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Summary: Psychological roller coaster
Review: This is the most gut-wrenching, tantalizing, well-acted movie of all time, watch and watch it again!!!
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Summary: One crazy freakout hellride of a movie!
Review: This movie, after more than 20 years - still gives me the creeps. De Niro, as the deranged taxi driver turned vigilante, makes you want to avoid taking a cab at all costs.Jodie Foster plays the part of a pre-teen hooker with excellence. Her character is sad and provides the only outlet of caring for De Niro. Great bit parts are played by Albert Brooks and Cybill Shepard. What really makes this movie so good is the use of odd camera angles and some very eerie saxophone music. A great movie that triggers all of your senses.
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Summary: My Favorite Scorsese Picture!
Review: Martin Scorsese's 1976 masterpiece written by Paul Schrader to me is the ultimate film about loneliness and insanity. Two things that Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) obviously is. The movies starts out with Travis going to a cab company for a job. The reason is he can't sleep at nights. At his job he meets a lot of odd people in his cab. But, he also meets his share when off work too. Like fellow cabbie Wizard (Peter Boyle) whom at one point Travis tries confiding in. He really is loney and has no one to be with. All he does is drive his cab, untill, one day he meets Betsy (Cybill Shepherd). She's working on political campaign for some politician. At first she thinks he's "creepy". Tom (Albert Brooks) has I would say a crush on her. At first he tries to "defend" her against him. After the two go out for a brief time. She becomes digusted with him after he tries to take her to go see an adult movie. At this point the insanity kicks in. He now starts to talk about how the streets of New York make him sick. Everyone is "scum". He can't breathe the air. In an effort to "free" himself, he decides to "save" a very young prositute Iris (Jodie Foster). The problem first of all is, she doesn't think she needs to be saved. She thinks things are going ok. Secondly, her pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel) says he loves her. "Taxi Driver" hits so many right spots to keep our interest. It has so many powerful moments. The acting by De Niro is truly a standout. His Oscar nomination was rightfully deserved. We see this transformation in his character, and to me, it's spellbounding. His "our you looking at me" speech has to be one of the most OVER quoted lines in film history, it's right up there with "What am I a clown? Am I here to amuse you?". Scorsese is a director of considerable outstanding talents and this film allows him to showcase it very well. He also has a small cameo as a jealous husband who is spying on his wife, who is cheating on him. The movie was up for 4 Academy Awards; "Best Picture", "Best Actor", "Best Supporting Actress" (Jodie Foster), and "Best Musical Score".
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Summary: Taxi Driver
Review: Taxi Driver dramatizes the all too human condition of loneliness, a human being who moves through maddening crowd, jostled, brushed, ignored, abused, hassle, provoked but who is somehow utterly untouched by any of it because of his secret world of fantasy and his inability to communicate with his fellow humans. In short a lonely man, aching to be noticed, recognized and loved, but unable to attain it.
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Summary: Best Film Ever
Review: Taxi Driver is the best movie ever.. A very intimate portrait of lonliness, and a man at his limits. De Niro plays a lonely taxi driver, who is confused and is slowly driven to madness. One day, he just breaks down and realizes his life has been leading to one moment. He works out, gets into the shape he needs to be, and... I don't wanna spoil it for you.. I bought Taxi Driver 2 weeks ago, buying it from all the good stuff I've heard, I don't dig old films at all, but this was special. I saw it twice since, and it's great film making by Martin Scorses. I really understand this movie and can relate to many aspects of it. So if you're put off that it was made 20 years ago, I will tell you that this is a very modern-type film, it still has its effects as it did (I'm guessing) 20 years ago. Go watch it, you will love it, take my word for it.. I've seen all the good stuff of the past 30 years, and this is the best. Go watch it immediately.. It's intense stuff.. (Oh yeah, Jodie Foster was great in this film! In fact, everyone turned up great performances, one I did not particularly like was Albert Brooke's) Guy
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Summary: 5 stars after only 10min
Review: Hi, all. I am 32 years old and definitely, my son (4yrs old) will be told to try all (well, most at least) De Niro movie. The 'Awakening' was the first impact. Then I was a freshman who couldn't help tears. The 'Mission' finished the game...the scene of climbing cliff with his heavy armors, gee- even just reminding of it causes tears again now. What a great actor he is! God father 2, Deer hunter and so on, even though some of his recent stuffs were not great (I didnt' like 'Heat' anyway). Yesterday, I had bought a used video of Taxi driver and today morning, before coming to work, I couldn't help watching about 10 min. Yeah- really it is a great movie and I can know it with only 10 mins' watch. It is a really great thing to live with one great actor or two (Jack, it is you). Ah- check 'Midnight Run'. You shouldn't miss it if you are real De Niro fan.
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Summary: Thanks to Paul Shrader's Dark Days
Review: The "support" behind this DVD is equal to the film. Interviews interlace with the terror of knowing that this film presages the reality that was to come, literally, with the suspense that was Hitchkock was all about. Photography=BRILLIANT A special citiation to Mr Special effect for creating what was a that time considered violent.
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Summary: Taxi Driver
Review: An absolutely excellent film and a tribute to both De Niro and Scorsese. A must for every DVD collection.
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Summary: "You talking to me? You, talking to me?"
Review: This is a classic which no DVD collector should be with out.
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Summary: Descend Into One Man's Hell
Review: Travis Bickle is one of the most confused and violent characters ever to grace the screen. He is an ex-marine who becomes a taxi driver. He is disgusted by all the filth and scum he sees in New York City, but he drives in the city's worst neighborhoods and picks up the slimiest of characters. In voice overs, we hear him describe some of the debauchery that goes on in his cab. He sees a beautiful young woman working in the campaign offices of a Presidential candidate. He gets up the nerve to ask her out and they go to a luncheonette and have a nice conversation. Then on another date he takes her to a pornographic movie and she is revolted by this and then spurns him. One of the heartbreaking scenes in the movie is Travis calling her on a pay phone to apologize. Martin Scorcese pans away from Travis and shows a long corridor while he is being rejected. This sends Travis over the edge. He gets a mohawk and plans an assassination attempt on the candidate which is aborted. He also meets a 13 year old hooker named Iris. He can't understand why she subjects herself to this life and why she is with a creepy pimp named Sport. In the film's bloody climax, Travis kills Sport and ends up in a blood bath while Iris looks on horrified. Robert De Niro plays Travis as powderkeg waiting to burst. He lets Travis slowly slide into his own personal hell before finally exploding. Cybil Shepard is charmingly beautiful as the campaign worker and Albert Brooks provides some levity as her co-worker. Jodie Foster served noticed as Iris. She plays the character with seeming self-assurance, but with an underlying fragility an amazing achievement for the then 13 year old. Peter Boyle plays Wizard, who doles out philosophies on life to Travis, with an all-knowing nature. Harvey Keitel plays Sport with the right amount heavy handiness and smarm. The film established Martin Scorcese as a top-flight director.
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