You totally do need to see Gangs. Everybody does, at least once.
I'm not even sure why I haven't. I know I didn't see it when it came out because (a) I was still getting into the habit of seeing more than the occasional movie in theaters (b) I think that was the month I was doing so much work and sleeping/eating so little that I lost over ten pounds, my body freaked out and stopped menstruating, and I had the fun of a pregnancy scare on top of everything else, but Mike did see it and he loved Leonardo DiCaprio, hence our making sure to watch Catch Me If You Can and The Aviator—I'm sort of surprised he never tried to show it to me. Possibly at the time it had prohibitive levels of violence. (That's somehow ceased to matter. I have no idea when.)
the idea of having to see anything that was in black and white or had back-projection, let alone stuff made before synch-sound, was one that the bulk of them found simply staggering.
I just find that incredibly weird. I was in college—at the earliest—before the total of contemporary movies I'd seen outnumbered the classic, or at least the pre-1970's. And it's probably balanced back since.
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I'm not even sure why I haven't. I know I didn't see it when it came out because (a) I was still getting into the habit of seeing more than the occasional movie in theaters (b) I think that was the month I was doing so much work and sleeping/eating so little that I lost over ten pounds, my body freaked out and stopped menstruating, and I had the fun of a pregnancy scare on top of everything else, but Mike did see it and he loved Leonardo DiCaprio, hence our making sure to watch Catch Me If You Can and The Aviator—I'm sort of surprised he never tried to show it to me. Possibly at the time it had prohibitive levels of violence. (That's somehow ceased to matter. I have no idea when.)
the idea of having to see anything that was in black and white or had back-projection, let alone stuff made before synch-sound, was one that the bulk of them found simply staggering.
I just find that incredibly weird. I was in college—at the earliest—before the total of contemporary movies I'd seen outnumbered the classic, or at least the pre-1970's. And it's probably balanced back since.