The Irishman (movie)

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Finally watched it this week while on planes - I’d seen clips here and there but not the entire movie.

I thought it was very well done with great performances all around. I feel like Pacino had slipped into an over the top caricature for the last 25 years but thought he was absolutely fantastic in this.

What do you all think?

 

[Mister_Man]

Finally watched it this week while on planes - I’d seen clips here and there but not the entire movie.

I thought it was very well done with great performances all around. I feel like Pacino had slipped into an over the top caricature for the last 25 years but thought he was absolutely fantastic in this.

What do you all think?

I think I could have been truly great had they went with younger actors and inserted DeNiro in the proper context. I still enjoyed it.

 

[Mister_Man]

 

[Moral]

I thought it was better than people were giving it credit for. Although I thought the gripe about the actors was valid. At the same time we won't get to see some of these actors for much longer either.

 

[HawkOptimist]

We’re so used to seeing guys like DeNiro, Pesci and Pacino as younger bad a$$es in movies like The Godfather, Goodfellas, Heat, Casino, etc. I enjoyed The Irishman, but I also had mixed feelings about seeing all these guys (or strange cgi versions of themselves in some scenes) trying to be much older bad a$$es. For instance, the scene when DeNiro’s character was beating that guy on the street. So odd and confusing. At least bring in a stunt double to make it look like an actual beating, not a turtle walking over a pile of sticks on the road.

Still, it was nice to see all these guys together for what was probably their last hurrah as mafia types.

 

[Fan In Black]

it was a little too long. and if you know the real history of the characters it was complete bullshit. But I thought Pesci was brilliant. Keitel too in a brief appearance.

 

[ISUBryce]

Not a Scorsese guy. I honestly don’t get the appeal. Not a single character in any of his movies has a shred of decency.

 

[Thunderlips71]

I saw it at a theater in Windsor when it first came out. Love the movie, just too damned long.