[Scorsese] seems to need scripts with well-designed humor and performers with the spirit of Ellen Burstyn to compensate for what seems to be a fundamentally depressed view of life and the belief that sobriety is the equivalent of seriousness.
Wow are you serious? Thanks for ruining 100% for one of the greatest movies ever world. You are the lone person that ive ever known who does not like this movie. Congrats on trying to be different.
Taxi Driver is an american classic, in the AFI Top-100 best movies ever made, and as someone noted above, it's even in TIME's top 100 best movies ever made list.
Outdated? What makes an opinion in date or out-of-date? This movie came out in 1976, and this review was written at the time. Last time I checked, reviews normally accompany movies around the same time...
S**t head, you just made the biggest mistake of your life, your review was quite improper. I disagree with most of what you said. Maybe you might want to think it over again
Good grief. Why do people react so vehemently about these things?
Richard Schickel is a generally good critic, and this review was published over 30 years ago. A man can make a bad call. I bet if you ask Schickel today, he might admit he was off target on this one.
you're right, I think Schickel today would say he was off target when he wrote the review. He was obviouslly used to the feelgood surrealism from Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and couldn't relate to the brutal realism of Taxi Driver. Despite this, I generally admire Schickel as a critic. Critics after all are merely human.
He also wrote, Conversations with Martin Scorsese subsequently where he has admiration for his work, so maybe he had a enlightening experience later on
To be honest Taxi Driver as great as it is, and it is definitely great, got a lot of negative reviews when it came out. This is the only available online I guess.
good point
its a great movie, but i see why some people might have been like what the heck at the time
i wish we could see some of the other bad reviews
it would be interesting to see what people thought
Go stick your foot in a blender you fat ****. I don't give a goddamn ****ing **** if this was published 30 years ago, that just means you shouldn't have lived to be 30 ****ing years older today.
You're an ignorant, pretentious, spoiled teenager. And don't even bother arguing against that, because you are. I bet if you were alive when this movie came out, you would have thought likewise to Mr. Schickel.
ok, really people youre just showing how unclassy you all are by calling this guy names for his opinion, its his personal opinion and he's obviously better at reviewing films than you seeing as how he works for time magazine, im not saying i agree with him i loved the movie but im not going to tell him he's an idiot for his opinion.
Of course it's depressing! It's about a low-paid man in a world with 12 year old prostitutes, where motel room beds are covered in dick sweat, and a lying pimp! And how the hell did you say comedy, I can't remember the jokes, I remember the stand against liars in politics, prostitution, crime (well he did murder many people), and violence! The top 100 films according to AFI always seems to be rotten to you, an old person who usually enjoys them, how about you watch this when you're not laughing how small your dick is! Scripts? WTF, the dialogue was superb, I can't believe you loved the dialogue in Speed but not TAXI ****ING DRIVER!
Look, I agree with the whole "each to his own" thing, but why the hell did you ruin the 100%. This one of the best films ever made... you are an idiot. That's it, nothing else.
It's obvious your negativity towards the film is simply your negativity on life, which ironic because you describe such negativity in the film. Life is sad and depressing, it is also happy and uplifting. There are two extremes to life now matter how you look at them and Taxi Driver is an aesthetic film portraying the darker side. Stop trying to be different because you got your journalism major at some pompous ivy league university and you believe that you are intelligently superior to the craft work of one of cinema's greatest directors and films because its widely popularized.
Peter Gallo
You're a ****ing idiot. This movie is a masterpiece.
Sep 1 - 05:59 PM