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Title: Raging Baloney
Review: Martin Scorsese isn't a bad fellow, and he has a lot of talent, no doubt, but his influence on young American moviemakers has been entirely negative. The galloping illiteracy of this film, the first of Scorsese's f-word festivals, has infected dozens of other directors and screenwriters, and has even spread to television, where we see a sewage backup like "The Sopranos" being acclaimed by many who should know better. The screenplay of "Raging Bull" is shot through with inaccuracies, and nobody who remembers Jake LaMotta performing on "Car 54 Where Are You" is going to accept him as a tragic figure. The real tragedy is the debasement of the English language and its inexhaustible variety by a film like this.
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