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Ironically enough, I've never seen any of Scorceses mobster flicks (Goodfellas, Casino) etc, but I thought this was fantastic. Pretty much went in completely blind. I did not know it was about Jimmy Hoffa, nor that it was based on a (allegedly) true story. All I knew was that Scorcese made a movie for Netflix with digital Deniro. I ultimately think the real world story fascimile is what hurt it. Once I learned that it was based on 'real' people and events, some of those weirder scenes started to make more sense. Like why did they have Hoffas son in the car on the way to his execution? Oh because that was his actual last known location and they wanted to represent it on film. Divorced from that knowledge, that scene is super weird and divorced from the rest of the story. I kept expecting some sort of callback to his son fiercely defending him, like when the court scene assassin tries to make an attempt on his life a decade earlier.
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JBP posted:Yeah he already looks like a Mediterranean gentleman just leave his eyes brown. You're doing speculative/alt history stuff his eyes don't matter. Yeah, I think this was the biggest mistake with their aging tech. We all know what DeNiro and celebrities like him look like in our minds eye, but if asked on the spot (without looking at a picture) what colour his eyes are, chances are the answer would be a guess. I didn't know they weren't blue, he just looked wrong. The first instinct is that it must be the de-ageing tech at fault. If they were his natural colour it probably wouldn't have stood out so much. I'm honestly surprised that we haven't seen more Deepfake tech in Hollywood movies. It seems so easy. I wonder if there's a licensing issue since you're effectively using images and video from earlier performances you may not have the rights to reproduce...
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