# Did anyone else find The Irishman to be disappointing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** netflix, movies\ **Created:** [December 4, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-find-the-irishman-to-be-disappointing/927164 "2020-12-04T02:23:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-find-the-irishman-to-be-disappointing/927164/2 "2020-12-04T02:28:37Z")
We had prior threads on this. > [@The Irishman SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-irishman-spoilers-spoilers-spoilers/843750/46): > > As Joseph Gordon-Levitt said to Bruce Willis (in which the latter appropriately played an older version of the former’s character, without relying on CGI to down-age Willis), it’s time for these older actors to “do what old men do, and die.” I don’t mean literally, but yeah, this movie needed younger actors up-aged through makeup where necessary, not old actors who couldn’t act young to save their lives. And seriously, two of the most well-known Italian American actors of all time playing an I… > [@The Irishman (no spoilers)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-irishman-no-spoilers/844172): > > I saw it the day it was released on Netflix. Then I watched it again. I think The Irishman is one of the great movies of all time. It is a film that moves on multiple levels, with intersecting themes that carry it to a profound conclusion. On one level, you can watch it as Scorsese’s homage to the genre (which, to a large extent, is his), or to its stars. DeNiro, Pesci, and Pacino are playing themselves playing characters we already know. Characters whose fate, like that of the actors’ themse… > [@The Irishman Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-irishman-question/844178/2): > > basically, the original studio didn’t want to spend the money, nor realease a film over 3 hours --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-anyone-else-find-the-irishman-to-be-disappointing/927164)._