Why do people automatically label an old film a 'classic masterpiece' just because it's old?
Because they saw it and recognized its artistic quality. Unlike you who just wanted to shitpost.
>>64157480
Because people are drones who regurgitate what society tells them to think
I'm not that old.
>>64157480
not enough bright shiny colors and explosions for you?
The 70s were the height of American Cinema you pleb.
>>64157662
Please, if anything Taxi Driver is TOO "entertainment" inflected. It ends in a fucking shoot out. Speaking as someone who is exactly like Travis in real life, the third act is complete hollywood bullshit sensationalism.
>>64157480
Why wouldn't you call a movie a classic masterpiece if you're posting about it on the Internet 40 years after it came out.
>>64157733
subtle trolling here, anon
keep up the good work
>>64157733
>Speaking as someone who is exactly like Travis in real life
an extremely autistic psychopath who has no idea how to act around women?
>>64157724
>10s: Entertaining movies coming out every year
>70s: Even the good movies are boring.
70s have low fucking standards and people were easily impressed. If even a mid tier flick from today like The Hateful Eight or the Revenant was released back then it would be treated as a great "classic" like the godfather or the exorcist.
>>64157840
>subtle
Not really
>>64157853
Congratulations on making the plebbiest post of the month.
>>64157853
>>64157853
We're talking about art film. Not your popcorn flicks
>>64157885
You are blinded by your father's memes.
>>64157853
7/10 made me reply
>>64157917
You are blinded by popcorn trash. Kill yourself immediately.
>>64157917
You're the one blinded by memes.
>>64157938
It's all popcorn trash. Only reason films like the godfather got put on a pedestal was that there were fewer movies released in general so there was less competition and the above average movies looked more important because the release schedule wasn't as crowded. We have a surplus of great movies now to the point that it's hard to even get excited by the prospect of seeing a masterpiece. Not like the 70s when any time a movie over a 7/10 happened you had to spend the next 30 years jerking it off.
>>64157480
>>64157853
>>64158023
Name your top 10 favorite directors and your top 10 favorite movies.
>>64158067
who gives a fuck ?
he's a self important child that thinks nothing of relevance or importance happened in the world until he arrived in it
just another navel gazing dipshit
>>64157480
Why do plebs automatically label an old film 'boring' just because it's old?
>>64157480
Taxi Driver was one of the most profitable films of the 70s. It is an accessible yet very stylish film, mostly appreciated by entry level cinephiles.
>>64158067
Fight Club
The Departed
Whiplash
TDK trilogy
LOTR trilogy
Drive
Christopher Nolan
Steven Spielberg
David Fincher
Quentin Tatantino
>>64158168
Accessibility is a virtue
>>64158198
JUST
>>64158198
>The Departed
Taxi Driver is the superior Scorsese film.
>>64158198
Not even my list. Obvious a guy posting bait to discredit me, but I will say that every movie named is better than anything made in the 70s outside of Whiplash which is reddit trash.
>>64158249
The Departed is a lot of fun
>>64158264
>I will say that every movie named is better than anything made in the 70s
Thank you for making your opinions officially worthless. Now leave /tv/ and never return.
>>64158249
On literally no level.
Departed has better acting, better cinematography, better editing, better plot, better soundtrack, more culturally influential, better mise en scene, more evocative title.
>>64157847
Nah man he's clearly a nam vet
>>64157847
yes, and with a wicked sense of humor
>>64158335
If Nolan had went back in a time machine and released TDKR in the 70s it would be remembered today the same way as apocalypse now and Sorceror. And I don't even think it's a good movie.
>>64158335
I was going to seriously respond to this but then I read "more culturally influential" and realized this is bait.
>>64158390
>>64158418
Stop, senpai. No one is falling for your bait anymore. You've being too over the top.
>>64158067
i go by films not by directors. you sound like a 12 year old girl, do you have a poster of your ''fav'' director on the wall somewhere?
pfft.
>>64158434
I sinerely believe every word I've typed. I also believe that anybody who disagrees is completely deluded. Take away all the memes and cultural canonization. Show The Departed and Taxi Driver to a group of aliens. Literally none of them will be left thinking that Taxi Driver was the better movie in any regard.
>but I was raised to believe that Taxi Driver is "Important" and the 70s was the great era of cinema because it was when my dad and all the dad aged critics grew up.
Literally no different to people who get conditioned into believing in God.
>>64158249
You meant to say Mean Streets but that's ok.
>>64158579
Stop, senpai.
>>64158627
Mean Streets makes Taxi Driver look good. Completely irrelevent piece of shit. If you think it's good because of what it "popularized" rather than it's quality by today's standards then you may as well be saying the beatles are good.
Never be afraid to destroy the past. Nothing is sacred. As soon as the rest of film catches up and it starts to fail to impress just throw it on the fucking trash heap.
>>6415839
The only films that were considered instant classics back then was stuff like The Godfather, Jaws and etc that were unanimously acclaimed and groundbreaking films in many aspects but you can never tell what movies will be liked or not in the future. Stuff like F for Fake was barely seen back then yet it is an essential piece of cinema today.
>>64158346
Clearly, because Nam Vets go crazy and plot to kill politicians and bring girls to pornos.
>>64158654
Shut up you dumb cunt
>waaaah someone can't really have a dissenting opinion!
>just trying to make me mad with bait!
I agree with every word he's typed thus far. Taxi Driver was okay, but I don't understand the praise it gets on here at all.
>>64158832
Stop, senpai.
>>64157480
It's sad how movies that become so influential seem to lose that sense of originality when works come after it and are clearly inspired by the source material.
I was watching Aliens the other day and I was like shit....I've seen all this a million times before in shittier movies
I fucking hate millenials.
>>64158885
Aliens is just a plain piece of shit. Always was. Alien is a masterpiece. Aliens is just the capeshit cash in made to appeal to the juvenile.
>>64158926
If you're not a millennial then you're the most pathetic person in the thread so far.
>over 35 years old and still on 4chan
Top kek.
Why do people automatically label an old film a 'classic masterpiece' just because it's old?
>>64159012
If this was released today it would be seen as one of the worst movies of the year.
>>64159092
Why do people automatically label an old film a 'classic masterpiece' just because it's old?
>>64158690
I prefer pic related to Taxi Driver. Sorry my opinions do not match your own senpai.
Why do people automatically label an old film a 'classic masterpiece' just because it's old?
Why do millennials automatically prefer new films over classic masterpieces?
>>64159432
You're a millennial.
>>64159432
because they haven't seen the old films
/thread
>>64159545
Every fedora baby has seen Casablanca, Taxi Driver and Citizen Kane. They may as well be video games for how artistically entry level they are.
Cannon films are old but no one labels them as classic.
You're just a pleb.
>>64159622
Has contrarianism gone too far?
>>64159622
no, they haven't
you must be new here
>>64159622
>Every fedora baby has seen Casablanca
You need to get your head out of your ass and take a real look at the world. In the real world, fedoras watch action movies and capeshit. They don't watch 1940s romantic dramas.
>>64159731
Yes they have. Retard. I will fucking murder you. If I had seen them by age 18 then it counts as entry level fedoracore.
I don't know about u guys but i think that taxi driver is good. Good movie.
Cleanse this board
>>64159850
>I will fucking murder you.
>>64159850
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG_dGG_wAYM
>>64159844
>They don't watch 1940s romantic dramas.
They watch it for the brand recognition. To kid themselves into thinking they're real cinephiles. I'd go as far to say that the only people watching Casablanca in 2015 are IMDB fedora children and the over 70s.
>>64159850
This is stupidest thing you've posted in this thread and that's saying a lot.
I don't care what you autists say, Travis was cool and alpha
>>64157480
This is a great shitpost dude holy shit. Including the poster of an actual masterpiece was smart.
>>64157480
Taxi Driver isn't that old, its more middle age.
Because it's classic. And, it's also a masterpiece.
