The Irishman on Netflix

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Postve

26 posts

52 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Agree with starter post was a bit dated and a little long in the tooth. I found it to be just another gangster movie with more than a few fictional occurrences.

Harry H

3,379 posts

155 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Started watching it last night and after an hour thought it was a bit slow so looked to see how long left. "Another two hours" switched off with the intention of watching the rest later but probably won't.

It would be OK if cut down into a mini series but ideally speeded up and fitted into 1hr 45.

andy_s

19,397 posts

258 months

Friday 6th December 2019
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Bit 'meh' from me, it was like a poor Ellroy novel played by good Spitting Image caricatures. A few enjoyable moments but largely quite plodding I thought.

RichFN2

3,312 posts

178 months

Saturday 7th December 2019
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Chestrockwell said:
If anybody liked this film and you haven’t seen Boardwalk Empire, be sure to give that a go because the dialogue is similar.


Edited by Chestrockwell on Thursday 5th December 00:36
yes Was a big fan of Boardwalk and am really enjoying this film so far, but after 2 hours i will be watching the rest later

One thing that is annoying me though is the grainy image, there is no excuse for such a big film of this budget to look so average

Enjoying to see these legends back on the screen, but that shop scene was awful

JagLover

42,265 posts

234 months

Saturday 7th December 2019
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Now found it has its own thread.

I would say it is best to regard it as a very good TV miniseries rather than a movie. It is very episodic and slow paced and watching it in bite sized chunks allows you to appreciate the quality of the story telling and the acting.

gregs656

10,818 posts

180 months

Saturday 7th December 2019
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The run time didn’t bother me.

Would agree that they just looked too old. Them hobbling around and with women meant to be their contemporaries but clearly not does pull you out of scenes.

It’s a good story.

MYOB

4,767 posts

137 months

Sunday 8th December 2019
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Well, I enjoyed it. OK, the "de-ageing" technology was naff, but an enjoyable fable. Strange to see Hoffa as a likeable character as he isn't generally depicted warmly in the history books.


Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Sunday 8th December 2019
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Blackpuddin said:
Got halfway through it last night, will finish the job tonight, harmless entertainment even if it does feel like every other Mafia film. Do Mafiosi really spend all their lives in restaurants and bars?
I'm watching it in segments. That thought about all the meetings in bars, diners and restaurants crossed my mind as well. Maybe it's how they do/did things.

FredericRobinson

3,668 posts

231 months

Sunday 8th December 2019
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If I'd seen it without having heard anything about 'De-Aging' it wouldn't have occurred to me that there was anything going on other than the usual makeup and prosthetics, I've no idea what the hype was all about.
Trouble is, knocking 20 years or so off Robert De Niro isn't enough to stop it looking a bit daft having his character introduced as 'the kid'

Mikebentley

6,037 posts

139 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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“It is what it is”.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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there is a companion show and yiu can see how old they really are in it, really worked well.

Edited by Thesprucegoose on Tuesday 10th December 18:16

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Thesprucegoose said:
there is a companion show and yiu can see how oild they in it, really worked well.
"Well oiled" no doubt seeing how often they frequented bars etc.

StevieBee

12,795 posts

254 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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The Irishman in Conversation that follows the film for those of a nerdy disposition, is quite interesting.

Something I hadn't picked up on was how the three main actors looked the age of the characters they played at various points throughout the story and this is explained.

Great film but as others have said, quite a task to manage it in one sitting.

gregs656

10,818 posts

180 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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StevieBee said:
The Irishman in Conversation that follows the film for those of a nerdy disposition, is quite interesting.

Something I hadn't picked up on was how the three main actors looked the age of the characters they played at various points throughout the story and this is explained.

Great film but as others have said, quite a task to manage it in one sitting.
That might have been what they went for but none of them looked as young as they were meant to be in the younger scenes.

Frank was 29 at the beginning of the film. De Niro never looked anything approaching that young.

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Watched a bit more of it tonight. I obviously wasn't in the mood for watching bad guys bump each other off as much as I was on the weekend. I'll watch the rest of it on Saturday. I'm actually enjoying it in a perverse way. The characters are totally unlikable but you have to admire the way in which Sheeran accepts without much reservation the "house painting" tasks he's given. I wonder what his final total was by the time he "retired".

tangerine_sedge

4,699 posts

217 months

Monday 16th December 2019
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I watched it at the weekend and thought it was over hyped and over long. The de-aging was poor and made the story confusing (it was only the cars in frame that enabled the viewer to work out when each scene was supposed to be set).

A so-so story, cobbling together conspiracy theories to make it seem more historical and important than it was.

If this didn't have 'names' attached to it, it would (should?) never got made.

Goodfellas is still the best mafia film made (better than the godfather in my opinion). This turd is 4 whacks out of 10.

thebraketester

14,192 posts

137 months

Tuesday 17th December 2019
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I loved the steak quote..... I think that’s the only bit I’ll remember to be honest.

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Tuesday 17th December 2019
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Pretty much all my thoughts have been posted up by other earlier in the thread-even the Pacino as Les Patterson one hehe

I do find a lot of Scorsese and his ilk assume that the audience know American history a little better than they do-my wife gave up and went to bed as she just has no clue about it all which is understandable-she's a British woman in her thirties. Not only historically, she couldn't follow his marriage break up either-who was the new wife? What happened to the old-did they all get along?

I think if you take historical events into consideration it flows a little better and could even have been longer-it almost felt as though it was too long for a movie but too short for a mini series.

If they perhaps made it a 4 or 5 parter you'd get more time to invest in each character and sub plot, an hour on each story with the over-riding arc. As above, his family could have taken up an episode all by itself and you might actually start to care about his daughter, which when you think about it was the story arc that made the story be told.

Quite why they didn't use a body double on the ttting De Niro gave the shopkeeper I'll never know but I personally felt everything was worth it to get Pesci out of retirement. He was great, really good and even better that he could do something different to his portrayals in Casino and Goodfellas.

I fancy giving it another watch actually, not something i do very often these days.

Postve

26 posts

52 months

Thursday 19th December 2019
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ColdoRS said:
I’m no movie buff, but I thought it was garbage.

1h50m into it and i’d lost interest but thought I owed it my attention so powered through - wish I hadn’t bothered.

Unfortunately not a classic, too long and a little awkward watching the old boys do their thing at times.
Agreed, absolute long in the tooth mafia rubbish

vxr8mate

1,654 posts

188 months

Thursday 19th December 2019
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I enjoyed it, but it took me two days!