How are the de-aging effects in the book?

I hope they release it on Blu-ray or 4K eventually. Same with other original films like El Camino.

I would sort of think they’d see a market for a film like The Irishman as a lot of people who like Scorsese films in the first place are probably more likely to be the types who still purchase physical media.

But they don’t want you to purchase physical media. They want you to subscribe to their service. If they ever did release one it would be years before it happened.

I get it, but it’s money in their pocket either way so I would think it would make sense in certain cases like this to put out a physical release.

It doesn’t make sense to them, no. What you think and what they do are two different things. They aren’t trying to conform to typical business model. If they cared about “money in their pocket” they would’ve allowed some of their films to play in major theatre chains and then release after the allowable window, but that’s not what they want. They want you as a subscriber. Every month.

In four years since they done movies, they haven’t put out a physical release. That’s the fact. Cloverfield doesn’t count because it was an acquisition from Paramount who kept home video rights.

I didn’t say I was right about it necessarily. Just that I could see a case for a physical release being warranted and hope it happens.

They could even do something similar to what they did with the Stranger Things seasons and make it an exclusive to a certain store (possibly Target if that relationship is already in place).

Stranger Things is a massive brand. It was a huge merchandising deal. And now those discs are being sold for $5 and they can't even give them away.

It got a theatrical release 1. So they could appease the director they reeled in and 2. To qualify for awards.

No Netflix movies get physical releases. Regardless of what you want, this isn't what they do. For now anyway. I hope it changes.

Stranger Things is Netflix and is available on home video.

Nevermind, saw it was discussed further (re: ST).

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As for The Irishman, I saw it Friday in theaters and was happy to do so as seeing a 3.5 hour movie at home is logistically impossible nowadays.

Would you want to see a 3.5 hour Scorsese crime movie? The answer to this question decides if you should see this film.