clappj

Scorsese attempting 3-D with 'Hugo Cabret'

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2010-...th-hugo-cabret


Wow! If there's a director that was born to do 3-D, it's definitely Scorsese!

Troy Stiffler

Hugo Cabret? Awesome!

3D? Okie dokie.

Ash Ketchum

I'd love to see HOUSE OF WAX or IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, to name two actual 3-D classics, remade by Scorsese. De Niro in the Price role, and Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta as the two linemen who get possessed by aliens in the latter film. "What. Kind. of. Funny. Am. I. a. Clown. Do. I. Amuse. You."

JumpCutz

Scorsese hasn't made a great film in over ten years. Let's hope this will be a return to form.
He's getting real close to nuking the shark.

Ash Ketchum

20 years if you ask me. His last great film was GOODFELLAS (1990). The only good ones since then have been CAPE FEAR (1991), AGE OF INNOCENCE (1993), and KUNDUN (1997).

Mabuse

Can you please specify how he was "born to do 3-D". I'm not saying you're wrong, I just fail to see any indication one way or the other based on anything he has ever done or said.

Daytripper

x 10

Drop

I'll put The Aviator up there with the best of Scorsese. Bringing Out the Dead is severely underrated too.

Osiris3657

Eh this sucks, it's a kids film.

What happened to "I Heard You Paint Houses"? and the Teddy Roosevelt biopic? I'd much rather him spend his time on something his fanbase actually wants to see.

Solid Snake

Hey hey hey. You're not Scorsese. Scorsese is Scorsese. Let the man do what he wants and hope that it's at least above average. I'm in as long as it's good.

harrydoyle

This could be interesting, but I have to agree that I'm a little disappointed it's a kids movie. Scorcese in 3D though is almost too good to pass up. If it's quality I'll check it out.

clappj

There was likely a similar reaction when Wes Anderson decided to do Fantastic Mr. Fox, and I personally feel that turned out pretty darn well!

Ash Ketchum

Calling BRINGING OUT THE DEAD "underrated" is already seriously overrating it.

Drop

No it isn't. Not many people give it any praise, and it's not a bad film. It's atleast competently made. I really like Nic Cage in it, even if it's Taxi Driver redux. It's just opinion of course but I don't think anyone could build up a good defense of it being overrated. Maybe it's properly rated, it has a 71% on rotten tomatoes.

Mabuse

Yeah, please indulge me. Everyone slags the film but never gives sound reasoning for what's wrong with it. It excels on all technical levels, has great performances, and is a solid working out of key themes that Scorsese has addressed many times in the past: Regret, self flagelation, paying for your sins on the streets, society's outsiders, comedy amidst violence.

I think people are so uncomfortable with the content of the film that they can't laugh at the funny parts. Audiences feel distanced enough from the savage lifestyles of the characters in Goodfellas and Casino that they can safely laugh at the events depicted, but emergency rooms, ambulances, the indiscriminate cruelty and indignity of medical treatment is all too close to home for many viewers.

I see BOTD as being Scorsese's last "youthful" film. Everything since then has seemed more mature and classical in style. Today he seems less inspired by youthful iconoclasts like Fuller, Walsh, and Boeticher, and more inspired by the late period of several auteurs who graduated into more "hermitcally sealed" productions in their old age (Visconti, Hitchcock, Hawks, Kubrick).

P.S. I haven't seen Shutter Island which seems heavily Powell influenced.

Ash Ketchum

I remember seeing BOTD in a crowded discount theater in Manhattan, only blocks from where the film takes place, and I was sitting in the middle of a row, surrounded by people and I so badly wanted to leave midway through the film, but it would have meant stepping over several families in either direction that I just stayed there and suffered. It was just excruciatingly painful to sit through. It was all about a New York that had pretty much disappeared by the time the film was made, yet it wasn't set in the period when it would have been appropriate. And I'm someone who saw MEAN STREETS, TAXI DRIVER and RAGING BULL when they came out and all with appreciative New York audiences. So I know how crowds react to prime Scorsese, but they didn't react to this one. Can I recall specific details of things that bothered me? No, I can't. It was not a memorable film for me. Yet I can recite prime Scorsese moments from 1973-1990 chapter and verse.

JumpCutz

Okay. Which of his films in the last 10 years would you call great.

I think he's made some very good films over that period like The Aviator and The Departed, but I would hardly call them great. Certainly nothing near the quality of his earlier films.

PopcornTreeCt

Horrible news. If 3D can get Scorsese they can get anyone.

Mabuse

1. The film starts by saying it takes place in the early '90s, not 1999.

2. If you can can recite prime Scorsese moments chapter and verse then it's because you've seen the films multiple times. It sounds like you've only ever given BOTD one try, and it's been 11 years.

Blu Man

Wow. This is unfortunate.

Giantrobo

But seriously folks. Enough with the 3D Movies already....

dan30oly

fixed.

Supermallet

Ash Ketchum

1) I still didn't buy it. I can't remember why, though. I think it was because the area depicted was undergoing massive gentrification-motivated changes in the early '90s already.

2) True. Maybe in 11 years, I'll give it another try.

RagingBull80

This doesn't sound exciting but we will have to see.

I believe that Scorsese has made several very good films in the last 10 years.

I'm a big Bringing Out the Dead fan.

Oh and...

I mirror Suprmallet's response to this.