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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 17, 2019 0:27:38 GMT -5
I’m surprised I can’t find a thread about it on here. Anyone else watch it yet? I finally got around to watching it. I really enjoyed some parts, but the scenes where they tried to convince you Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci aren’t each 154 years old got to be a bit much. I hope Scorsese finishes another movie or two with those guys, but next time I hope they’re in age appropriate roles. I enjoyed this movie more than De Niro’s Bernie Madoff biopic, but at least with that one it’s a role he can still pull off. Heck at one point in this movie there is a World War II flashback where Frank Sheeran is at the absolute oldest supposed to be 25. And that scene is played by a 76 year old Robert De Niro. Sorry to harp on that one point so much. It was a lot of fun otherwise and I’d been looking forward to it for years. Three and a half hour movies are really tough to pull off and few can do it as good as Scorsese does. I heard his next project with De Niro is about the origins of the FBI and I’m excited for it
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Post by Evil Homer on Dec 17, 2019 1:00:37 GMT -5
I had a bad experience with this movie . only one ipic theater playing this movie in my area about an hour away . There was an issue with the projector that delayed the start by 40 mins , then in the last hour it crashed again - and it delayed for 30 more mins
The movie itself was a masterpiece. De Niro and Pesci were fantastic , but Pacino definitely stole this movie
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Post by Perd on Dec 17, 2019 1:14:25 GMT -5
I thought it was really good. But it’s almost impossible for me not to enjoy the Scorsese crime story recipe. I do think it could’ve been shorter. There was maybe one too many scene that established the same thing about Jimmy Hoffa. We get it, he’s a loose cannon that pissed off the people that kept him in power.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Dec 17, 2019 1:28:14 GMT -5
Outside of that one scene where Sheeran beats up a shopkeeper I thought it was great. My problem with that scene though is that Deniro's movement don't really resemble a younger man's. Nitpicking, I know. Still one minor flaw in a Scorsese movie is like only focusing on the mole on Cindy Crawford's face.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 17, 2019 3:17:42 GMT -5
I never got back to watching it... I started it on thanksgiving and it was alright... but then peopel started showing up so I had to stop.
My main take away from what I saw of it... Deniro was WAY too old for the part.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 17, 2019 4:43:02 GMT -5
It's good. Really good. But at the same time it feels a bit like Scorsese-by-the-numbers, if that makes sense?
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Post by clifford on Dec 17, 2019 10:30:10 GMT -5
Outside of that one scene where Sheeran beats up a shopkeeper I thought it was great. My problem with that scene though is that Deniro's movement don't really resemble a younger man's. Nitpicking, I know. Still one minor flaw in a Scorsese movie is like only focusing on the mole on Cindy Crawford's face. I don't think that's a nitpick at all- that scene took me so out of the movie, it actually made me laugh. It was hilarious seeing him act like Mr.Burns giving 'the thrashing of your life' I have no idea why they didn't just cast a younger actor for the first half of the movie and make them look like de Niro, kind of like Bruce Willis and JGL in Looper. The de-aging in the face was pretty OK to a point (those dead eyes,what the hell) but everything else was awful, and it just kind of ruined me trying to get really invested into the movie. He was moving so unnaturally, his gait, his walk, it just looked so wrong.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 17, 2019 10:45:16 GMT -5
Yeah, all of the actors show their age here, but DeNiro, Pacino and Pesci are so charismatic that I was still able to stay invested in the story. I liked the gradual buildup, but at times it did get to be a bit much. I think twenty minutes of the characters just sitting around could have been cut down to a three hour run time and it still would have been as engrossing. Aside from that, great movie.
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Post by Cela on Dec 17, 2019 14:53:54 GMT -5
It was okay. The end part was definitely the best, and an interesting metaphor for Scorcese himself. But how many times do we have to see Scorsese do the story of an asshole who becomes relatively powerful on a local scale before having a downfall because people around him begin to mess up?
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