July 24, 2003
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Eddie’s review of Gangs of New York:
Martin Scorsese loves blood. There’s so much blood in this movie; he even stages a gang battle in the snow, so you can really witness the blood in full effect. And everyone in the cast bleeds – everyone!
This is a great movie, but without Daniel Day Lewis, it would have been just a good movie. He really makes this film. And was he even nominated for an Oscar? Scorsese kinda gets into Spielbergian territory with a million extras and a million things going on all of the time, but even his excess couldn’t wreck the story, the setting, or DDL’s portrayal of Bill The Butcher.
And while we’re on the subject of Gangs, where were The Jets?
