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Strider
10-09-2006, 10:50 AM
Did anyone else see The Departed this weekend? I enjoyed every single minute of it, and most of the time I would have looked like this to anyone paying attention: :D
The performances are top notch. The two leads are extremely good, Mr. Nicholson isas charming as ever, and Mark Wahlberg steals every scene he is in. The scripting is great, and the direction is Scorsese at his best. I also thought the soundtrack complimented the film very nicely, fitting into and enhancing the mood of the film.
If you like movies at all, you should check this one out. Everyone is at the top of their game, and it delivers in spades. 9.2/10.0
DaForce
10-09-2006, 10:59 AM
I liked it the first time I saw it as Infernal Affairs.
I'll wait until video for the remake.
Son of Gilbert
10-09-2006, 12:29 PM
I have to agree with Strider. I saw it this past weekend and was VERY surprised at how good it was. I thought it might get caught up it the Good Cop/ Bad Cop cliché. Like Strider said from the acting to the sound track just a complete movie. And I think that not seeing it on the big screen may be doing a disservice to yourself and the movie.
On a side note the start of the movie was delayed because a lady had pasted out from the all the graphic blood in the movie.
I absolutely loved it! The only performance I didn't think was spectacular was Martin Sheen. :dunno: I liked how...
Colin was living the life Billy should've had, and that Billy was living the life Colin would've been leading if he hadn't joined the police force to work for Frank. I actually said "Damn" quite a few times with all the deaths in the end.
I love this kind of movie. :D Seriously. I liked how Frank's clothes were just terrible, and in essence, they were the Irish Anti-mob. Even Alec Baldwin, who is usually so over-the-top as to be ridiculous, was fantastic. He was quite the caricature. Mark Wahlberg was fantastic. At the beginning, I was afraid they were going a little too far with him, and then they wrapped it right up, and made it all fit.
Metuzalem
10-10-2006, 02:54 PM
Just got back from seeing this just now. Massively impressed with the whole film. Cannot fault it one iota. It's film of the year material for me.
TrekSucksHard
10-11-2006, 07:26 AM
I dunno, I didn't enjoy it as much as everyone else did- it just didn't resonate with me cuz I kept thinking Nicholson was doing his Joker routine and I didn't have any sympathies with any of the other leads. Oh well...
awakenangel
10-11-2006, 03:45 PM
the movie caught me by suprised, I went to go see it to kil time. and it was so nice, i had to see it twice.:D
I think it made complete sense.
colmatrix
10-11-2006, 07:40 PM
I loved it also. If I did have one complaint, it would be that Jack Nicholson was not right for the role. Or his performance wasn't as good as I thought it would be. He didn't seem as menacing as I thought he might. Everyone I know thinks his performance was the best...but I don't. I'd say Matt Damon's was. And I don't even like Matt Damon. Leo was awesome, MArtin Sheen was great, and so was Marky Mark. I didn't hate Nicholson's performance, it just seemed a tad hokey to me.
You know, at first I was knitpicking his clothes. I was like, his jacket sleeves are way too long, and his hair looks like shit. As it steadily got worse, I realized that the character was supposed to be hokey. Really think about who Frank Costello was, and it'll all pull together. I normally hate Leo, and avoid his movies like the plague, but I really think his was the best performance in this movie. The only thing I thought was lacking throughout, was the fact that everyone picked up a Boston accent for this flick except Jack. Every once in a great while, you'd hear a tiny Irish lilt in his voice, but then it'd be gone again.
awakenangel
10-12-2006, 10:43 AM
I am surprised everyone liked it so much. I thought the ending was bad and didn't make any sense.
it made complete since, matt d's character killed the guy who killed leo's character because he needed to find the mole and one specific good guy does not allways win in the end.
and Marky mark's character killed Matt d's character because he knew Matt's character got his capt. and finally leo's character killed.
and matt knew he was living on borrowed time that why he did not even try to put up a fight.:jump2:
snippy
10-12-2006, 12:04 PM
all of my friends are raving. they normally say everything is shit. can't wait to see it!
Metuzalem
10-12-2006, 01:51 PM
I am surprised everyone liked it so much. I thought the ending was bad and didn't make any sense.
Welcome to Asian cinema :D
It's the classic ending - everyone dies, nothing makes sense.
Until about 3 days later.
awaken- spoiler tags, please.
Adam54
10-12-2006, 07:24 PM
:romy: agrees!! Argh!
Deacon
10-12-2006, 10:22 PM
Spoiler tags added to Awakenangel's post - and Metuzalem's too, since it only seemed fair.
As much as I enjoyed the movie, I was disappointed that Scorsese didn't get more tension out of the whole 'surreptitious communication' bit. In the original there was a fantastic scene where the undercover cop tapped out morse code using the cast on his hand. They had the characters in this one using the mobile phones, but it wasn't as suspensefully done (I felt), which surprised me.
It also seemed odd that they had Leo have the cast as in the HK original, but then not do the morse code bit.
Alpha
10-12-2006, 11:06 PM
At first I was not that satisfied with the ending because
none of the characters actually really unraveled the mystery, other than Billy, but then he didn't get a chance make it public and bring Colin to justice. Everything happened by chance or a twisted turn of events, such as how Frank was caught because Colin turned on him, and then Colin was killed not because Dignam found out he was the rat, but because he wanted revenge.
but now,
I like how it ended, because it kinda says that even if you don't get found out today, or tomorrow, that eventually what goes around comes around (well, except for poor Billy....). And I LOVED that last shot of the rat scurrying across the balcony.
Anyway, I was pretty blown away when I walked out of the theatre (but that could've been because all those deaths at the end caught me off guard and I was reeling a bit haha...). This picture is gonna get a Best Pic oscar nod for sure. And Leonardo DiCaprio deserves a nod and a win. I agree, his best performance to date (except for maybe Gilbert Grape, which I've heard about but never seen so I wouldn't be able to judge).
You forget...
The envelope Billy gave to Madolyn. That may have had all the information in it, which he wanted given to Dignam upon the event of his death and Dignam decided to use it to kill Colin, instead of putting everything in the press. Remember, after Colin shot everyone, he recommended Billy posthumously for a the force's highest honor, so Billy's end was wrapped up.
At Billy's funeral, Madolyn walked past Colin like he wasn't even there, a dead man. She knew everything.
Metuzalem
10-13-2006, 10:03 AM
Ah dammit Kah, you beat me to it. I wanted to look all clever and say that :romy:
The other thing is: Who's baby is it? :wink:
awakenangel
10-13-2006, 08:59 PM
sorry about that guys, i was just answering why the movie made sense IMO.
if any concellation still seeing the scenes I describes are still awesome.
Yeah, Tuz, I already thought of that, but really, does it matter?
If you have an imdb account, you should really check out some of the arguments they are having on there (http://imdb.com/title/tt0407887/).
Metuzalem
10-14-2006, 06:25 AM
Yeah, it doesn't really matter but it just seemed kind of weird in the context of the film to even bring the subject up. I guess it was kind of meant to Lend further weight to the hints that Damon was in the end trying to break away from the mob and go straight. Hence his plan to leave town and go to law school in a different city.I don't have an IMDB account but I gether the mud-slinging round those parts is way more fun :D .
Metuzalem
10-14-2006, 10:42 AM
Well think about All the extensive police training he'd had. Nicholson was still a perp and in that situation (shots fired) Damon did what was natural to him, his training kicked in and he shot the perp. Instinct. Plus in Infernal Affairs he kills the ganglord because he wants out of the gang, it was hinted to in the remake as well but not as blatantly.
Alpha
10-14-2006, 04:32 PM
Answer to previous question:
Damon's character shot Frank at the end because if Frank is an FBI informant, then he can do a lot of damage by revealing Damon's activities to the FBI. I don't think there is any noble "police training" kicking in for Damon, as others are suggesting.
Metuzalem
10-14-2006, 05:08 PM
Yeah I'd forgotten about that too :ohwell:
Al-Dog
10-14-2006, 06:08 PM
I had avoided this thread until I so the movie. I just saw it a couple of hours ago, and I loved it! One of the best movies I’ve seen in a while.
I think that there is a couple of reason that Matt Damons character killed Costello.
I think that he realized that Costello was loosing control, and that it would only be a matter of time before he had to do something that would get him caught. When Frank made him call off the surveillance, he used the excuse that he was in contact with the informant, but he didn’t know that Billy was going to communicate with him at that time.
Another reason could be that, like any person who is undercover they run the risk of bonding with the people that he was infiltrating. I think he was beginning to enjoy being a cop.
I’m sure that he must have realized that the life of a decorated cop and lawyer would be a lot better that some cheap mobster.
I agree with Alpha. He was saving his own ass.
That's because he just found out about...
The fact that Costello was an informant for the FBI. When Frank told Colin that he hadn't told the FBI about him, Colin killed him to make sure they never found out.
Yes, but part of the trust between Colin and Frank was who they were. When Colin found out that Frank wasn't who he said he was, the trust was broken.
One of the things that does seem off in this movie is all the cops being killed. The criminals act like it isn't that big of a deal.
DaForce
10-15-2006, 08:01 PM
I hate to say it, but when you do a remake of a good movie and then change certain aspects of it, or more importantly the timing of certain aspects, you wind up with a lesser movie.
I'm glad for once I didn't see the original. I really enjoyed this one, and I think I would have been comparing the two the whole time had I seen the first.
DaForce
10-15-2006, 08:13 PM
I'm glad for once I didn't see the original. I really enjoyed this one, and I think I would have been comparing the two the whole time had I seen the first.
Kah, really, rent the original. It is done so perfectly that the questions that everyone here are asking about the Scorcese remake are dealt with in such a way to make it plausible and complete.
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