"The Irishman: In Conversation" includes director Martin Scorsese as well as actors De Niro, Pacino and Pesci talking about the really long film mentioned in the title. This is a little add-on from 2019 that runs for 24 minutes and gives us information from this quartet of key players about the movie. I haave seen "The Irishman" back when it was released and sadly I must say it was one oif my least favorite Scorsese films overall. He is never bad, but that one was not as great as some of his other works, just good overall and I cannot deny it dragged a bit here and there. However, we spoke about the film before and will not do it now again. In fact, I liked this little take on things more than the actual movie. Sit these 4 really established artists in a room and listen. The outcome is very interesting. They were all in their 70s when this was made and with the exception of Pacino, who had his 80th birthday a few days ago, they still are. So no matter what it is you hear in here, it is always somewhat mesmerizing. Be it the mention how Pesci's character never says that Hoffa must be killed, be it the joking about the gang making films for another 30 years and the "Sorry Joe" directed at Pesci because he has not acted a lot in recent years, be it the little poking fun at Pacino's character and how he gets up too slowly for his age, be it the references to other movies (some they worked on like "Raging Bull" and "Mean Streets", some they did not like "Elephant Man"), it all works out nicely. I would be interested to see what the amount of speaking here was percentage-wise. Scorsese sure had the most, he is such a fast speaker really. And De Niro maybe the least, but that's alright as he is the star at the center of the film. I really liked this one a lot and I think they should make stuff like that more frequently. Nice beard on Pesci too I'd say. The only thing related to "The Irishman" that I imagine more fun than watching this would be a full commentary of the quartet watching the movie together and elaborating on certain scenes. Now that would be great. Also I had no idea Scorsese and Pacino never worked on a film together, high time it happened. Pity the outcome did not turn out any better. Then again, Pacino's performance is probably my favorite aspect from the entire movie and he has really been growing on me over the years, although I was always more Team De Niro. Not anymore, also because how involved her is with politics all the time apparently. Curious to watch all of Pacino's stuff in the future. And this includes this little documentary as well. Huge thumbs-up and one of my favorites from 2019. please do this more often, Netflix and everybody else. That was highly enjoyable. The only one who bored me a bit from these four was De Niro surprisingly. Or not surprisingly. Not sure in fact. What I could not be more sure about is that you should watch this if you have seen "The Irishman" unless you really really hated it for some reason. But even if you found it only mediocre, it's worth going for because so did I and I still enjoyed the hell out of their talk here. And if you loved the movie, then it is definitely a must-see anyway. Big thumbs-up.
