The Irishman (2019, D: Scorsese) S: De Niro, Pacino, Pesci -- Netflix
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I was trying to point out the badassery of Eastwood compared to the minisculity of DiCaprio. I can NEVER see DiCraprio as a tough guy. He'll always be that retarded kid in Gilbert Grape or the "King of the world" in Titanic.
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Fistful may have been copied, but it is still very much an iconic film in its own right. The Departed is just another run of the mill cop/gangster film. There is nothing at all special about it. The only reason it will be remembered is because of the sympathy Oscar it won Scorsese.
Departed is to Infernal Affairs as Red Dragon is to Manhunter... a pale imitation barely changed, done by high profile directors to its original predecessor.
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Now that's just silly. Since when was any Scorsese movie "his idea?" It was all based on "something" prior to Scorsese getting his anglo-hands on it. Henry Hill and Jake LaMotta weren't his inventions, you know.
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And "The Departed," with its all-star cast, was not a bad film at all. "GoodFellas" it ain't, but who said it was supposed to be? And why would we even want another "GoodFellas?" We already have it. We didn't have a Hollywood picture where a mob guy became a cop to become an informer, and a cop became a mob guy to become an informer. In fact, the film should have been called The Informer.
Or Text-Messaging Wars.
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A painting like this, except with DeNro and DiCaprio. One looking this way, the other looking that way.
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And "The Departed," with its all-star cast, was not a bad film at all. "GoodFellas" it ain't, but who said it was supposed to be? And why would we even want another "GoodFellas?" We already have it. We didn't have a Hollywood picture where a mob guy became a cop to become an informer, and a cop became a mob guy to become an informer. In fact, the film should have been called The Informer.
Or Text-Messaging Wars.
Or Text-Messaging Wars.
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Keanu's not in KUNDUN. You're thinking of Bertolucci's LITTLE BUDDHA from a couple of years before that. KUNDUN is quite good, it's about the Dalai Lama, not Buddha. Peter O'Toole's the only name actor in it. It's the last Scorsese film I liked.
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[QUOTE=Buttmunker;10374371]A painting like this, except with DeNro and DiCaprio. One looking this way, the other looking that way.
With Marty in the middle saying......whaddya want from me?
With Marty in the middle saying......whaddya want from me?
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Ah thanks, I must have remembered things incorrectly - probably the letter "k"!
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I think you're confusing "Kundun" with Bertolucci's "The Last Emperor", since Peter O'Toole wasn't in the former but he was in the latter (unless I'm missing something.)
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In an attempt to get the thread at least somewhat back on track - has anyone read the Brandt novel?
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LOL, you're right. All these films with Asian monarchs/deities and western mentors...all rolling around together in my head. In the year of KUNDUN, 1997, O'Toole was only in FAIRY TALE: A TRUE STORY, in which he played Arthur Conan Doyle. (And didn't Keanu Reeves play Sherlock in that? )