"I dunno, A FISH"
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 5 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
For all my love of crime films across various subgenres this movie made me really loathe actual mobsters.
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
Ozu is just about the only music cue he doesn't use
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 January 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
Watched it again for the second time early this morning (was up, found myself watching it on volume using headphones, which I actually kinda recommend). Having first seen it in the theater I was surprised in a good way that I felt I only had to take a brief break once, it flows steadily and effortlessly. Thing that stood out for me, and again, headphone listening may have helped, was the silence that predominated. Not emptiness, but the lack of music and dialogue at many key points, not to mention how relentlessly nonflashy the sounds of violence were. Gunshots pop rather than explode, the actual explosions always seemed understated.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 January 2020 23:05 (four years ago) link
that makes me want to see it a little more, I have been reluctant
― Dan S, Monday, 6 January 2020 00:03 (four years ago) link
I think a big reason that this was criticized as a rehash of old Scorsese movies is because of a misreading of those tonal choices Ned notes...as if it’s trying to be Goodfellas and failing rather than exploring an altogether different tonality.
― ryan, Monday, 6 January 2020 00:27 (four years ago) link
I never thought for a second that The Irishman was trying to be Goodfellas. I'd be more inclined to say that those who heap praise on it mistake caution and somberness for wisdom...but I try not read into people's likes and dislikes like I used to as matter of habit.
― clemenza, Monday, 6 January 2020 00:37 (four years ago) link
Yea it's not Goodfellas redux at all
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 January 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
The somber tone is not 'wise' … it's what it is.
New Marty interview in the Sunday Times today; embracing death's inevitability is his chief talking point.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 January 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
so my wife just casually noted that she was one of the models used to sell the de-ageing effects, nbd
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
I hear your wife paints houses.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
she doesnt even dust shelves man
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
i was the fish
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
a cod... a haddock... wha?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:40 (four years ago) link
look, he was a fish, I don't know
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
He was Fish...Vigoda
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
Can't believe I failed to recognize celebrated NYC idiot Bo Dietl the first time
My SO (a native New Yorker) picked him out right away. I was like, "this actor's great!" He said, "That guy's a racist dishit."
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
his last run for mayor was partic stupid
he was also in Goodfellas, and appeared in clueless fashion on The Daily Show
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
Count me among those for whom the last act was what validated the entire movie's existence.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:51 (four years ago) link
well we know you don't like Big Boy Caprice
"It's summer."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
hey, I've got two hours of An Elephant to watch tonight. Does De Niro die slowly in it too?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 January 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
he dies throughout the entire Paint Houses book
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
Hey, I liked the movie!
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
There's no general Scorcese thread, so here's a 15-minute short he made for a Macau casino that's slight but fun, written by Terrence Winter (Sopranos/Boardwalk).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_KSYIZ61q0
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 11 January 2020 03:22 (four years ago) link
you can find the Scorsese threads if you spell his name right :)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 11 January 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
ah fuck
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 11 January 2020 03:41 (four years ago) link
lol
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 January 2020 04:42 (four years ago) link
M-O-O-N that spells "Scorsese"
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 January 2020 05:06 (four years ago) link
When the moon hits your eye / like this CGI Guy / That's A-Marty
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 11 January 2020 06:48 (four years ago) link
CGI Guydays
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Saturday, 11 January 2020 10:24 (four years ago) link
I'm only through episode 1 (the first hour), but mostly wishing this was about the Jew Mob
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
there are no episodes
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
it's true there's never been a decent movie about any of the Jewish gangsters (Lansky, Siegel, Cohen etc.) - although they pop up in everyone else's stories. I hesitate to claim there was ever anything cohesive and exclusionary enough to be called the Jew Mob.
Lansky's story is kinda the most impressive - lived to a ripe old age.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
Yes, it was a "joke" about how a lot of people watch it on Netflix in chunks as if there were
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
Episode 1 the rise of sheeran
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
I was hoping I was either forgetting a great Jewish mafia movie or that someone would recommend one. The only thing I kept picturing was Adam Goldberg in Fargo season 1, lol.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 January 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
I imagine Morbz will rep for Bugsy but I wasn't v impressed w it
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
x-post! Bugsy w/ Warren Beatty isn't bad at all
Most of the gangsters in Once Upon a Time in America are Jewish irc
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
there's a young Lansky in Boardwalk Empire but he's not really a central figure. And of course there's Moe Green and Hyman Roth in the Godfather(s), but yeah the movies aren't about them
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
Hesh in the Sopranos is probably my favorite on-screen Jewish mafia character tbh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 January 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
just as a portrayal of a "type"
I guess there's Tom Hardy in Peaky Blinders, but y'know, Peaky Blinders...
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 17 January 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
could never get past the title of that tbh
― Οὖτις, Friday, 17 January 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
not-good Jewish mob film: Little Odessa
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 January 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
De Niro’s Ace Rothstein in Casino?
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 17 January 2020 17:34 (four years ago) link
the upcoming Fargo S4 has some KC Jewish mob elements
― omar little, Friday, 17 January 2020 17:38 (four years ago) link
isaac babel has some fun plays
― difficult listening hour, Friday, 17 January 2020 17:39 (four years ago) link
I would love to see a movie about Lansky - dude was like a mafia Zelig. Had his hand in almost every major 20th century mob action that you could name.
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 17 January 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
I read the Safdies briefly had Harvey Keitel tied to Uncut Gems, they should cast him in this biopic
― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 17 January 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
Once Upon a Time in America?
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 January 2020 17:46 (four years ago) link