Director/Actor Best Film #14: Scorsese & DiCaprio

Departed easily for me, and I think it's Scorsese's second-best film (Goodfellas being #1).

The Wolf of Wall St is the only great one.

Killers of the Flower Moon I'll get when it's on video (or at least when it shows up in my library).

I cant get into Gangs of New York. It feels like a Spike Lee kinda sprawl. Its admirable. DDL is obviously awesome. But DiCaprio drags it right back down so it kinda evens out to a decent movie.

The Aviator is just boring.

The Departed is entertaining. But Michael Mann and maybe even Spike Lee did better renditions of undercover/hardcore police work in the same year.

Shutter Island is just lol. Scorsese should know his element. He is not Ingmar Bergman.

But Wolf is undoubtedly great. But 1997-2012 Marty is by far his worst era. No wonder he used to be blasted for this era back in the old IMDB.

Yeah, and there's something about the palpable reduction in stakes that makes it lesser to me.    

I'm a YUGE fan of their first two together, but The Departed all the way.

Wolf of Wall Street is one of Scorsese's two masterpieces, and the only one of those featuring DiCaprio.

I gotta go with Wolf of Wall Street. 3 hours of cocaine riddled fun. I could almost snort the coke myself through the theater screen when I saw it, the film was so palpable.

Plus it’s my favorite DiCaprio performance in a Scorsese film. I think with DiCaprio, I prefer fun, breezy, and light DiCaprio and not the serious, tough, edgy roles he does (Gangs of New York, The Departed, etc.) So I got Wolf.

Also want to give a shout out to Shutter Island for DiCaprio’s masterclass New England accent in that one.

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