hate it.
11 posted on
05/06/2016 2:09:03 PM PDT by
packrat35
(Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
To: Borges
12 posted on
05/06/2016 2:09:36 PM PDT by
Oatka
(Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
To: Borges
We may have seen too many pretty boys intent on proving their dark side.I think the template for psychopath hiding behind a taciturn face was set by Anthony Perkins.
13 posted on
05/06/2016 2:10:41 PM PDT by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: Borges
“You postin’ to me? You postin’ to me??”
To: Borges
“‘Taxi Driver’ is the ultimate independent-movie performance,” Leonardo DiCaprio has said. “Playing a character like Travis Bickle is every young actor’s wet dream.”
That doesn't mean, of course, that every young actor could come close to pulling of what DeNiro did in that role. I cringe at the thought of DiCaprio trying to play Travis Bickle at any age. Looking back at "Mean Streets", "Godfather II", "Taxi Driver" and "Raging Bull", it's amazing what a talent the young DeNiro was.
To: Borges
“Someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum and garbage off the streets”.
26 posted on
05/06/2016 2:44:10 PM PDT by
DickBrannigan
(When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
To: Borges
I’ve never seen this movie and probably never will.
HOWEVER - my Sister and I went to see the remake of, ‘Cape Fear’ with Di Nero as the terrorizing bad guy.
We have never screamed and jumped and held on to one another so much in any other movie we had ever seen!
Di Nero was PURE EVIL in that film...and I thought the original with Robert Mitchum was scary enough!
*SHUDDER*
Di Nero has earned my respect time and again...and I hope to heck he never stalks me, LOL!
31 posted on
05/06/2016 2:50:27 PM PDT by
Diana in Wisconsin
(I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
To: Borges
"Yeah, I'm talkin' to YOU...punk."
51 posted on
05/06/2016 4:09:08 PM PDT by
PLMerite
(Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
To: Borges
So who is talking to him?
To: Borges
I lived in the city at the time. All-too accurate portrayal.
71 posted on
05/06/2016 6:14:30 PM PDT by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
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