Taxi Driver 'overrated' eh?
You fucking stupid fucking cunt.
(, Wed 24 Jul 2024, 19:05, Share, Reply)
It's fine.
Some people rabidly defend the fuck out of Taxi Driver as if any criticism aimed at the film is a direct attack (probably because they've had more than one wank over infant Jodie Foster).
There are also probably quite a few people who have never seen the film that also laud Taxi Driver as one of the greatest American movies of the 20th century because they've heard it's amazing.
At the end of the day, it's a Scorsese film, so it'd be a reach to ever call it a bad film. But, like The Joker (also by no means a bad film), it's a largely forgettable, dull as dishwasher character study.
As Character Studies go, it's undoubtedly one of the best, if not the best character study in cinema, but there are character studies out there that have made subjectively better overall movies (The Wrestler, There Will be Blood, The Whale - none of which will likely ever have the lasting acclaim that Taxi Driver has had).
It's also definitely not Scorsese's best film, and it wouldn't rank in my top 50 favourite movies. But it's fine. You'll argue that I'm wrong because sooooo many other people have nominated it as one of the greatest movies of all time, but that's because, as dyllon rightly says, it's overrated.
(, Thu 25 Jul 2024, 7:16, Share, Reply)
