I got ten minutes into gangs of New York, then off!

What a shit movie, it was like Mad max meets far and away, so I shut it off. Anyone here do the same?

MArtin shoulda done betta!

to judge a 3 hour movie in only ten minutes?

Amazing.

I was expecting a fairly realistic portrayl of what happened. When the woman started pulling the wolverine claws bullshit on the guy I said, "fuck this!"

He got it right. We sat through the entire thing and had to be hospitalized afterwards due to severe abdominal pain.

Warning: Taste may vary.

... and enjoyed it greatly.

Maybe I'm being to rash, I'll pop it in again....oh by the way I rented bully also, the friggin dvd fucked up at the end....did they kill him...spoil it, I don't care!!!!!!!

When the NYC draft riots. A wakeup call to those who think that returning to the draft is a good idea.

The NY Draft Riots happened because the rich could buy their sons out of the draft by paying $300.00. That left blacks and recent Irish immigrants to fight for NY during the Civil War. They tired of being cannon fodder for the rich and returning to the same squalor that they had left (if they were lucky enough to return).

Nothing much changed for the VietNam generation either. Rich kids or those well connected (like Clinton) were able to avoid service if they stayed in school. Given that back then if you were working-class you were doing just that, WORKING and thus were cannon fodder.

Why should Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, LIEberman, Feith, Ashcroft et al serve when there is this huge and hungry working-class to serve for them? Why do you think they keep us around?

I enjoyed Gangs of NY but thought it was really bloody. I didn't quite understand the Know Nothing guy living among the Irish he so despised but I guess that is artistic license.

They did try to give the old a kind of romantic brutality. But I think it was pretty well researched. The basic depiction of the city was as accurate as any other movie.

I saw the whole thing and felt cheated out of 3 hours of my life. Horrible all around, but especially the moronic ending. Be glad you stopped it when you did.

Scorcese is one the best directors in the business. Daniel Day Lewis was brilliant. Leo was tolerable, but better in 'Catch Me if You Can'.

Very well made film, not boring despite its length, excellent art direction, soundtrack, cinematography, the only thing that bothered me to a degree was the plot. If I was Leo I would have skipped town after the branding. Tres embarrassing.

i didn't like the film either.

It was an interesting story, and the movie was very well done. And Daniel Day-Lewis' performance was awesome!

I thought it was a marvelous movie. I just bought it, I liked it so much.

Has one of my favorite quotes from a movie in it.

Daniel Day Lewis' character says: "And on the seventh day the Lord rested, but before he did he took a squat over the side of England and what came out was Ireland."

:)

I hope you aren't knocking the Irish, such things said about the Irish when refering to the English upset me! ;-)

Never, I love the Mi---uh, Irish.

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fast-forwarded through the bits that had Leonardo in 'em? That's why I didn't see it at the theatre - no remote control.

And while it was beautifully filmed, and masterfully acted -- the story, the plot points, were so tired and thin you could read the paper through them.

I was unimpressed. It had potential to be a great, truly great movie. Instead it was a good-looking movie.

but, then again, I'm very lazy. Just disappointing...

The movie is VERY accurate in it's depictions of what went on. I liked it for that reason. Day-Lewis did a great job acting and de Caprio and Diaz weren't bad. If you want to get into the movie through the back door, watch the documentary that came with it first.
New York in the mid to late 1800s was a brutal brutal place.

It was violent, yes, but Mad Max was alot sicker that way.

I really enjoyed the DVD extras on this. It seems they had a recording of someone talking in a 19th century New York accent and they modeled Tweed and The Cutters accents on that.

It was a fairly good movie. There was sort of a "political" message in it too, maybe not evident to the casual viewer....

I had also read Luc Santes "Low Life", which covered that era and also the Lower East Side (bowery and five points) so was somewhat familiar with the themes & argot in the movie. In a a way it brought Santes book to life.