https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Expe7hf6MUThe Irishman is an upcoming Martin Scorsese film starring some of the most famous names in crime films:
Al Pachino, Joe Pesci, and Robert De Niro.
The movie is about Frank Sheeran, a union official that allegedly had ties to the mob.
It also covers the disappearance of the infamous Jimmy Hoffa, whose body is still missing today (Probably in a barrel of acid somewhere).
Now, I'm not very familiar with Sheeran or Hoffa and will be keeping myself in the dark intentionally until this film is released.
It may be real life but that doesn't mean there can't be spoilers. Just going in with a blank slate.
This film is joining "
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" in the distribution method of releasing on Netflix and in theaters simultaneously.
Which is good because the thing is going to be three and half f**king hours long. Jesus. Yeah, I need to be able to pause to take a p**s.
I'm preemptively placing this in "Good Movies" because the trailer looks promising and... Well... It's a mobster movie by Martin Scorsese.
But even if it isn't as good as I hope it will still go a long way to wash off the bad taste of the
most recent gangster biopic.
UPDATE: This is a good movie! Yes, I had to watch it in "parts" because I have a hard time committing myself to a 3 1/2 hour sitdown for a movie anymore, and I'm not a big De Niro fan like I used to be because he is proving, like Martin Scorsese, to be a one-trick pony these days. But this movie is the exception for both of them, and I am predicting that this will be the last great movie that they will do together before one of them passes on. The performances were all top-notch, and I enjoyed the old actors playing younger versions of themselves thanks to Hollyweird camera tricks. My one complaint about the movie is your aforementioned "three and half f**king hours long" runtime. This is not
Gone With The Wind (1939) where you can watch it over and over again and not notice that you're watching a 4 hour movie, after all. But other than that, this movie deserves to get put up there alongside
Goodfellas (1990) and
Casino (1995) as one of Scorsese's all-time best.