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E-PrinceLet's be honest: Martin Scorsese has been playing it safe for the past decade. "Gangs of New York," "The Aviator" and "The Departed" are good-to-great films that exemplify Scorsese's mastery of visual storytelling, but you can feel the ...
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Okay, don't be a limp noodle. Don't demean this movie with a mere 4 paws because you're afraid of being too polar in your opinion. This was an effin' good movie. "could have been shorter" -- are you kidding me? Own up to the fact that Leo is so good it's scary.
Leo's pretty terrific in this movie, but you have to admit that the movie drags a bit here and there. Shaving a half hour off this thing wouldn't have harmed the plot and would have kept the tension up higher the whole way through, no?
Fantastic review Raj!
I believe that "The Shining" was directed by Stanley Kubrick.
Yeah, I meant Scorsese's version of "The Shining" if that wasn't clear.
---Bad enough that Boomer Hollywood has been a franchise-slum sucking up to history's most awesomely genocidal regime (---you know -over across the Pacific)
-BUT even the 'serious artists' -themselves decades stale -are content to serve up over-designed retreads
of one note Stephen King thrillers.
Scorsese is now in front for the title 'Most
wretched Boomer era disappointment'.
AMEN