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    looks interesting, lot of good actors in it, if anyone can find a link

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    so it's Cluedo, the Movie

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    I've seen only CAMS so far.

    It's had really good reviews.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    Dolemite Is My Name (2019).
    Lasted about half an hour with this.

    Seemed completely pointless.

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    The Irishman great film over 3 hours I finaly found out what happened to Jimmy Hoffman , i watched it for 2 hours and then the rest later , Deniro played a great part !0/10

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    The Irishman review: De Niro and Scorsese say goodbye to the goodfellas

    A digitally de-aged Robert De Niro leads Martin Scorsese’s epic portrait of the man who shot Jimmy Hoffa.
    Joe Pesci as Russell Bufalino and Robert De Niro as Frank Sheeran in The Irishman

    There is a sense of nostalgia and of letting go about The Irishman, the first and probably the last organised crime film made by Martin Scorsese to star not only his long-time colleagues Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel but also genre icon Al Pacino, whom Scorsese has never previously directed. (The old goodfellas’ faces, especially De Niro’s, were expensively de-aged by facial-recognition technology for the scenes in which their characters are younger.)

    Read Martin Scorsese on The Irishman and more in our November 2019 issue

    If this is a goodbye, then Scorsese has a little intertextual fun with it. As the eponymous Mob and Teamsters labour union hitman and courier Frank Sheeran (a real-life figure, who died in 2003 aged 83), De Niro gets to destroy a fleet of chequered yellow cabs like the one he drove in Taxi Driver. Shortly before Sheeran shoots mobster Crazy Joe Gallo outside Umberto’s Clam House in Little Italy in 1972, Gallo celebrates his birthday at the Copacabana club, a Raging Bull location and site of Goodfellas’ weaving Steadicam shot (the most famous Scorsese shot of all), where comic Don Rickles (Jim Norton) is performing. Had Rickles accepted Gallo’s invitation to Umberto’s that night, he may never have lived to be directed by Scorsese in Casino in 1995

    It is not Scorsese and Mafia lore that make the Irishman a requiem, however, but the way it morphs from an ebullient, sprawling comedy-drama about the outsider Sheeran’s three-decade involvement with La Cosa Nostra into a mournful reflection on friendship, betrayal and the unassuaged guilt men take to their graves. Unconcerned with law and order (Mob life, with its code of duty and loyalty, is a social metaphor for Scorsese, as it is a matter of family dynamics for Francis Ford Coppola in The Godfather movies), the film is a morality play that forces Sheeran to confront an irresolvable conflict of interests. This resonates more than screenwriter Steven Zaillian’s adherence to Sheeran’s ambiguously worded confession – made to Charles Brandt, author of I Heard You Paint Houses, the film’s source – that he assassinated the powerful former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino) on 30 July 1975.

    In his mid-thirties, Sheeran is mentored by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia boss Russell Bufalino (Pesci), who recommends him to Hoffa as an enforcer and minder. Hoffa puts a touching level of trust in Sheeran. When they share a hotel suite, Hoffa wears his pyjamas in the fully clothed Sheeran’s presence, and leaves his bedroom’s sliding doors ajar, a targeted man’s gesture of faith in his bodyguard’s protectiveness.
    Twenty-eight years after he murders Hoffa, Sheeran leaves the door of his care-home room open on his last night alive. The echo is unreadable: is this an old man’s habit, a survivor trusting in a protective god, or his inviting in of death? Though the ailing Sheeran won’t admit to visiting FBI men that he killed Hoffa – even for the sake of Hoffa’s children – or express remorse to a priest, he is clearly haunted by the episode, and especially by having telephoned Hoffa’s widow Jo (Welker White) to tell her that her husband would soon show up

    The film’s epic battle is fought not between Hoffa and the mobsters he threatens to expose posthumously if they whack him, but between Sheeran and his conscience, charged as he is by the man he reveres most with the Cain-like murder of a man he admires almost as much. Sheeran gleans at his Teamsters appreciation dinner, where Hoffa makes the keynote speech and presents him with a diamond-encrusted gold watch, that Hoffa is signing his own death warrant by seeking to regain the Teamsters presidency and cut off the Mob. But when Sheeran learns that he must kill him, he is blindsided by being cast as Brutus.

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    Quote Originally Posted by snakeeyes View Post
    I finaly found out what happened to Jimmy Hoffman


    I bet not knowing must have been torture.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post


    I bet not knowing must have been torture.

    cyrille cyrille cyrille it wasn't that long ago that they were saying he was in the foundation of some building , I'm very happy that you are amused by my post , carry on

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    Quote Originally Posted by snakeeyes View Post

    cyrille cyrille cyrille it wasn't that long ago that they were saying he was in the foundation of some building , I'm very happy that you are amused by my post , carry on
    You are dumb as a fucking rock.


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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    You are dumb as a fucking rock.


    Harry FOOK you and FOOK Soldier F , Harry you're an ex squaddie soldier just the usual ex squaddie soldier CNUT Pattaya WANKERS a waste of space going nowhere fast , living the dream
    and you ex squaddies like it up the JACKSIE , Here you go Harry have a good WANK over this BUM you CNUT

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    The Irishman was a rehash of Goodfellas.
    Got bored of it after an hour put MOTD on.
    Fuck wasting another two hours on that crap

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    Got bored of it after an hour put MOTD on.
    I bet that didn't last long either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by snakeeyes View Post

    Harry FOOK you and FOOK Soldier F , Harry you're an ex squaddie soldier just the usual ex squaddie soldier CNUT Pattaya WANKERS a waste of space going nowhere fast , living the dream
    and you ex squaddies like it up the JACKSIE , Here you go Harry have a good WANK over this BUM you CNUT

    It's Jimmy HOFFA you stupid fucking pikey.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Chittychangchang View Post
    The Irishman was a rehash of Goodfellas.
    Got bored of it after an hour put MOTD on.
    Fuck wasting another two hours on that crap
    Jeez, a man with no taste, no culture, no.........

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    The Irishman

    Maybe a tad self-indulgent at 3.5 hours but I enjoyed watching the old crew do the goon show one more time. More enjoyable when it is also a historical account of famous characters, and the aging added depth. It is what it is. Whaddaya gonna do.

    Only one thing I gotta say.

    People who watch this movie in 2 parts are fuckin pussies.

    You're a fuckin pussy.

    Get da fuck outta here.

    8.2/10

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    Ok I concur, I watched The Irishman for the first 1h30 and I can confirm it's boring shit, no matter how accurate the mafia lifestyle and Jimmy story is

    it's no the fast pace and witty Casino, or Goodfellas, it's old men remembering a past where they already looked old and acted old

    the digitized face is not convincing, I thought first the digitizing was on the old guys as I didn't realize how aged is now Joe Pesci

    In the younger version of themselves, they walk and stand like old people

    this is a fooking farce, and I will watch it to the end simply for the historical value

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    ^ yeah the way they did the young ageing was poor - there's an interesting 30 minute clip on Netflix where the 3 main characters and director chat about the film, and they more or less admit: 1) the ageing was problematic with their actions (difficult to act and direct), I agree that this area was a failure because the faces looked weird and the old fellas just couldn't act the actions of their younger selves (their bodies wouldn't allow it); 2) This movie was made to satisfy their old selves, it was very self indulgent.

    The film is pretty good, I can understand why folks like it, it's interesting. But, ultimately it fails to be great, imho. Casino is a different movie, obviously, but soooooo much better. This one, after reflection, is still decent - a solid 7.5 out of 10.
    Cycling should be banned!!!

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    you are being too nice, it's a complete failure and definitely not doing a service to those old hands and how they should be remembered

    Casino and Goofellas made them legend, this farce is killing this legacy,

    let's make this an honest mistake from an over-indulging director,

    I don't think any of those great actors needed that Netflix failure,

    Netflix should go bankrupt or lose 50% of their market value for simply fucking up this

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dragonfly View Post
    you are being too nice, it's a complete failure and definitely not doing a service to those old hands and how they should be remembered

    Casino and Goofellas made them legend, this farce is killing this legacy,

    let's make this an honest mistake from an over-indulging director,

    I don't think any of those great actors needed that Netflix failure,

    Netflix should go bankrupt or lose 50% of their market value for simply fucking up this
    It was apparently watched by 26+ million accounts within the first seven days and it has several Golden Globe nominations (Oscars too, most likely) so calling it a failure is a bit of a stretch.

    Obviously that doesn't translate to ticket sales under their model but it's a substantial number whatever way you look at it.

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    Surely it's pretty clear to everyone by now how much idea df has about movies.

    And indeed most other aspects of life.

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    oh Fuck Off Cecilia, you are up for another award for the biggest wanker in the world

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Surely it's pretty clear to everyone by now how much idea df has about movies.

    And indeed most other aspects of life.
    He's not very bright you know.

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    Hustlers

    Set in the world of gogo dancing.

    I watched this for about half an hour, which included at last fifteen minutes of Jennifer Lopez's arse from just about every conceivable angle.

    I give it 3.5 per cheek, but 30 minutes was enough.

    Usher appearing as a kind of 'guest star' just as if he were doing a rap on JL's latest single was the point where I hit the 'off' button.

    Lopez seems to be getting lauded for her acting skills.

    She does indeed carry off the 'fit older woman with a great arse' role with considerable aplomb.

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    ^Might watch the 3D edition with the "scratch 'n sniff" card.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Hustlers

    Set in the world of gogo dancing.

    I watched this for about half an hour, which included at last fifteen minutes of Jennifer Lopez's arse from just about every conceivable angle.

    I give it 3.5 per cheek, but 30 minutes was enough.

    Usher appearing as a kind of 'guest star' just as if he were doing a rap on JL's latest single was the point where I hit the 'off' button.

    Lopez seems to be getting lauded for her acting skills.

    She does indeed carry off the 'fit older woman with a great arse' role with considerable aplomb.
    and you dare question my taste of movie, look at yourself first

    typical British 2 face TEFLER hypocrite,

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