Norm Macdonald and Colin Quinn Take Shots at ‘The Irishman’: It’s No ‘Goodfellas’

The Irishman may be the New York Film Critics Circle’s best film of the year, but comedians Norm Macdonald and Colin Quinn hardly agree. On Wednesday, the two comics shared a brief Twitter exchange about Martin Scorsese’s mob drama, which they feel doesn’t quite compare to his 1990 classic Goodfellas. While Quinn suggested that The Irishman‘s “driving and checking into hotels” scenes were boring, Macdonald slammed Scorsese’s digital de-aging process for “creating a fascinating dissonance that was never annoying.” Added the comedian, “Not Goodfellas.”

On Wednesday morning, just hours before the NYFCC awarded The Irishman its top honor — and one day after the National Board of Review did the same — Quinn offered his thoughts on the three-and-a-half-hour epic in a sarcastic tweet. “Irishman is superior to goodfellas in that goodfellas cut out all the driving and checking into hotels and just left the exciting parts,” he wrote.

Later that afternoon, Macdonald, a fellow Saturday Night Live alum, voiced his agreement. “Very true,” wrote the Netflix talk show host. Referencing the digital de-aging done on stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino, he continued, “Also, Irishman made the interesting choice of having the young Deniro and young Pesci shuffle around like old men and talk with old men’s voices, creating a fascinating dissonance that was never annoying. Not Goodfellas.”

Watch The Irishman on Netflix