rant · moment 5 of 18
The Irishman Is a Boring CGI Corpse Parade
from #176 - The Florida Project | The Tim Dillon Show · #176
9 min
Tim rants extensively about how bad and overlong The Irishman is, mocking the de-aging CGI, the boomers who worship mob nostalgia despite having no real connection to that world, and the film's defenders on social media.
- The Irishman is a boring movie that nobody in the entertainment industry seems willing to walk away from.
- People defending the film online are nostalgic types who can't let go of the past, not people who actually lived through that era.
- The opening scene features CGI de-aging of older actors like Pesci and De Niro, creating a parade of artificial corpses.
- It's a money grab with the same old names—Scorsese, Keitel, De Niro, Pacino, Pesci—recycled because they're legends, but the result is just long and boring.
- We already saw this movie when it was called Goodfellas, and it was better and shorter.
- The people obsessing over the Irishman fantasize they'd be part of the Rat Pack, when really they'd just get hit in the head with a gun butt.
- Tim mocks the nostalgia-addicted crowd who romanticize smoking jackets and Cadillacs while working cubicle jobs at Geico.
- He grew up in a town with actual mafia people but refuses to romanticize it, unlike the Long Island and Jersey types with Scarface posters waiting for their mothers to die.
- The film is so long he showered in the middle of it without even stopping it.
- Scorsese should step out of his comfort zone and make a movie about something other than goons—try black trans women or babies who grow up to be gangsters.
- People identifying with the Irishman had no clue what that era was actually about; they just romanticize it thinking they'd have run things back then.
- Pesci coming out of retirement for this was a mistake; he should have stayed retired and let someone else have a shot.
- The next phase will be animating their literal dead bodies since the current cast is already on death's door.
- The film made money because boomers love it, but that doesn't make it good.
- The same people on social media defending the film are fantasizing about a time when women weren't on Facebook and were making ravioli instead.
The IrishmanMartin ScorseseJoe PesciRobert De NiroGoodfellasAl PacinoJim NortonJimmy HoffaHenry HillHarvey KeitelHoffa