Lol
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 December 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
I got in a car accident to that song once (not at fault)
are you by any chance a CEO
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 27 December 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
This was a comment posted by a daft friend of mine to me about The Irishman. Probably the most inept and useless one line review ever!
"Finished. Enjoyed the ugliness and the bad clothes but felt like goodfellas meets ken loach. Waste of my time."
― calzino, Friday, 27 December 2019 17:13 (four years ago) link
Providing multi-year employment to hundreds of union workers to make an anti-union film. Oh, the irony.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 27 December 2019 17:14 (four years ago) link
I disagree with his take that this movie is anti-union. I thought the Teamsters' pension fund was the precious resource that was being contested and Hoffa's obstinance to let the mob take more was his ultimate undoing. That the mob stole from this big pool of money by corrupting people with access doesn't make the union any more corrupt than a company that's being embezzled from, or a government agency that someone is selling classified documents from.
― beard papa, Friday, 27 December 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
This was a comment posted by a daft friend of mine to me about The Irishman. Probably the most inept and useless one line review ever!"Finished. Enjoyed the ugliness and the bad clothes but felt like goodfellas meets ken loach. Waste of my time."
― hot nuts (small) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 27 December 2019 17:47 (four years ago) link
reading a stance on "unions" from this movie is as silly to me as imagining psycho has a stance on secretaries stealing from real estate offices
― warn me about a lurking rake (One Eye Open), Friday, 27 December 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
The Irishman is anti union - in particular the Screen Actors Guild. The film uses technology to avoid multi-casting roles over 50 years, costing actors jobs.— “Brian” (@BrianJWooster) December 27, 2019
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 27 December 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
OEO otm
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 December 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
cosign
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 27 December 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Second viewing, again at MoMA… if anything liked a bit more. Pacino's accent is good enough. The complaints about "de Niro moved like an oldster" are mostly gtfo.
Also an actor I used to do improv jams with in a rehearsal studio 30 years ago is credited as Hoffa Rally Teamster #1 … missed him though.
Quintessential MoMA filmgoer exiting: "Who was the Irishman?"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
we are all the irishman
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
.
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
The complaints about "de Niro moved like an oldster" are mostly gtfo.
Mostly it's fine but the hand stamping bit was terrible.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link
didn’t understand why they could have deep faked some stunt double to do that scene. it’s the first thing people mention when the film comes up.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
Super impose DeNiro's head on Conor McGregor
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 03:39 (four years ago) link
Oh my god I have almost an hour left in this thing.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
What she said
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:14 (four years ago) link
He’s dead and there’s still almost 45 minutes in the movie.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:25 (four years ago) link
the last 45 minutes are what it’s about
honestly i loved how long this was, feature not a flaw. it’s a life, a mess of incident
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link
Ill probably do a straight through run tomorrow. Overdue for second watch.
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:29 (four years ago) link
I’m reserving judgment but jeez louise
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:31 (four years ago) link
It's what it is
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:34 (four years ago) link
its lead actors are, on average, older than the old people in “Cocoon,” a movie in which you definitely didn’t see Wilford Brimley curb-stomp anyone.
― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:45 (four years ago) link
Well, nice of De Niro to show up for the end of the movie
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:56 (four years ago) link
Anyway this was worth it for the extended silliness about the fish in the car.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 04:57 (four years ago) link
heart of the film
― difficult listening hour, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 05:55 (four years ago) link
The last half hour = Ozu with shag rugs
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 06:06 (four years ago) link
For all my love of crime films across various subgenres this movie made me really loathe actual mobsters.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 06:13 (four years ago) link
i liked this much more than I expected to. CGI not very distracting.
― akm, Sunday, 5 January 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
this was worth it for the extended silliness about the fish in the car.
We've established that Hoffa is the fish.
Can't believe I failed to recognize celebrated NYC idiot Bo Dietl the first time.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 5 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
"I dunno, A FISH"
― Lactose Shaolin Wanker (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 5 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
― 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