re: Just watched raging bull. Am I missing something?

Not to derail the thread, but the "boringness" some of think of in the Deer Hunter is actually what makes the character arc in the film just so devastating and authentic.

The wedding scene, in particular, yes, is a bit long, but it shows how these people love each other, then, after the war, are never the same.

The subtlety in that film is brilliant. I actually think the stuff post war scenes of DeNiro back in Pennsylvania are the best in the movie... Not the war stuff.

He can't even bear to go his own coming home party... It's heartbreaking.

Only Walken and Savage can understand him now, but they are both so far gone, he's virtually alone in the wilderness now. Only with Streep is he able to even find any kind of comfort again..

But before, they were all so naive and carefree.

Raging Bull though, Lamotta is just a monster, who hates himself more than anyone else. It's a riveting Deniro performance and it's still one of the greateat acting perofmances ever, especially the end jail scene.

Do I want watch Raging Bull every month or even every year,... No... But it's still deserves the acclaim it gets.