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As someone who was THERE for part of that story, I can tell you important details were left out completely. And although Pacino played a good role, it was NOT the way Hoffa friends will remember Jimmy! Pacino could play his heart out and NEVER be a realistic Hoffa! But even so, the plot line is a good stab at what happened to Jimmy. We have all been fairly certain Chuckie had a part in this. Aside for the major discrepancies in behind the scenes "truth", I DID enjoy the film.

Good movie, but it is boring near the end and WAY too long.

There are lots of flashback scenes involving the main characters using technology to make them look young. Major failure.

This movie has great actors, but they are just too old for the parts.

Does it really matter!? Cinema used to be very different back when Scorsese was writing and directing big hits. Now times have changed and he just respects old school cinema. Why is everyone up in arms about one man's opinion!? Let it go for crying out loud. And this video is just 5 minutes of looking for excuses to stick up for Marvel. Ugh.

I've had enough of this damn Larry Krink fanboy. Could an admin please take away his video privileges?

When you dig the real real truth, you come with many mirrors. That's the Scorsese movie. The many faces of mobsters and facts ! Marvel is a surreal replica of life nearly replacing the fantasies of religious stories. Does children read Jules Verne nowadays? The stories were surreal on the time they were written and was regarded as marvel, but Dickenson is always a classic. Scorsese is classic just as Kubrick, Eisenstein, Chaplin. The Irishman is a perfect example to his masterpieces from Raging Bull on. I adored the movie from the first scene till the long time sequence end. He will remain at all ages.

I felt embarrassed for Scorsese, DiNero, Pesci, and Pacino. Great director and actors, lost within a really cheesy script. The timelines were completely off, the cars didn't match the timelines, the music didn't either. The dialog bloody awful. Very disappointing! Really below one star.

These comparisons have no foundation. The idea these movies could have gone toe to toe is hilarious given The Irishman stands several feet taller. Ones a pure piece of cinema, ones End Game.

Finding similarities between Scorsese's masterpieces and MCU movies might have been IMDB's geeky idea of a joke. Well, it wasn't funny. In fact, it was quite possibly the most ridiculous cimena-related comment I've ever had the misfortune to hear. We get it, Mr. IMDbrief video guy, you're an MCU fanboy. In my opinion, that's... unfortunate, but hey, whatever floats your boat. Just don't embarrass yourself with trivial, utterly superficial comparisons like the ones made in this piece of video trash.

Scorsese's movies and MCU movies are both cinema, in the same sense that a gourmet 12-course Michelin-star dinner and a MacDonald's plastic burger are both food. The similarities between them end there.

Also, don't put "Joker" in the same bag as the other MCU movies, just because the titular character happens to be a member of that universe. "Joker" was a thought-provoking, gritty, socially and politically important movie. The MCU blockbusters are just fireworks for your retina.

This video missed the whole point that Scorsese was making in his op-ed explaining his comment on the MCU movies. This video focuses on superficial similarities (using the same actors in a series of films? Ever hear of the John Ford stock company?) rather than the in-depth differences that Scorsese pointed out. What are these in-depth differences? Character development, revelation of grand themes... read the op-ed - it's all there. Don't get me wrong - I really like the MCU genre and action films in general. But they aren't similar to what Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Kathryn Bigelow, Clint Eastwood et al (mostly) put out. Does that mean MCU films are not cinema? I wouldn't go that far, but then again Scorsese qualified his comment - he said they were not cinema as defined by what he grew up experiencing, and what influenced him to become a director - in fact, he said as much in the first paragraph. A very different statement to what is being tossed around in the popular media.