The Irishman (2019)

[Olivia Bauer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Expe7hf6MU

The 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.

[ER]

I always hear how great Scorsese's movies are, and then I see them and mostly....shrug. I did like The Age of Innocence, and was in the minority in enjoying the mostly mediocre Gangs of New York, saved mainly by Daniel Day Lewis' performance, and I could admire all the hard work and innovation in Raging Bull, but mostly Scorsese seems to tell the same stories again and again, like he's stuck in a genre and he long ago ran out of things to add to it.

[zelmo73]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Expe7hf6MU

The 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. 

[RCMerchant]

Waaay to long and waaay to 'blah'.
Like ER said- it's been done way too many times before.

[Neville]

I enjoyed it, but I think it's gonna get buried in comparisons with Scorsese's previous gangter sagas. I've already read reviews saying it lacks their energy and panache. Hell, even Scotsese has stated he did have no interest in doing another movie like those.

So yeah, it's overlong and a bit self-indulgent, but it's also good. It's strengh it's also its weakness. It treads familiar territory, but from and old age perspective. If a film like "Wolf of Wall Street" was full of energy, silliness and a the-world-is-ours attitude, this is its polar oposite. Everything is gray, slow paced and, yes, dull. But that's what Scorsese was aiming for.

I think this film will get better appretiation as the dust settles.

However, this doesn't mean it's a perfect film or anything near. Netflix should have promoted it better to prepare the audiences for a different type of film or turned it into a mini series. And all that talk about the computer de-aging process is not making the film any favors either. And don't make me talk about Pacino's performance. The man has become a caricature of himself in the last decades.