Horribly overrated movies...

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 BaldFriede wrote:

 TR!P wrote:

i saw someone mention Taxi Driver in a list 

and if it were a few months back, id agree with you...

however since then ive seen the movie prob for the 3rd time (the 1st and 2nd were'nt proper viewings, either i fell asleep or only saw bits)

and i have to say, before i saw it for the 3rd time i was really prolific in my dislike towards it, and my  friend loved it and kep telling me it was genius and greatness

but i really have changed my mind towards it, it is actualy quite a decent film, i fell in love with Deniros character and journy, however aliek Blue velet i feel the movie really really really suffers at the hands of the era' it was made, everything about the cultural context of this film is extremly out-dated

sure, theres still hookers,pimps scum and what'not now'a'days, however its in no way acted out or presented as it was in the film, i know it was liek that back in the day, but its just hard to watch at times... especialy some of the dialoge it just feels so simple

if this was made and set in the present day and age, with de Niro still at his prime from when he made this, with the same story and what'not except with an up-dated script, it'd be a masterpiece

I really don't follow you there. Movies have to be watched within the context of the time they were made in. You can't expect a 70s movie to use techniques that were developed 30 years later. That's like expecting "In the Court of the Crimson King" to sound like an album of today. One of my favourite movies is "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder", made by Fritz Lang in 1931 and starring Peter Lorre. 

Well ya see, what happened with me and Taxi Driver in the first place was that i kept haering all these rave reveiws and people were calling it a masterpiece and one of the greatest movies of all time etc. 

so my expectations were high, and i know the movie cant help being made when it was made in the 70's but, a truly great movie/story is a story that can be told without the nessesity of time or any particular era' being a factor,

now, i supose with a movie like Taxi Driver, it needs its era' and tiem its set, because the movies basically based around DeNiro's hate to all the scum in new york, and at that era' in new york thats how it really was...

It just feels like it cant really be a "timeless" classic to me...

Some parts of the movies dialoge feel tooo based on the time the movie was made, however there are loads of parts to it that apply to modern day,

however i understand where your comming from, and agree with you, i guess its just a personal case i have against it... its just somewhat annoying sometimes watching it, it feels like the movies somewhat restricted

but still, its a minimal problem, and doesnt come up too much

**edit**

sorry i just rememberd: i cant believe one of you hated Memento, or think of it as over-rated, to me its in my top 10 movies of all time, such a clever well made movie

Edited by TR!P - August 03 2007 at 06:19