What is your favorite movie?

The best directing.
The best acting.
The best quote of all time.

The greatest mafia/gangster movie of all-time. Should definitely be in the AFI Top 20.

Anytime you add Martin Scorsese with Robert De Nero and some Joe Pesci, you will make one hell of a film.

Brando & Pacino - case closed!!

Some will say it’s a biased vote because it’s so recent, but no movie I have ever seen has held my interest from beginning to end like The Departed.

De Niro’s Best; Scorsese’s best; the best film of the ’80’s; the best film ever made!

The film gets into the mind of Jake Lamotta. Everything De Niro does in this film is incredible. Never in the history of film has any actor given a more honest, and truthful performance. De Niro morphs into Lamotta, and not just by gaining weight, but learning how to breathe and think like Jake Lamatto. His journey is heartbreaking, and yet oddly inspiring. Scorsese doesn’t use voice over to get you into Jake’s head, he know’s De Niro can do it for him. The brutality of the boxing scenes carries a mythic, visceral sense of reality. This movie isn’t for the light weights, it’s heavy material, it asks you to care for a horrible human being, and by some miracle, you do! Raging Bull is not just my favorite movie of all time, I would indeed call it the best film ever made!
By: Stephen Wagner

Robert De Niro gives the greatest performance of ALL time.

Robert De Niro gives the greatest performance of ALL time. Starring next to the greatest supporting actress performance of all time by the 12 year old Jodie Foster. The direction is beyond perfection, and the entire cast shines including Harvey Keitel. The only movie ever to have such an effect on me. It really nailed the subjects of alienation, lonliness, and psychological problems to the screen. The movie includes the greatest scene and quote of all time: “You talking to me?” scene, and it also includes the greatest shootout scene of all time. Just like the main character of the movie, I felt disgusted by the streets at night. In fact I felt so disgusted after watching this masterpiece to the point that I took a one hour shower. Truely as powerful as a movie gets, thanks to the greatest screenplay of all time by Paul Shrader.
By: Wael Khairy

It’s a masterpiece of the human brain. Only Martin Scorsese could make it the masterpiece it is.

It told me that this is what I really want to do for the rest of my life. Direct movies that will bring up a great conversation
By: Alex Pelinovschi

Two men operate as moles for both sides of the law in Martin Scorsese’s thrilling tale of loyalty and deception.

The Departed is the epitome of a fantastic film. It has a gripping storyline, in depth characters, great dialogue all wrangled in by the master of the modern crime drama Martin Scorsese.
By: Jules Forde

I would have said Return of the King…

I would have said Return of the King, but the acting in The Departed is so incredible it really makes the movie. Leonardo DiCaprio is absolutely amazing as is Mark Wahlberg. Alec Baldwin adds an extra bit of comedy that really helps. And Jack Nicholson is at his best with what I feel is his second best performance behind As Good As It Gets. And Matt Damon plays a pretty good slimebag.
By: Matthew Welter

This movie has been out for a little while and i have already seen it many times.

This movie has been out for a little while and i have already seen it many times
By: Kyle Leingang

It really captures the picture of the streets of America.

It’s such an amazing movie from the brilliant Martin Scorsese. It really captures the picture of the streets of America. The top flight cast in the film adds on to its brilliance.
By: Jake Burbage

Every thing about this movei is so amazing. The Directing, acting, story, and the fact that you can’t peel your eyes from the screen for one second. I know i couldn’t.

I have always thought that the “cop and robber” genre was typically the same. There was a protagonist, and and antogonist. The cop was the good guy, and the robber was the bad guy. But in this movie it takes that basic story and flips it. The good guy is Billy Costigan, a cop from the wrong side of the tracks that goes undercover into the top gang in Boston to infiltrate Frank Costello.The bad guy is Colin Sullivan is a detective who is a mole for Costello. Sullivan and Costigan are trying to find out who each other are and the whole thing plays out into an instant classic long the lines of The Godfather. The way that Martin Scorsese directs it makes things that are emotional and makes them upbeat and surprising. You can never see things coming. This movie changes things in the gangster way of film making and turns them into a new “bang bang” way of film making. I love it.
By: AJ Bell

“I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.”

Maybe it’s too early to call this movie a classic, for it isn’t even out on dvd yet, but I believe this movie is going to be huge. Once it comes out on dvd and everyone sees it, it will become an instant classic. It’s the best film Scorsese has released in ten years and it’s the best hollywood film to be released since Fight Club and American beauty. It’s pure high adrenaline entertainment filled with great lines and great character development. This movie will be on the topic of conversation for many years to come.
By: Tom Hagan

Scorsese’s most personal, and his greatest film.

Scorsese’s most personal, and his greatest film.
By: Neil Bahadur

Scorsese is the reason I love movies.

The camera work, the editing, the screenplay, music, acting and direction of this classic are a cut above the rest. Scorsese is the reason I love movies.
By: Joseph Garland

One of the most realistic and gritty movies ever made. Robert DeNiro gives on of his greatest performances, and it ends with a spectacular climax

The film made me become a Martin Scorsese fanatic
By: nick gasquoine

A dual thematic biopic of boxer Jake LaMotta and director Martin Scorsese.

This is the movie that opened my eyes to the possibilities of film. The acting is the best in any ever movie ever, the cinematography is haunting, the use of sound imagery laid beneath the soundtrack during the boxing scenes is sublime. It is powerful, funny, touching, risible and pure genius.
By: Timothy Sexton

I wasn’t that impressed by it the first time I saw it. It took a few viewings for me to fully appreciate it.

It has everything I look for in a movie…great visuals, music, and acting, and direction.
By: Cole Biodrowski

Raging Bull will always be the crown jewel of film history to me.

Raging Bull will always be the crown jewel of film history to me. Everything about this movie absolutely sweats. The directing is astounding and although Scorsese would go on to direct many more impressive pieces of film, this has been his greatest achievment. There has never been a boxing movie before or since that made you feel as part of the fight as this, the ways the camera is placed inside the ring with the fighters, the shots of the audience being sprayed with blood, the sound going from loud and abrasive, (hearing bones crunch and leather slap skin) to muffled and distant, as I’m sure it does with boxers in the ring, and the most impressive, Scorsese holding flames under the camera during LaMotta’s most difficult fight, to create the illusion that we are in some kind of hell with this character.
The performances are the best these actor’s will give in their careers, which is saying alot, the editing by Thelma is brilliant and the script is flawless, not a word of ‘filler’.
I could go on and on, but I’ll close with this:
Raging Bull is amoung the few movies that, aside from its technological accomplishments, can evoke a plathora of emotions in me in a single viewing, all along with the characters as they feel them, anger, laughter, fear, suspense, loyalty, betrayal, embarrassment, satisfaction, and regret, are but a few.
If I was to be trapped on a desert island for the rest of my life and was allowed one film, this would be it, that way I won’t ever forget how to feel…anything.
By: Dustin Griffin