The Irishman movie = HORRIBLE

Bad Wigins wrote:

i have an idea wrote:

It is like every other mob movie ever made. How many different ways do we need to see people murdered?

How many times do we need to see it before we crack down on the mob for good?

All we have to do is slap the Norse-style "outlaw" label on them, and they'll either be killed or flee the country.

So they are not considered outlaws now?

these all seem like audience problems, not movie problems.

there's plenty of movies out there for people that need hand-holding and everything explicitly explained and a car chase every 20 mins to stay awake. Maybe watch one of those next time?

You sound a bit like a person giving a restaurant a bad review because you didn't get drunk off the hors d'oeuvres.

Movie was decent. Your review.....horrible

There are some mob movies that are great. This is not one of them.

Italians playing the Irish.....Only in Hollywood.

The movie was excellent. I was a VERY young kid, 8-14/15, when these events took place. I met every person in that movie except Jimmy Hoffa.

Russ Buffalino was Uncle Russ (not REALLY my uncle).

It was VERY realistic and what I liked about it most was that it doesn't romanticize the lifestyle.

They all ended up dead or in prison for life.

What was even more tragic is the beautiful Anna Paquin being in the film and having like 5 lines and with maybe one that had two words.

Fat Herc from The Wire is always welcome. So is Ray Romano when he can be a jerk.

I'm SO sorry you felt my "review" was horrible. I felt it was very fitting for this donkey of a movie. I'll try not to have "audience problems" the next time I try to sit through something that utterly fails to draw me in, but only for your sake. After all, the "audience" experience doesn't matter, correct? Last Year in Marienbad was more interesting than The Irishman.

De Niro and Pesce playing versions of their characters 30+ years younger did not work at all. The younger characters were so low energy and it was just too obvious that they were old guys playing younger guys.

The movie was too long. I had to break it up into three nights because I kept falling asleep. It really would have been much better if the storytelling was kept chronological. It got confusing at times when they kept jumping back and forth between the two different time periods.

The Hoffa story is so interesting that it is difficult to have it share the stage with the Irishman's story line.

I know the point of the movie was that all of the gangsters lived big for a short time and then either died young at the hands of a mob assassin or died alone and isolated. But dwelling on the Irishman's late life actually became more of a statement on how our society generally warehouses the elderly. That made me feel sorry for the Irishman instead of seeing how his mob lifestyle was responsible for his misery late in life.

I love Scorsese, but this was a strange project. I think he was trying to make two movies in one and it didn't work that well.

If I NEVER see another gangster/mafia movie again, I won't mind.

Enough already.

fakenotagain wrote:

Italians playing the Irish.....Only in Hollywood.

Wrong. Three of DeNiro’s four grandparents had Irish heritage.

Ciro wrote:

fakenotagain wrote:

Italians playing the Irish.....Only in Hollywood.

Wrong. Three of DeNiro’s four grandparents had Irish heritage.

https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/robert-de-niro-irish-roots

Also Joe Pesci played Russell Bufalino, a Sicilian born, Pennsylvania based mobster.

Al Pacino played Brazilian born Jimmy Hoffa, of mixed European heritage.

Only DeNiro played an Irish-American. He done so in Goodfella’s also when he played half Irish/ half Sicilian Henry Hill.

DeNiro wasn't Henry Hill. That was Ray Liotta.

Timmy Treadwell wrote:

DeNiro wasn't Henry Hill. That was Ray Liotta.

Sorry you are absolutely right. DeNiro played Irish-American Jimmy Conway.

Getting my Irish gangsters confused.

Ciro wrote:

Timmy Treadwell wrote:

DeNiro wasn't Henry Hill. That was Ray Liotta.

Sorry you are absolutely right. DeNiro played Irish-American Jimmy Conway.

Getting my Irish gangsters confused.

No worries. I've watched Goodfellas about 100 times, probably my favorite movie of all time.

I agree - overhyped...ended up being the same tired gangster theme with the same tired gangster actors. Only one missing was Ray Liotta - who coincidentally played an Irishman in Goodfellas.

I wasted half an afternoon on that crap.

Timmy Treadwell wrote:

Ciro wrote:

Sorry you are absolutely right. DeNiro played Irish-American Jimmy Conway.

Getting my Irish gangsters confused.

No worries. I've watched Goodfellas about 100 times, probably my favorite movie of all time.

An absolute classic.

McFinance wrote:

I agree - overhyped...ended up being the same tired gangster theme with the same tired gangster actors. Only one missing was Ray Liotta - who coincidentally played an Irishman in Goodfellas.

I wasted half an afternoon on that crap.

He played Henry Hill, his mother was Sicilian, his father was Irish. So he was half Irish, half Italian.

McFinance wrote:

I agree - overhyped...ended up being the same tired gangster theme with the same tired gangster actors. Only one missing was Ray Liotta - who coincidentally played an Irishman in Goodfellas.

I wasted half an afternoon on that crap.

Watchable...but tend to agree. Is anyone not at least a little bit tired of DeNiro's schtick -- basically the same person for every character. Fine and interesting the first few mob movies, but man, I keep thinking these are just a bunch of sequels with DeNiro playing the same guy.

Hated it. Watched the movie then saw this. My thoughts exactly!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/irishman-backlash-scorseses-goodfellas-reunion-turned-bad/