It's clean, like my conscience.

In my effort to be a better movie nerd I've been trying to go back and watch classics that I've never seen. I mostly use Roger Ebert's great movies lists for this, and that's how I came to watch Taxi Driver this weekend.

This is one of those movies that is masterfully made, but I just didn't like it that much. Yeah, we get to see some seedy underbelly parts of New York in the 70's. Yeah, we get to see a great perfomance by DeNiro. But his character is a disturbed, dysfunctional guy who's incredibly lonely and can't seem to take a right step when dealing with people around him. He's not really someone I want to spend two hours of my life watching, it's not that interesting to me.

What is super interesting is seeing all the big names in this movie. Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepher, and Albert Brooks (the first time I've seen him in a non-comedic role.) That part I'll admit was fun. I almost turned the movie off halfway though, but stuck it out mostly because I wanted to see Keitel's and Foster's roles near the end.

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