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Gangs of New York
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:15 pm
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:15 pm
Grabbed it from Best Buy on Bluray for 10 bucks... Never seen it before. 75% on Rotten Tomatoes means must be okay, but what does the board think of it?
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Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:18 pm to lsujunior58
DDL should have won an oscar for it. He certainly should have won it over Adrian fricking Brody.
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:18 pm to harmonics
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DDL should have won an oscar for it. He certainly should have won it over Adrian fricking Brody.
absolutely not
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:19 pm to lsujunior58
Really good movie, DDL and Dicaprio are amazing. Diaz is awful. Movie is really long too.
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:19 pm to Carson123987
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absolutely not
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:20 pm to lsujunior58
It's not that overrated. It's a pretty solid Scorsese film. You should enjoy it.
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:20 pm to Carson123987
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:20 pm to BROpaneTANK
Her accent is pretty terrible
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:21 pm to DMagic
yup.
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:22 pm to BROpaneTANK
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Diaz is awful.
Can't all be winners.
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:24 pm to harmonics
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:33 pm to lsujunior58
Diaz nearly ruins the movie. Leo's performance in this is overrated. He doesn't quite yet have the gravitas or screen presence that he shows in his future movies to go toe to toe with DDL, who carries the movie.
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:34 pm to xenythx
i agree with this
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:53 pm to lsujunior58
its at the top of scorsese's bottom half.
Posted on 8/3/13 at 11:56 pm to harmonics
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DDL should have won an oscar for it. He certainly should have won it over Adrian fricking Brody.
Brody was great in The Pianist. And I love some DDL and Gangs of New York.
Posted on 8/4/13 at 12:03 am to BluegrassBelle
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Brody was great in Angels in the Outfield
FIFY
Posted on 8/4/13 at 12:04 am to lsujunior58
It's got some great scenes, but I don't think it's a great movie. DDL is fricking awesome. Leo's Leo. Cameron Diaz is miscast. It's too long. Scorcese's direction, the cast, and the budget give it a lot of gravitas, but not nearly as much as they were going for. I'd recommend it to the right people.
Posted on 8/4/13 at 12:17 am to xenythx
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Diaz nearly ruins the movie.
Fact, not sure why she's even in it.
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Leo's performance in this is overrated. He doesn't quite yet have the gravitas or screen presence that he shows in his future movies to go toe to toe with DDL, who carries the movie.
I kind of liked it this way. Idk if he meant to play it this way or if he just hadn't developed enough to shine alongside DDL, but the movie was clearly about a bigger than life Bill the Butcher. Leo was perfect in it IMO.
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It's got some great scenes, but I don't think it's a great movie. DDL is fricking awesome. Leo's Leo. Cameron Diaz is miscast. It's too long. Scorcese's direction, the cast, and the budget give it a lot of gravitas, but not nearly as much as they were going for. I'd recommend it to the right people.
Yea this is spot-on. It's a movie where its parts are greater than its sum. Some of the scenes with DDL (and anyone) are ridiculous. Leo has some good ones and the Irish guy with the huge club is a great character as well.
However, it's too long, parts of it drag without adding much, and the ending is just weird (probably too realistic to be honest but really just felt like an empty end).
Posted on 8/4/13 at 12:17 am to harmonics
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DDL should have won an oscar for it. He certainly should have won it over Adrian fricking Brody.
don't worry, the Academy made up for that by handing DDL the award on a silver platter this past year whenever Joaquin Phoenix clearly deserved it.
This post was edited on 8/4/13 at 12:18 am
Posted on 8/4/13 at 12:23 am to Weebie
I haven't watched Lincoln and don't plan on it. But, without watching I am positive it doesn't hold a candle to There Will be Blood or Gangs of New York in regards to DDL performances.
This post was edited on 8/4/13 at 1:05 am
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