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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
GANGS OF NEW YORK
for scorsese, it was a bit shit i thought.
the pros: the epic subject! the historical portrayal of the time. daniel day lewis. brendan gleeson. liam neesom’s quasi-cameo. jim broadbent. john c. reilly.
the cons: cameron diaz out of her depth. lionardo-as-thug. lionardo’s stupid voiceover. the final fight. the narrative as a whole which is what the fuck?
i get that scorsese wanted to make an opera. so maybe i’m not a real fan of the opera.
started great and promising, ended in a kind of squeaky fart.
i rate it about as high as a 70s or 80s movie he did with dinero and maryl streep where they meet on the train and start fucking around on their spouses and it’s a sorta romcom. yeah you don’t remember the name either i bet or what happened.
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I can't disagree with any of that, but somehow still like it - even more after watching it a few times. Not saying it's a grower just that I think I've ended up focusing on the positives (DDL and the basic story) rather than the cons (pretty much everything else).