Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 972

1. Goodfellas
2. Taxi Driver
3. Raging Bull
4. After Hours
5. The Irishman

 

I could not finish Bringing Out the Dead

 

@phaynes12 what say you

 

fuck you

 

Bringing out the dead is a time-consuming job. There’s a lot of dead! Sometimes it takes a while to finish.

 

the bit has gotten to the point where i don’t believe he actually doesn’t like it and just says it to tease me

 

The Irish man is ridiculous to watch, they should of gone all the way and CGId faces on 20yr old body dubs.

 

What is the alternative? Go back and watch Goodfellas when De Niro shows up and they say with a straight face he is in his late twenties.

 

Hes not moving like a rusty puppet in the goodfellas

Ok theres no alternative and they did thier best, those scenes are still in the movie.

 

I am currently in an argument with my friends over how good The Irishman is. It may be Deniro’s best performance

 

Yeah his age shows but it’s still a great movie.

 

The Irishman is top 3 Scorsese for me, but body doubles probably would have helped in some scenes. I don't mind the de-aging overall in the film but those scenes are a little jarring.

 

What bugs me about both Irishman and KOTFM is that it feels impossible to get a sense of the passage of time within them. Entire years will go by but nothing notably changes, so it isn’t until a line of exposition says so that it hits that we’re now in a completely different time from wherever we were just a scene or two prior

I haven’t seen Goodfellas or Casino is a while so they may have a similar issue, but I don’t recall ever feeling that way with them. Same with Wolf of Wall Street — it always felt like there were plenty of visual cues to convey whenever a notable chunk of time passes, like the business getting bigger, him buying fancier things, montages, etc

 

do people not know that story still

 

Honestly had never heard the hit man story before.

 

News to me

 

No I did not know the Woody Harrelson’s dad was a hitman story.

 

Idiot

 

Well now that I oook at a picture of Harrelson and McConaughey side by side I can see the resemblance

 

Did you know Charlize's mom killed her dad who was abusive

 

It’s weird to me how much people have a problem just going with it when they watch a movie. De-aging effects aren’t good enough. Character doesn’t age enough. A clunky visual effect. The actor doesn’t look enough like the real life person. Like…it doesn’t have to be that hard of a needle to thread. Use your imagination and go with it

 

Watched the king of comedy last night and I think that jumps to top 5 Scorsese for me and maybe Bobby’s best performance.