And I can just switch if I don't like it. Plus potty breaks are easier!

It's opening this Friday, at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in Brookline, MA, where I hold an annual membership. I've got my ticket, and I'm going to go and see it.

Al Pacino was an awesome as Jimmy Hoffa! Pesci and DeNiro were great, too. All three in one movie is quite a gift!

I'm a huge fan of mob movies, and I had read the book "The Irishman" was based on. I loved the book and felt the movie was pretty faithful to the book. The rise of Hoffa and the Teamsters and their symbiotic relationship with the mob makes for an entertaining story.

If you like the Godfather movies, Goodfellas, The Departed and other noteworthy mob flicks, I think you'll like this movie, the 3.5 hours notwithstanding.

My only complaint was it ran a little long on how the main character's daughter became estranged over her dad's involvement in mob activities (he was a hitman).

The opening night of "The Irishman" at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Ma, on Friday, November 15th, played to a packed house--inotherwords, they sold out. It's a good movie, but, as you pointed out, a tad long on how the main character's daughter became estranged over her dad's involvement in mob activities.

I just endured this movie on Netflix.

Tedious and boring, although Pacino does capture the total assholishness of the Jimmy Hoffa I remember from the 60s.

All A+ films.

I liked both Godfathers and Raging Bull, but I walked out after 10 minutes of Casino, because I found it boring.

And I'm not a fan of gangster films or Scorsese movies. But I thought it was very well done.

I thought it was a bit long, but found it engrossing throughout. Watched it on NetFlix so we were able to stop it when we needed bathroom breaks. With its many references and shadows to Scorsese's other gangster flicks, it somehow felt like a Scorsese gangster museum. The main fault I had with the film is that the CGI generated younger faces didn't match their older bodies...they moved like geezers, not younger versions of themselves so it really didn't work that well. Acting nod to Pesci, whose understated performance was stellar to a tee.

walking out but a couple of times I almost drifted off to dreamland.Stephen Graham is excellent in the role of Tony Pro.

That made the length bearable. The actors are all top-notch. I liked that a lot of real history was woven into the script. I loved that Steven Van Zandt (a slight acquaintance of ours) played Jerry Vale, singing in the nightclub scene.

What a sad, filthy, immoral life gangsters lead.

and politicians, except politicians are better at cleaning their own reputations.

for The Irishman, it won Best movie at the AARP Awards. Other than that it's been pretty much ignored since the New York Film Critics Awards.

and its so long...

Al Pacino could have spent 5-10 minutes and actually viewed a Jimmy Hoffa interview.. But they showed him as a goon, when he was a true working-class hero.

The entire movie is based on a lie (book). Every publisher turned it down, and so Sheehan's lawyer wrote it to basically pay himself overdue fees. And then despite the big names - Scorsese, Pacino, De Niro, Pesci, no studio would touch it.