I kind of made a mistake. Not a big one.
I made this mistake before, I think. Never Say Never Again was not a good movie, it was a remake of Thunderball, but I was so excited to see Sean Connery back as James Bond I thought it was a good movie the first time I saw it. Perhaps, in a vacuum it was. But when I saw it again, it was very flawed.
The Irishman is another one of those movies. I was so excited to see Pacino, DeNiro, and Pesci in another gangster movie directed by Martin Scorsese I let my emotions take over.
This is still a good movie, but not a great one and it is tedious in parts of its 210 minutes. The plot is shaky and it plays with the actual facts of the era. It treats rumors as being the truth. And while the facial “youthing” is effective, their body and movements are that of seventy year old men. I am a bit uncomfortable watching that a second time.
But you can’t go home again and that is what everyone is trying here. And I was trying too, I guess I wanted so much to enjoy this movie. Scorsese, Coppola, Lucas and Spielberg changed Hollywood and brought in new types of movies and creating “blockbusters.” Now, nearly a half a century later, they are being replaced and Hollywood is changing again. It has now become streamings time at bat. Except for Spielberg, the other three cannot raise money (from the Movie studios) to produce the movies they want. Perhaps it is because they still want to make the old movies like “The Irishman.”
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