Thread: THE FILM SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE BY AN IRISHMAN.

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That's right. DiCaprio just doesn't fit in. And furthermore, I didn't bring up all those other miscast persons. All you are saying is that if these others are miscast then it is OK to miscast DeCaprio.

Yeah, haven't seen you either! I've been swamped up by my life outside of the internet unfortunately, so I haven't had time to do much of anything on the internet.

Oh I will grant you naysayers the benefit of having Scorcese's experience,connections and general largesse,in letting us all in on his movieHowever, he is not Irish nor Irish-American so he cannot begin to even smell what it feels to actually be Irish.Scorcese blew this movie,he miscast,his history was almost close to biopic everywhere you looked.And he had the nerve to film it in....Italy.He was so very politically correct for 1845 in...

Two communicating in agreement. The Internet is so worth it. I agree the film is flawed, but it is not because DiCaprio was in it as opposed to Ferrell (who can do good movies like In Bruges, but mostly sticks to Daredevil, SWAT and The Recruit). Criticizing DDL is just...wrong on so many levels. This movie was kind of messy and sloppy for the auteur, but DDL elevates it to something special every scene he's in. and yes, the man who made...

I'd like to see a Neil Jordan version of GONY. Ken Loach would be another great choice. I know he's not an irishman but he has directed my favorite irish film (The Wind that Shakes the Barley). However I doubt that Mr. Loach could be remotely interested on working within the Hollywood system.

Coulda, shoulda, woulda. Scorsese made the movie because he wanted to. He didn't have to ask for permission. It was his project. I would have loved it more if Colin Ferrell had beeen in it rather than DiCaprio, though. But, I never tool the movie as seriously as others. I was entertained by it and you have to admit DDL, the English/Irish guy (dual citizenship, I believe), was the best thing in the film and the main reason most of us love...

What a moron you are OP. "He doesn't know how it feels to be Irish"? LOL. As if you know what it feels like to be an oppressed minority from over 100 years ago? I bet you're just another dumbass "Irish-American" who thinks Ireland is full of battles between the IRA and British soldiers. Piss off.

'It was so horribly miscast. Scorcese has some kind of a love affair with Leonardo DeCaprio and puts him in all the Scorcese films no matter how inappropriate. The only Irish actor was Bill, the Yankee villain, played by Daniel Day Lewis.' Actually Liam Neeson is Irish so there.