A very fun first few minutes that almost immediately loses all pace and energy to slowly build back up to itself over the course of the movie.
Just watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE4_FpZvGFA
and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnMB-kYFoc
and you'll have seen the best bits.
Nah the biggest jolt in pacing is a little bit past the halfway point where mentally you're ready for the finale and can feel the plot getting ready to wrap up & then you realize there's still an hour and a half to go.
I say that about most non-whites about to somehow sneak their way into my western country but I don't really mean it or have any way of doing it in reality
plus I've had paki gfs in the past so can't talk
the worst miscast in history, up until maggie "saggy" gyllenhall was cast as a beautiful woman in the dark knight
cameron diaz is fricking awful in this
Don't know if it's true or not, but I remember reading that Scorsese wanted the Irish lass from Go but the producer israelites forced him to cast Diaz for the name recognition.
I watched this on repeat once during an all nighter, both discs. Just kept pressing replay every time it ended.
It's a beautiful period piece about an oft-not spoke of time in American history. A violent reaction to the draft, the influx of foreigners, the disparity between the rich and poor, and the resultant ethnic gangs that emerged to cope with the conditions everyone was in. Seeing a New York that his been somewhat lost to history and now mythologized in such a way was really refreshing and cool for a setting. Its also about death and rebirth; a way of life and such where the gangs ran everything and used influence and violence and intimidation to keep everyone in check until their power got challenged all ends in bloodshed. The whole thing feels like it would be at home as a stage play or a broadway show because everything you see of the Five Points is just that, a practical set. George Lucas wandered on set one day to see it and told Martin Scorcese that everything could have been replicated in CGI, which would have cheapened the feel and grit of the environment of the story.
You're in for a good period piece historical romp whose monotony gets broken up by brawls, stabbings, murders and violence to keep your attention and its tied together by a force of nature performance by Daniel Day Lewis and will leave you wondering what the supposed shade of red Cameron Diaz's thick ginger moof would be.
Don't get your mouth all gummed up in dicky juice.
I don't disagree though; Lewis stomped a mudhole through this movies ass like no one else could.You could say he chewed the scenery but the truth is he had arrived with this film and made it clear he was a contender to the heavyweights with Hollywood. And in doing so, he made a pretty memorable villain.
it's great but it's too long and the editing is awful. the civil war stuff should have been entirely cut to trim down running time and make the movie tighter
The civil war stuff is bizarre because the movie can't decide if it's sad or epic that the rioters are getting killed. It spends all this time building up how they're all a bunch of anti-black racists but then the time comes for them getting gunned down and it's playing sad music.
>Check'd
True cinematic brilliance. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Easily one of the best movies ever made.
Bill Cutting played Daniel Day-Lewis to perfection.
It's also one of the single most egregious snubs in the history of the Oscars.
Dude had that one in the bag, but they gave it to Brody because israelites.
A very fun first few minutes that almost immediately loses all pace and energy to slowly build back up to itself over the course of the movie.
Just watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE4_FpZvGFA
and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asnMB-kYFoc
and you'll have seen the best bits.
Nah the biggest jolt in pacing is a little bit past the halfway point where mentally you're ready for the finale and can feel the plot getting ready to wrap up & then you realize there's still an hour and a half to go.
Daniel Day-Lewis gives the best performance in cinema history.
And everything else is a bunch of whiny Irish Black folk
It’s not even the best DDL performance much less in all of movie history.
i always thought his performance in the crucible was so underrated. ryder's too she's awesome in it
I can agree with that, I enjoyed his turn as Bill but there were definitely better performances. Like The Boxer.
Something that easily BTFO every movie released in the last 15 years.
ROMAN POPERY
I say that about most non-whites about to somehow sneak their way into my western country but I don't really mean it or have any way of doing it in reality
plus I've had paki gfs in the past so can't talk
A Scorsese movie that even Scorsese haters like me enjoy
A pretty good lynching scene deep into the movie
the worst miscast in history, up until maggie "saggy" gyllenhall was cast as a beautiful woman in the dark knight
cameron diaz is fricking awful in this
Always wondered how she was cast over a cute real Irish girl, then I noticed who the producer was and it all made sense.
Don't know if it's true or not, but I remember reading that Scorsese wanted the Irish lass from Go but the producer israelites forced him to cast Diaz for the name recognition.
9/11 bush propaganda
I watched this on repeat once during an all nighter, both discs. Just kept pressing replay every time it ended.
It's a beautiful period piece about an oft-not spoke of time in American history. A violent reaction to the draft, the influx of foreigners, the disparity between the rich and poor, and the resultant ethnic gangs that emerged to cope with the conditions everyone was in. Seeing a New York that his been somewhat lost to history and now mythologized in such a way was really refreshing and cool for a setting. Its also about death and rebirth; a way of life and such where the gangs ran everything and used influence and violence and intimidation to keep everyone in check until their power got challenged all ends in bloodshed. The whole thing feels like it would be at home as a stage play or a broadway show because everything you see of the Five Points is just that, a practical set. George Lucas wandered on set one day to see it and told Martin Scorcese that everything could have been replicated in CGI, which would have cheapened the feel and grit of the environment of the story.
You're in for a good period piece historical romp whose monotony gets broken up by brawls, stabbings, murders and violence to keep your attention and its tied together by a force of nature performance by Daniel Day Lewis and will leave you wondering what the supposed shade of red Cameron Diaz's thick ginger moof would be.
Don't get your mouth all gummed up in dicky juice.
why does the guy sell him the necklace? he's gonna die in 10 seconds, he won't be able to spend the money.
DDL running rings around everyone else, but with good performances from John C. Reilly and Brendan Gleeson too.
You're in for:
>"FATHER, JESUS! DID YOU KNOW THERE WAS A Black person IN YOUR CHURCH?!"
Sorry. Meant for OP.
I don't disagree though; Lewis stomped a mudhole through this movies ass like no one else could.You could say he chewed the scenery but the truth is he had arrived with this film and made it clear he was a contender to the heavyweights with Hollywood. And in doing so, he made a pretty memorable villain.
The start of a great DDL binge.
What was their problem?
fun movie ruined by hamfisted love story.
many such cases
it's great but it's too long and the editing is awful. the civil war stuff should have been entirely cut to trim down running time and make the movie tighter
bill is kino
I also fricking hate them letting DiCaprio grow his patchy peach fuzz facial hair in, it looks so fricking bad.
The civil war stuff is bizarre because the movie can't decide if it's sad or epic that the rioters are getting killed. It spends all this time building up how they're all a bunch of anti-black racists but then the time comes for them getting gunned down and it's playing sad music.
A flawed kino.
Also nobody noticed how Bill's fake eyes has an eagle in it despite the two close-ups in the movie.
I’m not sure how anyone could miss it. I distinctly remember a zoom in on it.
You’re in for Bill the Butcher drinking your milkshake.
No, he's in for Daniel Plainview ridding America of Roman Popery.
>Check'd
True cinematic brilliance. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
Easily one of the best movies ever made.
Bill Cutting played Daniel Day-Lewis to perfection.
It's also one of the single most egregious snubs in the history of the Oscars.
Dude had that one in the bag, but they gave it to Brody because israelites.
Literally capeshit tier trash, Scorsese should be ashamed of this one.
A movie that's way too long, with bad acting and poor writing that can't handle its own thematic ambitions
pretty boring honestly other than ddl
Goofy bullshit that will make you question if Martin Scorsese was ever a good director. The Departed also fits this.