Raging Bull (Wide Screen) (DVD)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- raging bull is a story of one of the greats to enter boxing. This film shows how hard it was to be a fighter in the old days. It was hard because it had great fighters like sugar ray robinson and boxing was corrupted so it was hard to get a title shot. for me this is the best boxing film ever because it is based on truth. in this film it shows robert dineros actor getting paranoid and beating up his wife. his violence helps him in the ring however he struggles to find the same reward outside the ring. raging bull is a personal favourite of mine. this film has 2 oscars. the best thing i ...  Read the complete review

One of the great Hollywood studies of broken, twisted, shattered masculinity (and a definite forbear of the recent Rocky Balboa and The Wrestler), Raging Bull is a harrowing, exhausting, yet utterly exhilarating portrait of a man increasingly obscured and degraded by his own animal nature. Ostensibly a sports biopic charting the rise and fall of Bronx boxer Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro in a wholly devastating performance) from hoodlum (or associate of hoodlums, at any rate) to world champion to broke, lonely stand-up comic, Raging Bull is in fact a film concerned with the dragging into the light of demons. La Motta's demons, certainly, but also ...  Read the complete review

note: also appears on Flixster and The Student Room Raging Bull is an absolute trumph, combining the seemingly endless abilities of director Martin Scorsese and actor Robert DeNiro to make what is undoubtedly the very best film ever about boxing, and also a supremely entertaining and wonderfully mounted film. This is pretty much as good as films get. Scorsese decides to shoot the film in a noirish style, and whilst it's often used as a gimmick in films to make them seem more "arty" or powerful, here it stands on its own legs as a means of Scorsese reinforcing the gritty milieu that he first picked up on in his debut crime feature Mean ...  Read the complete review

The main factor for this film being made was most certainly Robert De Niro. For several years he pestered his good friend and fellow collaborator Martin Scorsese to make a film about the story of Jake La Motta, the middlewight boxer from New York. It was only after Scorsese was admitted to hospital due to his own temultuous private life that he began to recognise the similarities between himself and La Motta, the emotions and aggression that they shared, and thus he wanted to begin the project. With the help of Paul Schrader, writer of Taxi Driver, Scorsese and De Niro here created perhaps their very best work together. An analysis into the affect of ...  Read the complete review

Few films can stand up and claim to be one of the greatest movies ever made. Well Raging Bull is standing pretty close to the front of the line. A fantastic film to finish the seventies with (yes I know it was made in 1980...), Raging Bull could hardly be better. It might just be Martin Scorsese's greatest masperpiece; dare I say it, better than Taxi Driver and even Mean Streets. First, the most obvious thing - this film is in black and white. This, I'm ashamed to say, put me off initially. That was until the opening credits started. This is the most colourful black and white film I've ever seen. Now Robert DeNiro is well known for ...  Read the complete review