Jimmy's performance in The Irishman was fucking terrible

[Mitch Weaver]

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Shoulda hired this guy to play Richard Pryor instead.

Dead ringer for post freebase Pryor.

 

[MonsterSteve]

I don’t know if you’ve seen the full movie but i’m not exaggerating when I say it’s his worst. The physical capabilities of 80 year old actors playing 30 year olds is lacking. The scene of Deniro beating that guy up is so bad they should have scrapped the movie right there. I guess when they got to Jims part they were so used to the terrible performances they didn’t notice it.

Oh wait. They did. They had to give Jimmy lines that are verbatim Don Rickles quotes so the audience would even know who it was.

I actually hated the movie the first time I saw it. I thought it was too long and needed to be edited down, among other things but on my 2nd viewing years later I came to appreciate it a lot more than I originally did. That being said it's not great and most of his other movies are way better.

This or Many Saints? I think I'd take this movie over Many Saints 10 out of 10 times.

 

[MonsterSteve]

horrific seeing Bob make a fool of himself

Okay this is way worse than I remember.

Remember, this is the guy who said he'd beat the shit out of Donald Trump IRL. Fucking shrimp.

 

[FamilyDollar]

This or Many Saints? I think I'd take this movie over Many Saints 10 out of 10 times.

I don't even think it's fair to compare the too. The Irishman gets plenty of deserved shit but it's at least somewhat watchable. Many Saints is a fucking abortion. My estimation of David Chase as a man fucking plummeted.

Although from what I've read HBO motherfucked him. Chase wanted to make a movie about the Newark riots and they forced him to make it about the Sopranos universe for some reason.

 

[Voscabulary]

horrific seeing Bob make a fool of himself

anything involving action in a scorsese film isn't very good. taxi driver's a masterpiece, but the shootout in the brothel is super clunky and poorly paced. even the boxing scenes in raging bull are only held together by superb editing

 

[GOD DAMN RICH CUNT]

I liked Pacino as Hoffa, sue me.

 

[Meownaw]

I liked Pacino as Hoffa, sue me.

I did too. Bunch of fawkin haters in here.

 

[lilconnorpeterson]

SAG minimum would be 1k per day, but given the movie had a $200 Million budget, I'd guestimate somewhere between 5-35k assuming it only a day or two to film his scene.

My thought was 5-10k depending how many days he did, easy money for what is a pretty average performance.

 

[Roslyn Heights Biter]

Rickles was amazing. Morton...not so much.

 

[LiberalPussy]

Okay this is way worse than I remember.

Remember, this is the guy who said he'd beat the shit out of Donald Trump IRL. Fucking shrimp.

The sad part is, that scene didn’t need to be so bad. If Scorsese really wanted to de age cgi Deniro there are ways to make it work here. They can use a stunt actor for scenes like this where you need some physicality and then cgi Deniro’s face in post.

 

[Racist Google Intern]

horrific seeing Bob make a fool of himself

The breakway glass on the door just falling apart when the guy touches it with his hand made me turn it off.

 

[LingerLonger]

The sad part is, that scene didn’t need to be so bad. If Scorsese really wanted to de age cgi Deniro there are ways to make it work here. They can use a stunt actor for scenes like this where you need some physicality and then cgi Deniro’s face in post.

Scorsese is 100 years old at this point. He probably thought that de-aging was magic technology. Where you could rewind the clock on every aspect of the actor's appearances including their physical movements. Just imagine him sitting around with the producers watching that scene then saying "Okay.....now de-age his old man fighting moves and make them look young" and the CGI team looking at him like has three heads.