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Posted by Slowplum
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7/13/2003 08:31:00 AM
Watched Gangs of New York last night. It was pretty good, once I got over the fact that I really wasn't too impressed by Leonardo DiCaprio playing an Irishman with a really crappy accent. But yay for Daniel Day-Lewis!
The story was good and worthy of anyone's time. I am especially impressed (read: thankful) that Scorcese decided to build the set instead of CGI the whole damn thing. Believability in the CGI world only goes so far.
We also stayed up and watched the documentary-ish thing on the special features section, was interesting to see how they researched everything for this movie. Interesting to note that the devestation caused by the riots back then was greater in numbers than the devestation caused by the attacks on the WTC. Near the end they mentioned something about the Statue of Liberty being a gift from France, which made SO laugh a little to think of the irony. I knew about the whole gift from France bit but apparently he did not. "Really? From France? That place with the F-word everyone is replacing with the word Freedom? Interesting."
So I forget where I was going with this. Didn't get to sleep till 4 am. Was got up at 6 by the rugrats. Am now going to get some breakfast. Ta-ta.
The story was good and worthy of anyone's time. I am especially impressed (read: thankful) that Scorcese decided to build the set instead of CGI the whole damn thing. Believability in the CGI world only goes so far.
We also stayed up and watched the documentary-ish thing on the special features section, was interesting to see how they researched everything for this movie. Interesting to note that the devestation caused by the riots back then was greater in numbers than the devestation caused by the attacks on the WTC. Near the end they mentioned something about the Statue of Liberty being a gift from France, which made SO laugh a little to think of the irony. I knew about the whole gift from France bit but apparently he did not. "Really? From France? That place with the F-word everyone is replacing with the word Freedom? Interesting."
So I forget where I was going with this. Didn't get to sleep till 4 am. Was got up at 6 by the rugrats. Am now going to get some breakfast. Ta-ta.