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Well they certainly succeeded at that.I think the length of the movie is important to the movie actually- allows you to feel time pass, the weight of the 50 years passing by.
Well they certainly succeeded at that.I think the length of the movie is important to the movie actually- allows you to feel time pass, the weight of the 50 years passing by.
it's not as bad as you might imagine. it's not heavily used and where it is used, it doesn't really detract that much because it's not glaringly obvious to the eye... even if it is to the brain, if that makes sense.####, I wish I could unread this.
Pacino has really fallen off a cliff late in life but if anything he wasn't hammy enough for HoffaI thought it was good but a little too long and slow to ever consider watching it again.
Pesci gave the best performance imo. Pacino hammed it up as usual in his later roles.
I actually did not think the CGI was distracting at all - it was well done.
everyone probably already knows by now but it's based on this bookAlso, the movie really is called I Heard You Paint Houses. The one condition Netflix had was to not use that title. But the start of the film begins with I Heard You Paint Houses where the title should be so it is pretty clear what Marty thinks the movie is.
I wasn't a fan of the casting. This may have worked better 20yrs ago, but Deniro was too old to be believable as a hitman. He really showed his age when throwing the guns in the water.Much slower than Goodfellas or Casino- maybe what’s missing is the great rock soundtrack both of those movies had. Also, both of those movies featured Joe Pesci as a bat#### crazy guy and that was part of the attraction- here he’s very calm like everybody else.
Still very watchable. But I wouldn’t put it in the same ballpark as those films.
Anything physical he tried was really bad. He also looked like he had never shot a gun before (as an actor) in multiple scenes. It was like he was in an old western that was purposefully hokey. Really strange.This may have worked better 20yrs ago, but Deniro was too old to be believable as a hitman. He really showed his age when throwing the guns in the water
of all the things to find out of place/hard to believe... how he shot a gun is the one that jumps out?Anything physical he tried was really bad. He also looked like he had never shot a gun before (as an actor) in multiple scenes. It was like he was in an old western that was purposefully hokey. Really strange.
Berenthal could have been amazing but I do think there’s a certain built in storytelling that is lost going from Deniro to JB. I’m not sure if the weight is there because with Deniro we don’t just get this movie/performance but all his past roles, the history, the age, etc.Thought it was pretty good. But it felt almost like a reunion special for a television show that went off the air 20 years ago. The kind where a character/actor like Gilligan/Bob Denver would show up dressed exactly as Gilligan. Felt like a swan song; as if all of those were retiring and this was their last role; a harken back to their most vibrant and best characters.
Scorcese is a god but I think he misses the boat in the casting in one way. He could have been a kingmaker in this and anointed his next set of "great" actors if he's going to continue making films. A guy like Jon Berenthal would have been awesome as Frank Sheeran under Scorceses direction. As it is....it feels like Scorcese was playing it safe in using guys he has used for decades.
He was pretty good in Ford v Ferrari but it’s a very small role relative to what Deniro has to do here.i'm so stuck on how awful Berenthal was in the Walking Dead that i can't imagine him being good in anything
what other movies is he in that might change my opinion?
The movie sure made it seem convincing- but obviously that’s what it aimed to do. I don’t know enough details of the overall minutiae to say.so do you guys believe his story?
I thought he was great in The Punisher television show.i'm so stuck on how awful Berenthal was in the Walking Dead that i can't imagine him being good in anything
what other movies is he in that might change my opinion?
He was like the Forrest Gump of the 1960s Underworld...…. hanging with the Don of Philly, meeting David Ferrie…..running guns for the Bay of Pigs....hanging with and killing Hoffa..... I don't know.so do you guys believe his story?
the book's wiki page:The movie sure made it seem convincing- but obviously that’s what it aimed to do. I don’t know enough details of the overall minutiae to say.
https://slate.com/culture/2019/08/the-irishman-book-publisher-reply-bill-tonelli.htmlHe was like the Forrest Gump of the 1960s Underworld...…. hanging with the Don of Philly, meeting David Ferrie…..running guns for the Bay of Pigs....hanging with and killing Hoffa..... I don't know.
That being said, I was talking to my father last night about the movie and he mentioned that Sheeran was actually the head of the Teamsters Local In Wilmington, DE (something I didn't even they mentioned in the movie) and that he used to hang around with guys in that union......and those guys pretty much acknowledged Sheeran was pretty mobbed up and that there wasn't anything they wouldn't have done for the guy. So I guess the potential was there.
The punisheri'm so stuck on how awful Berenthal was in the Walking Dead that i can't imagine him being good in anything
what other movies is he in that might change my opinion?
But the characters were shown at various stages of their lives so what age would have been appropriate?I enjoyed it but I was bothered by the CGI faces. It felt like I was watching a cut scene in a video game at times. I would have liked the movie better with age appropriate actors.
I think it is easier to age someone up or to act as someone older than to do play younger- especially the physicality.But the characters were shown at various stages of their lives so what age would have been appropriate?
For Robert DeNiro in a mob movie where he’s playing a hitman, yes it jumps out that he was shooting a gun like a 4 year old with a pop gun yelling “bang bang you’re dead”.of all the things to find out of place/hard to believe... how he shot a gun is the one that jumps out?
people hold guns differently it's acting
now i want the internet to re-do that scene with that dialogueFor Robert DeNiro in a mob movie where he’s playing a hitman, yes it jumps out that he was shooting a gun like a 4 year old with a pop gun yelling “bang bang you’re dead”.
Yep that scene really was a messThe part where dinero beat up the shopkeeper was filmed so bad I wasn't sure if it was suppose to be real or fake.
But Sheeran was still a hitman at that age, things were different back then plenty of older costra Nostra hitmenPunxsutawney Phil said:I wasn't a fan of the casting. This may have worked better 20yrs ago, but Deniro was too old to be believable as a hitman. He really showed his age when throwing the guns in the water.
Pesci wasn't bad, I kind of liked him as an old Italian guy. I thought he was a better choice than Paccino for Jimmy Hoffa.
They basically overdid it on star power imo. One of these guys would have been ok, but it's like we were watching a 80's/90's gangster movie reunion.
My uncles talked about it at Thanksgiving. They all remember the stories when they were young.I’ll also say this. I’m glad Scorsese told this story, whether 100% true or not. I grew up in Allentown so I knew stories of the Philly mob but not a lot. The NY mob is generally the media darling, but Philly needed a story too. Never knew what came before Nicky Scarfo, etc.
Not really - her character's role was very impactful. Her watchful eyes as a youth outside that shop, how she loved her dad but feared his friend in the bowling alley, seeing her father bring a gun before 'heading to work', and her most impactful scene when her dad says he hasn't called Jo Hoffa yet...all of this illustrated the emotional trauma being unleashed by Sheeran his entire life. The impact it had on those around him, and certainly by those families he forever changed with his hits and other violence.Paquin was wasted - 6 words in the whole movie. Her part should have been left on the cutting room floor.
Firm but fairDon't complain about a 3.5 hour movie when your stupid ### will sit through the entire Jets/Bengals game.
Also Domenick Lombardozzi from the wire. I don't know if it was make up or cgi but I could only tell from his voice.Caught those. Gene Pontecorvo or whatever his name was in the Sopranos was in a fairly early scene among a group of guys.