Taking Sides - Gangs Of New York vs The Warriors?

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The former has DDL camping it up with a nasty 'tache - the latter has the immortal line "shut your face or I'll shove this bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle!"

Which is greater? Only ilxor can decide...

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Is this a FITE! thread?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

YES!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Sunday, 19 January 2003 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Good news boppers, Bill The Butcher's Oscar nomination has been called off...

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 19 January 2003 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Warriors definitely has better music!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Sunday, 19 January 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Warriors, because it lacks pretension, but actually works.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 19 January 2003 22:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Warriors OST was by Lewis and Rinder, who did the music for the TV show In Search of... you know the 70's paranormal show with Leonard Nimoy. The sickest and scariest TV music of all-time. Ace soundtrack for Warriors. It's a classic sample soundtrack for the headz. No question, the Warriors is the illest musicwise.

Baseball Furies would beat the shit out of the Bowery Boys. The Warriors would bop some Dead Rabbit ass but they couldn't beat all the Irish up in the Five-Points because of the sheer number of Dead Rabbits.

Warriors is what NYC kids did before the invention of hip-hop. I fuckin' love that movie and the leader of THE ROGUES. HOLY SHIT, THE ROGUES!!!

But I did enjoy Gangs of New York too. I like streetfightin' movies.

Daniel Day Lewis was great. He's the best actor of his generation. Fuck all his haters. They can suck my left foot. If Gangs of New York didn't have DDL and his establishment, Satan's ??? it wouldn't of been as good. Even though John C. Reily in a fur suit was cool too.

Warriors wins because it is the pinnacle of what its intent was. Remember that kids rioted in the cinemas and some cinemas banned it because they didn't want the kids to burn the motherfucker down.

Gangs of New York, though good, was no masterpiece. If Scorsese directed the film in 1977, it would possibly be the greatest American film of all-time.

― Polo Pony, Monday, 20 January 2003 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Earl Boykins OWNS.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 20 January 2003 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Earl Boykins! Golden State Warriors will be to the 00's what the Lakers were to the 80's!

― Polo Pony, Monday, 20 January 2003 07:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Will the band A.R.E. Weapons abandon their Warriors schtick and grow curly mustaches and get consumption?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:38 (twenty-three years ago)

come out to plaa-yee . .

fuckin' warriors, no contest!

― That Girl (thatgirl), Monday, 20 January 2003 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Warriors for the bottle-clanking 'come-out-to-play-ee-ay', for featuring a gang whose get-up was vests-with-no-shirts-and-ascots, and basically just for being DA SHIT and entertaining me on many a drunken not-getting-any-tonight-why-not-turn-on-USA-network?-night.

Gangs of New York...a great film I must say, but me & it just don't have the history that me & Warriors do.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

There's no contest Warriors wins hands down.
Can somebody tell me if the guy in Sex In The City who is doing it with the totally promiscuous one is the cute Warrior that gets hand cuffed to the park bench.

― tiny, Monday, 20 January 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never seen Gangs Of New York. The Warriors is one of my favourite films ever. This isn't really a fair contest.

― Ally C (Ally C), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 00:35 (twenty-three years ago)

The Warriors not only has "come out to play-ayyyy", but "CAN YOU DIG IT!", ergo it is one of the best catchphrase films of all time. (The Baseball Furies got their asses kicked, though, remember?)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

And this review will make you love the film all over again.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 21 January 2003 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Haven't seen Gangs of New York but I can now confirm that The Warriors is insane, wrong, great and more a source of things for Pop Will Eat Itself than I ever realized.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 February 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

no fucking contest.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Saturday, 28 February 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

kisses for both of you.

― dean! (deangulberry), Saturday, 28 February 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

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77. The Warriors
Walter Hill, 1979

Points: 34
Total Votes: 3
First Place Votes: 0

nickalicious: Warriors for the bottle-clanking 'come-out-to-play-ee-ay', for featuring a gang whose get-up was vests-with-no-shirts-and-ascots, and basically just for being DA SHIT and entertaining me on many a drunken not-getting-any-tonight-why-not-turn-on-USA-network?-night.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

ha, don't me.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

gangs of new york was rubbish.

plot= i'm gonna get revenge for my father, but i'm gonna take ages about it.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

jeff how is all your text in a blue square, did you block quote or summit?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

Gangs of New York is incoherent and loony, but as I've said elsewhere, how anyone could fail to dig a Scorsese Mad Max movie is beyond me.

That said, The Warriors wins because originals are always better than remakes.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 07:28 (twenty years ago)

I have The Warriors on this month's calendar page. That bloke with a leopardskin towel on his head and a big belly puts me off my dinner.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

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