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Matt Turner
17Jan12
'Better to be King for a night than schmuck for a lifetime.' Great film about obsession and delusion, and commitment to it.
Stephen Campbell
12Dec11
That it flopped on release shows how audiences dont really get a lot of Martys work,me i love it
Ryan Mulhern
18Aug11
Possibly Martin Scorsese's second best film, after taxi driver (a film that it shares many themes with.)
Jason Winstanley
28Jul11
Lewis and De Niro are superb. A great film. Scorsese's, (less obvious) best film. Probably.
HEDONIST
25Jul11
oh the schadenfreude ... another brilliant performance by De Niro playing the role of the full-on sociopath -- saw reflections of Cape Fear and Taxi Driver... De Niro is just really suited to play these sorts of roles... an excellent job by him and by Bernhard as well ... loved watching this film ...
Frederick Avery
11Jul11
absolutely dynamite. my favourite de niro film. tragically funny but also creepy and weird. pupkin is as real as the hand in front of my face.
Dave
29May11
While there certainly are many moments where you can’t help but chuckle at Rupert Pupkin, it is not the same type of laughter you experience with a classic comedy, but more of a very uneasy laughter. You’re laughing, but you’re more troubled than amused. Rather than looking at it is a normal comedy, I'm more inclined to compare this to Taxi Driver, with two lonely men losing it and "dreaming big."
Charles Foster Kane
11Apr11
I would once have called this Scorsese's most underrated film but it seems to be coming into its own. Remarkably prescient and for today's age of empty short-cut celebrity extremely relevant.
Colin Landon
19Mar11
Scorsese's underrated masterpiece. Great story telling and makes you think twice if you ever wanted to become famous. Also a film that looks into the BS that people endure both at the top and bottom of show business. It's a classic.
Lee
13Feb11
My favoirte Scorsese because it is his deepest and most terrifying investigation into the heart of delusion. Rupert Pupkin believes he is great, believes the minor encounters he has with people are meaningful, and fundamentally he believes in the american dream. Aren't we all deluded into believing we are special, the proverbial snowflake. Well you're not, you are a schmuck like everyone else.
Drew Boggemes
4Jan11
Martin Scorsese's often overlooked, darkly insightful The King of Comedy consistently flirts with brilliance, but is too fundamentally uneven to solidify any sort of greatness.
Funny how?
2Jan11
Decided to watch this one night after having the DVD sitting on the shelf for a couple weeks. I was expecting a small and slightly humorous film but what I got blew me away. De Niro at the top of his game. Easily near the top of my favorite Scorsese films.
comeandsee
10Dec10
a very impressive piece of work on the very thin line between anonymity and fame. the alienation, isolation and utter desperate violent need for fame which plagues pumpkin is fantastically presented in de niro's performance. there is a unseen emitional violence bumbling under the surface and at times this presents an uneasy tone. scorsese's masterpiece, and a level which he has struggled to consistently reporduce.
Mark Malazarte
16Nov09
The Clash make a brief cameo in this when Rupert and Sandra Bernhard are walking down the street. Scorsese, The Clash, Jerry Lewis, and one of De Niro's best characters/performances. Four reasons why this needs a Criterion release.
rajiv ibrahim
2Nov09
this is probably the best comedy film for me, and robert de niro delivers one of his best and most memorable performance of his life., this is the forgotten scorsese's masterpiece..