Auxtung Beibi
Babyface
Of course, a really inefficient way of hearing the soundtrack version of "Hands" is just to fork out $9.00 and see the damn movie.
What'd you all think? I've only mulled over it for about half-an-hour, but I'm pretty sure I liked it. Where Scorsese fails is in building an emotional attachment between the audience and his characters. Frankly, I didn't care whether or not Amsterdam got his revenge; in fact, Daniel Day-Lewis runs so many acting circles around Leo DiCaprio that I prayed Bill the Butcher would outlast his would-be avenger. The movie succeeds in spite of its ill-developed characters, however, and I think it's because New York is really the main "actor" in this movie. Scorsese does a beautiful job of depicting a savage, vibrant, changing New York, a city changing so fast in fact that the draft riots sweep up both the protagonist and the antagonist. In the final scene, Amsterdam and Bill both realize that they are dinosaurs: where once they could lead their tribes to power over a small chunck of the city, now New York eclipses even them and their age-old vendetta.
Two U2-related questions: beforehand, there was a preview for a movie whose title escapes me now, and one of the songs they played sounded like Bono singing an old bossa-nova standard. Any idea of the movie or the song?
Also, in the "Gangs" credits, Bono either sang or wrote one of the film's period pieces, but I didn't catch the title. Do any of you soundtrack owners know which one this is?
What'd you all think? I've only mulled over it for about half-an-hour, but I'm pretty sure I liked it. Where Scorsese fails is in building an emotional attachment between the audience and his characters. Frankly, I didn't care whether or not Amsterdam got his revenge; in fact, Daniel Day-Lewis runs so many acting circles around Leo DiCaprio that I prayed Bill the Butcher would outlast his would-be avenger. The movie succeeds in spite of its ill-developed characters, however, and I think it's because New York is really the main "actor" in this movie. Scorsese does a beautiful job of depicting a savage, vibrant, changing New York, a city changing so fast in fact that the draft riots sweep up both the protagonist and the antagonist. In the final scene, Amsterdam and Bill both realize that they are dinosaurs: where once they could lead their tribes to power over a small chunck of the city, now New York eclipses even them and their age-old vendetta.
Two U2-related questions: beforehand, there was a preview for a movie whose title escapes me now, and one of the songs they played sounded like Bono singing an old bossa-nova standard. Any idea of the movie or the song?
Also, in the "Gangs" credits, Bono either sang or wrote one of the film's period pieces, but I didn't catch the title. Do any of you soundtrack owners know which one this is?