Comments on: Taxi Driver http://www.taximacademy.com/taxi-driver-2/ Professional Automotive Services Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:55:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anonymous http://www.taximacademy.com/taxi-driver-2/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Anonymous Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:14:42 +0000 http://www.taximacademy.com/taxi-driver-2/#comment-98 Overrated piece of !@#$. Absolutely NOTHING happens in this movie other than being forced to listen to the same incredibly cheesy music over and over and over again. After an hour and a half of wondering if anything is ever going to happen, DeNiro shoots a couple people. The end. Wow. What was all the hype about? Genius? Artsy? I don't see it. Don't waste your time. Is this movie highly rated for any other reason than being one of DeNiro's earlier films? I rented this movie because I saw it on a program "The 100 most thrilling movies of all time". What a joke. I'm sorry I wasted the $3. 50 to rent the DVD. If this is movie is considered to be a "classic", then certainly it's true that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Okay, let the "not helpful" reviews flow. . Rating: 1 / 5 Overrated piece of !@#$. Absolutely NOTHING happens in this movie other than being forced to listen to the same incredibly cheesy music over and over and over again. After an hour and a half of wondering if anything is ever going to happen, DeNiro shoots a couple people. The end. Wow. What was all the hype about? Genius? Artsy? I don’t see it. Don’t waste your time. Is this movie highly rated for any other reason than being one of DeNiro’s earlier films?

I rented this movie because I saw it on a program “The 100 most thrilling movies of all time”. What a joke. I’m sorry I wasted the $3. 50 to rent the DVD.

If this is movie is considered to be a “classic”, then certainly it’s true that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. Okay, let the “not helpful” reviews flow. .
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: Bjorn Clasen http://www.taximacademy.com/taxi-driver-2/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Bjorn Clasen Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:49:32 +0000 http://www.taximacademy.com/taxi-driver-2/#comment-97 A film classic (apparently) about a Vietnam veteran who becomes a taxi driver and then lets himself be broken down by the misery and the meaninglessness of modern society. Seen with Year 2000 eyes, »Taxi Driver« does not have a great deal of appeal. It has purely historical value. The best things you can say about this film is the very beautiful photographing and cameraing, plus that it is interesting to watch very young Robert DeNiro's and even younger Jodie Foster's already then great talents. You also get glimpses of Harvey Keitel and Jeff Goldblum. Do watch »Taxi Driver«, 'cause it is one of those classics that you have to have seen. But don't expect too much. Rating: 1 / 5 A film classic (apparently) about a Vietnam veteran who becomes a taxi driver and then lets himself be broken down by the misery and the meaninglessness of modern society. Seen with Year 2000 eyes, »Taxi Driver« does not have a great deal of appeal. It has purely historical value. The best things you can say about this film is the very beautiful photographing and cameraing, plus that it is interesting to watch very young Robert DeNiro’s and even younger Jodie Foster’s already then great talents. You also get glimpses of Harvey Keitel and Jeff Goldblum. Do watch »Taxi Driver«, ’cause it is one of those classics that you have to have seen. But don’t expect too much.
Rating: 1 / 5

]]> By: Sanjeev P. Zumkhawala http://www.taximacademy.com/taxi-driver-2/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Sanjeev P. Zumkhawala Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:31:26 +0000 http://www.taximacademy.com/taxi-driver-2/#comment-96 This film is manipulative and exploitative. It DOES NOT really give you a portrait of what alienation, paranoia and dislocation are really like. It glamourises these things in the worst possible way ie very, very slickly and with a lot of craft and attention to detail. This film belongs in the same dustbin as similarly AMORAL and empty films like Seven, Goodfellas et al that purport to be 'truthful' investigations of the dark and disturbing - they are part of the problem, not the solution ! Rating: 2 / 5 This film is manipulative and exploitative. It DOES NOT really give you a portrait of what alienation, paranoia and dislocation are really like. It glamourises these things in the worst possible way ie very, very slickly and with a lot of craft and attention to detail. This film belongs in the same dustbin as similarly AMORAL and empty films like Seven, Goodfellas et al that purport to be ‘truthful’ investigations of the dark and disturbing – they are part of the problem, not the solution !
Rating: 2 / 5

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