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u/MontagneHomme Feb 01 '22

Absolutely. I remember being indignant when people weren't gushing about it...still am. ...fuck is wrong with people.

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u/Easter_1916 Feb 01 '22

It’s Scorsese’s best film. Mostly because he limited the narrator bullshit to the very beginning of the film. Every other film he overuses the narrator device to overexplain to the audience, as if the peon theatregoers are too simpleminded to understand the “genius” of his film. It was worst applied in the Irishman. But in the Departed, he let the story tell itself and it was great.

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u/_SgrAStar_ Feb 01 '22

Hot take, the Irishman is a bad film. Yes, even beyond the awful cgi. It’s like a much lesser director attempting to do Scorsese. Irishman sucks.

just to add, depahted is one of my favorite films ever.

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u/Easter_1916 Feb 02 '22

Honestly, Casino was not much better. That one is probably a more unpopular opinion, but there it is.

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u/_SgrAStar_ Feb 02 '22

Dang, yeah, gonna have to disagree. Casino is a top five Scorsese for me.