I went to the movie store today and found that I can get 5 older DVDs hired for $10 for 1 week, so I got 5 out. Lots of movie watching this week…

Anyway, I went to a friends place for dinner tonight, and after that we watched Taxi Driver. 1974, Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Martin Scorsese directed it. It was quite a good movie, I’d give it a 3.5/5. I felt the end of the movie seemed to come very quickly. The progression from him only being slighly bizarre, to full on angry man seemed to come very quickly. It was certainly building throughout the movie, but then all of a sudden he got very hard core.

The dust jacket promised lots of violence (not that I’m really into that) but I expected a longer, more drawn out period of him cleaning up the streets of NYC.

I really liked the way De Niros character would sit back and let the other characters do the talking, and move the story along – like when he was talking to Matthew about hiring Iris (Foster), he didn’t do that much talking – there was lots of looking and (you could tell) thinking on his part, but not that much talking. I also enjoyed his confidence in asking Betty (?) (Shepherd) out. It was quite funny, and then the conversation in the coffee shop about the other guy at the campaign office.

I’d watch it again.