Why was I nervous? Well, what if it sucked? There was a good reason to expect disappointment and not just from high expectations based on the previous quality of collaboration. Inherent Vice, Gangs of New York, Jackie Brown, Batman Returns, those are movies I got hyped to see like The Irishman. I hadn’t been this excited to see a movie in years. Not only is that everything I dream of (almost, I’d kill to see Benicio Del Toro in a Scorsese movie), the film is 3.5 hours long. Both are Oscar-worthy, legendary, and iconic in all three films, and now they’ve brought (literally) the gang back together and thrown in Al Pacino, as James Riddell Hoffa no less, to boot. All three of those movies star Robert Deniro and Joe Pesci at their best. Why excited? Martin Scorsese is my all-time favorite director, and my three favorite films of his are Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and Casino (I’ll mention my fourth later).
Friday (November 1st) afternoon I made an excited, nervous journey to the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood to see The Irishman.
