Sneak Previews & At the Movies Raging Bull

[jjay75]

They'll bleep out swearing, but show the nose breaking scene. haha

[Stiny114]

ORDINARY PEOPLE MY FUCKING ASS!!! RAGING BULL FTW!!!

[citygirl5705]

Deniro was such a piece of shit in that film. I enjoyed "Ordinary People" much more that year. It dealt with more lifelike people and analyzed their thoughts and emotions in depth, rather than just showing us a bully.

[CoolerKing37]

@citygirl5705 I love "Ordinary People" too, but you got to hand it to DeNiro. Even though his character was very unsympathetic, by the end you almost pittied the guy.

[citygirl5705]

@CoolerKing37 Oh I don't question DeNiro's performance. He was amazing, as usual.

[farneyblakeley]

LaMotta is still alive, 90 years old. So much for his self-destructive nature

[monk22yrs]

@farneyblakeley score sleazy's movie doesnt have much to do with laMotta's autobiography....

...especially since score sleazy changed lamotta's FRIEND in the autobiography to him now being lamotta's BROTHER!

[improvisedcinema1]

@2112murphy mean streets 73' s'pose

[improvisedcinema1]

personally the scrosese/deniro duo, i can't pick out a single favourite film, it's a battle between, Mean streets, Taxi driver, Raging bull and Goodfellas, 4 tremendous movies, near impossible to pick a favourite.

[hithr3000]

what about 'xanadu?' :o(

[TheBitchinbabs]

EBERT=UGLY

FANS=NERDS

[gtlxHD]

@2112murphy 1970: Taxi Driver

[TheConciseStatement]

People shouldn't forget just how much great support De Niro gets in the form of those two outstanding performances from Cathy Moriarty and Joe Pesci.

[yogafan6500]

Raging Bull, is not just the best movie of 1980. But to me it's the best movie of the 1980's . I was a bit peed when it lost to a sappy depressing drama called Ordinary People. But both Martin Scorsese & Joe Pesci win oscars years later. Pesci for Goodfellas & Scorsese for The Departed. the oscar curse became worse of timothy hutton he's now doing commercials while Scorsese still makes great movies. Raging Bull rocks!!!

[X7OO]

Raging Bull cost $18M to make

Today's "stars" wouldn't do a movie for less than $18M

[psyckid008]

@X7OO Including Robert Deniro himself. Also, you have to take inflation into account.

[Envenomed69]

Epic Film.

[animaniacsrule]

Rocky can eat dick

[Razersun]

Blew their load, thanks marty

[DNAngel2009]

Great quality! I'm impressed :D

[tomada36]

Well-deserved Oscar for De Niro, but how did Scorsese lose for Best Director? 

[moviehypno23]

@tomada36 Blame RObert Redford, he won for Ordinary People, not to say it wasn't Oscar worthy itself, it's just Raging Bull was so much better.

[GamingShadow01]

amazing film. one of the best ive seen. although i thought it was a little too long but its only a personal thing,

[moviehypno23]

@GamingShadow01 It was barely over 2 hours, that's not quite that long, although there are alot of porbably intentional slow scenes, that might make it seem longer.

[GamingShadow01]

@moviehypno23 yeah thats what did it.

[scottmanduzy]

Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, The Aviator, Cape Fear, Color of Money, and Mean Streets were all better than the Departed which was overrated, but won more for his body of work than as a film alone!

[xaxie1]

I didnt really like it tbh, I think it might just be because I thought of it the wrong way

[xaxie1]

The part where he invites his future wife into his house to have a look around is so cute, hes really not a flirt

[JoelH790]

my 2nd favorite sports film. Best sports biography ever. Best Robert De Niro performance .

[captainkill1]

@JoelH790: it is not a sports movie. it is a drama about a man with great insecuirty and great rage who takes out his fears, anxiety and rage in the boxing ring. the ring is a place for absolution where he atleast tries to get rid of guilt. as roger said the spaces in between life. it is finding life among the low life a brilliant character study.

[grga888]

@captainkill1 It is a sports movie and the best one ever made.

[moviehypno23]

@JoelH790 Yeah I ended up not even reading the book LaMotta wrote cuz I knew all I wanted to from the movie.

[apictureoffunction]

@bonfirejovi you're not supposed to like what he does. And the dedication at the end was in memory of Scorcece's mentor, had nothing to do with the film or Jake LaMotta, do your research you fucking idiot. Jesus christ, are you really THAT fucking retarded???

[wantsomecake328]

Look at Ebert's hair!

[bonfirejovi]

i dont really understand what the movie was trying to show us other than that he was a massive asshole. every fight this guy was i wanted him to lose by knockout. i hated everything about the guy, from his attitude to his jokes.

and the bit at the end were there is a metaphor for the fact that he can 'can see again' was utter bullshit to me. so the fuck what if he knows what he did was wrong, you are defined by your actions and he was an asshole.

[moviehypno23]

@bonfirejovi Yeahh that was sorta the point I think

[woollybully100]

one of the best sports films and probably the best boxing film ever. it's amazing how beauitful he made the violence.

[monk22yrs]

@woollybully100 yeah, movie violence is fun....the gorier and artier the better.

[ricflairflair]

Those boxing scenes are pretty to look at, but they detracted from the movie for me. As a portrayal of boxing, those scenes are laughable.

[Super8StrikesBack]

Martin's best film.

[scottmanduzy]

@Super8StrikesBack I agree, woefully robbed by Ordinary People. The Departed was overrated but the academy felt Marty was due.

[quidseeker]

@scottmanduzy I honestly think Ordinary People was more prosaically acceptable as a drama than Raging Bull was at THAT time......of course, for posterity's sake, Raging Bull's legacy can still be felt today. I've seen both Ordinary People and Raging Bull recently, and I can see the strengths in both......OP was filled with high-brow Merchant Ivory-like drama (and a precursor for my favorite suburban morality-play, American Beauty), but for shear high-art, RB will outlive most of the 80's cine.

[AlexDeLargeisHere]

@quidseeker I agree, the majority of 80s cinema is forgettable, Notable Mentions include:

Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull

Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander

Akira Kurosawa's Ran

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing

[Snako85]

@AlexDeLargeisHere SergioLeones Once Upon a time in America is my favorite 1980s film

[AlexDeLargeisHere]

@Snako85

I would like to see Once Upon a Time in America. I will rent it soon.

[Snako85]

@Super8StrikesBack for me its Taxi Driver

[AllWalksofLife]

@Super8StrikesBack Idk I disagree. I think both Taxi Driver and Goodfellas are better films.

[monk22yrs]

@Super8StrikesBack one of score sleazy's biggest box office flops.

he certainly had a lot of box office flops.

[027220]

@Super8StrikesBack Best one 'I' think he did was Gangs of New York.

[ord1711]

I remember watching this S&E back in the day. I didn't watch "Raging Bull" for another 10 years or so, but I thought about this show when I finally rented it.

[DistinguishedFlyer]

Do you have the rest of their Best of the 80s show?

[Neonman78]

I wish I had been born sometime in the 50s to watch these masterpieces in the cinemas.

[xcb15]

50s???? WTF are you talking about Raging bull came out in 1980

[nikosvault]

nooooooooo, but he would be in his 30's when it came out.

[x13mako]

@xcb15 ya but if he was born in any year after like '63 or so he wouldn't have been old enough to see Raging Bull in a theater.

[lance33177]

Raging Bull=Classic

[kingcaesar5]

I can't decide which is his best performance, this or TD.

[CaptChaos1981]

They are both great but I think Travis Bickle is more interesting. Both are men led around by their rage but I think Bickle is more complex.

[I4gotmyMANTRA]

them was the days. :) :)

[Headbanger142]

Thanks for the upload! Love this movie. DeNiro and Pesci were awesome.

[larma7]

Siskel is incorrect; boxing is nothing like what is shown in Raging Bull. If you were hit like La Motta was hit in Raging Bull, you would DIE!!! However, I think Scorsese was trying to be more artistic with the fights then realistic.

[DistinguishedFlyer]

As the movie is really from LaMotta's point of view, I think the fight sequences are perhaps more like how he would have seen them - it would probably feel like it looks on the screen.

[larma7]

I never thought of it that way . . . great point!

[apictureoffunction]

@larma7 Idk if you've ever seen original footage of LaMotta fighting, but that IS how he got hit. He was a tought S.O.B.

[zylo2246]

Raging Bull Is great for me because it is so funny and horrific often within the same scene. De Niro's Lines come off as both honest silly and frighting. And the cinematography is a text book for the emotional resonance of black and white