The words for the day:
Yep that pretty much covers it. I reiterate my points about Christmas shopping from some weeks ago. A useless bunch of pissants is humanity. No doubt.
Saw Gangs of New York over the weekend. Not a bad film, reminds me of where I came from. Bruisers and bangpitchers, that’s for sure. I actually have two ancestral uncles called Tacky and Sledge after the sort of hammer blows they’d land in a fight. All those bloodied and bruised irish scrapping for no reason and living on slops…that’s pretty much the way my family came up. By God I’m proud of my ancestry.
That being said, the costuming was nigh horrendous and the fact that a film ostensibly about the “creation” of America and the rise of American values was filmed in Italy very much detracts from what otherwise would be a tolerably good film. Damn sure not worth the years of blood, sweat and tears supposedly shed over its making and one of the final nails in Scorcese’s coffin. I am coming to the opinion that all the supposedly “revolutionary” filmmakers of the 70s (Kubrick, Scorcese, Coppola, etc) pretty much just suck. Maybe they had a good flick or two in them, maybe the drugs and free lovin’ made them creative but damn, the last flicks those dudes put out just blew chunks.
And now the greats of the 80s (Spielberg, Lucas (sorta)) are also winding down. Well, at least there are some promising up and comers although it sure seems like a lot of the new “auteurs” are hit or miss. We’ll see.