Oh man. I saw this preview before Gangs of New York. I'm not sure of the release date, but I'm already counting down the days!!! This movie looks awesome.
I loved the intro to Kill Bill: "THe 4th film by Quentin Tarantino" this is Quentin's homage to all of the Asian films that influenced him along his way. Oh, I think Gangs of New YOrk was a big piece of crap and isnt worth starting a new thread on.
I just read a little piece in Maxim about a chick in a brothel that used to do p*rn...They were looking someone not afraid to get naked. Yeah, I'll probably be catching it...
my basic feeling was "Gee, Marty, this is what we have been waiting three years for?" about half way through I realized that I had nothing invested in the characters or story. they were just people dressed in 1860's gear doing bad monologues in Irish accents with folk music going in the background. the movie is classic Scorcese, interesting editing, great fight scenes, detail to historical accuracy regarding the history of The Five Points section of New YOrk City. SPOLIERS: boy(Leo DiCaprio) witnesses fathers(Liam Neeson) murder in a great gang war to open the movie. boy is sent to an orphanage and returns to The Five Points 16 years later. boy joins a Gang of New YOrk. boy becomes right hand man to his fathers killer(D. Day Lewis) boy vows to kill his fathers killer, but first....... all the rival gang factions revolt against Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall to protest the Draft, and then.... in the mist and fog of the Draft Riots of 1863 , boy kills fathers killer, buries him next to his father out of respect. skyline of East RIver morphs into modern day skyline of Manhattan. final shot: The Twin Towers standing tall above the Brooklyn Bridge- my favorite part of the movie. a bit formulaic if you ask me. like I said, with all that re-tooling Scorcese did, I was expecting a masterpiece. put it this way, it aint no Lord of the Rings.
Anything with leo in it as any kind of macho role I can't take seriously. I think DiCaprio in Italian means "little pu**y". (Sorry, but I couldn't resisit.)
