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Trauma-san

Gangs Of New York
« on: December 21, 2002, 12:13:49 AM »
Awesome movie, just saw it.  The American Film Institute voted it one of the best of 2002, and I definately agree...

1st, Martin Scorsese directed it.  Has to be dope.

2nd, it deals with Irish street gangs in new york, in the 1800's, mature topic that I didn't know much about but do now.

3rd, the acting was phenomenal.  Cameron Diaz held her own in a serious role, and I think she was the perfect choice for that role, she pulled it off perfect.  Leonardo DiCaprio can never have his acting ability questioned again... one more time, he carried a HUGE role, and did it with ease.  YOu got the sense the whole time that he was breezing through the movie.  Daniel Day Lewis deserves an oscar as the Butcher, I think.  Just the emotion, from one end, to the other he brought into it, and the character he created was awesome.

great movie, everybody should go see it.  
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bez

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« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2002, 05:12:20 AM »
Yer I saw trailers and shit of this a while back the film looks so good, but  I aint heard shit about it since, I was like urgh they must of scrapped it or sum shit becajuse I saw the trailer soooooo long ago. When does this come out in UK mate, do ya know? Cos I will defo peep it.  Looks real good!
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ITW [the irish boy]

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« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2002, 05:45:18 AM »
Irish gangs? Ill have to check that out.  What are the irish accents like? The stupid stage-irish, or are they realistic?
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Trauma-san

Re:Gangs Of New York
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2002, 05:34:24 PM »
Hell if I know, lol.  I've never been to irish.  
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bez

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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2002, 06:00:57 PM »
Quote from: E.Trauma on December 22, 2002, 05:34:24 PM
Hell if I know, lol.  I've never been to irish.  

thats never been to Ireland mcfly!
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E. J. Rizo

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« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2002, 01:21:46 AM »
Quote from: Bizzez on December 22, 2002, 06:00:57 PM
Quote from: E.Trauma on December 22, 2002, 05:34:24 PM
Hell if I know, lol.  I've never been to irish.  

thats never been to Ireland mcfly!
i take it you been watching back to the future too ;)...lol
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Trauma-san

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« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2002, 07:30:08 AM »
it was a joke, lol.  
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Pillow

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« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2002, 11:15:53 AM »
Looks and sounds like a tite movie to me, i am gonna go peep it....
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« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2002, 03:03:06 PM »
Anyone have an idea when it comes out in Belgium or Holland? Thanks.
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« Reply #9 on: December 26, 2002, 03:03:41 PM »
BTW: Thanks for the reviews fellas  :)
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« Reply #10 on: December 28, 2002, 02:44:45 PM »
i saw it this weekend. its definetly one of those movies that when you walk out, your brain is like scrambled eggs. its a lot to swallow. very gruesome fight scenes. great story on a subject that many people aren't in the know about.

trauma-what did you think about when they showed the evolution of new york at the end? they showed it with the twin towers standing. maybe i'm looking to deep but this is what i thought: after everything that was happening to new york at the end of the movie, with riots and looting everywhere, and the union armed forces actually firing on its own city, destroying buildings, launching  attacks from boats in the harbor, i was literally thinking "how and the hell did this city ever survive?" kind of like the state of things in new york and even the US circa 9/11. he showed that we have overcome things that we even greater than 9/11, and everything turned out ok. i think thats why he showed the twin towers in the skyline at the end. i don't know, maybe not. what do you think?
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« Reply #11 on: December 28, 2002, 08:26:03 PM »
Hmm, I dunno if he intentionally meant that, but I do believe it was meant as a way to show, "LOOK WHAT THE HELL NY HAS BEEN THROUGH" I don't know if he meant any kind of comment on sept. 11th.  The thing I thought when I saw it was, 1 "I wanna go visit Priest's grave" LOL and, 2, as distant as the story may seem, these are the 'hands that built america' like u2 sang in the theme song they had playing.  Peace~
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Kaidy

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« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2003, 10:30:51 AM »
I think this comes out January 10th in the UK. Can't wait to see it myself.
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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2003, 12:34:36 AM »
This was an incredible movie, It's probably been said a thousand times by now but Daniel Day-Lewis had an incredible performance.  For people who want to know more about this kind of stuff check out "How the Irish Became White" by
Noel Ignatiev, its really illuminating on the time period and race relations in the 19th century.
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