-via IMDB.com
I love the work of Martin Scorsese. Good Fellas and Casino are incredible. I thought The Departed was great. Cape Fear was my first Scorsese film and I really liked it. I like his failures, as well, to a degree; Bringing Out The Dead didn't quite work but I admired his ambition. I haven't seen all his stuff yet, partly because of availability, partly because of my own quiet pathology with movies (huh? Never mind, random, self-centred diagnoses).
I haven't seen Taxi Driver. The reason? I've heard so many great things about it. I've seen countless parodies and take-offs on it. It is an awesome film that has built up such a mythology around it that I am afraid to see it and be disappointed. I've read Roger Elbert's Ebert on Scorsese and his praise and analysis of the film. I've devoured the IMDB content on the film. The idea that Paul Schrader plays with, the "pathology of loneliness" is something I've been fascinated with in other works and, somewhat, in my own writing and experiences.
I want to see this movie and I want to love it so I've stayed away from it because I don't want to be disappointed, just in case. I own a copy of it on DVD but haven't watched it. How sad is that? Don't worry, I am building towards watching it, I just have to work through this.
We'll see how it goes.
