When it was first released this was one of my favourite films. The scope of some of the shots astounded me and the character of BIll the Butcher was one I knew I'd never forget. Recently I bought the film on Bluray and realised that it wasn't quite the same film i remembered. Sure the scope was there still and Bill the Butcher is just as scary, if not even more scary but it wasn't the same.
Perhaps I had taken too long to watch the film again and as a result the memory was better than the film itself. Or perhaps I was not prepared for the almost 3 hour running time. The film just fell a little flat for me. Still Bill the Butcher is there just as bad as ever, he will always be held in the highest of regards when it comes to film villains but I feel now as if Gangs of New York would only be a shade of the film we have now without Daniel Day Lewis. Perhaps I need to wait a month or two and rewatch it again, I'm sure my feelings are more mood based than actually something against the film itself.
Format: Bluray
Venue: The couch
Degrees of Separation: 7, Jonah Hill stars in Get HIm to the Greek, he also starred in Knocked Up alongside Seth Rogen. Rogen stars alongside Cameron Diaz in The Green Hornet and Diaz plays Jenny in Gangs of New York.
No comments:
Post a Comment