THE IRISHMAN, A Martin Scorsese Picture with de Niro, Pacino, Pesci, Keitel

good thing Jones is there to prop up this upstart

Noticed this in the cast list on wiki: Jim Norton as Don Rickles

I hear Don spinning

My first thought was, why would Don Rickles be spinning over Bishop Brennan? Then I googled to discover there's another Jim Norton I've never heard of and who's as well known in the UK as Don Rickles was.

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

looks rich, funny, troubling, entertaining and, like all great movies, absolutely singular tbh

when I was reading Ellroy's fictional version of Hoffa in American Tabloid. I pictured him much more like Pesci than Pacino tbh!

When did "teaser trailer" become a thing? What makes that a "teaser" and not a "trailer?"

Another trailer trend I've seen (not this one) is where the trailer includes sort of a rapid fire sequence of scenes before the trailer begins, like a micro-trailer for the trailer.

There's generally another longer trailer more focused on narrative, which distinguishes it from a teaser I guess

The micro-trailer thing is annoying, yeah. It's a social media thing. Six seconds to grab people's attention, etc.

"You might be demonstrating the failure to show appreciation."

always suspected Scorcese had one more gangster film in him, one about the top-level guys that *really* run shit from the back of a grocery store in Casino - it would complete the tetralogy, going up the ladder from small-time hoods in Mean Streets to the "soldiers" in Goodfellas up through the higher-ranking mafioso in "Casino".

I hope this is that movie, it kinda looks like it is

You could--depends how you feel about Mean Streets--argue that that line moves in the wrong direction, and that he should instead reverse course and go make a film about the two teenagers who try to buy fireworks from the small-time hoods in Mean Streets.

The CG in THE IRISHMAN trailer (and any trailer, for that matter) is not finished and will probably be worked on until right before the release date. The trailer was probably cut with very early renders and have improved by several generations in the current edit.

— Jason Overbeck (@bentclouds) July 31, 2019

People should not watch trailers and they should definitely not talk about them in the depressing, exhausting way that they like to do, on the internet

As if watching Robert De Niro playing 6ft 4 Irishman needed such hard sell tactics.

Jimmy Hoffa was alive until at least 1975, which is a relief as I'd been worried Scorsese wouldn't be able to get "Gimme Shelter" into THE IRISHMAN.

— Scott Von Doviak (@vondoviak) July 31, 2019

prob no Dropkick Murphys at least

I so badly want to dunk on this movie where Joe Pesci's rotting corpse plays a CGI mobster, but Silence was so good that I'm actually inclined to give it the benfit of the doubt.

Also the CGI doesnt look that bad in the trailer tbh

I’m not kidding myself, it’s going to be awful and distracting. But I’ll still watch the f out of this

I found out there's an interview with Hoffa on YouTube from my very own hometown's ABC station, WEWS-TV5. It appeared on Cleveland's Morning Exchange, and guessing by the age of host Fred Griffith, I'm guessing it's around 1972 or 1973.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyZ9-AVNWE&t=129s

that was... not the topic I was expecting

A hero of labor!

Wild to me that Hoffa's son,also James,is current Teamsters president.

I will see this dumb movie in the theatre and I will enjoy it

Wild to me that Hoffa's son,also James,is current Teamsters president.

My union boss. (Really, I am a Teamster: https://teamsters2010.org/ )

hey guys it’s our friend Ned! boy i was just saying to the fellas what a real stand up guy you are.
*sweats*
😬

I heard he paints houses.

I'm glad we had this talk.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/l2JdZTV3EFZaKYkKc/giphy.gif

Thought you were a librarian

Is it because of moving heavy shelving?

There's a new Robbie Robertson single feat. Van Morrison - "I Hear You Paint Houses" - maybe gunning for Best Song?

xpost -- check the link, m'friend.

ay Ned this guy botherin' you? cuz me and the boys could take him for a ride

I didn’t mean nuttin’ by it, honest! I swear!

yeah he didn’t mean nuttin by it *snickers*

I am a library guy. There's a large number of public employee unions as part of the Teamsters setup.

Anyway, about your kneecaps, and these cement shoes.

One book goes in dat stack, da uddah goes in dat one...whaddaya gonna do?

Ned, need some books? I got some that fell off the back of the truck.

Lol CJV

I want an equal amount of books in each rack

Looking forward to seeing this movie.

The only book that matters is your... aw never mind.

this could be shit, but it could also be awesome

in other words, a 21st century Scorsese pic

And funnily enough I just got my latest national Teamster magazine detailing a variety of organizing successes, the strong state of the union’s financing and the silencing of dissent from any ILXors who give me lip. I’m sorry that last part seems to have snuck in there.

(Speaking frankly, our union fully affiliating with the Teamsters some years back was one of the two best moves we’ve done since I’ve joined, the first being a general reorganization shortly after I started working in the system fulltime. Our last contract negotiations went heavily in our favor and I’ll be interested to see how the next one goes in a couple of years.)

I really loved Silence, it was my favorite Scorsese film in at least a couple of decades

Has anyone ever seen the forgotten norman jewison directed union epic f.i.s.t. starring sylvester stallone as a Jimmy Hoffa type figure? It's very bad.

https://youtu.be/uiBqdmelCVk

Ha, actually I did forget about that. Meaning I forgot it existed, never actually saw it.

+1 for Silence as well.

Good that indie theaters will get a big revenue boost:

The Irishman will open Nov. 1 in select indie cinemas willing to carry the drama. More than three weeks later — or 26 days to be exact — it will debut Nov. 27 on Netflix, much as Alfonso Cuarón's Oscar-nominated Roma did last year. This rules out the sort of big-screen blitz Scorsese and other seasoned directors are used to, unless something changes at the 11th hour.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/netflix-forgoes-wide-release-martin-scorseses-irishman-1234382