King of Comedy

Well we didn't get to see 'Network' on Thursday (how sad) but I'm interested to see if it's really all it has been hyped up to be. Instead we saw Martin Scorsese's 'King of Comedy' starring Robert De Niro and I hate to admit it but I did really like it.
Up until this particular screening the only Martin Scorsese film that I found at all entertaining was 'The Departed'. With this exception, I can't say I see what all the fuss is about concerning Scorsese's films. Granted he knows his stuff and has had many a successfull film, I just find it hard to find the entertainment value in his films. Although I can appreciate his technical skill etc. the genre and storylines his films just don't do it for me.
Having said that, with thursday's screening of 'King of Comedy' I can safely say there are now two of his films that I do enjoy. I hadn't expected this kind of genre from Martin Scorsese -and I certainly didn't think he could pull it off in the way that he did. To put it simply; it was bloody hilarious! ....In an embarrassing kind of way.
I thought De Niro managed to pull off a fairly convincing and comedic crazy fan, and had an disturbing ability to make you feel an empathetic embarrasment towards his character.
I did think that the behaviour of the two obsessed fans was quite disturbing, but there's so many people out there like that that it didn't seem that far removed from today's reality. I also think that there's something rather amusing about the fact that back then it was considered quite shocking behaviour, where as now most reality T.V spends its time showcasing people of a similar strand.