I still don't get it....

Rating: 3/10 (30 December 2007)

I saw this movie when it came out, and didn't like it. Then when it was named Movie of the Decade in the 1980s, I figure I'd try it again. Thought maybe I was in a grumpy move the first time. No go: I disliked it just as much the second time.
Who gives a damn about this awful guy and his awful wife and friends? This is a movie that has little humanity and, IMHO, little purpose.
Look, I'm not a Pollyanna. I like movie violence (e.g. David Kronenberg, No Country for Old Men), I appreciate well-told stories about complex and thoroughly rotten people. But there is no complexity to Jake LaMotta. He was a simple boob whose glorification does nothing for me.
The "3" is for DeNiro.