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offline core from London (United Kingdom) on 2003-01-14 06:58 [#00513629]
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any good?


 

offline NeoExmnist from United States on 2003-01-14 06:59 [#00513631]
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if you watch that movie....i....i....just dont


 

offline magiker from Östersund (Sweden) on 2003-01-14 07:03 [#00513636]
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I'll probably watch it this week. It's at home waiting...


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2003-01-14 07:22 [#00513648]
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is that the one with leodicapri?

only thing that interest me about that film are mr. reilly
and mr.d.lewis

oh, and that mr.scorsese directed it

huh, i just might go and see it :)


 

offline dondog from munich (Germany) on 2003-01-14 07:36 [#00513658]
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pfffffffff


 

offline glass_eater from a blind nerves area (Switzerland) on 2003-01-14 07:36 [#00513659]
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ahahah ive seen the trailer
are they joking????
man i hate american films, theyre just getting worse every
minute


 

offline NeoExmnist from United States on 2003-01-14 07:38 [#00513663]
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i know this is true. i want the matrix 2 (reload) to come
out.


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-14 07:38 [#00513664]
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I'm going to see it tonight. I love scorcese's work and
Daniel Day lewis is apparently superb in it. I'll probably
be disappointed but what the hey man, it's a night out isn't
it?


 

offline dariusgriffin from cool on 2003-01-14 07:45 [#00513672]
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Come on, not every American film is bad...


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2003-01-14 07:46 [#00513674]
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I fear Scorcesse fell off. From waht I've seen it looks like
Moulin Rouge and his history is all ta cock.


 

offline NeoExmnist from United States on 2003-01-14 07:47 [#00513675]
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haha yes i totally agree. i vow to never watch that movie.


 

offline DeLtoiD from Ontario on 2003-01-14 08:04 [#00513698]
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Scorsese eh?

reminds of that King Missle track... ever heard!?!?!?

"he makes the best fucking films... if I ever see him... I'm
gonna chew out one of his eyes and spit it out in his
face... blah blah blah"

but anyways...

you cant beat Goodfellas or Casino...

heh or Bringing out the dead how about Cape Fear?

but as always... I find all directors make a shitty movie,
its in the contract...

Kun dun??????


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2003-01-14 08:15 [#00513715]
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i kind of hope scorsese kept it on a higher level than
polanski with his pianist crapp


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2003-01-14 08:16 [#00513720]
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i like to call it gony


 

offline titsworth from Washington, DC (United States) on 2003-01-14 12:30 [#00514036]
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you'll hate it core cos of its "high abundance of american
violence" *eyeroll*


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-15 02:22 [#00514601]
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Saw it last night - fell asleep for 10 minutes during it (
something to do with the half bottle of buckie I had perhaps
) - very disappointed. I always had my reservations about
scorcese ever since he sold his sould to Johnny Walker and
this just confirmed it. Visually impressive but ultimately a
bit empty - a bit like kelly brook.


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-15 02:25 [#00514602]
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i give it a 5 out of 10.

hahahaha


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2003-01-15 02:33 [#00514606]
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Sold his soul to Johnny Walker?


 

offline Cfern from Sacto (United States) on 2003-01-15 02:48 [#00514608]
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I dunno i really liked this movie alot. i lot of people
hated it, and yes there were flaws but I really liked it...


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-15 03:21 [#00514615]
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you heard


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2003-01-15 03:24 [#00514616]
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What do you mean?


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-15 03:27 [#00514619]
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Never seen the advert?


 

offline diablo on 2003-01-15 03:39 [#00514623]
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This from Johnny Vaughn:
(OK it's from the Sun - shite paper, but I thought it was
good & pretty funny)

"As a result of this maelstrom of sub-plots, in the end I
had lost all sense of the main event. Just lots of potential
and build-up, no real pay-off.

Lots of stocking fillers — no big prezzy. Titanic had a
lot going on on board, loads of plots, great performances,
social comment, Irish immigrants, British snobbery, strong
love angle ... but if it hadn’t hit that iceberg, admit
it, you’d have felt slightly cheated.

I’m not saying GoNY is like Titanic without the iceberg
— that would be way too cynical.

But story-wise it is messy and a little unsatisfying.

Scorsese has been trying to get this film made for 30 years,
a fact I find quite odd.

I mean, why would a powerful and revered film-maker with his
pedigree and eye for detail have trouble selling studio
bosses the idea of a period gangster film set in New York?
It doesn’t make sense.

On paper, that’s like turning Tom Cruise down to do a film
about fighter pilots in World War Two.

I suspect that when producers and money men hear the words
Scorsese, gangs and New York, they — like me — wanted to
see Joe Pesci, Robert De Niro and a few of the usual
Italian/American faces wearing thousand dollar suits, eating
a lot of pasta and driving around in big Cadillacs.

They want to see fat wise guys in shellsuits whacking out
other fat wise guys in shellsuits.

Or stealing lorry loads of fur coats, or cheating on their
wives and setting whores up in apartments.

Or looking shady and whispering at funerals.

Or just hanging out in sleazy social clubs or Las Vegas or
pool halls, “busting each other’s balls”, digging
graves for each other, using mob lingo, nipping down to
Miami, making up nicknames for each other and gambling.

What they don’t want is the Age of Innocence, Last
Temptation Of Christ and Kundun.

Other Scorsese. The man with a mission talking about a film
using the word “project”.

That scares them as all t


 

offline diablo on 2003-01-15 03:40 [#00514624]
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That scares them as all they can see are spiralling budgets
and a confused audience.

Anyway, hats off to Marty for finally persuading them.

So should you see it? Definitely. It’s a visual feast
crammed with great performances, particularly Daniel
Day-Lewis, who gives us one of the great bad guys of cinema
history — truly mesmerizing.

Though it would be unfair not to mention Jim Broadbent, John
C. Reilly and Brendan Gleeson who all turn in great
supporting performances.

GoNY also offers the chance — rare these days — to see a
grand scale production that hasn’t been created by
computer."



 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2003-01-15 03:57 [#00514631]
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Ahh right. So he made an advert for Johnny Walker whiskey.
Well, he also directed the MJ 'Bad' video so let's not be
too hard on the guy.


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-15 04:17 [#00514639]
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But the video was a raw and harrowing depiction of gangland
violence. It had a great deal of artistic integrity about
it. The same cannot be said for his advert.


 

offline diablo on 2003-01-15 04:28 [#00514645]
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Aphex did an advert. Did he "sell his soul?"

Did he have one in the first place?


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-15 04:35 [#00514650]
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Any artist who does commercials selling products to the hoi
polloi has no artistic integrity whatsoever. And that
includes Richard D James.


 

offline diablo on 2003-01-15 04:39 [#00514654]
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What have Oi Polloi got to do with it? I saw them live and
they were one fked up punk band.

So I take it you live in complete isolation and due to your
standards have never made money by or for a large company.


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-15 04:41 [#00514655]
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Not in my line of work, no.


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2003-01-15 04:42 [#00514656]
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Word!


 

offline diablo on 2003-01-15 04:46 [#00514661]
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Hey those tanks don't pay for themselves you know


 

offline jonesy from Lisboa (Portugal) on 2003-01-15 04:47 [#00514663]
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No, we do.


 

offline diablo on 2003-01-15 04:53 [#00514667]
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And Orange mobile phones. Which give you brain cancer. Quite
appropriate really...


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-15 04:58 [#00514671]
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I'll quite gladly pay for his music because I enjoy it.
However, I feel the music is somewhat devalued when it is
being used to hellp flog pirelli tyres or whatever. I used
to love that caustic window song but now every time I play
it I've got a vision of some dude jumping over rocks in my
head.


 

offline diablo on 2003-01-15 05:04 [#00514675]
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Ahhh I dunno. At least he's not doing a moby and pretending
to be a champion of the environment at the same time.


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2003-01-15 05:24 [#00514680]
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moby dick


 


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