The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2018) Movie • Page 18

Because everybody has their own tastes?

 

I guess you can taste dirty diapers

 

I wasn’t aware there was an “Irishman is boring” meme?

 

Most of the people I know that have watched it have called it boring. They wanted Goodfellas 2.

 

Ive gotten two “suggested for you” articles from Facebook and Google about people who think the Irishman is bad or boring and I guess it’s comforting to know that despite knowing everything about me, their algorithms do not understand me at all

 

the 10 minutes/15 minutes scene is my second favorite movie thing this year

 

Just watched this tonight and.....yeah I don't know.......the acting was great and all, but....yeah just didn't care for it. Wasn't moved at all or anything. I kind of knew of the story, but nowhere near all the details presented in the film. Too long for my liking, but that's just me. Nothing at all bad about the film; just not my thing I guess.

 

On my re watch, and picking up on a lot I missed.

As hyped as I was to see Pesci(understandingly so he’s amazing in this)I actually still think Pacino gives the best performance.

 

I'm not sure I wanted Goodfellas 2, but I was expecting it to be as gripping from the start. The first hour and a half was too meandering.

It starts picking up when Pacino is introduced, and it's only really good when he's onscreen. Felt De Niro and Pesci were too subdued.

 

DeNiro’s phone call is the best acting in the film, imo

aside from Action Bronson

 

Pesci and DeNiro need to be subdued. The Goodfellas gang hanging out with Pacino's Jimmy Hoffa would have been bad

 

Agreed. All three played off each other great, and love how Russ is played. His demeanor is perfect, and made even more engaging with Pesci performance.

 

Finished this last night and I really really loved it. I have a lot of thoughts but want to digest a little more until I post more about it. Early impressions are I felt it had a lot of “post-Sopranos era mafia-film” meta elements that really worked in its favor, the performances were stellar, and the music fit the vibe perfectly. I honestly did not mind the length at all, and I think the fact that “so much, but so little happened” is kinda the point.

 

Pesci's subdued..ness...is exactly what makes his performance so incredible

 

Yeah, I enjoyed subdued Pesci more than I did De Niro.

Part of it for me was De Niro was narrating with almost the same style as Ray Liotta in Goodfellas. Similar observations, attention to detail, etc but none of the charisma. While I appreciated this movie being more toned down, that narration style felt a bit out of place for me here.

Then again maybe none of that would've bothered me had it been an hour shorter and more focused, especially during that first hour.

 

I thought the narration was fine and just as effective in driving the story along with Casino and Wolf of Wall Street

 

the phone call is great but the scene of de niro reflecting on the call with the priest wrecked me

 

finally saw this, Pesci was goddamn incredible and he owned the film

 

also maybe I missed it, was it ever said how Harvey Keitel's character died?

 

Not in the film I don't think, but he gets his head blown off in a car IRL. You can google the pictures

 

Why would we do that?

 

They definitely pause and caption that he got shot in the head in his driveway

 

must've forgotten that, whoops. I do think this movie could have used about 10% more Keitel and Bobby Cannavale but that's my only huge complaint