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The Irishman or, I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES Fresh off being harangued by a bunch of nerds, Martin Scorsese has found time to take Netflix for all they're worth with his new crime epic The Irishman, his first film since 1995 to feature the dream team of Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, and his first to feature the third in the holy trinity of wiseguy actors, Al Pacino. It's the biggest theatrical rollout for a Netflix film yet, despite being three and a half hours with no intermission. It's also his best movie since, I dunno, The Departed probably? Elegaic and sad in a way his previous crime pictures aren't. Plus it puts forth a theory for who killed Jimmy Hoffa and scolds all the young people in the audience for not knowing who he is. Oh, it also features some computer de-aging of all the 70+ actors that my girlfriend found so distracting it took her out of the movie completely but I thought was only annoying for the first five minutes or so. Ray Romano is weirdly good in this and Action Bronson has a hilarious cameo. What do y'all think?
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Nov 26, 2019 19:23
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medium-hot take: Silence was a misfire
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Nov 26, 2019 20:31
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TrixRabbi posted:Bad take. more like bad accents, of which that movie has many
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Nov 26, 2019 21:06
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I don't have netflix because gently caress em but i won't lie, i absolutely could not make it thru the Irishman in theaters without taking a piss, so who's to say whether it's bad
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Nov 26, 2019 21:07
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Electronico6 posted:With Silence you get to see the difference between good actors(Liam Neeson and Ciaran Hinds) and tryhard actors(Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver). Good actors never waste time putting stupid accents. as someone who coincidentally just watched K-19: The Widowmaker, I have some bad news for you about Liam Neeson
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Nov 26, 2019 21:27
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Chuka Umana posted:This was Scorsese's best since Raging Bull easily. I liked this movie a lot but putting it over Goodfellas is a spicy meatball Terra-da-loo! posted:The exchange in the car about the fish between Sally and Chuckie is pretty great. Definitely the funniest part of the movie. Never put a fish in a car. There was a lot of that trademark Scorsese humor in there which was great but Matt Zoller Seitz in his review called the movie “95% comedy” which I thought was weird
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Nov 28, 2019 16:25
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Darko posted:Casino is better than Goodfellas, too (realized that as I got older, really). This one I’m at least slightly willing to entertain, Casino is super underrated and I think everyone realizes that as they get older
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Nov 28, 2019 20:29
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Blood Boils posted:I'm really looking forward to Pacino's Hoffa, seeing how he stacks up against Nicholson's and Stalone's. This movie did get me to finally request Hoffa from the library, I’ve slept way too long on seeing Danny DeVito direct Jack Nicholson with a script by David Mamet
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Nov 28, 2019 21:05
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muscles like this! posted:I mean the Netflix listing and all the reporting about it say The Irishman but when you watch the movie it says the title is I Heard You Paint Houses. I think the feeling is it was Scorsese’s preferred title but not Netflix’s
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Dec 3, 2019 04:23
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Groovelord Neato posted:Having a goofy stand up comic play a mob boss was more distracting than the de-aging. I dunno, Pesci hasn’t done stand up for thirty plus years, I think we all know him as a mob guy now
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Dec 4, 2019 18:38
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sportsgenius86 posted:Really great movie. It’s a perfect capstone for Scorsese and the main actors involved. I read the book several years ago though and it definitely comes off like Sheeran making himself out to be some kind of mafia Forrest Gump. Yeah placing himself front and center for the Bay of Pigs invasion and in the process meeting multiple figures in JFK conspiracy lore was maybe a bit much.
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Dec 17, 2019 01:04
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