Useful tips on Gun Selection from The Irishman

[Snagglefoot]

Here are some useful tips from the movie The Irishman. Really enjoyed the movie. If your bucket list includes watching a film with Pachinco, Pesci and De Niro. This is it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG6tsZlD_MM

 

[Oro_O]

Yeah, I got a laugh out of that when I saw it last week, too!

I did enjoy the guns in the movie. Embarrassingly, if you look at the array of guns on the bed in that first image, I own like seven of them (the 686, the 19, the 4" M&P, the 36, the GM, the BHP. I used to have a 2" Model 10 like the two pictured but it's gone now.

BTW, another great flick for guns is "Narcos." They have the weaponry period-accurate, and there's A LOT of it and used often.

It's also just a good show telling an unbelievable (but true) story.

 

[Snagglefoot]

One more thing. If you know who Jimmy Hoffa was, you need to watch the Irishman.

 

[Bottom_Feeder]

'Pachinco'?

 

[Snagglefoot]

Originally Posted by Bottom_Feeder
'Pachinco'?


I meant Pinocchio.

 

[KCJeep]

I enjoyed the movie as well. It was looonnnnggggg I didn't realize how long when I started it, had to watch it in 3 sittings. Those guys are so good though I'm glad they didn't leave a ton on the cutting room floor. I have never seen so much time devoted to Hoffa that was especially good.

Wished the language had been a bit cleaner in the middle it got over the top which adds nothing to the movie.

 

[Oro_O]

Originally Posted by KCJeep
I enjoyed the movie as well. It was looonnnnggggg I didn't realize how long when I started it, had to watch it in 3 sittings.


it took me two. It also took about 1/2 hour or more to really get into it. It's a story and one well told, well worth hearing/seeing. But it's no "Goodfellas" or "Casino" with steady action and stylistic touches. But it's a really good piece of the American story to be told, and it was told well.

The de-aging CGI was not up to the task. If you watched, the facial expressions in the de-aged scenes were just wooden and clearly artificial. It was like DeNiro had had a little too much wine, too much fun at a botox party,...

Ok maybe not the last part, but it was like a bad botox job in those scenes.

Still, it was a tour-de-force through post-war America, and epic tale. If you don't like Scorsese, you may or may not "get it" or get into it. But if you have the slightest fondness for his work (I'm smitten), you'll enjoy it quite a lot.

 

[loneryder]

Read the book. It tells you a lot of stuff you never knew. Does the movie go into the Kennedy assassination?

 

[Snagglefoot]

Originally Posted by loneryder
Read the book. It tells you a lot of stuff you never knew. Does the movie go into the Kennedy assassination?

Yep.

 

[SeaJay]

I liked it, knew it was long going in and watched it start to finish.

Good movie, very enjoyable to watch. And no, a film covering 30 or 40 years using the same actors can not possibly have them aged correctly in the different scenes. And if it wasn't as good as some other mobster movies, does that mean it is a bad movie?

 

[Mad_Hatter]

Originally Posted by Or

BTW, another great flick for guns is "Narcos." They have the weaponry period-accurate, and there's A LOT of it and used often.

It's also just a good show telling an unbelievable (but true) story.

Great series... rumor is there are pallets of cash just sitting in the jungle to this day. He was taking in so much money he didn't know what to do with it. "The Infiltrator" starring Brian Cranston as the DEA agent who got into Pablo's network is another good movie on that.