Mentions (20)
"I was watching taxi driver and it was funny how Travis watching porn at theateres was a way to display how weird he was, but I imagine that if this was used in a modern movie today people would seethe and say how it's perfectly normal to do so"
"We watched taxi driver together the other night. Afterwards he got really quiet and just sat there for a while. I asked him what he thought of it, and he said it was 'hella based' and 'said a lot about society' and when I asked him what he meant by that, he didn't respond. The next morning he cut hi"
"There's a new post on r/movies called 'Taxi Driver has really stood the test of time'. It only has 58 comments, but already there's nine mentions of the word 'incel' in them. I've seen this before in regards to movies with less-fortunate male characters. It wouldn't annoy me so much if it wasn't so "
"People just love applying the Taxi Driver moral of the story to this one too."
"That's obviously interesting, but not _incredibly_ unique. There have been both 'life sucks' and rampage movies before and since, like Taxi Driver."
"Best Marty cameo in his own movie since Taxi Driver."
"The streets and subways of North America are infested with fent addicted people. I watched taxi driver again and it seems as bad or worse now. people always say that the gritty, bleak reality of life in the 70s and shit lead to some great stuff."
"In the ep I'm listening to Anna says that her take away from Taxi Driver is that 'women don't actually want to be saved from their misery' which i think really speaks to how her mind interprets female suffering."
"the catcher in the rye thread mentioned a reading of holden's character as secretly having sexual desires for his sister which couldn't be more r-worded…….I've seen this take with taxi driver too."
"i got the idea of applying for this job from the movie night on earth by jim jarmusch, my favorite one ever. everybody else did it because of Taxi Driver, so this makes me cool and special."
"Yeah, it's not great to kill people. But Keitel is one of the scummiest characters in film history I think. Probably the worst thing he did, when he was acting like a creep to the cinema attendee lol, you know the black woman (played by De Niro's wife funnily enough). And taking Cybil to the porno, "
"All the bad guys in movies still seem to have a purpose. I can't think of any movies besides like Taxi Driver that show the purposelessness of the violence we are plagued with today."
"When will we start to see movies of the likes of Taxi Driver about misdirected youths killing their peers, or anti-war style Vietnam movies about Iraq and Afghanistan if ever?"
"like the taxi driver scene where the guy sells travis the guns everyone is like 'i adore this young man's salesmanship, what an entrepeneur!' and it's like he's selling hard drugs lmao."
"That's obviously interesting, but not _incredibly_ unique. There have been both 'life sucks' and rampage movies before and since, like Taxi Driver."
"I watched taxi driver again and it seems as bad or worse now. people always say that the gritty, bleak reality of life in the 70s and shit lead to some great stuff."
"i got the idea of applying for this job from the movie night on earth by jim jarmusch, my favorite one ever. everybody else did it because of Taxi Driver, so this makes me cool and special."
"I can't think of any movies besides like Taxi Driver that show the purposelessness of the violence we are plagued with today."
"Listen, you fuckers, you screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up."
"Taxi Driver is probably the greatest time capsule on the 20th century 'proto-incel'."