YES

Finally.

i wondered why it was rated so high...

he defeated the game!

God DAMN that was fast.

Haha, epic win. I'd like to see Scorsese make a YTMND.

its about time...actually every other time was about time too.

Thank you MasterSitsu.

5 for great justice

I can just feel the love that went into this

hah! ya even changed teh title

BTW, I want that middle name.

truf

BEST SOUND FOR A YTMND EVER

You had this ready.

with fingers crossed, yes.

that song is awesome.

there is no pain, you are receiving...my dick......in your *ss through waves.

+5 just for the sentiment. The site's not bad, either. Way to stay on top of things! :-D

I'm shippin' up to Boston, whoooaahhhh

"Ladies & Gentlemen of the f*cking Acadamy.... I'd like to thank Bobby F*cking DiNiro and Harvey F*cking Kietel."

im happy he won too, so many good movies

about time, he's been shafted for years from the Academy...

Hell yes

the award means nothing. and so do these five stars.

Congrats lol

he won, you won

That was terrifying! 5'd!

5 for great justice!

It's funny cuz it's true

:{ film rox

Taxi driver and the departed kicked ass.

makeing me feel bad

i mean... not great, but i cant 1 or 2 it because you're right.

This is what makes me fear for the world.

The Aviator sucked.

departed is overrated. best thing about it was the soundtrack, which wasn't even amazing. oh my god, everyone dies in the end, so shocking! you shocked me! shocking me is what makes a movie good! i'm shocked! action/crime/cop movies fail.

its like a scrollbar sh*t on my dick

raptorcardz, why dont you go make another 50 brian peppers sites and continue to tell me that martin scorsese is whats wrong with the world.

This 5 is for Marty! Goodfellas is his best movie. Raging Bull 2nd, and Casino a Solid 3rd.

BEST F*CKING FILMS

and only someone with no attention span or appreciation for history and pure filmmaking skill would say the Aviator sucked. you suck.

I always wondered about this song.. Just exactly what does King Missile have against him? BTW, it won't let me vote.

F*CKIN FILMS F*CKIN FILMS F*CKIN FILMS

My friend confused The Aviator and Sky Captain. I almost bitch-slapped him.

Not really.He didnt make commando.

he made some good films......but for him to win best director for The Departed...is a f*cking sham.... also c*cks

I wish my middle name was F*cking. That'd be bad ass.

win

f*cking win!

He won his Oscar for Taxi Driver/Mean Streets/Goodfellas/Casino/Raging Bull. The Departed wasn`t a very good movie, neither was The Aviator.

^dumb

you fail

No Sitsu, The Departed was indeed a piece of recylced trash. Scorsese couldn't come up with anything new, so he looked for a rehashed script, threw in a bunch of big name stars, and won an Oscar for being him. There were far better, much more original movies in 2006 than that crap.

His films are all the f*cking same, something tragic happens to one or more of the main characters at the beginning of the movie, they almost make things better and it's looking good but at the end of the movie it all becomes even worse than it was before (usually resulting in death).

^ you just described Shakespeare

I think his later movies are more entertaining, and actually better. I prefer DiCaprio over De Niro, and the Irish over the Italians.

The problem is it all feels like a f*cking rehash, just different characters, a modern setting, etc. etc. He's blinded by those f*cking eyebrows....

Yeah, well Shakespeare is the most overrated author in the history of man.

/playwright/poet.

oh?

Yes. I'll say that he had a way with words and a decent vocabulary, but even so you can see spots in his stories where he got lazy, and completely ignoring that his stories are rather boring, predictable, and poorly put together. Maybe 1/4 of all of his characters are even remotely believable.

....ignoring that, his stories...*

Now obviously, I sound like I'm raving, but I can't really get into detail and depth when there's a character max, lol.

TVsfrank, you obviously havent seen Infernal Affairs. that movie was completely overhauled, retold and reimagined. its so very very differently acted, scripted, shot, scored. Scorsese never even saw it before he was complete with his own version. Scorsese has not made one bad film. not one. they all have a point and even base level violent ones in the end have a point and a complete story. as for Shakespeare, he could be arguably overrated but saying 'most overated' is pure hyperbole just looking for a Rise and youknow it.

also, Infernal Affairs is 50 minutes shorter than the Departed. the Departed has 40% more movie, and it is not padding. theres backstory and more character development and story wise it is told so much better and clearer. IA is at a breakneck pace and overly confusing at times because it is that rushed. Scorsese took a decent movie and let it breathe, and its that much better for it.

i will say this though, trashing Shakespeare is the wannabe writer's equivolent of the pretentious film school snob who calls Steven Spielberg a talentless hack. you dont have to sing his praises to the world like everyone else but to deny how revolutionary and important and influential he was is just foolish.

finally, how sh*tty is UAC today when a 3.7 site like this is in the middle of it?

Pretty sh*tty. I'm not denying that Shakespeare's works were revolutionary or well made, I just think they were ill-conceived. He was excellent at bringing the fullest out of bad ideas or something to that extent. As far as I'm concerned there are far better stories that have been told, although maybe not as expertly.

I would say the same of Scorcese, he has a unique style and expert execution, but the cow's dry. He tries to make everything gritty and real and shocking, but not everything is that way and it's certainly not the only way to get a point across. He plays people's emotional/irrational side to get points across instead of their intellectual/reasoning side.

Most people DO get bored with Shakespeare because they don't know how to appreciate it. How words are used is the most important thing in writing. Because of the complexity and seemingly "archaic" English words used, most people pass him off as "boring," especially the ones who were forced to read a few of his tragedies in high school.

What's this emotional vs intellectual nonsense?

I like the scrolling image.

I know that his writing is an artform in and of itself, I find his stories as a whole to be boring. I'm not interested in his characters or plot lines, however beautifully and articulately they may be depicted.

yeah no kidding. some Scorsese films are genre action pics and theres absolutely nothing wrong with that, and this "reasoning" line seems like utter nonsense. other Scorsese films still have a sense of brutality but have real intellectual and emotional themes - Bringing out the dead turns Taxi Driver on its head and carries on a theme of guilt that runs through even his very different works like Age of Innocence. he's also done historical films like the Aviator and anyone who says Taxi Driver is some Dumbed down shock violence movie doesn’t know anything about anything. Cows dry? Maybe to someone who only watches the genre flicks on a base level. As for Shakespeare I think since so many are forced to read him in high school he isn’t properly appreciated. That you would lump a work like "merchant of Venice" as ill conceived is absolutely ridiculous to me.

finally, just because YOU dont find something interesting doesnt mean something is overrated. theres subjective opinion and then theres treating your opinions as self evident truth. theres tonnes of sh*t i dont like but can recognize as good important work.

@ 2nd post: There are two ways you can change the way people think. You can take advantage of their emotions, or you can present considerable evidence. Scorsese in a way takes advantage of the former. Rather than proving his point logically he throws in a lot of shock to jolt you into getting the message rather than go through the effort of displaying it properly. The sad thing is that in many of his movies it's entirely unnecessary and you would have gotten the point anyway, so it just seems cheap...

...but he has to appeal to the masses so I guess that's the price. Some of his earlier independent works I like more, but I am in no way a film expert and don't consider myself to be one. @ Shakespeare: It is MY OPINION that he's overrated.* His works seem "boring" but it's not just that. The characters are often transparent and the plot lines obvious. There seems to be an awful lot of cliche in there too, but I'm sure that in his time it was nothing of the sort.

well i think thats absolute horsesh*t. in some movies shock is humor, shock is just shock because its a genre film, sometimes its just the bloody truth of contrasting how some people hide the disgusting things they do with another way of life. Scorsese's wide range of films - have you seen King of Comedy for example? show a huge range of character development methods that depend on the purpose of the film. you're dumbing traits of certain known films down to a mischaracterization, Just like many take the opposite route and claim that Spielberg tugs too much at heartstings instead of showing violent truths. In the end they are both generalizations that show complete ignorance to the depth and purpose of their works. Sorry man, you sound really pretentious with this 'emotional/logical' academic breakdown. I actually prefer the gut instinct "I like it/I don’t like it" sh*t over what youre doing here.

i mean especially when you look at the current output of Hollywood, to come out and try to knock Scorsese of all people down seems like you can't see the forest for the trees.

I don't really see how you can turn down the emotional vs. rational argument. It's evident, people have only accepted things when you have been able to prove to them that it's worth it, or when you force them to feel strongly about it. Propaganda is used constantly by radical causes because they can't factually support their POVs. Nazis used jews as a scapegoat for the depression in Germany during the 30s. People supported the "final solution" because their anger & desperation had been taken advantage of...

finally, i love how this ytmnd is being taken literally by some as "no hurr he doesnt make the best films in the world i hate you" when really i just like Scorsese, glad he finally wins one after his long career, and that the song is funny to me, claiming to love him while simultaneously expressing it through mob style violence. reading a little deep into a simple ytmnd.

You tell em Sitsu!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA The Departed = 1337

...not because it had been rationally displayed to them that "Jews are evil." Now Scorsese is OBVIOUSLY not a nazi, this is just an example. Also, art is definitely supposed to appeal to the emotions more than anything else, but using the "shock factor" to get across your message always seems cheap to me, like they couldn't do it legitimately. The thing is Scorsese's films DO get it across and the shock factor just seems out of place sometimes.

Imaginary 5. I took a vow NEVER TO ENTER THE FORBIDDEN ZONE EVER AGAIN!. (Internet Explorer)

Scorsese is definitely a master of the art, I'm just not a fan of ALL of his methods. I totally respect your opinion, and there are many people GETTING oscars that DON'T deserve them.

"I don't really see how you can turn down the emotional vs. rational argument." because its really f*cking simple - some things are pure entertainment, and some things are meant to be more. The Departed is a smartly made and presented genre film. Trying to only place things with deep emotional resonance above them in worth is absolute horse sh*t. there is value to the guts and blood, non sequitor spewing pure entertainment in the world. And now you're taking this to some WWII propaganda analogy? Are you high? All this to justify not liking a violent genre flick?

i just really dont see people all upset over some shock factor, but then again, i dont find the violence in his films shocking. the derangement of some of the characters he creates is far more shocking. and again, this emotional manipulation route you're on is way out of hand to compare to a crime story. you act like if people enjoy a film with shock value they will hand themselves over to some dictators slick propaganda. you're turning your argument into tinfoil hat retardation.

You're misconstruing what I'm trying to say. I'm not saying any of Scorsese's films suck in any way, I just disagree with the way some of them are presented. Obviously, if everyone skips away into the sunset at the end, that's not even nearly realistic, but it's obnoxious when people make a point of killing off characters as often as possible to give the film more weight. The point on propaganda was irrelevant to Scorsese, it was a support to my psychological statement.

killing off characters as often as possible does nothing. how they are killed, what is said while they are killed, the way it is shot when they are killed - you build human beings into classic movie monsters, build tension, create an atmosphere where anything can happen, lots of different things. theres a difference between what Scorsese does and what Jason vs Freddy 23 does.

and finally, whats wrong with the base level visceral reaction of saying "cool!" when a competent director with competent filmmaking staff puts together an action sequence.

COOKIE 4 U ^_^

I'm not saying at all that people are going to go out and be deranged because of blood and gore. That's moronic. I'm saying that Scorsese can appeal to people rationally, or emotionally. Blood and gore appeal to people emotionally. Scorsese's films are well-crafted, and sometimes I feel like people would have listened to what so-and-so was saying whether he was bleeding to death or not because the intellectual, thought-provoking content is there already.

This will never end.

Like, take The Godfather for instance; a fantastic movie. Violence was used well in this movie, and shock was used well also. Scorsese does the same thing in his movies, although it feels (to me) like he's killing off Michael at the end of every movie just so people will listen to his closing lines more closely.

listen, theres not many horror films i like and its because in the hands of an incompetent filmmaker they are nothing but hack and slash without any tension built up. sometimes not seeing something is better than the spurt of blood. and if people are watching a violent Scorsese flick and only appreciate the killing, then they're not really an intelligent movie fan. but my point is these films TO ME actually do go the extra mile with the characters and the buildup and the occasional surprise that the Violent payoffs are entirely appropriate and often add weight to the film. In the Departed he made monsters out of characters that in Infernal Affairs seemed tame because the violence was just a touch too restrained. If a moviewatcher is too dumb to appreciate this sort of thing and are only shocked and "emotionally manipulated" in the bad sense (when really being involved in the film should be a good thing) then that's their problem.

I just have this definite feeling that I'm not saying what I have to say right, because I'm sure that we would just respect one another's opinions if I were. So I'm trying to display it from different angles, I'm not trying to perpetuate some pointless argument. I never try to sway people to my way of thinking, I just want them to understand it. If I still seem like I'm being unreasonable then I'll just say f*ck it and forget it.

I completely respect that. Cool.

Mega, again i think you miss the mark. do you remember what happens at the end of GoodFellas - he becomes an 'average schnook' - its a completely different tragedy - he lives a normal life and thats the unhappy ending. in Casino you are led to believe he is killed at the begining of the film when at the end he goes back to his old unglamorous low time mob position. i suggest you actually look at his list of films again and reexamine the purpose of side characters' deaths vs main characters, and note how Often the "michael" actually lives and learns a different more mundane and humble lesson.

i mean even at the end of Taxi Driver - they swerve you, Travis lives and it ends with that completely ambiguous rear view window shot that still has people guessing. you are giving Scorsese far too little credit for so many films, and i think the popcorn genre flick quality of the Departed might be making you misremember his work.

anyways thats all i have to argue for a while, i have things to do.

This one is called Martin Scorsese. He makes the best f*cking films He makes the best f*cking films If I ever meet him, I'm gonna grab his f*cking neck and just shake him and say "Thank you. Thank you for making such excellent f*cking movies Then I'd twist his nose all the way the f*ck around and then rip off one of his ears and throw it like a like a like a f*cking frisbee I wanna chew his f*cking lips off and grab his head and suck out one of his eyes and chew on it and spit it out in his face and say

I was just happy that i actually saw the film that won best picture in theaters. I liked the departed. Surprised that Children of Men didn't get cinematography.

Damn, I should take a star away for all that damn blue text I see.... Also you commeted on every comment except mine. ****jealous****

You know what's a really good movie scene? When Ariel gets her legs and you see a crotch shot.

^agreed

yeah, but they gave the oscar for the wrong f-ing film though...try 15 or so years ago

Holy crap, I haven't heard this song in years. Good one.

Indeed. Martin Scorsese is a cinema Master.

This is beautiful. Ironically King Missile was on the other night while I was getting the screws put to me... I bet you can guess which song!

Big nose. But he was long overdue for one.

f*ck

Indeed he does! Here, have 5!

I don't know what's more beautiful. This site or Afrotech's comment.

You're better than me, and Im better than all of you! Heres a five!!

i wish he would do another one with de niro.

i remember this song.

THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR F*CKIN FILMS. I AGREE!

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