raging bull? raging bore

Rating: 1/10 (14 October 2006)

wow, what a letdown.i had heard friends and critics say that raging bull was a great movie,even a masterpiece.well,i finally decided to watch it.all i can say is...i don't think so.i found the entire movie a complete bore and horribly depressing.the movie may have been based on a true story,and maybe Scorsese was going for reality,but i'm sorry, what a horrible human being Jake Lomatta is.how can anyone remotely sympathize with this wretch.he deserved everything he got.but this is the one time Hollywood should have taken dramatic license and made the character into a semblance of a human being.anyway, the film chronicles the rise and fall of boxer Jake Lomatta played by Robert Deniro.Scorsese filmed the movie in black and white,supposedly for effect,but it was lost on me.a good movie needs a main character you can relate to and/or sympathize with and this movie doesn't have that.there are no redeeming qualities in this movie.i felt like i wanted to kill myself after watching it.simply put this movie is a colossal waste of time.i know many people totally disagree with this view point and i can't for the life of me understand why,but that's life. 0* out of 10