I can't outright disagree with anything here. As I said before, I will have to see how I feel on repeat viewings.Quoting Irish (view post)
I can't outright disagree with anything here. As I said before, I will have to see how I feel on repeat viewings.Quoting Irish (view post)
I don't know if its my problem...people on the internet talk about things. Twitter doesn't really bother me, I ignore most of the silliness and go about my day. But some of the people I follow who are in the industry have said those things.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
Precisely. The exchange of a authentic thanks for the ice cream sundae vs forced thanks for the ice skates, and later none at all for the $100Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
Has anyone made a meme yet with "don't hassle the Hoffa"? I'd like to see that.
Also, yes, the scene at the market was clearly a problem in having a 80-year old man move like he's in his 40's. Unlike most Scorsese violence, this one didn't affect me like it really should have.
Oddly, as I'm watching a second time, the CGI hasn't been a problem for me at all like it was for others.
I hated that scene without the CGI. What was the initial point of him bringing his daughter down there other than to service the script for the finale payoff with Paquin? Frank was already way too distant from his daughter for it to matter to him to bring her along (this is backed up when he attempts to reconcile)... and yet that street side beat down is the only real intimate scene with his daughter. The rest of the scenes are between his daughter and Pesci, with Frank as the third wheel.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Huh, no, dude, come on. Frank is clearly not a guy in touch with his emotions. He obviously cares a lot about his daughters, he just doesn't know how to relate to a child, in contrast with Hoffa who is an expert at getting all sorts of people to care for him. My guess is that he simply brought the kid along so she could point out the aggressor. The thought of her becoming traumatized didn't enter his head at all.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
Also, this is probably the best featurette about The Irishman so far, and I'm watching them all. What he says about his meeting with Frank Serpico is gold.
And Hoffa gets to dance with her, but Frank doesn't.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
It's pretty much the key scene to their relationship. Maybe the relationship could exist without it, but Frank knows that's where the disconnect started.
I didn't get the court scene when he is "shot" (or whatever was going on there)? The guy shot him with a bb gun for some reason? Or was it a real gun that misfired? Why? Who was that guy? I take it that was based on a real life incident.
I also didn't get who was the guy that was shot in super slo mo in a parade by the Black assassin. He seemed important since Scorsese felt the need to have a dragged out slo motion scene of his death.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Frank having a "WHERE'S JIMMY HOFFA? DIAL 1-800 ... " bumper sticker on his car is a nice touch. Made me lulz.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
I'm about to hit this portion in my second rewatch, but I didn't get it either. There's a lot of Hoffa History that I'm simply not privy to, and this is part of it, and maybe the draggiest part of the movie.Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
I did gather that the gun simply jammed though.
I felt he intended it to be empowering for her to watch. But of course he takes it too far.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
Something that added nothing and could have been completely cut from the film. I thought maybe it would come back to how he taught his son not to run from a gun... (maybe in a struggle with Frank?) but it didn't.Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
Exactly what the intention was.Quoting Idioteque Stalker (view post)
You look at 90% of other gangster movies, and the child would feel protected and probably even admire her father for what happened. Different result.
Hahah yeah that was priceless.Quoting Pop Trash (view post)
I think Scorsese felt obliged to show those two assassination attempts because they were a big part of the real story and probably a huge deal at the time, coming out of the JFK assassination. I'm not even a US person so my knowledge of Hoffa's history is of course limited, but the screenplay itself mentions how the facts about his life are at best only casually known by young people even during Sheeran's lifetime. In any case, I feel The Irishman is a lot more self-explanatory than Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which only works if you know the facts of the Tate-LaBianca case.
Scorsese this decade: Shutter Island, Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman. Yes, all the same. Not like the bountiful diverse feast of Marvel.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
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Scorsese's biggest three have to be considered Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull right?
If it's by gross: Wolf of Wall Street, Shutter Island, and The Departed
Still haven't gotten through Silence yet, and Hugo is awful...Wolf of Wall Street is Goodfellas set in the 90s...and Shutter Island was last decade. I'm totally nitpicking here, but you already knew what I meant. That's kind why I said his "biggest" movies.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
I would have said Goodfellas, Casino, Departed.Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Hell, look at Scorsese in the 80s:
Raging Bull, The King of Comedy, After Hours, The Color of Money, The Last Temptation of Christ. Those are five pretty different fucking movies.
90s: GoodFellas, Cape Fear, The Age of Innocence, Casino, Kundun, Bringing Out the Dead. Yes, Casino and Goodfellas share a number of similarities, but look at the films that came before and after it!
I honestly not sure how Duke can argue with a straight face that all Scorsese films are the same, even his "big" ones, whatever that means. Maybe he just thinks if he says it often enough, it will magically become true
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
No I'm just being overly cynical.Quoting transmogrifier (view post)
Fair enoughQuoting Dukefrukem (view post)
Last 10 Movies Seen
(90+ = canonical, 80-89 = brilliant, 70-79 = strongly recommended, 60-69 = good, 50-59 = mixed, 40-49 = below average with some good points, 30-39 = poor, 20-29 = bad, 10-19 = terrible, 0-9 = soul-crushingly inept in every way)
Run (2020) 64
The Whistlers (2019) 55
Pawn (2020) 62
Matilda (1996) 37
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (1976) 61
Moby Dick (2011) 50
Soul (2020) 64
Heroic Duo (2003) 55
A Moment of Romance (1990) 61
As Tears Go By (1988) 65
Stuff at Letterboxd
Listening Habits at LastFM
My lifelong dream is meeting Scorsese, and if I actually did, I think I could do nothing but cry like a baby.
Careful. You're not allowed to admit you're a fan of anything otherwise you'll be a biased snowflake and your option struck from the record.Quoting Grouchy (view post)
I wasn't only directing my complaint to you, but the overall whinefest from Marvel fanboys that their billion dollar box office, beloved imdb top 100 film, 4.0 on letterboxd, might DARE be "meh, it's not my thing" by an influential director.Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
If it makes you feel any better I don't think Endgame and The Irishman are entirely dissimilar: massively expensive budgets, lots of CGI, a 3 hour (or more) runtime that is never boring and feels earned, a culmination of a genre, something of a memory piece hopscotching around with linear time, closure on an era.
Last edited by Pop Trash; 11-30-2019 at 04:27 AM.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6