Taxi Driver - there a raging spoiler below, so beware if youve never seen it.
had it added to ye olde netflix queue after reading about it in a news thread got me hankering for it - great flick. Was my fiancee's first go at it, and she liked it as well.
We both totally agree that the movie should have ended on the couch
after the big "finale". Fade to black, you know - would have been the perfect ending for that film. Let Travis die, given his ultimate purpose w/ one final burst of chaotic, ugly, flailing violence that finally made a difference. Ok, maybe even have a brief eulogy scene w/ Jodie foster if you really wanted to go on w/ it, but then end it right there on that note.
But no. They had to wrap it up all tidy and nicely, w/ *%^$ soft music and cybill looking on w/ doe eyes at a dismissive Travis whos STILL DRIVING A *^&@&!! CAB. After all this time, and quite a few viewings, I still had to do a facepalm on that one, almost embarassed by it. I almost wanted to turn off the film at the end of the finale so she thought it ended there.
Good Lord of the Tigers. I love that movie, but think it's definitely one of the worst, most blatantly hollywood-tacked-on sellout endings of all time.
I did learn something interesting from the extra "making of" feature that was pretty interesting. Some soldiers in the Vietnam war who were supposedly going into heavy combat would shave their hair into a mohawk, which explains Travis Bickle's (a vietnam vet) sudden hairstyle change at the end of the film. I thought that was interesting, I thought he had just lost it, or was trying to disguise himself for his assassination attempt on Palantine.
