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Posted: 1/6/2006 8:11:37 PM EDT
So I finaly went out and rented this. After watching it I have to ask; whats the big deal over it?
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:16:08 PM EDT
[#1]
You either get it or you dont. Its Kind of like trying to explain to a Homo......ERRR Hmmmm nevermind
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:18:42 PM EDT
[#2]

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You either get it or you dont. Its Kind of like trying to explain to a Homo......ERRR Hmmmm nevermind




Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:22:25 PM EDT
[#3]
What's the big deal? Watch it again - it's about being a loner, and no one understanding you. Then thinking you have to save the world from itself...
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:24:02 PM EDT
[#4]
Are you posting at me? HUH?  Are YOU posting at ME?
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:24:22 PM EDT
[#5]
Dude...
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:27:19 PM EDT
[#6]
It's been so long since I have watched that,  time to watch it again
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:29:33 PM EDT
[#7]
One day a real rain will come and wash all the scum and filth off the street.




Thats why.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:31:17 PM EDT
[#8]
its OK  but i never saw what the fuss was about
just like scarface OK film but not deserving of the status it has
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:32:20 PM EDT
[#9]
That's one of my favorite movies.  

Someday a real rain will wash all this scum off the streets.... classic!
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:33:48 PM EDT
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One day a real rain will come and wash all the scum and filth off the street.




Thats why.



Exactly!
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:38:32 PM EDT
[#11]
You need some context. This movie was made in the mid 70's and was one of the films that launched Scorcese as a film maker. It got a lot of attention at the time and was IMO, well deserved.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:38:49 PM EDT
[#12]
Lotsa folks have a little Travis in 'em....Lotsa folks...
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:41:18 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:42:49 PM EDT
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What's the big deal? Watch it again - it's about being a loner, and no one understanding you. Then thinking you have to save the world from itself...



Really?  Because it seemed like a movie about a loser who drove a taxi cab, went to porn flicks like pee wee herman, and wanted to get on a 15 year old.

It ranks up there with a clock work orange as being overhyped.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:48:40 PM EDT
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It's clean, real clean. Like my conscience.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:49:54 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Travis Bickell for president.

Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:51:44 PM EDT
[#17]

Quoted:
You either get it or you dont. Its Kind of like trying to explain to a Homo......ERRR Hmmmm nevermind



Link Posted: 1/6/2006 8:57:36 PM EDT
[#18]
Sorta a genre film about NYC, it captures Scorcese's hometown as an outsider would see it, drug dealers, cheating wives, 14yo hookers, steam rising from the sewers, Yellow Checker Cab, illegal gun sales, indifferent women, porno on 42nd St., crazy customers in the back of the Checker, quintessential NYC.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 9:04:07 PM EDT
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What's the big deal? Watch it again - it's about being a loner, and no one understanding you. Then thinking you have to save the world from itself But never finding ArfCom...

Link Posted: 1/6/2006 9:18:52 PM EDT
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Really?  Because it seemed like a movie about a loser who drove a taxi cab, went to porn flicks like pee wee herman, and wanted to get on a 15 year old.



You may have watched the movie but did you pay attention?
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 9:23:30 PM EDT
[#21]

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its OK  but i never saw what the fuss was about
just like scarface OK film but not deserving of the status it has



kinda like Pulp Fiction.

ok movie only reason people like it is becouse its just so damn quotable.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 9:29:05 PM EDT
[#22]
Never seen it.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 9:31:44 PM EDT
[#23]

Quoted:

Quoted:
What's the big deal? Watch it again - it's about being a loner, and no one understanding you. Then thinking you have to save the world from itself...



Really?  Because it seemed like a movie about a loser who drove a taxi cab, went to porn flicks like pee wee herman, and wanted to get on a 15 year old.

It ranks up there with a clock work orange as being overhyped.



Moby Dick was just a book about a fish...
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 9:46:43 PM EDT
[#24]
I have a thesis that Martin Scorcese and "Taxi Driver" are responsible for the Brady Campaign and the modern gun control movement.  Connect the dots.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 9:53:43 PM EDT
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I have a thesis that Martin Scorcese and "Taxi Driver" are responsible for the Brady Campaign and the modern gun control movement.  Connect the dots.



I'm gonna take "Consequences of the Reagan Assassination Attempt" for $500 Alex.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 10:05:23 PM EDT
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I have a thesis that Martin Scorcese and "Taxi Driver" are responsible for the Brady Campaign and the modern gun control movement.  Connect the dots.



Thats funny because I heard Miami Vice was.  I am being dead serious to.  It got it into peoples minds that criminals used full auto weapons all the time.
Link Posted: 1/6/2006 10:08:52 PM EDT
[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I have a thesis that Martin Scorcese and "Taxi Driver" are responsible for the Brady Campaign and the modern gun control movement.  Connect the dots.



I'm gonna take "Consequences of the Reagan Assassination Attempt" for $500 Alex.



SteyrAUG, when's the ATF gonna get around to classifying you as a Destructive Device?  Sharp man, sharp.
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