TAXI DRIVER is the best film ever made. End of story as far as i'm concered.

Swat wrote:Great movie, but I can't say that it was better than Dr. Strangelove, Apocolypse Now and Taxi Driver. Scarface was great too... Barfly? Clockwork Orange? First time watching One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest was my first time stoned... It made watching it straight/sober even better.

Barfly is pretty great although maybe I'm biased because I like Bukowski so much.

That reminds me to post a Bukowski C/NC.

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i don't know about 1fotcn being the best film ever, but i certainly remember watching it on video as a teen in the early 80s and having to rewind the bit a few times where murphy says "nurse ratchett is a cunt" when he's being assessed/interviewed - i just couldn't believe i'd heard him say such a taboo word in a film that received such critical acclaim. have i got that right, or am i making it up? he did say it didn't he...?

Yeah, he did. I dont know why it's a taboo word though, infact I was 21 before I heard a single person (who swears regularly) say that they wouldnt say it. I had no idea that it was supposed to be anymore offensive than prick or fuck.

Go round my (irish) grandads house, him and my uncle sit on the sofa all day saying "Make the fucking tea you cunt" or "Get the phone you old cunt".


And, once again, DIE HARD is the greatest film ever made. And deep in your hearts, you all know it.

It may not be the greatest film of all time, but "A Woman Under the Influence" is the best I've ever seen.

Gena Rowlands was nominated for "Best Actress," and the fact she didn't win is due more to the film's dark tone and sheer length than to any shortcomings in her performance (and there were none).

Cassavettes used non-professional actors -- including his own mother -- and an intimate/amateurish camera technique to devastating effect. You get all of the dysfunction of family life and filmmaking in one fell swoop. To Cassavettes, they were one and the same.

All other "films" I've seen are mere movies by comparison.

[As movies go, OFOTCN wasn't half bad. I'd rather see "The Manchurian Candidate."]

i have never seen the movie, but i am currently reading the book, and i say that it is genius and reality-induced-sadness in paper form.
read it.

My little brother would obviously vote for Predator. Here's why he might be right:

1 - The Ventura line: "I ain't got time to bleed."

2 - The scene where all characters all open fire with everything they've got (including a backpack mounted Sam mini-gun) in a rare Hollywood deforestation technique.

3 - Extensive use of Little Richard on the soundtrack.

4 - Film Doubles as a Who's Who of American gubonatorial genius.

5 - Well... the Predator.


But I'm not convinced he's right. Instead, I've got nine words for you:

IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD.

My little brother would obviously vote for Predator. Here's why he might be right:

1 - The Ventura line: "I ain't got time to bleed."

2 - The scene where all characters all open fire with everything they've got (including a backpack mounted Sam mini-gun) in a rare Hollywood deforestation technique.

3 - Extensive use of Little Richard on the soundtrack.

4 - Film Doubles as a Who's Who of American gubonatorial genius.

5 - Well... the Predator.


But I'm not convinced he's right. Instead, I've got nine words for you:

IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD.