I watched The Departed and felt utter shock at not disliking it or the performances by actors who are easily identified by just their first names. It was a real "wow" moment for me.

drew patrick wrote:I watched The Departed and felt utter shock at not disliking it or the performances by actors who are easily identified by just their first names. It was a real "wow" moment for me.

You mean like "Marky"?

Not crap. Very good in fact, I thought. I relish Jack Nicholson when he goes over the top in this fashion. And it was the first time since Good Will Hunting when I've seen Matt Damon exhibit that greasy charisma he's capable of. When he smiles in this fashion, his teeth look like they're lying.

The only thing that I definitely did not like was the rat at the end, which seems a common sentiment.

I liked The Departed a lot more than Infernal Affairs, which I'd seen earlier. Infernal Affairs plays the plot a lot straighter than The Departed, which revels in messiness and exaggeration. As the plot is melodramatic, I thought The Departed's richer approach was more appropriate.

Can anyone tell me the significance of the building with the gold dome?

I thought this movie was awful, in fact I'm surprised anyone even liked it. It makes sense that the plot was was derived from one of those interminable Hong Kong cop dramas. Full of embarrassing oirish-isms, too.

What's up with Scorsese and DiCaprio any how?

A steaming turd, overall. I bet you people think Heat is a good movie. Copland was far better.

Rotten Tanx...the golden dome represented a laboured metaphor.

(Scorsese is meant to be making a film adaption of Shasaku Endo's Silence)

CRAP.

Cranius wrote:A steaming turd, overall. I bet you people think Heat is a good movie.

<Cough>

Cranius wrote:...the golden dome represented a laboured metaphor.

I'd agree that Scorcese is not the most subtle of directors. But that is not what I want from him. These trashy, bloody gangster movies, I love!

sparky wrote:These trashy, bloody gangster movies, I love!

A glutton for gun-ishment?

Cranius wrote:

sparky wrote:These trashy, bloody gangster movies, I love!

A glutton for gun-ishment?

I really need to get someone take a photo of me in the office right now, skipping foot from foot bow-legged making pow-pow sounds to go with my waving gun-fingers.

I think I should accept an award for the most terribly convoluted sentence in a Martin Scorcese thread. Two, in fact, after the last one.

Rotten Tanx wrote:Can anyone tell me the significance of the building with the gold dome?

Wasn't it some building at BC?

Not Crap, barely. I got a lot more out of Infernal Affairs. The only performance that impresses me at all in Scorsese's version is Whalberg's. Nicholson is a caricature of himself. That this movie was probably the best "big" movie to come out last year only demonstrates, again, how sorry the state of American movies is.