Anyone watched this yet?

 

Highly acclaimed by critics, a 96% Rotten Tomato score.

 

Pesci, De Nero, Pachino lead a subperb cast in this Scorsese underworld epic.

In many ways it seems like a rehash of several other movies, in other ways it feels brand new.

 

I liked it...not as much as Rotten Tomatoes did though.

I've been trying to decide if I want to watch it. The cast tells me I do, but I've been mislead before.

I enjoyed it. I couldn't forgive the one scene were DeNiro was kicking the guy on the ground and he looked like the old man that he is, but was supposed to be playing someone in their late 30s. I thought Pacino as Hoffa was great.

I enjoyed it. I couldn't forgive the one scene were DeNiro was kicking the guy on the ground and he looked like the old man that he is, but was supposed to be playing someone in their late 30s.

 

I agree, that was a brutal scene. Overall I enjoyed the movie.

I've been trying to decide if I want to watch it. The cast tells me I do, but I've been mislead before.

 

That's kinda where I'm at. I had friends that were so excited for it, they simply said afterwards that they enjoyed the movie. I expected to be somewhat let down so I haven't rushed to watch it. I will eventually get around to it.

If if was an hour shorter, it would have been much better. It definitely dragged things out waaayyy too long. I did not like it nearly as much as most other people I know who have seen.

I enjoyed it but I agree with the above post, it could have been shorter, probably by around 45 minutes.

So long, sort of slow, I expected (hoped for?) better. I would give it a "good", however, there is 0% chance I'd ever watch it again.

Very good but not great. The effect of making DeNiro younger was not very convincing...he still moved and carried himself like an old man. I thought Pesci was great, and he was my favorite character. As others have said, it was just too long. Not sure how they could have shortened it but it took me two nights to watch it.

I grew up in a union household in those days. I was 14 when Hoffa disappeared, I knew all of those names growing up. So I had a real personal interest.

 

They could do a series of shows on each of the different families and all of them would be spectacular. They packed a whole bunch of people into 3 1/2 hours.

 

There were some giants of the mob world mentioned in brief roles in this movie.

 

Harvey Keitel played Angelo Bruno, who ran Philly for over 20 years. During that time, Philly was known as one of the least violent of the mob cities. He was known as the Docile or Gentle Don, depending on who you talked to,

 

Don Corleone, in the God Father, is loosely based on him. Bruno would not allow drug trafficking by his family or support others who did. In the end, in 1980, he was killed by Frank Sindone and another guy who's name I don't remember. They were both also killed because they didn't get proper permission for the hit.

 

After that, Phillip "The Chickman" Testa took control. He is the subject of Springsteen's song - Atlantic City. "well they blew up the Chickenman in Philly last night...

 

Somewhere around 30 Philly mafia members were killed in the 6 to 8 years following Bruno's death.

 

And now you know...

 

... the rest of the story.

If if was an hour shorter, it would have been much better. It definitely dragged things out waaayyy too long. I did not like it nearly as much as most other people I know who have seen.

 

I "watched" it over the weekend with my father in-law and I think I nodded off 2-3 different times. I need to give it another go at some point. But it definitely dragged on and was rather slow.

They could do a series of shows on each of the different families and all of them would be spectacular. They packed a whole bunch of people into 3 1/2 hours.

 

Probably would be much better as a mini series.

I grew up in a union household in those days. I was 14 when Hoffa disappeared, I knew all of those names growing up. So I had a real personal interest.

 

They could do a series of shows on each of the different families and all of them would be spectacular. They packed a whole bunch of people into 3 1/2 hours.

 

There were some giants of the mob world mentioned in brief roles in this movie.

 

Harvey Keitel played Angelo Bruno, who ran Philly for over 20 years. During that time, Philly was known as one of the least violent of the mob cities. He was known as the Docile or Gentle Don, depending on who you talked to,

 

Don Corleone, in the God Father, is loosely based on him. Bruno would not allow drug trafficking by his family or support others who did. In the end, in 1980, he was killed by Frank Sindone and another guy who's name I don't remember. They were both also killed because they didn't get proper permission for the hit.

 

After that, Phillip "The Chickman" Testa took control. He is the subject of Springsteen's song - Atlantic City. "well they blew up the Chickenman in Philly last night...

 

Somewhere around 30 Philly mafia members were killed in the 6 to 8 years following Bruno's death.

 

And now you know...

 

... the rest of the story.

 

Yep. I recognized that one too, as I grew up 1.5 hours from Philly, and most of our news and TV stations were based in Philly. Antonio Caponigro, Bruno's consigliere was the one who ordered the hit on Bruno. He was found dead, beaten badly, in the Bronx a few weeks later. There was a lot a violence and murders over the next few years.

 

Interesting that you say Don Corleon was loosely based on Bruno. I had always heard he was based on Frank Costello who ran the New York mob.

Edited January 9, 20206 yr by rjs4470

This felt so long, it seems like I could have watched a season of The Sopranos in the amount of time it took to sit through this.