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out of these 10 films by Scorsese which do you think is the best

They are all excellent, but if I had to choose one, I would choose The Departed.

no The Departed wasnt as good as Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and Casino it was a very good film definately his best since Casino but it didnt live up to his older efforts

Goodfellas.

taxi driver, goodfellas, raging bull, or the departed.

casino is very overrated.

Goodfellas

"The Departed" by a mile. Haven't seen "After Hours", though. "Goodfellas" is ridiculously overrated.

what's wrong with goodfellas?

"Goodfellas". It's very authentic. "Taxi Driver" can kiss my ass.

I gurantee he's gonna win this year for the Departed. Pigs have flown!

Think Goodfellas might be the best, most complete film of the bunch though.

Anyone who says The Departed is his best film is an idiot. Fact.

The answer is Goodfellas by a long way.

The Departed is pretty cool movie!

Raging Bull with Goodfellas coming in at a very close second.

A tie between taxi driver, ranging bull and goodfellas.

Where is the age of innocence? great film too.

Oh I hope he doesn't win for remake The Departed, good film but no.

Goodfellas for me, absolutely wonderful.

Taxi driver, my favorite movie of all time.

Taxi Driver.

Goodfellas by a light year.


A very close second would be Raging Bull.

Taxi Driver

I voted Goodfellas, but I'm a little miffed that The Aviator wasn't included.

It comes in 2nd I think, an awesome bio-pic of Howard Hughes, directed in a way that made that period come alive.

Of course, I've yet to see The Departed, and my anticipation for it is very high!

Taxi Driver's my all-time favourite, but it's still a tough choice when he's done so many other brilliant movies. Casino, GoodFellas and Raging Bull are all classics. Mean Streets could've been if it'd had a better ending.


I found Gangs of New York to be immensely overrated. The storyline was week, Di Caprio's an arse (Though he was excellent in Catch Me If You Can) and I thought Cameron Diaz was slightly miscast in that role.

Daniel Day Lewis was brilliant in it, though.

Tough choice. Its close between The Departed, Goodfellas, and Casino, but I chose Casino.

imho no contest: goodfellas

taxi driver in second
then casino and gangs of new york

Goodfellas
Taxi driver
Mean Streets

Just saw 'The Departed'.

New favorite Scorsese.

how come no one is sayin Casino that along with Goodfellas and Raging Bull is his best film

The Departed was ok but i guess i was expecting a bit too much with all the ghosts of these great films hanging over it it was good but didnt live up

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Anyone who says The Departed is his best film is an idiot. Fact.

The answer is Goodfellas by a long way.

Originally posted by rockycairns
how come no one is sayin Casino that along with Goodfellas and Raging Bull is his best film

The Departed was ok but i guess i was expecting a bit too much with all the ghosts of these great films hanging over it it was good but didnt live up

**** u


The departed and goodfellas are my favs

I watched "The Departed" last night, and my comments'll be up in the thread soon.

So did I.

Enjoyed the hell out of it.


After Goodfellas, it's my second fave Scorsese film.

In retrospect, I don't even feel as if a lot of these movies should even be included as "his" best movies ever. He didn't write most of his biggest successes, including "The Departed", "Taxi Driver", and "Raging Bull". He DID write "Goodfellas", and it's still my favorite. It just seems like he feels as if he needs to keep making gang movies until he gets it right, when he already did almost 20 years ago.,

he did strike gold with Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Casino

The Departed was good but i was expecting a bit too much

After seeing the Departed, I must say, Mark Wahlberg got the best part in that movie.

Classic overacting isn't Oscar worthy work.

tell it to pacino.

Of the list - RAGING BULL.

Not on the list - THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Anyone who says The Departed is his best film is an idiot. Fact.

The answer is Goodfellas by a long way.

Yes anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot

Martin Scorsese just won Best Director!!!
The Departed wins Best Picture!!!

George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola personally hand him his first Oscar!!!
Life is Beautiful.clap

Originally posted by The Core
Classic overacting isn't Oscar worthy work.

Who said it was?

the departed was one of the most biggest let downs in my life. I love marty,but the departed was redundant and long. as you are watching the movie, you know exactly how its going to end, however marty put a remedy to this by killing everyone. goodfellas

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Anyone who says The Departed is his best film is an idiot. Fact.

The answer is Goodfellas by a long way.

I guess I'm an idiot. w00t

Goodfellas comes in second though, but it gets a little boring towards the end when Ray Liotta is on his coked out helicoptor chase thing.

Originally posted by ragesRemorse
the departed was redundant
Taxi Driver?

It was a 150 minute long cat and mouse game with gratuitous headshots that could have EASILY been done in 90 is what he's getting at.

Boston's Police Academy must have one hell of a training facility. All of there cops are marksmen, and none of them were really aiming, except maybe Marky Mark.

The Departed was a good movie, but put it against some of the other movies he has been nominated for and i think most of the others win. The Departed did not grab my attention, it was sort a blah for the most part for me. Don't get me wrong i really liked it, but i mean for scorsese and it being best picture it should have been better.

Originally posted by Solo
Taxi Driver? What about it? You think it was redundent?

I didn't mind the length of The Departed. I really got into the characters and the dialogue, it was highly entertaining. It was the type of movie I wish would never end.

That coked out helicoptor part is one of the best things in Goodfellas!

Some of the dialogue was dire imo, i was sitting there rolling my eyes quite a few times.

Originally posted by jgiant
What about it? You think it was redundent?
Yep.

Scorsese film 'The Departed' wins best picture Oscar
US director Martin Scorsese's bloody crime drama The Departed has snatched the best picture Oscar.

Hmm, having just watched Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, this got a bit harder for me.

I might be one of the idiots who says The Departed however. I tend to agree with Tired Hiker on this one.

I find The Departed more watchable than some of his "greatest," nowadays. I find it much more accesible.

Still, the Colour of Money is underrated.

Goodfella's or gangs of new york for me

Am I the only one that prefers Casino to Goodfellas?

Originally posted by Darth Martin
Am I the only one that prefers Casino to Goodfellas?

By no means. On first viewing, I was a little disappointed by Goodfellas and enjoyed Casino more. Casino just gets a little dull second time around, in my opinion, whereas I enjoyed Goodfellas loads more when I rewatched and I'd certainly say it's the better film, and much more original, of course.

But Taxi Driver's easily my favourite. The character of Travis Bickle is so real, such a fantastic creation, though I think De Niro's best performance is in Raging Bull- a film that would be by no means great if not for that performance.

I'd also give an honorary mention to King of Comedy, which is rather fabulous. Probably my 3rd favourite Scorsese film after Taxi Driver and Goodfellas. The Departed would be well down the list, though I did really enjoy it, having watched it twice. Unfortunately, it's rather weak compared to Marty's other work, and considerably inferior to Infernal Affairs, too, which was shorter, better paced and had a much more interesting ending, too.

its hard to argue against any of these films, bit i would say good fellas, then taxi driver, then casino. I love my deniro

Goodfellas a.k.a. the best mob movie ever.

I would have put The Last Temptation Of Christ on this list, and removed Cape Fear.

Originally posted by roughrider
I would have put The Last Temptation Of Christ on this list, and removed Cape Fear.

I'd agree. Cape Fear was fairly fun, but I thought it was rather crap, really.

Firstly I've been a huge fan of Scorcese since I can remember being a fan of anything , he was probably the first director that a really got into. Well I can't say what his "best" film is but I can tell you my favorite of all ; Taxi Driver.

I first saw Taxi Driver when I was about 9 or so, I'm 26 years old now. I remember watching the film then very well, and I remember wasn't able to understand a lot of the themes of the movie. One thing I did remember was the final shoot out scene. Seeing that as a kid, quite honestly changed my life. Sounds dumb, but I think that scene de-sensitized me towards movie violence -- and mildly traumtized me.

As said before, I saw this movie when I was about 9 or so and I probably watch it at least 1 once a year . Watching Taxi Driver now, I look at it in a different light, basically I've grown up with it. Still everytime I watch it, it holds my attention it has everything you can want in a movie really. I really can't say that about many other movie, this movie is nearly perfect to me. Taxi Driver to me is not only Scorsese's best, but one of the best films of all time-- to me of course.

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Reviving this one; having rewatched/watched more of his films as of late, I would say my rough ranking goes something like this:

1) Taxi Driver
2) Goodfellas
3) The Departed
4) Raging Bull
5) Shutter Island
6) Casino

I still need to see all of his filmography and rewatch the ones I don't remember that well.

goodfellas all the way

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
Reviving this one; having rewatched/watched more of his films as of late, I would say my rough ranking goes something like this:

1) Taxi Driver
2) Goodfellas
3) The Departed
4) Raging Bull
5) Shutter Island
6) Casino

I still need to see all of his filmography and rewatch the ones I don't remember that well.

Maybe switch Casino and Shutter Island.. hmm...

Casino was great but it felt like GoodFellas 2 just set in Las Vegas

Yeah, but I didn't have a problem with that!

Casino is my favorite. Of the three I've seen probably in this order:

1.Casino
2.The Departed
3.Goodfellas

Mean Streets

Cape Fear is my favorite.

Originally posted by Blinky
Firstly I've been a huge fan of Scorcese since I can remember being a fan of anything , he was probably the first director that a really got into. Well I can't say what his "best" film is but I can tell you my favorite of all ; Taxi Driver.

I first saw Taxi Driver when I was about 9 or so, I'm 26 years old now. I remember watching the film then very well, and I remember wasn't able to understand a lot of the themes of the movie. One thing I did remember was the final shoot out scene. Seeing that as a kid, quite honestly changed my life. Sounds dumb, but I think that scene de-sensitized me towards movie violence -- and mildly traumtized me.

As said before, I saw this movie when I was about 9 or so and I probably watch it at least 1 once a year . Watching Taxi Driver now, I look at it in a different light, basically I've grown up with it. Still everytime I watch it, it holds my attention it has everything you can want in a movie really. I really can't say that about many other movie, this movie is nearly perfect to me. Taxi Driver to me is not only Scorsese's best, but one of the best films of all time-- to me of course.

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I have only seen Taxi Driver once and it was a few years ago,but I remember seeing it and not knowing what the big deal about it was,but I may rewatch it someday,to refresh my mind

Anyway,Out of that list,I would go with ''Goodfellas'' at the moment,I actually started watching ''Casino'' for the first time last night,only about half an hour into it,but so far it's been good

My favorites are Goodfellas and Casino. Raging Bull was also great. Never saw the big deal about Taxi Driver. It's a pretty cool film, but Goodfellas is much better, imo.

I hated The Departed. That movie was so overrated. Jack Nicholson was good as always (the best part of that movie), but Leo was annoying as hell (and slept with another man's wife. I know it's just a movie, but stuff like that makes me hate a character)

Taxi driver, my favorite movie of all time.

Originally posted by K.Diddy
I have only seen Taxi Driver once and it was a few years ago,but I remember seeing it and not knowing what the big deal about it was,but I may rewatch it someday,to refresh my mind

Anyway,Out of that list,I would go with ''Goodfellas'' at the moment,I actually started watching ''Casino'' for the first time last night,only about half an hour into it,but so far it's been good

Just finished watching Casino but I still have to go with ''goodfellas'' with Cape Fear coming second