Thoughts:
- it's boring mostly
- lots of old man acting
- Joe Pesci steals the film - restrained, powerful, intense, he's great
- I liked the younger support
- what's it about? The friendship between Al Pacino and Robert De Niro isn't real. De Niro is his lacky. He's Pesci's lacky.
- maybe you could interpret this as the story of a man who is full fo crap and a fantasist a la King of Comedy - that would've been really interesting and you can see it here a little but you have to squint
- you could also see it as the inability of servants to have proper friendships with their masters, but again you have to squint
- de Niro is a great actor but he's so Italian it's kind of silly he's in a film called the Irishman, he never seems Irish - it didn't matter in Goodfellas I felt it mattered here
- Anna Pacquin has seven words of dialogue and later de Niro complains he won't walk to her - that is genuinely hilarious
- other female "roles" include: wives who smoke and that's it, a daughter who cries and that's about it, a daughte who got married - there's a scene between de Niro and a blonde daughter which isn't bad but might mean more if we'd spent more time
- it repeats story beats constantly eg there's two scenes of Pesci telling de Niro they have to kill Pacino - or scenes that could've been cut - there's so much that could've been cut
- for all it's flaws it's clearly made by people with talent and has memorable moments like the build up to the murder of Hoffa, de Niro talking about Hoffa to a nice nurse who has no idea who Hoffa is, old Pesci being wistful in prison about killing Pacino - I enjoyed the last half hour but that was in part because of relief the film was over
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