Gangs of New York (2002) | MOVIE REACTION 

By all accounts early 20th century NYC was a cesspool of crime and corruption, too!

So, the exact same as 2023 NYC

this is perhaps the most credible and accurate American film that deals with that historical period.. in fact the director is Martin Scorsese, who rightly does not want to romanticize the American past, does not want to sweeten the pill and wash the brain with propaganda, like today's Hollywood. the problem with the Americans, Chinese and Japanese people above all, is that having behind them, decades of softening the minds and people, providing the masses with only spectacular films with CGI and zero historical credibility. in addition to the fact that cinematic realism has never been liked by the lobbies... they want the audience to be entertained and distracted, not to think and reflect... coincidentally, another film that shows a credible past is "Perfume, Story of a Murderer". Where the first 10 minutes are the most credible and realistic scenes of Paris at the end of the 18th century... nothing but shiny crystals from Versailes, very clean and pressed clothes and glittering carriages.

Probably forced on the production by some big shot that Scorsese couldn't say No to. When I saw the "This is the girl" scene in Mulholland Drive, I immediately thought of how Cameron Diaz kept showing up in otherwise good movies from this time, stinking up the screen.

She was really good in being john malkovich

@@dudermcdudeface3674 It was Harvey Weinstein. He also forced his way into the editing suite. Scorsese should really do a director's cut.

​@@dudermcdudeface3674 Wtf are you talking about mate ?

@@bluesoul7163 Lol, watch a movie, mate.

Overblown ? it's funny that you take one of the most credible and historically faithful films, which for once doesn't sweeten the pill, which doesn't paint the USA with that thread of propaganda and fiction, you come up with speeches like that.... find me an American director who gave a more credible representation of the streets of the past than this one... p.s. Martin Scorsese even included the actual calls and requests for help, which were sent to various police stations and armed forces during the final uprising, where hundreds of black people were killed. PS. the fact that the fights and combat, are spectacularized etc etc, it is blatantly normal, we are talking about a movie not a documentary.... however, compared to another film about the past, we are at much higher levels of credibility than the average American director.

Take a chill pill dude and quit being such a prick@@bluesoul7163

This is a Masterpiece... The fact that in the US this movie is always underrated and not promoted is because it shows one of the most belivable depiction of the life on the streets in a big City.... There so many interesting facts, so many hints about the sub culture about the system, the politics, the power, racism etc etc... without censorship, without propaganda purposes and without sugarcoat pills for Gen Z generation, like Hollywood does nowdays.

Given the amount of fiction and innacuracies it doesn't seem right to be shown as "history", but I'm sure that was fun! By far one of the best and favorite films of mine too though

Main things I disliked was the outfits and the city itself- I mean I like them, but compared to actual images from NYC of the time, from images of fashion in the era, and the actual city's size it's inaccurate, it's as though the whole film is set in the 1840s. I mean, people walking around in Regency-looking tailcoats and long cravats in the 1860s? Come on. Instantaneous photographs of NYC street scenes look very different, too.

The riots were after Gettysburg July 11th -13th. A full week later. Troops were taken from the army of the Potomac but after the battle.

Was about to say the same, when he read "1846 - this was back before the Civil War, well, 15 years before", was almost shocked, most people seem to think somehow the Civil War is the same era as the revolutionary war even though it's closer to WW2 in timelapse.

For copyright reasons we usually have to cut down dialogues in movies since RU-vid tends to flag even entire speeches or conversations from a movie. We do have the full reaction available on our Patreon for example for those who don't want any cuts, but in general we edit our reaction videos this way because of RU-vid.