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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
I tried to watch this last night. TERRIBLE. Unwatchable. (Not unusual for academy award best picture winners, actually.) Don't bother trying to watch it. Hasn't Nicholson's schtick worn a little thin by now? Dya think? The story was far fetched, and the writing so bad it hurt my ears. Schorsese gone totally to seed.
Beyond being bad the movie was offensive. I have high tolerance for sex and violence. Here it was 98% gratuitous. Blood splashing everywhere, inartful, and pointless. Who cares about ugly ill-bred, barbarous men bashing one another's heads in? The novelty wore off long ago.
Waters, when is your organization going to come out and say something against movies repeatedly depicting shrinks sleeping with their patients as if it's normal and okay even romantic and sexy?
This will be one of those academy award winners completely forgotten in ten years.
If you want to see a great gangster movie recently released see City of God.
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Every Scorsese movie has gratuitous violence in it. That's never changed about his movies.