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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 23, 2020 19:37:36 GMT
Scorsese was enjoying it!!
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Post by Mattsby on Jan 24, 2020 22:30:41 GMT
When pacinoyes said "eventual" two days ago he meant imminent!!!
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Post by TerryMontana on Jan 25, 2020 14:33:17 GMT
When pacinoyes said "eventual" two days ago he meant imminent!!! I guess pacinoyes knows things we don't know he knows....
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Post by The-Havok on Jan 25, 2020 18:56:11 GMT
When pacinoyes said "eventual" two days ago he meant imminent!!! Meanwhile 1917 will be in your local Walmart 2 dollar bin. Good thing it has been immortalized by Criterion.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jan 26, 2020 22:03:01 GMT
Finally got around to watching this a second time, and fuck it I think this might be my favorite Scorsese film now.
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Post by Viced on Jan 31, 2020 16:12:02 GMT
That Criterion is gonna be absolutely loaded with great shit.
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Post by DeepArcher on Jan 31, 2020 20:21:29 GMT
Al and his earbuds ... what exactly is it that he's always listening to?
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Post by Viced on Jan 31, 2020 20:26:34 GMT
Al and his earbuds ... what exactly is it that he's always listening to? On the set of The Irishman... Jimmy Hoffa voice recordings.
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Post by The-Havok on Feb 1, 2020 5:01:45 GMT
Al and his earbuds ... what exactly is it that he's always listening to? "SOLIDARITY"
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Post by Pasquale on Oct 17, 2020 15:34:15 GMT
I Heard You Paint Houses
Proud to live, when you do. That is, Martin Scorsese
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 18, 2020 22:14:01 GMT
Beautiful analysis of the film and the new dvd package - I love this guy Daisuke Beppu - if you're not a fan of his you should be, he's better at assessing films than any current real critic maybe - he's damn near @ a pacinoyes level actually (oh shut up ).......he also comes across as the most gentle and kind man too, he's a pleasure to listen to/watch. Nice to just leave on while reading or eating or whatever you savages do.....
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Post by Mattsby on Dec 18, 2020 23:00:15 GMT
Beautiful analysis of the film and the new dvd package - I love this guy Daisuke Beppu - if you're not a fan of his you should be, he's better at assessing films than any current real critic maybe - he's damn near @ a pacinoyes level actually (oh shut up ).......he also comes across as the most gentle and kind man too, he's a pleasure to listen to/watch. "Gusto and sensitivity" - great description of Pacino's Hoffa and many of his perfs too actually. Beppu gets it! I like how he describes the movie as 'a battle for Sheeran's soul' and how he finds a way to appreciate the de-aging. From the few vids I've seen, he's seriously such a generous reviewer and makes me feel like the Grinch with all my 6/10s!
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Post by Joaquim on Dec 19, 2020 2:47:11 GMT
Ya picked a good time to dig this thread up from the grave bc I just started rewatching this the other night and it still holds up amazingly
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Post by franklin on Dec 19, 2020 3:57:33 GMT
Watched it the second time after an year. Liked it the first time, loved it even more now. Now I admire DeNiro's subtly heartbreaking performance this time around, and I realize that it's unlike any character he's ever played in the organized crime genre.
This film is the definition of a grower, rewatchable, and it gets better on multiple viewings. Scorsese's elegiac late career crime masterpiece that will stand the test of time.
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Post by ibbi on Dec 20, 2020 23:44:32 GMT
God, what a great fucking movie this was.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 31, 2021 1:30:36 GMT
I'm gonna resurrect this again, having just seen it.
Of course, I have little to say about it. It exists. It's logically sound as a sort of Remains of the Day kind of tragic story, but... I don't care. The acting is fine. The directing is fine. The writing... well, I think that is where the film is let down. It plays WAY too much like a very linear series of events. "This thing happened, and then that thing happened, and then this other thing happened." But there's nothing to grab onto, no core moments in which the tragedy of Frank's life is brought into focus. To compare with The Remains of the Day, there were several little moments that let you see how much Stevens has lost in his pursuit of duty: his father's death being the most obvious, but there were also Miss Kenton's scenes that slowly become less intimate and colder as the film goes on.
There is no sense of personal progress in The Irishman. It is all competently done, and it isn't a bad movie... but I can't find any moment in the film in which Frank begins losing his daughter (outside of the on-the-nose contrast of how she acts around Russ and around Jimmy). I can't find any moment in which Frank begins losing sight of his friendship for Jimmy. This thing happened, and then that thing happened, and when it was all over, I didn't understand who Frank was.
The movie has a lot of momentum and is reasonably entertaining. On paper, it is packed with a lot of great themes to unpack. But to me, none of that potential comes through. It is all there, but none of it comes alive.
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