Greatest movie ever …I wish easy Andy became a movie lol there’s a kid I know a lot of you don’t like hip hop but he raps by the name easy Andy in dedication to taxi driver YouTube “easy Andy EDK high quality goods” he’s great

@freezazoid yea he had, but he’s referring to when he tried to get involved with the project around 1971/ 72 as it had been written then. Julia phillips never took him that seriously until he had success with mean streets, then Paul Shrader wanted him and Deniro as a team who had success with the godfather part 2.

‎”Listen you fuckers, you screwheads, here’s a man who would not take it anymore, who would not let… Listen you fuckers you screwheads, here’s a man who would not take it anymore, a man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is someone who stood up.”

@jackbyrnes86 maybe behind fellini

@malows1234 Hahaha… I literally can’t stop laughing at how lame and stupid your comment is! By the way, you might want to check out some of the comments on your channel! It clearly shows that a lot of people think your a douche! Allow me to quote one of them (by a guy named Frederick0220): “Suck your mom’s dick and seek professional help while you’re at it.” Hahahahaha…

@shnoepie1 Forgot Danny Boyle and Christopher Nolan.

@charmander4533 You f*cking moron! Any major studio has to green light a project in order for it to be made. hence why mainstream big budget and indie cinema have so little in common. The studio system in America/Hollywood is vastly different today than it was in the 1970’s. So by ‘control’ I mean have most influence and say in determining what gets made.

@charmander4533 Yeah. I didn’t mean to imply that Hollywood cannot protray violence like this anymore, since cinema grew collectively more violent throughout the 80’s and 90’s. I think that films covering the really harsh/dark side of life(like Tazi driver/badlands/Midnight cowboy etc) are films that don’t get made anymore. I put it down to who controls cinema now, relative to the 70’s, which in hindsight was a crazy period.

@charmander4533 Please give me an example of a mainstream film with mainstream hollywood stars in it that could be considered in the genre of Taxi Driver? The violence is not the point. These types of dark character driven films seldom ever get made in mainstream hollywood anymore. The character film died out after the 70’s

The whole question of one era of filmmaking vs another can be put alot more simply than people think. In my humble opinion the late 60’s until the early 80’s was the golden era of American cinema. Whilst many may diasgree and claim films today are as good, what those people have to accept no matter what is that movies like Taxi Driver CAN NOT be made today. It just can’t happen. Studios don’t dare cover such dark material. There’s no argument with that point.

@grski88 How is Shawshank pushing it? It’s just about the best of all the classic films. Any intelligent movie-watcher can understand that.

@shnoepie1 “Terminator II, Short Cuts, Seven, ect”?????
‘There Will Be Blood’ is a far superior film to those you just listed even ‘Shawshank’ & ‘Pulp Fiction’ is pushing it.

@mattknowsfilm Lol, United 93 a classic… The Social Network, There Will Be Blood classics? These are very flawed movies and nowhere near being classics. The past decade had very few truely great movies. Even the 90’s were a lot better and the 70s was filmmaking heaven, especially compared to the past ten years. Think about it this way. Can you name recent movies in the same league as Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas, The Shawshank Redemption, Terminator II, Short Cuts, Seven, The Usual Suspects, etc.