Martin Scorsese's Most Underrated Film 

So, are paramedics that crazy in real life?

@@brunoactis1104 lol some for sure

Im Paramedic in Europe we also have this „characters” in EMS :P

I called it "sea legs". Leaning over for a line in a tuna can van and leaning into the cabinets on the other side to brace for the turn you already know is coming so you can push your drug now instead of waiting. But I've had a few new guys manage to throw me into the stairs of the door upside down. One new EMT apparently had "night blindness" driving the 24hr 911 truck. One completed a "on-line course" with no clinicals. "How do I turn on the lights?" first words....

Definitely!

Me too. It is totally bulls!"t that this film is rated 6.9 in IMDB. People shouldn't trust on those ratings at all and this is one of the many proofs that IMDB rating has gone totally wrong. It is also not the only unfortunately. But then in other hand: Almost everything what matters to taste is too subjective.

⁠@@sivutietuote always see imdb ratings as misleading. Good movies start right around the 6.0 mark. Which makes sense, cause if one thinks it’s a strong 8 say, and the others give it a 5 or 6 it will bring it down. But that 8 rater still has merit as much as the other ones. I often think as well, regarding movies that people can like the same movie for polar opposite reasons. The bast way to judge a movie is to watch it yourself but do enough due diligence beforehand to make sure there’s even a chance you’ll like it. A non spoiler summary is often more insightful than someone’s rating, since like you say they’re all subjective anyway i used to primarily go into movies not knowing much at all, and found they were largely hit and miss. At least if you can work out what they’re about at least a little bit, you’ll have an idea if you’ll like it. No one really wants to watch some historical piece that bares no relevance to anything kind of thing despite it being acclaimed The highest movie on imdb is only like high 8s, so if that 8 is technically a 10/10 (the highest benchmark on imdb), then a 6 is technically a 8 on that same metric. Instead of using aggregate scores try Ebert or letterboxd for more personalised similar taste suggestions. This movie for example is 7.4 on letterboxd and Ebert gave it 4/4 stars.

I thought the tone of the movie was way too goofy to be depressing. It’s dealing with a depressing subject but it’s directed almost like a Tarantino film. Characters acting super over the top and pretty weird editing style. I don’t know I felt the movie was tonally confused it almost felt like a comedy like After Hours at parts.

​@@Johnnysmithy24definitely a dark comedy but I think Nicholas Cage plays a pretty grounded character. Enough for the story to be believability

Thanks dude!

I guess you have some binging to do! XD

Yesss, a very underrated classic!

Currently at 30+, I never get bored of it

Probably

Ouuu that would be so tough but I'll keep it in mind

The goofy bits also bothered me at first, but eventually the heart of the movie comes through. I don't think the movie can be taken 100% seriously...(not with Nic Cage in it) I think it's supposed to be a bit of a dark satire.

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