Taxi Driver

by **Casual Observer** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 5:46 pm

Flack wrote: Sun Nov 19, 2023 5:24 pm If someone were to offer me free tickets to the World Series, I would politely decline. I wouldn't go and I wouldn't waste my time sitting there with blinders on. Baseball for me's a no. It's okay!

You're kidding, I just don't believe you've been to a modern baseball game and saw anyone actually watching the . . . I guess . . . Game?

by **Flack** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 5:24 pm

AArdvark wrote: Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:34 pm I watched the trailer ( no sound, subtitles) and then read the plot synopsis on IMDB.
I just don't want to connect with the character, any characters in movies. It looks pretty good, but then so did Gremlins 2 and you gotta draw the line SOMEwhere...

The answer for you is so obviously a "no." You've said you can't imagine watching a 90 minute film, and the things you do watch you watch with the volume off which is quite frankly one of the weirdest gimmicks of all time. It's okay to be a no! I understand people being a "no!" I just don't understand how anyone doesn't know if they are a yes or a no.

If someone were to offer me free tickets to the World Series, I would politely decline. I wouldn't go and I wouldn't waste my time sitting there with blinders on. Baseball for me's a no. It's okay!

by **ChainGangGuy** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 5:06 pm

For the woman in your life you can always shop the Travis Bickle Jacket Collection. My girlfriend has one of these coats, but yet she won't watch the movie and refuses to recite any of the more memorable lines. Even though I wrote them out on napkins for her to read aloud.

You talkin' to one or more those ladies?

by **AArdvark** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:34 pm

I watched the trailer ( no sound, subtitles) and then read the plot synopsis on IMDB.
I just don't want to connect with the character, any characters in movies. It looks pretty good, but then so did Gremlins 2 and you gotta draw the line SOMEwhere...

by **Flack** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 4:18 pm

At its core, it's a flawed question.

In its original list of "100 Greatest American Movies," the American Film Institute listed Taxi Driver as the 47th greatest movie ever made]. (Jaws is 48th.) In its updated incarnation ("100 Years... 100 Movies"), Taxi Driver is #52. (Jaws dropped to #56.)

Estimates are all over the place when it comes to how many films have been released, but a generally accepted number is "about 500,000." (That number fluctuates up or down depending on people's definition of a film.) Assuming we can agree on that number, Taxi Driver hovers around the 50th spot. Out of 500,000.

So really the question is, "should I watch the 50th greatest film ever made?" And I can understand how some people might say yes and some people might say no. But I don't understand how people don't know what their answer is.

by **pinback** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 1:14 pm

A little spoilery there at the end.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 12:56 pm

Oh. That is very reasonable. I thought this thread was going to go in a different direction.

I guess if we are being serious I should say that honestly, I am not against or actively dislike any genre of music, really. There are individual songs that I despise like like Sympathy for the Devil and Benny and the Jets, but those aren't in any genre mentioned in this thread. I do put a high value on melody and I don't quite understand how you guys can love music as much as you do that has no discernable melody whatsoever, but hey, that's why they make different kinds of songs.

But also, not having seen Taxi Driver, I am still able to absorb facts about it; that to me is the mark of a socially educated person. Either Bill Hader or Louis CK has a promoted Youtube short right now about a couple of scenes in it.

...

This is not the video I was thinking of, because Bill Hader in the clip I was thinking of talks about a scene where he is talking to Cybill(?) on a pay phone and the camera pans away because the movie itself can't watch it any longer.

by **Casual Observer** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 11:10 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:56 am You get that it's just wrong and lazy because they used the actor's name a day not the character though right?

Fair enough. It happens in music, what can anyone do.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Nov 19, 2023 10:56 am

You get that it's just wrong and lazy because they used the actor's name a day not the character though right?

by **Casual Observer** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:49 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:28 am
pinback wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:54 am The Taxi Driver reference is at 3:17, which saves you from having to listen to the worst song ever for 3 minutes and 17 seconds.
"Feeling like DeNiro in Taxi Driver."

That .... that is what the lyric is.

A survivor. Like DeNiro in Taxi Driver. That is the ........ that is the lyric.

THAT IS THE LYRIC, CO.

Oh wow, didn't know that production was that difficult for actor Robert DeNiro on Taxi Driver! Was there some Twilight Zone: The Movie-like incident that he narrowly escaped? That I don't know about?

Does the narrator in that song mean BICKLE? Does he mean the fucking CHARACTER in the movie? Travis BICKLE?

That is the stupidest lyric I have ever heard in my life, and shame has been brought to this bulletin board by using it as an example.

/singer watches Darth Vadar blow up a planet
HOW IS JAMES EARL JONES NOT IN JAIL????

Ok, sorry, that was a loaded comment. We all know you don't enjoy rap or heavy metal which funnily is why that was the reference I chose plus I love that fucking album which kicks everyone's ass. I also understand you don't get rap so here's some schooling.

Rap is a lot metaphors similes and boasting, that's it. That's all. You need to understand.

In this case was a simile where the I assume House of Pain guy tried to express that he felt disconnected from society and desperate and violently furious but because of shared cultural experiences could express that in 5 words. That's the benefit of using shared cultural experience references in art.

by **Casual Observer** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 11:36 pm

Tdarcos wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:07 pm
pinback wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:42 am Who hasn't seen Taxi Driver?
Yours truly.

Sorry

by **Tdarcos** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:07 pm

pinback wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:42 am Who hasn't seen Taxi Driver?

Yours truly.

by **Casual Observer** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:55 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:27 pm I have never been attacked before for not getting references. I'm intrigued.

Like, omg, I'm kinda like saying how do you even enjoy something like Family Guy which it's humor is 60% references. Or do you not enjoy Family Guy? Or Simpsons or shit like that?

by **RealNC** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:30 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:28 pm How do we see it?

You open up a video player that isn't a corporate pos (VLC, MPV or MPC should work fine) and then drag&drop this link into it:

Taxi Driver

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:28 am

pinback wrote: Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:54 am The Taxi Driver reference is at 3:17, which saves you from having to listen to the worst song ever for 3 minutes and 17 seconds.

"Feeling like DeNiro in Taxi Driver."

That .... that is what the lyric is.

A survivor. Like DeNiro in Taxi Driver. That is the ........ that is the lyric.

THAT IS THE LYRIC, CO.

Oh wow, didn't know that production was that difficult for actor Robert DeNiro on Taxi Driver! Was there some Twilight Zone: The Movie-like incident that he narrowly escaped? That I don't know about?

Does the narrator in that song mean BICKLE? Does he mean the fucking CHARACTER in the movie? Travis BICKLE?

That is the stupidest lyric I have ever heard in my life, and shame has been brought to this bulletin board by using it as an example.

/singer watches Darth Vadar blow up a planet
HOW IS JAMES EARL JONES NOT IN JAIL????

by **pinback** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:54 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:27 pm I have never been attacked before for not getting references. I'm intrigued.

The Taxi Driver reference is at 3:17, which saves you from having to listen to the worst song ever for 3 minutes and 17 seconds.

Ok smart guy, you tell us. How do we see it? In case you haven't noticed it's not exactly playing in theaters.

Don't you retro people all have VCRs hanging around in your garages or some shit?!! Just go to Blockbuster!

by **AArdvark** » Sat Nov 18, 2023 3:16 am

I fear my movie watching days are behind me. The idea of sitting down on the couch and watching a movie, any movie, just made me shudder a little. I grabbed Season 4 and 5 of Ghosts for my wife and I just don't care to pay any attention to them. It just feels like a mindless waste of time to me.

However, I will read the IMDB plot, if that's ok

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:28 pm

pinback wrote: Fri Nov 17, 2023 7:07 pm Just watch the goddamn movie. How can you not watch Taxi Driver? You want to walk around -- in public, mind you -- as a person who has not seen Taxi Driver?

The hell's the matter with you people?

It's Scorcese's best movie, and I say that as a person who has seen some of his movies.

It's definitely DeNiro's best movie.

It's EXTREMELY definitely Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster and Harvey Keitel's best movie.

The fuck's the matter with you?

Ok smart guy, you tell us. How do we see it? In case you haven't noticed it's not exactly playing in theaters.

by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:27 pm

I have never been attacked before for not getting references. I'm intrigued.

by **Casual Observer** » Fri Nov 17, 2023 10:53 pm

How does ICJ get any references?

Taxi Driver

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