Taxi Driver

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Summary: what movie is leonard maltin seeing
Review: mr. leonard maltin gave this movie 2 stars, i dont wnow what movie was he watching. this is a complete masterpiece directed by one of the most talented directors in history, and with one of the most talented actors in history. brilliant

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Summary: duh
Review: get the wide screen dumm

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Summary: Interesting character study and 1970s social commentary
Review: I saw this film for the first time this passed weekend. Having only seen DeNiro in recent movies it was startling to see his appearance when he was in his 20s. The same for Sybil Sheppard and an even younger Jodie Foster. The story of DeNiro's/Travis Bickle's descent into insanity and the illogical redemption by society doesn't quite ring true. Nevertheless, the story is quite compelling albeit discomforting because one can relate to Travis' lovelessness and frustration with society. Well worth seeing but bring a strong stomach for the violence at the end.

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Summary: You Talkin To Me
Review: This Is defenitly in the top five of the best films ever made.In Martin Scrosse's brilliant masterpiece about a taxi driver's life named travis(Robert Deniro) whose life is very dark beacause of all the scum and the junckies and sick people in his life that make him have a day of revenge. He's gods lonely man and every where around him has a love or a wife and when he tries to see someone it never workes out for him.He can't sleep at night because all all the nasty voices going throgh his head. One night a girl gets in his taxi and she wants to get out of there all of a sudden someone else appears and takes her away. One day he ran into her agian and finds out that he's a prostitute (Jodie Foster) and he meets the low life pimp (Harvey Keitel) And he starts talk to her and she says when she got in the taxi that she was stonned. then he finds out that she ran away home and is only 12 years old so he says he will get her back home. But before he gets her out there's a great shootout beetween travis and the pimps. After that he got her home and he was a hero. and after he became a hero things started to change for him a little more. His life was better then.

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Summary: A frightening movie.
Review: Taxi Driver is a masterpiece. Robert De Niro is frightening. Playing Travis Bickle, a modern day (Mid 1970's) Holden Caulfield, he brilliantly portrays a phsycologically disturbed individual. Much like the character from the Catcher In the Rye, Bickle believes he is the only one than can see the truth. The truth about a world that is vile, useless, and near its end. Only he has the power to make it clean. He is the only person who can remove the scum which encircles his world. The violence and darkness may be critisized, but it is vital. Without it, the full character of Bickle could not be discovered. Taxi Driver is a classic film about the decay of Urban Society.

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Summary: in the top ten for best films of the centruy
Review: An undisputed classic. Going on De Niro's most recent films, have a look back at this one to see what all the fuss is about him, and indeed Scorsese for that matter. One man's struggle to find out now who he is but how he is supposed to fit in the world is one hell of a tale. This film cannot be reccommended highly enough.

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Summary: A classic film in every sense
Review: I can't believe I am the first to write a review of this film. I'm not worthy. This movie has been quoted to death and picked apart as much or more then any film in the last quarter century. There is good reason. More then anything this movie is a study in madness and sanity. We all feel as Travis does sometimes. The world has gone to hell and a rain should come and wash away all the garbage off the street, all of it. Of course we, as sane people, realise this is wrong thinking and get over it. Travis does not. Travis Bickle is an unbalanced person who just wants to be a normal person, like anyone else. He tries this. He gets a job driving a cab becouse he can't sleep nights "there's porno theaters for that" the cab manager tells him. And indeed there are. But Travis has no interest in sex, he just goes into the pornos becouse that's were other people go, he wants to be like other people. Had he lived in a small town instead of New York, he may just as well have followed the heard into church or to the mall. his neighborhood has no churches so he goes to see dirty movies. Travis wouldn't know a dirty movie from a pop-tart. This is made painfully clear when he asks a girl out on a date. Bickle is sitting in his cab whe "she" walks by. Cyble Shepard. "she" is wearing a white dress, she was like an angle in this filthy mass, "they must not touch her". Travis actually convinces this high class beauty to go to the movies with him. You can guess what happens next. He takes her to the only movies he knows about. Needless to say, Betsy (shepards character) is not a fan of "Somethime Sweet Susan" and "Swedish Marrage Manual" She storms off and refuses his calls. Travis didn't mean any harm. He can not understand why his genuine efforts to fit in don't work. He becomes angry and self absorbed. He meets a 12 year old prostitute and after his ill fated date with Betsy goed to see her. Harvey Kietel is as good as he has ever been as the pimp who tells Travis about the little girl he is going to see. I won't quote him here as I am sure the good folks at Amason would not appreciate it, but he gives a graphic detailed discription of all the sexual things Travis can do with this 12 and a half year old girl. Travis had no intentions of doing anything with this child. He talks to her and says "you're a young girl you should be in school" What a nut. Any sane person can see that she (Iris) is a whore and can only be a whore. No one in this film, none of the "sane" emotionally stable, normal people do anything to help or are even upset at this arrangement ( a pimp and a 12 year old girl) they either buy her services or ignore the situation. Bickle takes Iris (Jodie Fosters 12 year old hooker character) to breakfast and tells her she should not be selling herself on the street for a bunch of pimps and lowlifes. In a very moving performance, Jodie Fosters character looks at him like he is form outer space "I don't know who's wierder, you or me" She really can't understand that someone cares about her and that what she is doing is wrong. The only person in the world that says what is right, that 12 year old girls don't belong ont he streets whoring, is a raving nut. Who are the crazys and who are the sane? Travis eventually loses control and goes on a shooting spree. He kills off a bunch of people the police don't like anyway so he is a hero. Some problems can only be solved by a crazy, lonely white guy with a pistol. "You talkin' to me? I don't see nobody else here". This is the first time Jodie Foster was recognised as a great actress, she was nominated for best supporting actress and deservedly so. Martin Scorsese has done films as good as this, but never better. I can't recomend in enough. "Lost Johnny"

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Summary: the most realistically tragic reflection of struggle within.
Review: What can be said? If you can walk away from this film and not feel upset, you didn't pay attention. This movie demonstrated the brilliance of DeNiro.

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Summary: Do I have to give it a star!
Review: I have seen a lot of movies, some good and some bad, but I have never seen one as over rated as this one. I wish someone would tell me why it is good. It is absolutely stupid. The script, story line, the entire movie is all bad!!!! If you value your sanity, don't watch it.

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Summary: How long have I been sleeping?
Review: Taxi driver exemplifies one of the greatest delves into the human psyche that I could ever imagine. From the beginning, it is clearly blatant that Travis, Robert Deniro's character, is trying to make right in a world and society gone completely wrong. A trend seen to this day. He is just another face in the violent, turbulent crowd of a mean-spirited city like New York. A true grief - striken story of man versus the elements and environment around him. What is portrayed here is a man who "would not take it anymore." He is sickened by the environment around him that just will never leave him alone. How many of us have felt this way? He tried to assimilate himself in society but can't cope with the tools he has. I'm always taken back by the scene in his apartment with the Jackson Browne song in the background. Travis begins to realize his world is falling apart around him. I recommend this movie to anyone fed up with society, alienated from the evils of the world and overall tired of all the nonsense we must face from day to day. Truly, one of the greatest movies of all time!