The Irishman

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I plan on watching The Irishman for the second time today, so my opinion might change by the end of the night, but honestly, I have to say that I think that this is Scorsese's best film, hands down, which is saying quite a lot. Scorsese has directed such films as:

Who's That Knocking At My Door?

Mean Streets


Taxi Driver

Raging Bull

Goodfellas

Cape Fear

Casino

Gangs of New York

The Departed

Shutter Island

The Wolf of Wall Street


He also directed an episode or two of the hit TV show Boardwalk Empire, from what I understand.

I'm probably a bit biased, because while a lot of fans of directors or actors or musicians always like "the earlier work," I love to see artists of all forms develop and change and evolve as creative forces, and often find myself loving an artist's newest, latest work more than anything. A big example would be how much everyone hated Jay Z's new music, but personally, I think his album 4:44 is by far the best album he's put together in his entire musical career. It doesn't always work across the board... I'm not into the newest stuff just because it's the newest... I think I just honestly enjoy watching artists develop.

But I digress.

And so I come to The Irishman, and despite its run time, at three hours and some change, I really think it's Scorsese's best film, and The Departed has been one of my all-time favorite movies for a lot of years, and The Irishman has since surpassed it on my list of favorite movies. I just think that this movie is so great at telling its story. The camera work, the dialogue, everything about it except for the cheesy CGI they used on DeNiro, was all super impressive. I'm no cinephile, at least not compared to true cinephiles, but I really geeked out over this movie and I can't wait to watch it for the second time today.

Did you guys have any thoughts on the movie? Had a solid three years to watch it yet? lol

I've heard opinion ranging from people loving it more than I did, to absolutely hating it, to being unimpressed, to having no thoughts really, to thinking it was great but not good.... so any  and all opinions are welcome I'm just excited to hear what any of you guys thought. Hell, one guy even told me "I preferred Endgame," which was a snarky nod to Scorsese's comments about the Marvel movies. I thought that was funny lol

So, I'm not talking about anything in the story here because I don't want to be responsible for any spoilers... So, here's your official spoiler alert, because someone else may very well throw some in somewhere in this thread.

Here's the trailer to the movie, just in case you need to be motivated

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