ITT : Films that are considered classic masterpieces which you find overrated.
Pic related, I thought it was boring as hell and also morally questionable given how much time it devotes to showing the main character is an ax crazy only to give him a happy ending (and apparently Scorsese has gone out of his way to deny that it's a delusional dying dream)
>i dont understand films made for my grandparents
bravo
>movies that are morally questionable are bad
Disney capeshit was a mistake
Getting kind of tired of these "*blank* is overrated threads"
> Vertigo
> Citizen Kane
they look like child made them compared to what some other directors were able to do in those times.
>ITT : Films that are considered classic masterpieces which you find overrated.
everything directed by that hack
I don't think it's overrated, but I personally appreciate Taxi Driver more for the fact that this film probably couldn't exist without it.
>>87482796
I don't mind movies that have ambiguous morals, but here it feels very unrealistic. The guy just went full vigilante, killed four people in front of the girl he was trying to protect and somehow it doesn't have any bad consequence for anyone in the end ?
That's just Scorsese playing with the idea of fame. The difference between Travis being perceived as a psycho or a hero was determined entirely by coincidence, he wasn't able to kill Palantine. If he did that the ending would have likely been drastically different
Excellent movie, overrated because every 20-something guy who's lonely watches it and goes "oh man, this is about me".
>>87482726
Confirmed for didn't understand the ending. The point was isn't that he got a happy ending, it's that he's still a dangerously unhinged lunatic who got glorified into being a hero soley because he committed violence.
>>87482964
It's true that it's one of the interesting angles of the ending but, it's not executed very well. If it had been the intention, the ending might have included, say, a scene of him talking to journalists calling him a hero. That would have been ironic, that would have been interesting.
>>87483103
There are newspaper clipping on the wall calling him a hero at the end.
Made me chuckle a couple of times but I really wasn't enjoying myself at all
>>87483103
Or better yet, showing Palantine personally congratulating this "brave hero" who was initially planning to murder him.
>>87483002
/thread
Not gonna lie, Travis Bickle is literally me
>>87483148
I guess I didn't pay attention to that (though I did notice the continuity error in Jodie Foster's hair, go figure)