The Irishman is Scorsese's best reviewed film of his career

. It's been a while since we got a solid Yakuza movie. In America anyway.

Scorsese's cameo in Taxi Driver--he pretty much steals the movie from De Niro.
It could work as a short film.
Brave role for him to take.
lol

ck100



I just assume it's over-hyped as while I think it's got a reasonable chance to stand out (so it's got a reasonable chance of being one of my strongest movies of 2019), I personally am not expecting to like it more than Casino (1995)/The Departed (2006) if you want to stick strictly to Scorsese's other gangster movies. but in general the only Scorsese movies that stand out for me are... 1)The Color of Money (1986) (8/10) 2-3)The Departed (2006)/Casino (1995)(both 7.5-8/10) 4)The Aviator (2004) (7/10). hopefully The Irishman (2019) makes that list.

but anyways, I am hoping I am underestimating The Irishman (2019). but personally, I don't think ill give it more than a 7/10. but just the chance it can reach 7/10 territory, based on my impression of things so far, means I got some legit hopes for it as in general at this point in time there are not many movies that I have not already seen that I go into thinking they got a decent chance at cracking 7/10+ status. so basically I am confident it won't score lower than a 6/10 (a mild Thumbs Up) for me but at the same time I think, given my impression from the trailer etc, it probably won't score higher than a 7/10. if it goes above a 7/10 ill have underestimated it (which don't happen much for me in general, but I hope I am underestimating it as I like when that happens) or if it goes below a 6/10 (i.e. a 5/10 or less) ill have overestimated it.

ck100

I see what you mean but it seems we have differing opinions on what's Scorsese's top movies as I never thought much of some of his praised movies from the past like Taxi Driver/Raging Bull etc, which I tend to find to be pretty average/forgettable. The Departed/Casino on the other hand is within my Top 78 movies straight up. hell, I used to praise Goodfellas but that's since fallen off.

but with that said... I see what you mean with the praise but at the same time I don't put too much stock into critics as they are often disconnected with the people it seems. like I realize that sometimes the people just like really basic things like super hero movies etc (not to say those are automatically bad, but you can see my general point here) and critics can go to more of the other extreme with them praising more of the snob types of movies and the like, but I guess I try to find some sort of balance of those two things in what's of any real worth etc. because I tend to find more known movies, or at least semi-known movies, tend to be better in general than movies that are mostly unknown to a lot of people. but I guess at the same time if one gauged the general publics praise of movies based largely on the movies that did the most $$$ in the theaters, in this regard I would be disagreeing with them more often than not as, at least in my mind, the movies that tend to do huge $$$ tend to be nothing special (although there can be some exceptions here and there).

but anyways... I would not be surprised if some are sort of overpraising it because it's Scorsese+DeNiro+Pacino etc in a quality gangster/crime movie for probably one last time as they are getting up there in age.

but yeah, I think The Departed was quite hyped up back when it was released. initially I was disappointed with it on my initial viewing but it grew on me with time as that's one of those movies my score fluctuated up and down as time passed as I want to say on my initial viewing it was something around a 7/10 then eventually hit 10/10 status and then in Oct 2016 it went from a 10/10 to a 7/10 for me and then on my most recent viewing in Apr 2019 it went from a 7/10 back to a 7.5-8/10. but I guess in short, while it's score fluctuated as the years passed, after I got over my initial disappointment, it grew on me and has remained among my favorite movies and has not fallen out of that status so far. I have seen it four times since I have been keeping logs of all of the movies I see which is Dec 27th 2011 to date. so to guesstimate how many times I have seen The Departed I would probably say AT LEAST 6-7 times since Dec 2012 is the oldest re-watch of it I got on file and I would have probably seen it around the time it was out on video, which is probably about early 2007. so if you figure my initial viewing was probably sometime in 2007, it's probably likely I have seen it at least one or two more times between there and my Dec 2012 viewing, hence, my 6-7 times for a conservative figure is probably close and could be a bit more.

ill stop babbling now



That's one thing I have learned over the years NOT to buy into as you will likely be disappointed more often than not if you go into a movie expecting the world of it as when I go into a typical movie I see I got into it with my typical level of expectations which is around average-ish give or take a bit and I can usually tell if a movie has a chance of standing out for me.