Soldato
In the end watched the whole thing and I did enjoy it overall, though it felt more like a testimonial football match for much loved retired players than a movie with hungry actors in their prime.
As the actors aged in the story eventually it's like 'there they are!' the real actors come out again as they get closer to their age and get much more credible and suited to their roles.
That grocery store scene was indeed one of the funniest parts of the movie that really exposed how old De Niro is - not the 40 something year old hot head he's supposed to be at that time. No wonder they shot it from such a distant angle.
Joe Pesci was great as always but looked like he aged from about 100 to 150 in the movie, even his nose is heavily wrinkled, quite distracting on screen.
The little girl who had to play scenes with them looked like she was genuinely creeped out by how they are, Pacino doesn't have that charisma anymore to charm women or girls and his scenes with her were just as creepy as Pesci's which were actually supposed to be creepy.
The whole movie emanates an old people smell as we see Scorsese's usual lineup of character actors looking every bit the 30 years older since Goodfellas, etc.
I've no doubt that the coked up auteur Scorsese that directed the masterpieces Raging Bull and Goodfellas would likely be quite critical of old Scorsese and the Irishman, but that's kind of the point the movie makes - everyone gets old and everyone dies, if you live long enough, along the way you lose part of yourself and what you used to be.
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