Gangs of New York

[Shane]

WOW!

Just saw this movie for the first time. I wish I would have went and seen it in the theatre. Great story, great acting, pretty much everything about this movie was very good.

Anyone know if this movie is Oscar eligible at the next awards??? Because I must say Daniel Day Lewis gave one helluva performance!

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Dude, that movie was eligible for the LAST Oscar's...lol

I think Daniel Day Lewis lost the Oscar, but he won the Golden Globe.

Mike

 

[Shane]

Originally posted by Chandler Mike
Dude, that movie was eligible for the LAST Oscar's...lol

I think Daniel Day Lewis lost the Oscar, but he won the Golden Globe.

Mike

Oh ok I didnt realize it was out that long ago!

This is for me

 

[Ryanwb]

Yeah, I have passed by this movie everytime I go to Costco, I guess I will pick it up next time I go

 

[jf-08]

I'm surprised that there isn't more of a discussion on this movie.

Just rented it over the weekend. The cinematography was awesome. Scorcese really captured the brutalness and squalor that existed in the Big Apple during the middle of the 19th century.

DDL was amazing. I was watching this and couldn't believe it was him. For some reason, I was just picturing Geraldo Rivera

I have never beed much of a Leonardo fan, but he did the job adequately. The opeing sequence was just riveting and almost operatic. Phenominal music, dialog and action.

It was quite a bit more brutal than I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be somewhat of a chick flick - but it wasn't at all.

Man life was tough back then.

I think I read somewhere that the set was built in Italy or something and was a very accurate portrayal of NYC then.

 

[Mike Olbinski]

I really loved the music, especially in the opening scenes...kind of like a battle march, but with an Irish flair or something like that...was awesome.

Mike

 

[Chaplin]

Originally posted by jkf296


I think I read somewhere that the set was built in Italy or something and was a very accurate portrayal of NYC then.

Yeah, that's where most of the budget went.

A lot of people don't like the movie (mostly because of Leo and Cameron Diaz), but I really liked it. (Of course, it helps when you first see it in the Director's Guild theater sitting next to Weird Al and then afterwards seeing Steven Spielberg interview Scorsese after it).

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Originally posted by Chaplin
Yeah, that's where most of the budget went.

A lot of people don't like the movie (mostly because of Leo and Cameron Diaz), but I really liked it. (Of course, it helps when you first see it in the Director's Guild theater sitting next to Weird Al and then afterwards seeing Steven Spielberg interview Scorsese after it).

NAME-DROPPER!!! NAME-DROPPER!!!



Mike

 

[Chaplin]

Originally posted by Chandler Mike
NAME-DROPPER!!! NAME-DROPPER!!!



Mike

Hollywood my friend. Hollywood.

 

[FischerKing]

Originally posted by Chaplin
Yeah, that's where most of the budget went.

A lot of people don't like the movie (mostly because of Leo and Cameron Diaz), but I really liked it. (Of course, it helps when you first see it in the Director's Guild theater sitting next to Weird Al and then afterwards seeing Steven Spielberg interview Scorsese after it).

Yes, yes - but what did Weird Al think of the movie and did he as Scorsese any questions?

Shawn

 

[Chaz]

I really enjoyed this movie. It is very long but worth the time IMO.

I couldn't decide if Diaz and DeCaprio's performances were cardboard or seemed more that way because they were sharing the movie with Lewis. A little of both I guess.

 

[Chaplin]

Originally posted by FischerKing
Yes, yes - but what did Weird Al think of the movie and did he as Scorsese any questions?

Shawn

Well, actually, I only sat next to Weird Al during the first movie--Die Another Day. He moved to the back to sit with someone during Gangs.

 

[FischerKing]

Originally posted by Chaplin
Well, actually, I only sat next to Weird Al during the first movie--Die Another Day. He moved to the back to sit with someone during Gangs.

Did you forget to use your deoderant? j/k Chap - I've got to bust your chops a little.

Shawn

 

[Chaplin]

Originally posted by FischerKing
Did you forget to use your deoderant? j/k Chap - I've got to bust your chops a little.

Shawn

He just couldn't stand sitting next to a real man. And me.

 

[O]

I hope we some day get to see a directors cut of this movie. I don't know but I have a feeling there was a lot of pressure by the studio to turn this movie into a Titanic type love story. I personally don't think the final cut was Scorsese's original vision.
Then again what do I know.

 

[O]

Here it is almost five years later! I just revisited this film tonight.

All I can say is;

Brilliant!!!!

All the way around, Brilliant!

 

[D-Dogg]

Count me among the people who absolutely LOVED this movie. DDL is outstanding...his oscar win this year was won when he was Bill the Butcher...seems to be based on the same effing character.

I know a lot of people don't like this movie...I adore it. It is one of the 6 movies on my ipod.

(the others are Anchorman, 300, Batman Begins, II, and....uhm...something.

 

[DeAnna]

I saw this originally in the theatre and loved it; I just re-watched on TV recently and loved it even more. Now I'm going back to read all about the historical facts of that area (since I grew up not too far from there). The Dead Rabbits really did exist.

 

[earthsci]

I saw this originally in the theatre and loved it; I just re-watched on TV recently and loved it even more. Now I'm going back to read all about the historical facts of that area (since I grew up not too far from there). The Dead Rabbits really did exist.

It was based on the book "The Gangs of New York" by Herbert Asbury. It is a history of the gangs up to that point. Pretty interesting book. The movie covers only a small part of the book.

 

[Renz]

I saw this originally in the theatre and loved it; I just re-watched on TV recently and loved it even more. Now I'm going back to read all about the historical facts of that area (since I grew up not too far from there). The Dead Rabbits really did exist.

I asked Tyler Anbinder, who wrote the book Five Points, about that and he told me that the Dead Rabbits gang was most likely an invention of the newspapers at the time.

BTW, relating to the thread about historically inaccurate movies, at the end of Gangs of New York the city is shelled by the navy. That never happened.

 

[D-Dogg]

BTW, relating to the thread about historically inaccurate movies, at the end of Gangs of New York the city is shelled by the navy. That never happened.

Yeah it did, it was just covered up.

:tinfoil:

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Another movie I have watched to watch, never have.

 

[Linderbee]

Another movie I have watched to watch, never have.

Do you have it?

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Do you have it?

Yes. I haven't seen it in quite some time though. I think I loaned it to somebody a couple years ago and forgot who.

So, no.

 

[Linderbee]

Yes. I haven't seen it in quite some time though. I think I loaned it to somebody a couple years ago and forgot who.

So, no.