Scorcese of the last twenty years?

I love Scorcese films. Seen 'em all up to and including Cape Fear, even the shorts he did.

But the last twenty years... has he gone off, by his own standards? 1993-2013?

Eight films, and, I have to admit, I haven't yet seen four of them. Fair play, the guy's 71. How many 71-year-olds do you know that remember to get up and go to the toilet before they take a piss, let alone direct something as good as Casino?

I've seen Casino get slated a lot, actually. I think it's comparative, as I guess we'd seen it before, but I think that one's terrific. His current obsession with DiCaprio I find a little odd. I don't mind Leo, but he looks like 12, and always seems to me to be ACTING, you know what I mean?

The Departed was good, but only average by Marty's standards... I always felt its Oscar was a political "****, we never gave him one for his really good films, did we? We'd better give the **** one before he dies."

Gangs of New York I've also seen heavily slated by critics... I thought it was okay, but can't remember a thing about it. The thing with these films is, they're better than 90% of everyone else's movies, but maybe inferior to 90% of Scorcese movies.


Anyway, I made this thread mainly because I'm struggling through The Wolf of Wall Street. It's watchable and stuff, but at three hours I'm just finding it a slog. Its constant theme of "we had money, and spent the ****" gets a bit wearying, you know? It's like every scene has a voiceover from an overacting DeCaprio going:

"And then I bought a yacht, which I just stuck up my ass while I injected heroin into my eyeballs. Anything to make a sale... we just cared about the dollar, and didn't give a shit about our customers. For a party I snorted up three tonnes of ******* and hired a disabled girl with only half her arms to stick them up my ass. I didn't call it being fisted, I called it being stumped. Afterwards I got back home and fucked the dog in its asshole, just because I could. Did I mention I made money?"

Should you give a ****, my top three Scorcese movies are:

1. After Hours (yeah, really)
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull

[Targaryen]

I thought Shutter Island was good.

His best are Taxi Driver and Goodfellas though, IMO.

[bojangles1987]

Gangs of New York, The Departed, and Wolf of Wall Street are all really terrific movies IMO. They aren't Taxi Driver or Goodfellas, but what is? The Aviator was pretty good as well.

Scorsese has still been top of the list when it comes to directors. I agree that The Departed was more of a, "we HAVE to give Scorsese an Oscar" type win though.

[[ DUBBZZ ]]

Wolf reminds me ALOT of Goodfellas, but not quite as good.

- Same rise and fall theme.
- Both main characters come from humble beginnings but turn to illegal activity to gain the lavish lifestyle they want
- The narration is almost exactly the same (for example: the scene stops while the character talks directly to the camera)
- Both characters give up their friends when they get caught in order to get a lighter sentence.

I'm surprised he didn't use that same Rolling Stones song in Wolf. You know, the same one in The Departed and in Casino.

[ßringer]

The Departed was ****ing amazing. If you don't like that movie, you can **** right off.

Also, Gangs of New York.

I thought Shutter Island was good.

****, I was looking at the wrong list - it's TEN movies in the last twenty years, not eight.

So, to add:

Bringing out the Dead - utterly mediocre
Shutter Island - Predictable.

The Departed was ****ing amazing. If you don't like that movie, you can **** right off.

Also, Gangs of New York.

The Departed was okay, but I preferred it under its original title of Donnie Brasco.

Your favorite Scorcese movies are Raging Bullshit and The Color of Being a 125lb Emo Cenobite Faggot.

[ßringer]

The Departed was okay, but I preferred it under its original title of Donnie Brasco.

Your favorite Scorcese movies are Raging Bullshit and The Color of Being a 125lb Emo Cenobite Faggot.

No way. Donnie Brasco is nowhere near as good as The Departed is. You're unjustly faulting it for using a premise that'd already been done (what premise hasn't been done before?) while not giving it nearly as much credit as it deserves for doing it in a superior fashion.

Raging Bull was alright. I adore the cinematography more than anything else, though. Other than that and Pesci's parts, it's just a fluff job on Lamotta by Lamotta. Plus the boxing scenes are ****ing awful to look at.

[4Corners]

His last 20 years he's still been pretty damn good.

The Age of Innocence
Casino
Bringing Out the Dead
Gangs of New York
The Aviator
The Departed
Shutter Island
Hugo
The Wolf of Wall Street

That's better then 99.9% of any film makers entire career.

[Butler]

i dont know what the **** is the hype with "wolf of wall street".. i thought it was one of the worst movie.. it was good the 1st hour but was boring after that.. i think those that appreciate wolf of wall street are those with low iq.. that like hercules or movie sh.it like that..