It's a load of 70+ year olds playing 40 year olds for most of the film. Odd decision not to use different actors for those bits.
The Guardian sez it's his best film since Goodfellas. But then everyone forgets Casino.
Casino is great, if just for the suits.
It always seems to be remembered as a lesser Goodfellas follow-up when it's brilliant in its own right, and probably the more 'accomplished' film. This passage for example is like a film within a film (and another thing, he's never bettered its use of music).
Just saw The Irishman tonight. It's absolutely brilliant, and definitely his best since Casino, possibly better. The de-aging is fine for the most part, but there are one or two scenes were it is noticeable - mostly because of the movements of De Niro rather than the technology.
But it never ruins the scene, in my opinion. Pesci and Pacino are both superb, but I'll be amazed if Pesci doesn't win best supporting actor at all of the award shows.
Where are people watching it already?
There was a special screening yesterday at some cinemas dotted around the country.
Watched Joker tonight and thought it was alright, nothing special but Phoenix did well in the role. Pretty bleak in places though and I can't see myself watching it again.
This "casting" of James Dean is such an obvious and shameless stunt I'm surprised the family are going for it, and can only assume they're going to make a wad.
I also love that in the BBC article they feel the need to explain what CGI is.
Yeah, that can fuck right off.
It's not a million miles away from making actors look forty years younger.
Just watched Bladerunner 2049. Peak aesthetics with peak Gosling.
Joker up next.
I just watched Stan & Ollie. Blimey they did a good job making John C Reilly look like Oliver Hardy. And his wife was even more of a doppelgänger. Amazing. Nice film too.
I'm a twit
I'm going to watch the Irishman in the cinema tomorrow. 🌝
I’ll need a gore rating once you’ve seen it.
Not too gore 3/10. Maybe a bit to ploddy and not quite worth the build up. 3.5/5 film.
Watched Hangman over the weekend. Not too bad as a serial killer thriller type, although Im not satisfied it all tied up in the end and it was a pretty crap Pacino performance.
5% on Rotten Tomatoes. I think I'll be leaving that one.
Is there a film in existence that is deservedly 3 hours long?
There are quite a few:
https://www.vulture.com/2016/11/best...ours-long.html
EDIT: Not that I personally rate all of those.
Well in the Casino over Goodfellas camp.
I still hold the ending of Casino as one of the best in Cinema ever.
"And that's that".
I've done 5 of those:
Gone with the wind, and Lord of the Rings crap
Godfather II and Deer Hunter, great
Endgame, good.
If you go into The Irishman expecting another Casino or Goodfellas you're going to be disappointed. It's closer to something like Once Upon a Time in America.
Even though I'm still pissed they cut the Tom Bombadill sequence from LOTR for "lack of time" or whatever when they ended up doing an absolutely immense amount of other shite that was never in any books later on (not to mention the following Hobbit films that I couldn't even sit through all of them), I still can't see how you can not like LOTR, I think they are all quite spectacular films really.
I enjoyed the first one. The others, not so much.
I was bored stiff through almost all of the Lord of the Rings.
And Casino isn't better than Goodfellas as the Sharon Stone character is immensely irritating.
The Hobbit is supposed to be a childrens book
Not because it was challenging you knob, I found it boring when I was a child.
I couldn't sit that long for something. That's the beauty of watching at home.
At school there was some anomalous reason why all the lessons had to stop for an entire day, so they got us all in the school hall and made us watch Gandhi. My memory was of it being more than five hours long, though google says 3h11.
We spent 4 history lessons watching Gone with the Wind. Good times.
I was going to say we watched all of Roots in school on like 3 days back to back but then I realized that's a mini series and only felt like a movie because of the binge watching we did (on VHS!)
We once got to watch Gladiator over three history lessons
Top tier for laziest lesson plan has to be my English teacher who made us watch Castaway, and then when that finished after several lessons, had us watch the Directors Commentary
I once had to sit through first half of Men in Black in two consecutive lessons by different teachers.
Our Geography teacher showed us Dante's Peak at the end of every term for five years.
How did you take 5 years of geography
We're not American, we need it.