I’m gonna be pretentious, but in my opinion The Irishman should be called I Heard You Paint Houses. If they couldn’t change the title card within the film itself.
Geez dude. Scorsese puts in the utmost effort in his films, and you can’t make a comprehensive enough video that includes at least watching his entire filmography, not saying you need to rewatch every other film, and then you just miss one?… and you want me to take your criticism seriously?
@@Buttcakes15 I mean sure but it's pretty clear from the usual content on this channel it's just casual chats about media, not in depth critiques like this is just the wrong channel if you're looking for that kind of thing
He never misses, the absolute LEGEND! In all seriousness, I subscribed to this channel in the same way we eat comfort food-it’s nice to see 2 sides of a great relationship. I appreciate both of you and what you each bring to the table. Cheers!
Thanks for recognizing Mean Street's nothingness. Shutter Isl. is not too good. Christ movie was good to show the human side but Martin didn't go far enough and show that Jesus was a terrible guy to wanted non-believers to spend eternity in hell, was fine with slavery, made no prediction that came true; and knew nothing about science. Give me a heart for pointing out the fraud of Jesus and the horrors of the holy books. Bad bad Wolf. and why give Martin credit for trying to be glossy and shallow on purpose? Goodfellas and Taxi and Departed are his best. I know some like to tear into The Departed, but it was enjoyable to watch again.
I really like King of Comedy, even though his earlier films aren't that well known Taxi Driver, King of Comedy and After Hours are such love/hate letters to NYC.
@Gee-xb7rt What of his films "aren't that well know"? Because I think Taxi Driver is pretty well admired and loved by both fans and critics and maybe not to the same degree but so is The King of Comedy. I agree After Hours is a less know part of his filmography but my personal favourite underrated Scorsese film is Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
I’m surprised the departed wasn’t mentioned at all. My absolute favorite crime film of his. All the characters feel so alive and the rat chase is just so nail biting. Easily Leonardo DiCaprio’s best role.
Inland Empire is wild, especially the first time you see it. Prepare yourself for 3 hours of a concerned looking Laura Dern wandering around various warehouses, surrealist satirical sitcoms involving anthropomorphic rabbits, and mentally unstable Polish men scowling. It's so weird that it honestly makes Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive look like mainstream Hollywood flicks in comparison. @@womancarryingman
Man, there's a point in Inland Empire, around 1-2h in, where you're thinking "OK, this is wrapping up. Time to start processing it" but no - it is only just beginning.@@cheese1678989
Kurosawa has even more films than Scorsese (30 to Marty's 26) and, starting in the late 1940s during the war, some of his earlier movies can be difficult to approach. Still, completly worth it. @@womancarryingman
Bringing Out the Dead is my favorite “downward spiral” story. It just feels like a 121-minute panic attack that just keeps steadily ramping up in intensity. The first (of many) scene where his boss keeps promising to fire him if he juuuust does this *one last shift* is such a hilarious yet sad way to show just how badly this job is taking a toll on Nic Cage’s psyche and why no one wants to do it.
After Hours is actually quite a personal film for Scorsese and I rank it in his top 5. He made it after New York, New York and King of Comedy bombed and he'd failed to get funding for Last Temptation. He was broke and out of work, living in SoHo in NY, where After Hours is set, back before it was gentrified and largely still full of oddballs and freaks. The film expresses the sense of being an outsider while also evoking a time in the history of the city that will never come again, when you could be totally abandoned to fate.
As a relapsed catholic, Silence is the most powerful movie I have ever experienced. It makes me very happy to hear other people of all kinds of faith find a connection with it.
Shutter Island ruined the genre of twist horror/thriller movies for me and a lot of people. Any time I see a movie where it's like "actually they were crazy" I just say "wow, they shutter islanded it" and immediately hate the film.
I've heard that watching Shutter Island a second time feels like a different movie because you know the twist, and there's a lot of subtle hints in the dialogue. I do really wish you'd included his documentaries, since his best cinematic work is definitely Plankton Farts and Dies
If you haven't, watch it with the interpretation that Teddy is sane and really was convinced by the island that he's insane. Although this isn't the case in the book, Scorcese puts hints that allow you to interpret it both ways. It's personally the interpretation that I get from the movie and it scares the hell out of me.
Have you've watched the Nerdwriter's analysis of The Wolf of Wallstreet focusing on 'cinema of excess'? The Wolf of Wallstreet is high in my Scorsese list precisely because he does in a way 'refuse' to condemn crime as he does in Goodfellas or even the Irishman. Between goodfellas/casino and the irishman, WoW and Silence are really movies that showed his range of both thought and filmmaking.
After Hours is definitely underrated by a lot of people, so great to see you have it near the top. There's some fantastic camera moves in that film and the street scenes are pure joy. I love it, in fact I'm going to pour myself a whisky and watch it right now.
1:08 Gangs of New York 2:04 The Aviator 2:53 Hugo 3:20 Mean Streets 3:55 Shutter Island 4:20 The Last Temptation of Christ 5:16 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore 6:02 The Wolf of Wall Street 7:36 The Color of Money 8:37 Cape Fear 9:45 After Hours/The King of Comedy 11:36 Casino 12:25 The Irishman 14:25 Silence 15:18 The Age of Innocence 16:11 Goodfellas 16:59 Killers of the Flower Moon 18:15 Taxi Driver/Raging Bull
seeing the end of killers of the flower moon (spoilers?) and having scorsese himself acknowledge he was a huge contributor to his own critique and be so self-aware/reflective hit really hard for me. to have this established 80 year old guy really try to understand and come to terms with what he has done, as opposed to just unapologetically digging his heels in with what he already knows, like I figure I would when I’m 80, was a certain kind of wisdom i didn’t think i was walking out of the theater with that day. lukewarm take but it’s such a culmination of his history in movies
Also his last collaboration with Robbie Robertson, who scored or arranged every single Scorcese movie since 1976, and died this summer. Apparently it's his best work on soundtrack.
I was super surprised at the Gangs of New York being put so low. I am just love: 1) How it captured the essence of the period 2) Daniel Day Lewis 3) With one of the best endings to any film ever, the transition of time + the music in the edit hits me right in the feels Honestly the story has always left me tense and engaged. Call me crazy but it's my 3rd favourite Scorsese movie. But maybe it's cuz I watched it at a super early age, so it could be because of nostalgia bias idk And the Aviator may not be the best film, but it feels like the most important and inspirational film to me, at least its first half, haha
My top 2 are Bringing Out the Dead and Last Temptation of Christ, either one could be #1 depending on the day. Last Temptation, despite being arguably heretical, is possibly the best Christian film ever made because of how the humanity of Christ is emphasized and the insane struggle he went through is shown not from the perspective of the flawless Son of God, but from a flawed son of man who could be tempted, allowing us to empathize with his struggle. Bringing Out the Dead is like the mood and feeling of Taxi Driver but with a sleep-deprived Nicolas Cage ruminating on death for two hours with surreal elements, so it was made specifically for me.
it’s the only one of his biographic films to try to frame the main guy as heroic or noble other than like, kundun. which i really don’t get. belfort is so scummy.
wtf? did we watch the same movie? oh yeah man, all the scenes of Belfort cheating on his partners and coming off as an insecure abusive asshole makes him look like a total hero
@@achepe9978 maybe heroic is the wrong word, but it’s far more sympathetic towards belfort than scorcese is towards the protagonists of raging bull, goodfellas, casino, the irishman, and killers of the flower moon. definitely supposed to be more of a robin hood.
I really enjoy these ranking directors movies videos. I absolutely agree on a lot of your takes. I actually think Gangs of New York is super underrated. It’s in my top 10 Scorsese films. There’s something about that movie that feels “cozy” to me for some reason, can’t quite explain it. I think it’s a contender for one of DDL best performances, I love the setting and the time period it’s set in, I also don’t think Cameron Diaz is that bad in it either. Another one of my favorites also is Shutter Island. It’s very different from what Scorsese normally makes, but the first time I watched it the ending through me for a loop. Whenever I rewatch it, I love seeing all the clues and foreshadowing in the first couple acts of the movie. Great video though again! I’m excited to see which directors movies you rank next!
Dude, you need to watch the hustler. It's as if someone had made Flight in the early 20th century, and the studio forced scorsese to make a sequel to it... And made Top Gun
1. Casino 2. Goodfellas 3. The Wolf of Wall Street 4. After Hours 5. Taxi Driver 6. The Irishman 7. Shutter Island 8. The Departed 9. Cape Fear 10. Mean Streets 11. Killers of the Flower Moon 12. The Aviator 13. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 14. The King of Comedy 15. Silence 16. Raging Bull 17. Gangs of New York 18. Who's That Knocking At My Door? 19. Boxcar Bertha
Personal ranking!! 1. The Irishman 2. Taxi Driver 3. The King of Comedy 4. After Hours 5. Raging Bull 6. GoodFellas 7. Killers of the Flower Moon 8. Bringing Out the Dead 9. The Last Temptation of Christ 10. Casino 11. Silence 12. The Departed 13. The Wolf of Wall Street 14. Shutter Island 15. Hugo 16. Cape Fear 17. Mean Streets 18. The Aviator 19. Gangs of New York 20. Who’s That Knocking at My Door 21. New York, New York 22. The Age of Innocence 23. Kundun 24. The Color of Money 25. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore 26. Boxcar Bertha One of my favourite filmographies for sure
Oh man I've waited for this for so long. The most beautiful thing about the scorsese fans is that they everyone is just very excepting. Like of anyone says king of comedy or wolf of wall street are their favourite movie everyone will just appreciate it. Like (I'm sorry if i hurt anyones feeling) goodfellas aren't in my top 5 and my most favourite is the irishman. I haven't watched the kotfm though.
The Hustler is really good--up there with Sweat Smell of Success as the best of a certain type of movie that seems to exist somewhere between late 40s noir and late 60s counter culture.
My favourites are interchangable between Silence and The Departed. Very mood dependent! I did once watch The Departed 3 times in a week and i could never get sick of it. Silence is definitely the film of his that has reached the deepest within myself however.
I’m glad you’re Jake today, but I’m worried about who you’ll be tomorrow. Also, I love these videos. Always intriguing and often either agreeable or compelling points
Rewatched Shutter Island during a flight. It's better than I remember and it's fun, felt like Scorsece just wanted to try and take a stab at a psychological thriller and it's better than most in that genre.
Appreciate the list, I'm amazed that there's more than a few of his films I haven't seen, definitely appears that I have simply seen the very popular films. Regarding people not getting the intent of Wolf Of Wall Street, it is on my list of "films where I am automatically suspicious of someone who loves it" (that needs a snappier name). On the same list is American Psycho and Fight Club. I'm trying not to be arrogant, but there's an interesting surface level presentation to these films that many (typically young males) seem to have because it presents a lot of the positive of these lifestyles/beliefs and they just don't seem to see that the story is not positive. Just because a character is the main character, doesn't mean they are the hero, doesn't mean we should emulate them etc etc. Too many people came out of that film with "Jordan did what he wanted and got it done, the man always wants to bring people down" kind of attitude.
That's the beauty of Martin Scorcese!!! He has movies for everyone. Some of them are liked by everyone - Goodfellas, Departed, wolf of wall Street!! Rest are like divided and it creates a conversation between movie lovers!! But i don't think there is a single movie of his that a cinema lover hate!!
It would be amazing if you could do one of these for Alejandro González Iñárritu. He has done like 7 or 8 films and, in my opinion, they're all worth watching. Movies like 21 grams or Birdman are forever engraved into my soul.
The Departed occupies such an odd and unique place in my mind as a burgeoning movie buff. I was wholly disappointed by it, which is partially my fault, yet I have mostly positive memories of the film when looking back. I guess Scorsese is such a master that I can't help but be somewhat fond of a work of his that I don't love.
So glad to see Silence fairly high up :) As an agnostic Hindu, i strangely connected with that movie and its questions of faith and religion. And it feels oft overlooked in discussions of his filmography. To be honest with you... I couldnt exactly explain and put into words as to WHY I am enamoured with this particular movie. And I kinda dig that. It is frustrating in a fun way lol Showed it to a friend of mine, a former Jehovah's witness. Thought that maybe she'd "get" why the movie struck such a chord with me. She didn't like it that much lol I look forward to my second rewatch. Maybe next time I'll understand a bit more about the movie, myself, and why I like this movie so much :)
I consider myself agnostic and Silence is my favorite Scorsese film, I've watched it 3 times. It's actually made me question my faith. It obviously didn't prevail lol but man, that movie is just amazing. My mother and grandmother both have very strong religious conviction though
As a relapsed catholic, Silence is the most powerful movie I have ever experienced. It makes me very happy to hear other people of all kinds of faith find a connection with it.
I do have a bone to pick with GONY and Aviator being so low. Gangs I’d put somewhere in the middle but Aviator is such a fun movie that I’ll always watch it if it’s on tv
Thank you for expressing your point eloquently about “The Wolf of Wall Street”. I did not like it for the same reason but I couldn’t explain it as well as you did. That same mentality is why people like “Scarface”
Thank you for ranking Silence highly. I'm an atheist and it's one of my favorite movies of all time (top 5). The book it's based off is also a masterpiece.
See The Hustler. it makes Color of Money look like a cash-in. I love Scorsese but those pool table shots are not "ballet" they're pure cocaine (though I think he was sober at the time lol). You can't follow the games like you can in the Hustler, and the story was so shallow in comparison, but Newman is still great as Fast Eddy Felson. Love the vids, keep it up.
15. Gangs of New York 14. Hugo 13. Shutter Island 12. Wolf of Wall Street 11. The Departed 10. Age of Innocence 9. The Irishman 8. Silence 7. Bringing out the Dead 6. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 5. The King of Comedy 4. Killers of the Flower Moon 3. Casino 2. Goodfellas 1. After Hours
Really appreciated your thoughts, was interesting to hear your thoughts on people not getting the point of Wolf of Wall Street and instead idolizing Jordan Belfort, It's a shame that he's made money and success of the film. Feels weird. Despite this though, everytime I watch it i just get sucked in. My top 5: 1. Goodfellas 2. Raging Bull 3. King of Comedy 4. The Departed 5. Cape Fear Would be curious to hear your thoughts on The Departed, great surrounding cast with everyone kinda chewing the scenery. One of the one's I rewatch the most
color of money over wolf of wall street is insane Color of money is directed well but it just feels sort of empty. But Newman and Cruise have lots of charisma in their roles.
1. GoodFellas 2. Taxi Driver 3. Raging Bull 4. The Departed 5. Mean Streets 6. The Last Temptation of Christ 7. Casino 8. The King of Comedy 9. The Irishman 10. The Wolf of Wall Street 11. Killers of Flower Moon 12. After Hours 13. Silence 14. Cape Fear 15. Shutter Island 16. The Aviator 17. Gangs of New York 18. The Color of Money 19. Bringing Out the Dead 20. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore 21. New York, New York 22. Hugo 23. Age of Innocence 24. Who's That Knocking at my Door 25. Boxcar Bertha 26. Kundun
Gangs of New York being last is definitely a surprise. To be fair I haven't seen the movie for 10+ years but it was always a pleasant watch to sit through, when it was on the TV. Butcher was a great character.
Pretty good ordering. I did have 1 and 2 in the opposite order. I have Cape Fear higher. I have Silence higher - if it can make me (someone who is not religious) feel like it did, it is very special. I find the Colour of Money to be bland - especially coming from the director who did Goodfellas. I have not seen a few of your top 15, so I will push them up my to-watch list.
Taking the pinned comment into account, I think you rate The Departed way too high, but I'm from MA and never need to hear "Shipping Out to Boston" again. To me the surprising thing is ranking Silence that high while ranking Last Temptation relatively low, without seeing Kundun at all. You might overvalue a superficial heavy seriousness that Scorsese developed later in his career, but on the other hand, I can't argue with your top two. Good list overall, I think.
Please review David Fincher's The Killer starting Michael Fasbander. I am shocked 😲 so many people are sleeping on this because Killers of Flower Moon came up.
Someone just reminded me I skipped The Departed, a movie I LOVE. I have it at #7 between The Irishman and Silence. One of scorsese's best
I’m gonna be pretentious, but in my opinion The Irishman should be called I Heard You Paint Houses. If they couldn’t change the title card within the film itself.
Geez dude. Scorsese puts in the utmost effort in his films, and you can’t make a comprehensive enough video that includes at least watching his entire filmography, not saying you need to rewatch every other film, and then you just miss one?… and you want me to take your criticism seriously?
@@Buttcakes15 it's just a casual list vid man it's not that serious
@@whatr0 yeah sure but it’s also just a movie right? Constructive criticism gives creators more money
@@Buttcakes15 I mean sure but it's pretty clear from the usual content on this channel it's just casual chats about media, not in depth critiques
like this is just the wrong channel if you're looking for that kind of thing
what a solid and perfectly ordered list. i am going to subscribe to this wise individual
He never misses, the absolute LEGEND!
In all seriousness, I subscribed to this channel in the same way we eat comfort food-it’s nice to see 2 sides of a great relationship. I appreciate both of you and what you each bring to the table. Cheers!
Woah its the guy who made that video where plankton farts and dies
Fancy seeing YOU here
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I'm just happy After Hours is as high as it is, such an underrated movie
Pretty bold of you to rank Shark Tale as Scorsese’s magnum opus
Why do you consider it bold to acknowledge the truth?
Thanks for recognizing Mean Street's nothingness. Shutter Isl. is not too good. Christ movie was good to show the human side but Martin didn't go far enough and show that Jesus was a terrible guy to wanted non-believers to spend eternity in hell, was fine with slavery, made no prediction that came true; and knew nothing about science. Give me a heart for pointing out the fraud of Jesus and the horrors of the holy books.
Bad bad Wolf. and why give Martin credit for trying to be glossy and shallow on purpose? Goodfellas and Taxi and Departed are his best. I know some like to tear into The Departed, but it was enjoyable to watch again.
Gangs was very dull. It was Martin's fault to make such a claustrophobic film. The way some let him off.. he's made a lot of mediocre movies.
I vehemently disagree with your list. The Bee Movie (2007) is his magnum opus and deserves to sit at the top
NOTHING will ever beat The King of Comedy for me. Simultaneously one of the funniest, saddest, and eeriest films ever made.
Fuckig great movie. I shit my pants during in the theater Joker because of the similarities
I really like King of Comedy, even though his earlier films aren't that well known Taxi Driver, King of Comedy and After Hours are such love/hate letters to NYC.
@Gee-xb7rt
What of his films "aren't that well know"?
Because I think Taxi Driver is pretty well admired and loved by both fans and critics and maybe not to the same degree but so is The King of Comedy. I agree After Hours is a less know part of his filmography but my personal favourite underrated Scorsese film is Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
@@joekerry741 Bringing out the dead made me hope I never need a paramedic.
@@joekerry741 Kundun is the film that needs more attention. It got buried after release because of pressure from from the Chinese market.
I’m surprised the departed wasn’t mentioned at all. My absolute favorite crime film of his. All the characters feel so alive and the rat chase is just so nail biting. Easily Leonardo DiCaprio’s best role.
if you like The Departed, check out Infernal Affairs since The Departed is a remake of it
@@artirony410I wanted to like Infernal Affairs, but it came off as pretty shlocky.
@@jacksobrooks how? Its a competently made movie by any metric
@@jacksobrooksBetter then Departed by a miles
@@artirony410 just the way it felt to watch. Mostly the stylistic choices seemed like an episode of CSI or some other daytime crime show.
Great video, a David Lynch or Akira Kurosawa ranking would be awesome
Kurosawa would be great, but a lot I haven't seen yet. I can do Lynch, I think I just need Inland Empire
Inland Empire is wild, especially the first time you see it. Prepare yourself for 3 hours of a concerned looking Laura Dern wandering around various warehouses, surrealist satirical sitcoms involving anthropomorphic rabbits, and mentally unstable Polish men scowling. It's so weird that it honestly makes Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive look like mainstream Hollywood flicks in comparison. @@womancarryingman
Man, there's a point in Inland Empire, around 1-2h in, where you're thinking "OK, this is wrapping up. Time to start processing it" but no - it is only just beginning.@@cheese1678989
Kurosawa has even more films than Scorsese (30 to Marty's 26) and, starting in the late 1940s during the war, some of his earlier movies can be difficult to approach. Still, completly worth it. @@womancarryingman
Bringing Out the Dead is my favorite “downward spiral” story. It just feels like a 121-minute panic attack that just keeps steadily ramping up in intensity. The first (of many) scene where his boss keeps promising to fire him if he juuuust does this *one last shift* is such a hilarious yet sad way to show just how badly this job is taking a toll on Nic Cage’s psyche and why no one wants to do it.
I just recently watched and I can’t stop listening to Van Morrisons TB sheets
Bringing out the Dead is a must watch. Great film. Also, Age of Innocence is absolutely one of his best films.
After Hours is actually quite a personal film for Scorsese and I rank it in his top 5. He made it after New York, New York and King of Comedy bombed and he'd failed to get funding for Last Temptation. He was broke and out of work, living in SoHo in NY, where After Hours is set, back before it was gentrified and largely still full of oddballs and freaks. The film expresses the sense of being an outsider while also evoking a time in the history of the city that will never come again, when you could be totally abandoned to fate.
How come The Departed wasn't included? One of my favourite films.
holy shit! just realized
@@womancarryingman where would you rank The Departed in your list?
The departed wasn’t included because it transcended the list and the art form itself. It is perfection.
The Departed wasn’t listed because it’s a ripoff of Infernal Affairs
I was waiting for it, and the further the video went, the more I thought he was ranking it in his top three (which I wouldn’t even be mad about).
As a relapsed catholic, Silence is the most powerful movie I have ever experienced. It makes me very happy to hear other people of all kinds of faith find a connection with it.
Yeah wild to go from the wolf of wall Street to silence
Shutter Island ruined the genre of twist horror/thriller movies for me and a lot of people. Any time I see a movie where it's like "actually they were crazy" I just say "wow, they shutter islanded it" and immediately hate the film.
It's not bad, it's just I don't need to see any more in that genre.
And that trope goes even further back to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in 1920 lol
Shutter island is great, didn't put me to sleep like the Irishman.
I've heard that watching Shutter Island a second time feels like a different movie because you know the twist, and there's a lot of subtle hints in the dialogue. I do really wish you'd included his documentaries, since his best cinematic work is definitely Plankton Farts and Dies
If you haven't, watch it with the interpretation that Teddy is sane and really was convinced by the island that he's insane. Although this isn't the case in the book, Scorcese puts hints that allow you to interpret it both ways. It's personally the interpretation that I get from the movie and it scares the hell out of me.
Honestly, I guessed the twist after five minutes.
Very fun hearing your thoughts on such an important director. I’d swap Wolf of Wall Street and Aviator but generally find my taste lining up.
interesting!
@@womancarryingman bringing out the dead is great its taxi driver with a paramedic I highly recommend that next
@@womancarryingman please rank Lynch next time thanks
@womancarryingman please don't, most Lynch movies are terrible.
Definitely a lot differnet than my ranking, personally love Shutter Island especially
Have you've watched the Nerdwriter's analysis of The Wolf of Wallstreet focusing on 'cinema of excess'? The Wolf of Wallstreet is high in my Scorsese list precisely because he does in a way 'refuse' to condemn crime as he does in Goodfellas or even the Irishman.
Between goodfellas/casino and the irishman, WoW and Silence are really movies that showed his range of both thought and filmmaking.
That video is unavailable sadly😢
Scorsese is proof that narration absolutely can be used efffectively.
After Hours is definitely underrated by a lot of people, so great to see you have it near the top. There's some fantastic camera moves in that film and the street scenes are pure joy. I love it, in fact I'm going to pour myself a whisky and watch it right now.
1:08 Gangs of New York
2:04 The Aviator
2:53 Hugo
3:20 Mean Streets
3:55 Shutter Island
4:20 The Last Temptation of Christ
5:16 Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
6:02 The Wolf of Wall Street
7:36 The Color of Money
8:37 Cape Fear
9:45 After Hours/The King of Comedy
11:36 Casino
12:25 The Irishman
14:25 Silence
15:18 The Age of Innocence
16:11 Goodfellas
16:59 Killers of the Flower Moon
18:15 Taxi Driver/Raging Bull
thank you for your service
Anytime bru
I have checked this channel at least twice a week for one of these since the last one. THANK YOU
oh and as for who you should do next, how about the coen bros? not to be confused for the mario bros
just added to 'watch later', to quite literally watch later, tomorrow at work. Man Carrying my workday!
16:28 funny how?
I relate so hard to how many times "I gotta watch this one again" gets said
seeing the end of killers of the flower moon (spoilers?) and having scorsese himself acknowledge he was a huge contributor to his own critique and be so self-aware/reflective hit really hard for me. to have this established 80 year old guy really try to understand and come to terms with what he has done, as opposed to just unapologetically digging his heels in with what he already knows, like I figure I would when I’m 80, was a certain kind of wisdom i didn’t think i was walking out of the theater with that day. lukewarm take but it’s such a culmination of his history in movies
Also his last collaboration with Robbie Robertson, who scored or arranged every single Scorcese movie since 1976, and died this summer. Apparently it's his best work on soundtrack.
The Coen Brothers. They're such chameleons when it comes to style and genre that it would probably be relatively easy to binge their filmography.
Killers of the Flower Moon at 2 is crazy
Been waiting for this!
I was super surprised at the Gangs of New York being put so low. I am just love:
1) How it captured the essence of the period
2) Daniel Day Lewis
3) With one of the best endings to any film ever, the transition of time + the music in the edit hits me right in the feels
Honestly the story has always left me tense and engaged. Call me crazy but it's my 3rd favourite Scorsese movie. But maybe it's cuz I watched it at a super early age, so it could be because of nostalgia bias idk
And the Aviator may not be the best film, but it feels like the most important and inspirational film to me, at least its first half, haha
It get negative 1000 points for the shitty Triphop/industrial music they used.
Age of Innocence and Silence being so high up on the list is legit, those movies definitely deserve more praise, two of my favorites
great ranking! Found your comments on Age of Innocence interesting because I also love that one, but hate Baz Luhrman’s Great Gatsby.
My top 2 are Bringing Out the Dead and Last Temptation of Christ, either one could be #1 depending on the day. Last Temptation, despite being arguably heretical, is possibly the best Christian film ever made because of how the humanity of Christ is emphasized and the insane struggle he went through is shown not from the perspective of the flawless Son of God, but from a flawed son of man who could be tempted, allowing us to empathize with his struggle.
Bringing Out the Dead is like the mood and feeling of Taxi Driver but with a sleep-deprived Nicolas Cage ruminating on death for two hours with surreal elements, so it was made specifically for me.
Yeah, Silence is great. And he uses such a different style for that movie.
Nice list but Plankton Farts and Dies (1974) was directed by Brian DePalma not Scorcese
This is content I like. I like when you post movie rankings. Also I liked it when you talked about books.
I’m not a huge fan of The Wolf of Wall Street either. It’s a whole lot of nothing. You’re absolutely right about how shallow it feels
it’s the only one of his biographic films to try to frame the main guy as heroic or noble other than like, kundun. which i really don’t get. belfort is so scummy.
@@obscure.referenceit DEFINITELY doesn’t frame Belfort as heroic
wtf? did we watch the same movie? oh yeah man, all the scenes of Belfort cheating on his partners and coming off as an insecure abusive asshole makes him look like a total hero
@@obscure.reference which part of him beating his wife and kidnapping his kid made him look heroic?
@@achepe9978 maybe heroic is the wrong word, but it’s far more sympathetic towards belfort than scorcese is towards the protagonists of raging bull, goodfellas, casino, the irishman, and killers of the flower moon. definitely supposed to be more of a robin hood.
Man oh man I been waiting for this
John Carpenter ranked would be awesome
still have a lot to watch of his
I really enjoy these ranking directors movies videos. I absolutely agree on a lot of your takes. I actually think Gangs of New York is super underrated. It’s in my top 10 Scorsese films. There’s something about that movie that feels “cozy” to me for some reason, can’t quite explain it. I think it’s a contender for one of DDL best performances, I love the setting and the time period it’s set in, I also don’t think Cameron Diaz is that bad in it either. Another one of my favorites also is Shutter Island. It’s very different from what Scorsese normally makes, but the first time I watched it the ending through me for a loop. Whenever I rewatch it, I love seeing all the clues and foreshadowing in the first couple acts of the movie. Great video though again! I’m excited to see which directors movies you rank next!
Next should be Tarantino..
Where was The Departed? Did I just miss it or did he skip it
Dude, you need to watch the hustler. It's as if someone had made Flight in the early 20th century, and the studio forced scorsese to make a sequel to it... And made Top Gun
1. Casino
2. Goodfellas
3. The Wolf of Wall Street
4. After Hours
5. Taxi Driver
6. The Irishman
7. Shutter Island
8. The Departed
9. Cape Fear
10. Mean Streets
11. Killers of the Flower Moon
12. The Aviator
13. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
14. The King of Comedy
15. Silence
16. Raging Bull
17. Gangs of New York
18. Who's That Knocking At My Door?
19. Boxcar Bertha
Personal ranking!!
1. The Irishman
2. Taxi Driver
3. The King of Comedy
4. After Hours
5. Raging Bull
6. GoodFellas
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. Bringing Out the Dead
9. The Last Temptation of Christ
10. Casino
11. Silence
12. The Departed
13. The Wolf of Wall Street
14. Shutter Island
15. Hugo
16. Cape Fear
17. Mean Streets
18. The Aviator
19. Gangs of New York
20. Who’s That Knocking at My Door
21. New York, New York
22. The Age of Innocence
23. Kundun
24. The Color of Money
25. Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
26. Boxcar Bertha
One of my favourite filmographies for sure
Nice ranking; Good watch. subscribed
Oh man I've waited for this for so long.
The most beautiful thing about the scorsese fans is that they everyone is just very excepting. Like of anyone says king of comedy or wolf of wall street are their favourite movie everyone will just appreciate it.
Like (I'm sorry if i hurt anyones feeling) goodfellas aren't in my top 5 and my most favourite is the irishman. I haven't watched the kotfm though.
Bringing out the dead and New York,New York are two masterpieces!
The Last Temptation of Christ and Raging Bull are definitely my favorites. Could you do a Fellini or Tarr or Herzog Ranking anytime soon?
a tarr ranking would be great, he's a top 3 (maybe top 1) director for me but i haven't seen a whole lot of videos about his works.
The Hustler is really good--up there with Sweat Smell of Success as the best of a certain type of movie that seems to exist somewhere between late 40s noir and late 60s counter culture.
Now I'm curious how Man Carrying Thing would rank his movies 🤔
My favourites are interchangable between Silence and The Departed. Very mood dependent! I did once watch The Departed 3 times in a week and i could never get sick of it. Silence is definitely the film of his that has reached the deepest within myself however.
I wasn't expecting to see Avengers Endgame at numeber 1 but that's why you always surprise me.
I’m glad you’re Jake today, but I’m worried about who you’ll be tomorrow.
Also, I love these videos. Always intriguing and often either agreeable or compelling points
I was coming in to this being like HOLY SHIT where’s the departed??? #1??? And then you never brought it up hahaha. Another great video you guys
I did not care for The Wolf of Wall Street either, so far Im pretty much agreeing with you.
You absolutely have to watch Bringing Out The Dead, Nic Cage is legitimately a great lead in that.
we all know avatar is scorseses best
Lol, The Departed is the only Scorsese film in his Letterboxd "Favourite Movies" list, yet he (accidentally) skipped it in this video.
Great list jake. I think i need to rewatch raging bull and taxi driver as i have only seen them once and they did not click for me.
Now this is Cinema !
Rewatched Shutter Island during a flight. It's better than I remember and it's fun, felt like Scorsece just wanted to try and take a stab at a psychological thriller and it's better than most in that genre.
Hugo is the only time I've ever fallen asleep in a movie theater
This was awesome. Rank Takeshi Mike please!
Appreciate the list, I'm amazed that there's more than a few of his films I haven't seen, definitely appears that I have simply seen the very popular films. Regarding people not getting the intent of Wolf Of Wall Street, it is on my list of "films where I am automatically suspicious of someone who loves it" (that needs a snappier name). On the same list is American Psycho and Fight Club. I'm trying not to be arrogant, but there's an interesting surface level presentation to these films that many (typically young males) seem to have because it presents a lot of the positive of these lifestyles/beliefs and they just don't seem to see that the story is not positive. Just because a character is the main character, doesn't mean they are the hero, doesn't mean we should emulate them etc etc. Too many people came out of that film with "Jordan did what he wanted and got it done, the man always wants to bring people down" kind of attitude.
That's the beauty of Martin Scorcese!!!
He has movies for everyone.
Some of them are liked by everyone - Goodfellas, Departed, wolf of wall Street!!
Rest are like divided and it creates a conversation between movie lovers!!
But i don't think there is a single movie of his that a cinema lover hate!!
It is really jarring listening to sincere and unironic Man Carrying Thing.
It would be amazing if you could do one of these for Alejandro González Iñárritu. He has done like 7 or 8 films and, in my opinion, they're all worth watching. Movies like 21 grams or Birdman are forever engraved into my soul.
Raging bull,kundun,cape fear,goodfellas and taxi driver are essential films but wolf,mean streets and silence are top ten too.
The Departed occupies such an odd and unique place in my mind as a burgeoning movie buff. I was wholly disappointed by it, which is partially my fault, yet I have mostly positive memories of the film when looking back. I guess Scorsese is such a master that I can't help but be somewhat fond of a work of his that I don't love.
I agree with Gangs of New York not being that good, but I think The Aviator is fucking great, might be just outside of my top 5 of his films
Having Mean Streets so low makes me (s)(m)ad, because the rest of your list is perfection. Rewatch it, there's so much there.
Please do a ranking of David Lynch’s filmography. He’s a personal favorite
Bringing Out the Dead is spectacular, like Taxi Driver but with a guy that feels overwhelming guilt rather than violent tendencies
So glad to see Silence fairly high up :)
As an agnostic Hindu, i strangely connected with that movie and its questions of faith and religion. And it feels oft overlooked in discussions of his filmography.
To be honest with you... I couldnt exactly explain and put into words as to WHY I am enamoured with this particular movie. And I kinda dig that. It is frustrating in a fun way lol
Showed it to a friend of mine, a former Jehovah's witness. Thought that maybe she'd "get" why the movie struck such a chord with me. She didn't like it that much lol
I look forward to my second rewatch. Maybe next time I'll understand a bit more about the movie, myself, and why I like this movie so much :)
I consider myself agnostic and Silence is my favorite Scorsese film, I've watched it 3 times. It's actually made me question my faith. It obviously didn't prevail lol but man, that movie is just amazing. My mother and grandmother both have very strong religious conviction though
As a relapsed catholic, Silence is the most powerful movie I have ever experienced. It makes me very happy to hear other people of all kinds of faith find a connection with it.
kundun was purged by disney can't find it anywhere
What would you say is the best Scorsese film to start with?
i would like to see a complete 'narrative feature films' ranking of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's output. thank you
I do have a bone to pick with GONY and Aviator being so low. Gangs I’d put somewhere in the middle but Aviator is such a fun movie that I’ll always watch it if it’s on tv
Thank you for expressing your point eloquently about “The Wolf of Wall Street”. I did not like it for the same reason but I couldn’t explain it as well as you did. That same mentality is why people like “Scarface”
Thank you for ranking Silence highly. I'm an atheist and it's one of my favorite movies of all time (top 5). The book it's based off is also a masterpiece.
See The Hustler. it makes Color of Money look like a cash-in. I love Scorsese but those pool table shots are not "ballet" they're pure cocaine (though I think he was sober at the time lol). You can't follow the games like you can in the Hustler, and the story was so shallow in comparison, but Newman is still great as Fast Eddy Felson. Love the vids, keep it up.
I love that the age of innocence is high on your list
Am I correct in not seeing The Departed in the list?
15. Gangs of New York
14. Hugo
13. Shutter Island
12. Wolf of Wall Street
11. The Departed
10. Age of Innocence
9. The Irishman
8. Silence
7. Bringing out the Dead
6. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
5. The King of Comedy
4. Killers of the Flower Moon
3. Casino
2. Goodfellas
1. After Hours
You should do a Danny Boyle or Sergio Leone ranked
No Age of Innocence? I'd be interested in your opinion on it.
Really appreciated your thoughts, was interesting to hear your thoughts on people not getting the point of Wolf of Wall Street and instead idolizing Jordan Belfort, It's a shame that he's made money and success of the film. Feels weird. Despite this though, everytime I watch it i just get sucked in.
My top 5:
1. Goodfellas
2. Raging Bull
3. King of Comedy
4. The Departed
5. Cape Fear
Would be curious to hear your thoughts on The Departed, great surrounding cast with everyone kinda chewing the scenery. One of the one's I rewatch the most
you didn't mention the departed 🤔
color of money over wolf of wall street is insane
Color of money is directed well but it just feels sort of empty. But Newman and Cruise have lots of charisma in their roles.
1. GoodFellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull
4. The Departed
5. Mean Streets
6. The Last Temptation of Christ
7. Casino
8. The King of Comedy
9. The Irishman
10. The Wolf of Wall Street
11. Killers of Flower Moon
12. After Hours
13. Silence
14. Cape Fear
15. Shutter Island
16. The Aviator
17. Gangs of New York
18. The Color of Money
19. Bringing Out the Dead
20. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
21. New York, New York
22. Hugo
23. Age of Innocence
24. Who's That Knocking at my Door
25. Boxcar Bertha
26. Kundun
Please do a thriller book list.
Gangs of New York being last is definitely a surprise. To be fair I haven't seen the movie for 10+ years but it was always a pleasant watch to sit through, when it was on the TV. Butcher was a great character.
I never get why so many people underrate the Aviator... haven't seen it in a while but I recall finding it great
Pretty good ordering. I did have 1 and 2 in the opposite order. I have Cape Fear higher. I have Silence higher - if it can make me (someone who is not religious) feel like it did, it is very special. I find the Colour of Money to be bland - especially coming from the director who did Goodfellas. I have not seen a few of your top 15, so I will push them up my to-watch list.
"Marty! Kundun! I liked it!"
Wait I had no idea you had a serious no memes channel
Shutter island despite the twist it gets very very much better on second watch... everyone I know loved it the second time
Taking the pinned comment into account, I think you rate The Departed way too high, but I'm from MA and never need to hear "Shipping Out to Boston" again. To me the surprising thing is ranking Silence that high while ranking Last Temptation relatively low, without seeing Kundun at all. You might overvalue a superficial heavy seriousness that Scorsese developed later in his career, but on the other hand, I can't argue with your top two. Good list overall, I think.
Please review David Fincher's The Killer starting Michael Fasbander. I am shocked 😲 so many people are sleeping on this because Killers of Flower Moon came up.
I like hearing your opinions
The Departed: am I a joke to you?😮
Scorcese is an absolute legend. He never misses!
Definitely does but still great