>I've seen Taxi Driver several times myself trying to sort out
>my problems with it. I've given it a lot of chances. I've
>seen it more times than I've seen most movies I actually
>like.
>
>>Talk to me, people. What do y'all think? Genius film? Flawed
>>film? A bit of both? Overhyped garbage?
>
>I don't like Taxi Driver. But I do think its subject. . . the
>story of a disturbed war veteran turned right wing vigilante
>assassin is a worthy one. . . it's a type we've seen spring up
>here and there in the real world in the past several decades.
>
>
>But I'm not sure how much the film really has to say on the
>subject. I don't find it a particularly enlightening portrait
>of this character.
>
>I also think the movie is a bit too fond of the character.
>Sometimes I even get the feeling he's speaking *for* the
>filmmakers. . . or at least for writer Paul Schrader. Perhaps
>not for Scorsese.
>
>I've always had a problem with the part of the movie where
>Travis takes Cybil Shepard's character to the porn theater. I
>find it hard to believe. I find it hard to believe that
>Travis would have been so stupid as to take her there in the
>first place. Especially at that point in the story.
>
>I also find it hard to believe that Cybil Shepard's character
>would have walked into the theater with him at all. It
>clearly wasn't playing a musical that night. And she
>definitely wasn't into porn.
>