The Irishman...

[MoeFOH]

Scorsese's best? I'd have to rate it right up there. 

Who's taken it on, how are you rating it?

[NweakO]

I really really liked it. My only gripe is the digital de-aging thing with De Deniro especially, thought it was a bit cheesy. Having said that, it's one of Scorsese's finest if not the best in a while (thought Wolf of Wall Street was a bit lame and unfocused). I mainly loved it cause it showed how good Al Pacino can be.

I'd give it a 9/10.

[Ken Gargett]

by chance, watched it last night. you guys are slightly above me. 7.5/10. i'd have been higher if it were tighter. 3 1/2 hours (i have no problem with long films) could have been condensed by 45-60 minutes and i think it would have greatly benefited. the last half hour really started to drag for me. 

but certainly a fine film. i thought one of pacino's great performances and de niro not far behind. and possibly joe pesci's best film. with those three in form, it was always going to be a cracker. 

so a very good film but not scorsese's best for me.

i'd watched his rolling thunder review a few days earlier. what he has done there seems a greater achievement. but then i've long thought his best is a toss up between the last waltz and no direction home. 

i remember when i was much younger, seeing 'alice doesn't live here anymore'. had no idea who scorsese was but been a fan ever since. also loved 'after hours'. 

goodfellas, color of money, raging bull. hard to get past. love the departed but it does not get considered as a remake and i am not certain that the original wasn't better. 

[Colt45]

Contemplating it, but at over three hours..... Casino was pretty good, but way overdrawn, so I'm hesitant about this one.

We'll see.

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, Colt45 said:

Contemplating it, but at over three hours..... Casino was pretty good, but way overdrawn, so I'm hesitant about this one.

We'll see.

colt, i suspect my post has not helped convince you. 

i'd say it is worth it - pull out a DC for it! but have the remote ready to speed up the last part. 

[MoeFOH]

1 minute ago, Colt45 said:

Contemplating it, but at over three hours..... Casino was pretty good, but way overdrawn, so I'm hesitant about this one.

We'll see.

Ross, take it on. It didn't drag for me. And that's always a great sign. Agree with @Ken Gargett that it could have been shorter but it's not detrimental overall to me. 

Joe Pesci a great, understated performance. Pacino the best I've seen him in a while. 

[Colt45]

5 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

colt, i suspect my post has not helped convince you. 

i'd say it is worth it - pull out a DC for it! but have the remote ready to speed up the last part. 

KG, we were posting at the same time. I'll probably watch it, but perhaps not all at once. That may seem silly to some, but I actually do it somewhat regularly. Regarding the Departed, I understand that it is considered a remake, but this version is based on real events and characters within the Boston underworld and police department.

P.S. Steve, see above    Cheers!

[Ken Gargett]

1 minute ago, Colt45 said:

KG, we were posting at the same time. I'll probably watch it, but perhaps not all at once. That may seem silly to some, but I actually do it somewhat regularly. Regarding the Departed, I understand that it is considered a remake, but this version is based on real events and characters within the Boston underworld and police department.

P.S. Steve, see above    Cheers!

i do the same and i very nearly did with this. so i guess it kept me going. that last part just seemed a bit pointless. could have been done in two minutes. 

interesting about the departed. i had seen internal affairs before i saw the departed and not heard it was a remake. did not take long to see it as that. 

i guess life imitating art? 

[bbguardsp]

1 hour ago, Ken Gargett said:

i'd say it is worth it - pull out a DC for it! but have the remote ready to speed up the last part. 

So much versatility in a DC to pass the time.  Will do so with a HDM tomorrow.  Thanks for the tip!

[Euripidespants]

Great movie...would have been better if it was shorter...agree with everything KG said...last 30 minutes dragged on and seemed too long...didn’t help that we watched it on a late Sunday afternoon and looked up an incorrect run time right before we went into the movie (said 2h 45 minutes).

still an excellent film. Most under rated Scorsese film is mean streets. Nobody ever talks about that one. Outstanding.

[ATGroom]

I saw it in the cinema a couple of weeks ago - shame they didn't do a wider release, I don't think I could focus for 3.5 hours if I was watching it at home, but in the cinema it was absorbing and fantastic.

Not Scorsese's best (which remains The Color of Money), but great movie. The ageing stuff is flawless, I really couldn't tell at what points they were contemporary and which older / younger. Great performances out of DeNiro, Pacino, Pesci. All still got it. Shame there isn't more Harvey Keitel.

[Hammer Smokin']

I watched it last night.

I absolutely loved it. Didn't find any part dragged, and a few times I checked the time remaining and was hoping for more time.

I smoked a Royal Robusto then a Punch 48.

I wish I could turn back time and watch it for the first time again.

Only issue was how much Lagavulin I consumed during the lengthy movie...made for a rough morning this morning.

[joeypots]

I thought it was very good, Joe Pesci was great. Certainly worth watching and way better than most of the stuff that's made.  It's a damn good gangster movie and I don't think, even at 3+hours, it dragged at all. Well worth watching.

[Buck14]

The movie was fantastic and I’m in the minority I guess on the de-aging...I thought it looked fine and I much prefer the same actor playing all adult stages of A character’s life. This is Joe Pesci’s finest film by far and he has the best performance. Pacino has been irrelevant for 25 years until his masterful performance here. De Niro is fantastic. Ray Romano is wonderful.

Two critiques: not enough Harvey Keitel. Horrendous editing. Don’t care about the movie length but subplots could have been massively cut down. Especially the prolonged ending. 

[Lotusguy]

I couldn’t finish it last night... I kept thinking “it MUST be over soon” - only to find that I still had 2 hours to go. What a snoozefest retread of his previous movies.

[mbflash80]

Thought it was very good. Give it a B+. Pesci, Deniro, Pacino were all solid. I wasnt a fan of the overly melancholy ending only because I didnt have much sympathy for the Deniro charachter...to me the meat of the movie was the teamsters/gangsters and to end it with a focus on his regrets was kind of like letting the air out of the ballon...but as has been stated here better than the majority of what is being made.

[Vito]

Well, since most of what the movie is based on are lies from Sheehan, I don’t think much of it. But it is a good work put together on Scocese’s end but I just can’t give Sheeran any accreditation at all. 

[SigmundChurchill]

I’m watching it now.  I don’t know if anyone else caught this, but Pesci sent De Niro to meet “a fairy named Ferrie” to load up the truck with the weapons for the attack on Castro.

That guy, Ferrie, was played by Pesci in the movie JFK.  I didn’t realize when he said it, but as soon as I saw the guy with his orange hair and fake eyebrows, it all came back to me.

 

[Guest Nekhyludov]

12 minutes ago, SigmundChurchill said:

I’m watching it now.  I don’t know if anyone else caught this, but Pesci sent De Niro to meet “a fairy named Ferrie” to load up the truck with the weapons for the attack on Castro.

That guy, Ferrie, was played by Pesci in the movie JFK.  I didn’t realize when he said it, but as soon as I saw the guy with his orange hair and fake eyebrows, it all came back to me.

I noticed that too. I was desperately hoping that Pesci would reprise his role and show up as Ferrie again 

[SigmundChurchill]

7 minutes ago, Nekhyludov said:

I noticed that too. I was desperately hoping that Pesci would reprise his role and show up as Ferrie again 

He was great in that roll too!

[Vito]

18 minutes ago, Nekhyludov said:

I noticed that too. I was desperately hoping that Pesci would reprise his role and show up as Ferrie again 

Ole Dave Ferrie. That man was in and behind more conspiracies throughout the last half of the 20th century. Him and Howard Hunt. 

[Eric05]

I did not think this was his best movie at all. At times i fell asleep. The whole de aging thing was totally distracting. I felt the story line at times was ok. But it was just too long. Also the ending i felt was horrible. Just my opinion. But i was expecting better 

[The Squiggler]

The de-aging effects were bad... but not nearly as bad as Will Smith in Gemini Man

[VRATJV07]

I also thought it was very good.  It's long and the wife and I had to split it up into two viewing sessions.  I also did not like the de-aging effects or the ending of the fil. 

[Ciscojohansson]

2 hours ago, The Squiggler said:

The de-aging effects were bad... but not nearly as bad as Will Smith in Gemini Man

Yes, also the body language, the posture, the way the actors talked, it still looked like a 80 year old.