The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2018) Movie • Page 15

If you go back and watch Goodfellas and Casino, they tried to get away with very different ages with much less convincing results. DeNiro is supposed to be in his twenties at the beginning.

 

I thought the faces with the de-aging was totally fine and I wasn’t distracted. Certain things took me out if it in very minor ways (Pesci referring to him as “kid”) but the fight scene really exposes it because his body is moving like he’s the senior citizen he is in real life.

 

Yeah his movement while beating up the grocery store guy was a lot more noticeable than any of the de-aging for me, but none of it really took me out of the movie at all.

Also Pesci is terrifying in this

 

I love how Pesci was just as scary as he's always been but never actually does any violence in this. Don't what I would've said if you told me how great he'd play a little old man

 

ya especially compared to like Goodfellas or any movie where he's a total hothead, the reservedness here was unsettling as hell for me

 

I am also completely sick of this trope, but it worked in this about as well as anyone could hope. The fact that she wouldn’t talk to him or have any kind of blow up or catharsis or anything worked in her favor as a person even though we didn’t get to see it. The scene with her sister was really powerful because you could tell just how much he had willfully ignored and how strong she was being by not giving him any kind of excuse or out in his old age.

 

I haven't gone back to check but I feel like the glass shattering at the grocery store door was reallyy poorly done, like the guy was barely thrown into the window when it broke. I could be wrong I'm too lazy to check rn lol.

 

doesn’t even really raise his voice. all in the eyes

 

Enjoyed it, but not as in love with it as the majority here seem to be. I'm glad people are pointing out how terrible the grocery store beat down was, I was shocked Scorcese thought that looked good enough. It was extremely awkward.

Pesci was incredible. The movie was overall a lot funnier then I expected. The de-aging didn't bother me as much as Deniro's eyes, it reminded me of Black Mask where Depp's eyes just looked cartoonishly fake.

 

Glass breaks insanely easy in this movie. It happens during one of Frank's hits again, really awkward looking.

 

I just watched Home Alone yesterday, fun to see Pesci in that after seeing this. He was 46 when they filmed that movie! And he's like 76 now. Crazy.

 

apologies to literally any other film released this oscar season

 

Correct lmao.

 

this legitimately looks like rehearsal footage. He so clearly doesn't make contact with him it's hilarious

 

Watching this out of context of the film is so jarring. I was so drawn in to the movie that I didn’t even notice how bad this looks.

 

This is the only scene that took me out of the movie, it’s so insane they didn’t reshoot this with a double and just figure out different angles lol

 

I was watching his daughter’s reaction so closely that I barely paid attention to what he was doing. I did notice that some of it seemed awkward but it was not my focus at all.

 

Even at his “youngest” in the gas station scene De Niro still looks 40 lol.

 

he’s supposed to be like late 30s, early 40s at the gas station, no?

 

Pretty good

 

He’s 35 at the gas station. The de-aging was less distracting than it usually is, but I do worry about it looking more and more uncanny as time passes.

 

It wasn’t perfect technology but CGI never has been. Even when I noticed it (especially the store beat down), my brain adjusted for it.

 

Ive never felt the desire to watch a 3.5 hr movie again so quickly

 

This is how it was for me. But this is how makeup is for me too.

The only example I can think of where I literally had no idea and 100% bought the illusion was Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. I don't know if this is down to having first watched it as a young person and being completely unfamiliar with Marlon Brando at that time.

 

The scene where they were eating the watermelon was great.