I liked this a lot more than most. The most unashamed comic book adaptation of the year. Less the remake of the beloved classic it's been marketed as and more an Eric Draven origin story (Eric Draven: A Crow Story would have been a more apt title) . Seen this negatively called a two hour Evanescence music video. How that's meant to be a negative I don't know. The film's unashamed goth grungy aesthetic and commitment to it proudly is…
One of my first happy memories growing up (and there wasnt' as many as though as I would have liked is staying at my uncle's house late at night stumbling into my Grandad's room for a reason I can't now. I clmbed up onto the bed and lay at his feet watching the TV. This film had just started and we watched it together until I fell asleep. It's six years now since my Grandad ed away. Without him…
Wow what a picture. A masterpiece. De Niro's most evil character. A stand in for white supremacy. Except Hale was real. DiCapro is great as the cowardly dumbass nephew. Gladstone is incredible. The best deciison Scorsese made was changing the script from let's be honest now this is the version we ended up with a by the numbers but fun genre exercise aka Shutter Island into a bitter angry condemnation of the orignal sin. I see elements here of Gangs…
Leone turned down The Godfather to make this. He made the right call. An epic in every sense of the word. Some of the most gorgeous cinematography ever put on film, a score that's somehow even better than Morrciones western work and the scathing indictment of an American culture that glamorises gangsters as cool or honourable. They are neither here. They are instead violent, misogynist greedy bastards including De Niro in perhaps his best ever performance as Noodles. This review…
