The Irishman (Martin Scorsese, 2018) Movie • Page 24

Didn’t watch Shutter Island until this past year and was pretty bored for the most part. Can’t even think of any specific part that stuck out to me now

 

I’ve always liked it a lot. It doesn’t touch my favorites, but I would easily rather watch it than the handful before it, and it has one of my favorite casts he’s ever worked with.

 

Also, since Bringing Out the Dead was brought up, that specific review is what I was thinking about when I mentioned loving Ebert’s reviews. It’s been a long time since I first read it and parts of it have always stuck with me. There are a few comments that sum up his work as a whole in addition to the specific rundown of the movie.

Bringing Out the Dead movie review (1999) | Roger Ebert

 

shutter island is pretty intolerable until the last 20 or so minutes

what a waste of ruffalo and clarkson

 

Michelle’s performance alone bumps it up a few slots on my list. That was my favorite aspect by far. It’s been a few years though, I may have to revisit that one since I’ve been going through a bunch recently.

 

Nah. Intolerable is way too harsh. Ruffalo was just fine.

 

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: Martin Scorsese’s True Crime Thriller Confirmed for Oklahoma Production

 

I loved Silence a lot

 

Silence is brilliant. The Wolf-Silence-Irishman stretch is unbelievably good

 

Hugo is one of Marty’s most underrated films, it’s delightful in every way, and if you want to talk about infinite rewatchability Hugo has that in spades. It’s so damn good.

Silence, much like The Irishman, is a late-career masterpiece.

 

I noticed yesterday that a handful are on Starz, including Hugo. Don’t know if anyone has that available but it might be a good one to get a trial for if not.

 

Silence was on Amazon Prime for a while but sadly it's not anymore

 

Pretty confident in saying at this point that Parasite is probably the only movie from last year that I still haven't seen that has a shot at unseating this as my favorite movie of the year.

 

I've seen most of the heavy hitters and nothing comes close to this in terms of how much I think about it

 

It was a really, really strong year with like 5 movies that I loved enough that I don’t know that any ranking of them is a meaningful distinction

 

That Killers of the Flower Moon movie is going to incredible. The fact that the nonfiction book it’s being based on was written by the same guy who wrote The Lost City of Z makes it even better.

 

Killers of the Flower Moon is on my list to read. Last year I read Devil in the White City after hearing news that Marty and Leo were gonna produce a movie/miniseries but who knows when that comes out

 

Oh damn I read Killers of the Flower Moon last year on a whim, it was really engrossing.

 

Fascinating, now I gotta watch it again

 

For those of you who engaged with me, I did just watch this. Very well crafted, written, and acted—but I was ready for it to be over before an hour was even up. This was almost excruciatingly long.

My entire life I’ve not enjoyed mafia stories, so I’m wondering if that’s where my disconnect with so many of Scorcese’s works lie. So many seem to fall in those lines.

I realize this means I’ll never be a cinephile, but that’s okay.

 

Give his non-mafia stuff a try. Last Temptation, King of Comedy, Taxi Driver, Silence, Age of Innocence, Raging Bull, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.

He may just not be for you but while his crime movies often have wonderfully crafted and nuanced humanity/scathing social/political critique, some of his best work is outside of his mob movies

 

I’ve got Raging Bull on my Netflix list. But it’s time for BoJack now that I’m caught up on BP nominees.

 

I did not come away from this thinking about the mafia but I did come away hoping someone cares to be with me on my deathbed