Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Martin Scorsese
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Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent, Leonardo DiCaprio, Peter-Hugo Daly, Roger Ashton-GriffithsDirector: Martin Scorsese
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 167 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax Home Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Movie Review: Gangs of New York Two-Disc
Summary: 4 Stars
Having seen the movie before, I bought this to update my library. My copy does not have the collectors' edition banner on it.
The extras on the movie are great, and I'm sad to see that Amazon seems to no longer post what they are! The special features usually determine which edition of a film I will buy, so this information is very much missed!
That said, here's how the back cover of mine reads:
*Costume Design featurette
*Set Design featurette
*History of the Five Points
*Exploring the Sets...With Multiple Angles Utilizing 360 Degree Shots of the Set
*U2 Music Video
*Discovery Channel Special: Uncovering the Real Gangs of New York
*The Five Points Study Guide
*Feature Commentary with Martin Scorsese
*Trailer
*Teaser
*French Language track
And, of course, it does offer English subtitles. The historical extras are excellent and informative, but the study guide was a little baffling: it's presented in text with no voiceover, and the font was so small I couldn't read it easily about six feet from my 32" tv. As far as documenting the film itself, the specials and trailers doa good job of preserving the movie's history.
The fly in the ointment:
Like the Titanic 3-disc, Gangs cuts halfway through for you to insert the second disc, during the sex scene. Why you wouldn't put the movie on one disc and the extras on another is beyond me, but to cut it there? There are many complaints concerning this also posted on imdb, and no one seems to know why this decision was made. We may have progressed to the age of dvd and blu-ray, but we're still stuck getting up to change the tape.
Summary of Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
This motion picture event from acclaimed director Martin Scorsese earned 10 Academy Award(R) nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, along with 5 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Song! Leonardo DiCaprio (TITANIC), Cameron Diaz (CHARLIE'S ANGELS), and Daniel Day-Lewis (THE BOXER) star in this epic tale of vengeance and survival! As waves of immigrants swell the population of New York, lawlessness and corruption thrive in lower Manhattan's Five Points section. After years of incarceration, young Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) returns seeking revenge against the rival gang leader (Day-Lewis) who killed his father. But Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of the gang warfare that erupts as he and his fellow Irishmen fight to carve a place for themselves in their newly adopted homeland!Gangs of New York may achieve greatness with the passage of time. Mixed reviews were inevitable for a production this grand (and this troubled behind the scenes), but it's as distinguished as any of director Martin Scorsese's more celebrated New York stories. From its astonishing 1846 prologue to the city's infernal draft riots of 1863, the film aspires to erase the decorum of textbooks and chronicle 19th-century New York as a cauldron of street warfare. The hostility is embodied in a tale of primal vengeance between Irish American son Amsterdam Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his father's ruthless killer and "Nativist" gang leader Bill "the Butcher" Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis, brutally inspired), so named for his lethal talent with knives. Vallon's vengeance is only marginally compelling; DiCaprio is arguably miscast, and Cameron Diaz (as Vallon's pickpocket lover) is adrift in a film with little use for women. Despite these weaknesses, Scorsese's mastery blossoms in his expert melding of personal and political trajectories; this is American history written in blood, unflinching, authentic, and utterly spectacular. --Jeff Shannon
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