Martin Scorsese

[Randall Maysin Again]

Me too! It's the film that made me fall in love with her talent. It's a wonderful and very memorable "ordinary person" performance. Lots of Scorsese films are well acted but Cape Fear's ensemble is to die for

[pianocrash]

Indiewire ranks Scorsese's films. Surely this will lead to dissent

Is it me or is the marketing push for the new film way bigger than for his last efforts? It's like these past few weeks I've seen Scorsese everywhere, from career retrospectives and best-of lists to interviews about Barbie and TikToks about sex slang. I don't recall a studio pushing his films as hard as this before.

Overrated Misses and Lacking in Lasting Value, but with lots of surface/incidental assets: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver

[Roscoe]

I always thought how the scene was done undermines the scenes that follow. Douglas’ refusal to press charges because she knows first hand that the system is rigged against rape victims rings pretty hollow after we just watched her get part of her face bitten off. If there’s one thing male police officers, judges, and juries would easily believe, it’s that a woman wouldn’t consent to having chunks of her face bitten off and her arm dislocated. That kind of obvious brutality transcends institutional sexism.

This. Very much. I found it hard to imagine that anyone who'd had a hole bitten in their face would decline to press charges. It was just too much.

[Roscoe]

Okay, maybe I can't really fault Scorsese morally for filming it the way he does, It just happens to greatly exceed my level of what I can tolerate when I'm enjoying a good relatively lightweight genre film, and I'm sure there were other filmmaking options, that could still be pretty horrifying, without being so sickeningly explicit.

Not to flog the dead horse, but Scorsese doesn't do "good relatively lightweight genre" anything ever.

[Tom Amolad]

Okay, maybe I can't really fault Scorsese morally for filming it the way he does, It just happens to greatly exceed my level of what I can tolerate when I'm enjoying a good relatively lightweight genre film, and I'm sure there were other filmmaking options, that could still be pretty horrifying, without being so sickeningly explicit.

Not to flog the dead horse, but Scorsese doesn't do "good relatively lightweight genre" anything ever.

It’s probably perverse of me, but that would be my exact description of Goodfellas. Go figure.

[domino harvey]

Welcome to the AGI Street Team, Scorsese

[hearthesilence]

I would've gone with The Good, The Bad and The Ugly instead of Birdman but otherwise, definitely with him on the choices.