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Summary: Scorsese's Best
Review: With out a doubt, this is director Martin Scorsese's best movie. Robert De Niro plays taxi driver Travis Bickle, a down on his luck Vietnam vet who takes a job as a taxi driver to make ends meet. What makes this movie amazing is how true to life it is. All that Travis Bickle wants to do is be somebody. He wants to be known for something. The bad thing is he is willing to do anything to get his recognition. Many people have connected with this movie because Travis Bickle's life seems to mirror theirs. No one takes him seriously and nobody seems to care about him. He is just another face in the crowd. Many people have felt like him, maybe not to the point of murder, but they have related to him. Scorsese directs this film like no other and De Niro plays Bickle brilliantly. This movie has impressive camera work and one of the best shootouts ever. Watch it!
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Summary: Taxi Driver is the REAL Best Picture of 1976.
Review: Taxi Driver is one of the most powerful and disturbing films I've ever seen. Paul Schrader's gritty screenplay is superb. He effectively creates a sense of loneliness in one of the largest, most highly populated cities in the world. Schrader creates one of the most complex and disturbing film characters in Travis Bickle. Robert DeNiro also lends, significantly, to the character of Travis in one of the greatest cinematic performances ever. He perfectly captures the loneliness, complexity, and frustration of Travis. Jodie Foster gives a commendable performance as a young prostitute on the streets of New York City. Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd, and Harvey Keitel all give noteworthy performances. Martin Scorsese uses many intriguing and unique camera angles and shots to tell this shady story; his direction really is quite good. I particularly like the long, over-head shot he used to conclude a violent scene at the end of the film. Bernard Herrmann's romantic and sometimes ominous musical score nicely compliments the images on screen. Michael Chapman's cinematography is also first-rate. His use of lighting combined with Scorsese's unique direction and his occasional utilization of slow motion gives the film a very surreal look. The picture quality on the DVD is fantastic, especially when you consider the age of the film. The documentary is very informative and advoids being "fluffy." Taxi Driver certainly isn't a film for everyone. By showing you Travis's disturbing life, it will leave you feeling hollowed out but if you think you can stomach it; I urge you to give it a try.
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Summary: Urban Madness: a journey into one man's personal hell
Review: Robert De Niro stars in the classic 1973 Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver. Travis Bickle, the ex-marine loner has come to New York City in search of work. Taking a job as a taxi driver, Travis slowly begins to realize the futility of his life, and the lonelyness that begins to plague him. His days are filled with regularity, and he begins to inspire a hate towards the city, which he regards to be filled with disgusting garbage (He's right for the most part)that needs to be washed away. Every day he becomes more enraged at his surroundings until he eventually becomes a self-appointed vigilante. Attempting to rescue a teenage prostitute (Young star Jodie Foster) from the ghettos of the city, it becomes his mission. A great film, one of Scorsese's best.
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Summary: The Hack From Hell!
Review: "Taxi Driver," Paul Schraeder's brilliant character study of a certain type of alienated white male that emerged in the post Vietnam 70's, remains as distrubing today as it did 25 years ago. "Taxi Driver" established Schraeder as a major screenwriting talent, Robert De Niro as a star and Martin Scorsese as the pre-eminent filmmaker of his generation. The acting is flawless (was the ever a BAD performance in a Scorcese film)?...even Cybil Shepherd gives the illusion she can act....Scorsese himself, playing a jealous husband who's gone over the edge, is simply stunning. "Taxi Driver," is a mixture of Urban Gothic horror and a psychological case study of the terror that can be wrought by loneliness and alientation, scored beautifully by the late Bernard Herrmann (can anyone watch the film without going around humming that haunting saxophone passage?) This new special edition DVD is superb, containing a 90 minute documentary on the making of the film that includes interviews with many of the cast and crew ( Scorsese, De Niro, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Paul Schraeder, makeup man Dick Smith, and Elmer Bernstein, standing in for Herrmann). The only element sorely lacking in the DVD is the commentary Scorsese did for the Criterion laserdisc edition. "Taxi Driver," a film that could never be made today in the era of "Scream 2"," where 12-18 years make up the bulk of the ticket buying public, remains a contemporary classic and this special edition DVD is a filmlover's delight.
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Summary: A brilliant Masterpiece
Review: In my honest opinion, this is one of the greatest, though simplest, stories ever told. Some people may say we need to know more about the lead character, Travis. The truth is, you don't need to. You learn enough about him, why he's where he is. The story is brilliantly portrayed as he is one man who is sick of the dirty streets that he drives day in and day out. This, however does not necessarily delve deep into your mind, doesn't really make you think. It is, basically, your typical book turned movie. It nearly reminds one of "Catcher in the Rye," with no true point, other than to show what happens to man over a short period of time. So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that this is a simple masterpiece, simply portraying, in less than two hours, I might add, one man's struggle with right and wrong and his ultimate victory.
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Summary: Ain't nobody else in here
Review: This is a brilliant film with, in my humble opinion De Niros best performance ever. He plays the original loner who prophesises that one day a "real rain will come" to N.Y and wash the "filth" from the streets. As he's an insomniac he gets a job as a Taxi Driver working late nights in the worst parts of town. he sees things that anger him and throughout the film he is drifting further and further away from reality. He forms an unsteady relationship with a beautiful woman named Betsy. And meets a teen prostitute (Foster) whom he is intent on rescuing from her controlling pimp (Keitel). Oh and he takes a slight interest in guns somewhere along the way. A brilliant film from a brilliant collaboration.
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Summary: Leonard Maltin is Right!
Review: I rented the DVD version in widescreen from the video store hoping to finally enjoy for the very first time a film that I had always heard was a "masterpiece". I am a huge DeNiro fan, and was looking forward to seeing some of his early work. I was sadly disappointed. I guess I was expecting a "Goodfellas" or a "Casino", or even a "Raging Bull" with the now-famous Martin Scorsese/Robert DeNiro collaboration team. I could not relate to any of the characters in this film and Travis Bickle's past is not filled in nearly enough for us to develop sympathy for him. I mean, isn't it intuitively obvious, even to the most casual observer of romantic interaction, that taking an attractive and sophisticated woman like Cybill Shepard to a porn movie for a first date is a major faux pas? Am I to feel sorry for this guy? When he is declared a "hero" at the end of the movie, am I supposed to now feel that the "mirror of society has been held up to me"? Give me a break! I am so sick and tired of directors wasting away minutes of my life while I sit through their mundane attempts at "cinematic art" by doing close-ups of raindrops beading up on the hoods of cars, and the view out through the front windshield during rainstorms. Sorry, I didn't go anyplace new or exciting with this one, which is what I want movies to do for me. If you absolutely have to hear DeNiro deliver his famous, "You talking to me?" line, a better movie would be Bullwinkle and Rocky, which I have not seen, but couldn't possibly have been any worse than this guano.
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Summary: Amazing movie
Review: Taxi Driver is Martin Scorsese's directorial masterpiece. DeNiro plays Travis Bickle, an ex-marine turned taxi driver walking the fine line of madness. Bickle is a man disgusted with the world around him, and he feel powerless to change it. Travis feels removed from everything and wants nothing more to be a "real person, like other people." He fails at every attempt he makes to be "normal" and the audience follows along with him. Scoresese forces some sympathy for Bickle and at the same time keeps us on edge, because we know Bickle walks a dark path. I'll not risk ruining the movie for first time viewers. But, Taxi Driver is a must-see for those that don't mind being shocked or disturbed.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Excellent, Excellent, Excellent. Great movie, even better DVD. Great features. The best documentry I have ever seen.
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Summary: Interesting Film.
Review: Directed by Martin Scorsese, Robert DeNiro plays a taxi driver who must save a young girl (Jodie Foster) from a violent life on the streets. The movie is well acted but very violent, and the climax is not for everyone's tastes, but it's a powerful human drama all around.
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