Best FIlm Ever Made? Probably... see for yourself

Rating: 10/10 (11 November 2019)

9 + 1/2 out of a perfect 10 score.
I saw The Irishman in Washington D.C. yesterday in a packed theater. A sold out Sunday morning at 11am showing. I bought my tickets in advance because I've heard the stories of shows selling out and tickets selling on stubhub for as high at $200 each. (because of the extremely limited theater run)
I'll skip all the details about how awesome it is to see a film in such an exquisite cinema house as landmark E street. I'll skip how much fun it was to sit there right next to the capital and the white house watching a movie about people who shaped the history inside those buildings. I'll skip explaining how fun it was to travel hundreds of miles and watch this in a place filled with avid, smart and excited cinema fans.
The film had so much hype about it, that I was a little worried it would not live up to said hype... So I was ready for anything (including disappointment)
What I got for my $24 matinee ticket was 3 and 1/2 hours of total Scorsese immersion. This isn't "Goodfellas part 2". This isn't "Casino the follow up" This is its own film. While the faces on the screen are the same, the characters are different. And EVERY ONE INVOLVED came and brought their A-game!!!!
Seriously..... the pace was pretty quick for 3 1/2 hours. and you get a lot of info shoved at you in that amount of time. The sensory overload is incredible. It really was impossible to take it all in and comprehend everything to a few paragraph summary untill a good 24 hours later. The more you sit and ponder what you saw on the screen, the more you fall in love with this film.
I'm not going to spoil a second of this. But you GOTTA GO SEE THIS IN A THEATER! SPARE NO EXPENSE! YOU WILL REGRET NOT DOING SO!
For the past 24 hours I've tried to come up with any reason not to call this the finest achievement in Martin Scorsese history. I keep trying to tell my self reasons why I can't call this the greatest film ever made. But the more I ponder what I saw in those 3 1/2 hours, I seem to be losing reasons to say this isn't the most important epic film ever produced. How can anyone compare Iconic pictures with one being better than another? the moment you say "Raging bull" or "Lawrence of Arabia" or "FIll in the Blank" is better than "Taxi Driver" or "Citizen Kain" or "FIll in the Blank" you subjectively enter into a realm of thought that is only opinion based upon your own likes and desires of what is great film making.
My only complaint and the reason I give this film a 9 and 1/2 star rating out of a perfect 10, is that there was no 10-minute INTERMISSION in the middle of the film.
Come on, Gone with the wind, The Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, It's a mad mad mad mad world, Woodstock, all had an intermission. Why should anyone be forced to have to miss a second of this amazing film in lieu of a bathroom break? every last second is important in this masterpiece ... It HAS TO BE SEEN ON A BIG SCREEN.
DO your self a favor. travel, or do whatever you have to to see this film. It was a life-changing event for myself. A fan of Scorsese and a fan of perfection made cinema.
Again I'm not going to say it was the greatest film ever produced, but I really can't say it isn't.