"You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talkin' to? You talkin' to me? Well, I'm the only one here. . . . "

Unbelievable in absolutely every way. Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is a truly stunning piece of cinema and history. No film that I've ever seen manages to so perfectly showcase urban decay and human alienation the way it's done here.

Taxi Driver plays out almost like a novel. It can feel very episodic at…

I find it strange that this movie is so popular. I see 'bros' quoting it and they always have this next to Goodfellas and The Sopranos and Entourage in their collection of movies. I think a lot of people like it for the wrong reasons. They like the violence and the guns and DENIRO. But for me this is the quintessential art house film. It's ambiguous in it's meaning, it has no plot, it's main character has a lot of…

If I ever had any doubts about Taxi Driver being one of if not the best character study ever put on film this re-watch certainly perished them. It's hard to really review something like this and still sound fresh as it's one of those movies everyone just knows is an absolute masterpiece in every regard. It helped put two incredibly important Hollywood figures in the spotlight. Martin Scorsese, despite some rough years in the 00's is by far one of…

* 35 years of Taxi Driver - Classic Sessions - Digitally restored in 4k *

I was so happy when I knew that I would have the opportunity to see this amazing masterpiece of cinema on the big screen! One of my favorite movies of all time from one of my favorite directors, the great Martin Scorsese.
I love this movie but watching it on the theatre made me love it even more. It's an amazing experience. This movie gets…

Noticed this time how frequently Scorsese crowds the frame with twitching junkies, street toughs and especially minorities; it's a great, subtle device to put us in Travis' head, as the "scum" he dreads is almost always literally right by his side. Taxi Driver remains a perfect hallucinatory vision of New York in the seventies and one of the best explorations of the mind of a mentally disturbed protagonist. Scorsese's expressionistic filmmaking style has rarely been as perfectly suited to its…

The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again.
-Travis Bickle

One of the few films I can say I love more with each viewing and truly mean it. Robert De Niro's performance as Travis Bickle is one of my all time favorites from any actor. This film is also one of the reasons that Martin Scorsese is my favorite director.

There are so many big…

Part of 2013: The Year of Inspiration.

Now, this is a movie.

I'm kind of mad that no one ever strapped me to a chair, forced my eyes open Clockwork Orange style, and got this playing in front of my eyeballs.

Travis Bickle is one of the most fascinating yet frustrating characters I've ever seen on film. Almost everything he does makes me want to yell at him in anger, yet I still want to see what he does next…

I've been having a little Martin Scorsese fest, Taxi Driver is now ranked #3 and I think this has to be my favourite Robert De Niro role in a Scorsese film yet, but it totally wasn't what I was expecting.

Taxi Driver is a brilliant character study. It is subtle in its developments but still largely impacting in its final progressions. The film brilliantly examines the mind of lead character Travis Bickle, who is played to perfection by De Niro.…

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When I tell people I don’t like Taxi Driver, I tend to get the same reaction as when I tell them I don’t like baked beans. “How can you not like beans? Beans go with everything! Oh, you’re just trying to be controversial, you dirty fucking hater!” Despite many attempts to educate myself into appreciating beans, I’ve never been able to. And just as beans supposedly go with everything (they don’t, seriously people, they’re disgusting), Taxi Driver supposedly contains…