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Gangs of New York
Jan. 20th, 2003 09:29 pmWent to see Gangs of New York last night.
I wasn't quite sure what to expect from it, other than the mention by Kit that it was ultra violent I'd not really heard much about it, though one of our forum members was more than enthused about it.
It was definitely worth the money. A visually stunning movie with some gorgeous set and costume design, even though a lot of it was gritty. Great pacing and direction. There was a lot of violence, but of a more realistic and gritty and unromanticising variety, similar to Gladiator rather than the hammed up violence that you see in most movies these days that generally just makes you laugh.
Cameron Diaz and Leonardo DiCaprio both give some good performances in this movie. Jim Broadbent is wonderful in his corrupt politician role, but Daniel Day-Lewis is absolutely bloody brilliant as Bill "The Butcher" Cutter. That man should have won a Golden Globe last night. Rather than your standard baddy Day-Lewis also imbues him with some humanity as well, evidenced in some of the conversations he has with Leo's character and little things he does like take an orphaned Jenny in and occasionally feeding random poor people.
Definitely recommended, though not for the faint of heart if you dislike violence... forewarned, there's a lot of it.
( The neverending tests )
I wasn't quite sure what to expect from it, other than the mention by Kit that it was ultra violent I'd not really heard much about it, though one of our forum members was more than enthused about it.
It was definitely worth the money. A visually stunning movie with some gorgeous set and costume design, even though a lot of it was gritty. Great pacing and direction. There was a lot of violence, but of a more realistic and gritty and unromanticising variety, similar to Gladiator rather than the hammed up violence that you see in most movies these days that generally just makes you laugh.
Cameron Diaz and Leonardo DiCaprio both give some good performances in this movie. Jim Broadbent is wonderful in his corrupt politician role, but Daniel Day-Lewis is absolutely bloody brilliant as Bill "The Butcher" Cutter. That man should have won a Golden Globe last night. Rather than your standard baddy Day-Lewis also imbues him with some humanity as well, evidenced in some of the conversations he has with Leo's character and little things he does like take an orphaned Jenny in and occasionally feeding random poor people.
Definitely recommended, though not for the faint of heart if you dislike violence... forewarned, there's a lot of it.
( The neverending tests )
