The Departed - FFS

Thunder Beer · Post by **Thunder Beer** » 25 Oct 2006, 12:35

Hey, guess what... This movie was pretty damn good!

Iam not a review kinda guy, so thats all Iam going to say...

Look out for Marky Mark... That guy is brilliant every single time!

Grotocult · Post by **Grotocult** » 26 Oct 2006, 12:20

Yeah, he's fantastic in this one.

The Rambam · Post by **The Rambam** » 26 Oct 2006, 12:55

How were the Funky Bunch?

Grotocult · Post by **Grotocult** » 04 Nov 2006, 16:33

Even better.

Don Eduardo · Post by **Don Eduardo** » 10 Nov 2006, 23:50

I've heard nothing but good things about this. I'm going to see it in the next couple of days.

Eviltoastman · Post by **Eviltoastman** » 11 Nov 2006, 02:53

Just downloaded 7.5gig torrent of this dvdr, with Russian dts, English 5.1 and Russian subs, re authored it to omit the Russian tracks and the fucker's audio since is out by half a second. A-NNOY-ING!

Don Eduardo · Post by **Don Eduardo** » 17 Nov 2006, 01:43

I think I might have gotten the same download. It was a bit off.

Just another mob/undercover agent flick with a few nice cameo performances. I wasn't overly impressed, but I didn't really regard it as a waste of time either.

The Rambam · Post by **The Rambam** » 17 Nov 2006, 08:31

It's a sad state of affairs, when mediocrity doesn't get the proper slamming it deserves.

judasmuppet · Post by **judasmuppet** » 17 Nov 2006, 20:00

I slammed it in the first post, without having seen it. Was that wrong of me?

Thunder Beer · Post by **Thunder Beer** » 19 Nov 2006, 11:10

Yes it was, but I understand why you did it...

Grotocult · Post by **Grotocult** » 20 Nov 2006, 14:23

Because he's a quarter chink

judasmuppet · Post by **judasmuppet** » 20 Nov 2006, 21:33

That's the nicest thing you've ever said about me.

Eviltoastman · Post by **Eviltoastman** » 26 Nov 2006, 17:48

The Departed was fantastic. Far from mediocre, better than Goodfellas even. Not as good as Bull or TD, but close. Infernal Affairs doesn't come close to this either.

Karp · Post by **Karp** » 26 Nov 2006, 19:05

I loved Alec Baldwin in that movie

Mary Hinge · Post by **Mary Hinge** » 10 Dec 2006, 07:38

Karp";p="810665 wrote:I thought The Departed was a good movie actually.

Karp";p="810834 wrote:Mark Wahlberg did a bang up job.

Yes to all of the above, plus Leo diCaprio was superb. Good stuff all round.

I misread this thread before and thought it was a remake of Internal Affairs, then couldn't work out where that idea came from...

Peeping Tom · Post by **Peeping Tom** » 22 Dec 2006, 01:16

im a huge fan of his and just loved it.
And how about some reasons why it sucked.

ReverseEngineer · Post by **ReverseEngineer** » 25 Feb 2007, 18:37

Nam Tsao";p="830310 wrote:The Departed was fantastic. Far from mediocre, better than Goodfellas even.

I haven't seen all the nominees, but I can safely say that this is the one that should win Best Picture, and probably won't.

What a fantastic film. Everything's right in it. I love it when that happens.

ReverseEngineer · Post by **ReverseEngineer** » 26 Feb 2007, 00:22

huh,
nicely done, Marty.

Eviltoastman · Post by **Eviltoastman** » 26 Feb 2007, 02:35

Peeping Tom";p="837424 wrote:im a huge fan of his and just loved it.
And how about some reasons why it sucked.

Well, I had a giggle at all the points this fella thought he'd made:

Some guy on Amazon.co.uk wrote:The Departed is yet another poor American remake of a recent hit film. Expectations were high but the film ultimately delivers nothing but the same old same old. Scorsese and the cast spend the overlong running time riffing on past glories and spouting lines written by a poor man's David Mamet. Not one of the A-list actors gives anything more than a passable impression of one of their previous roles (Baldwin and Nicholson being the worst offenders) and Scorsese himself seems to be going through the motions throwing in visual tricks for the sake of it and sleepwalking his way through a subpar soundtrack selection, usually one of his strong points.

The Departed throws away the spirituality and more personal elements of Infernal Affairs, its source material, and instead shoehorns in a meaningless CGI bullet-fest ending, a convoluted love triangle and an endless stream of verbal abuse designed to keep the audience in stitches which goes a long way to diffusing any tension the clumsy script can muster up. Infernal Affairs covers in the first five minutes what The Departed takes the better part of forty minutes doing. If it added anything to the characters I'd be able to forgive it, but it doesn't. The Departed is all style and no substance, and even the style isn't half as appealing as that of Infernal Affairs with its beautiful city backdrop and brilliantly suspenseful score music.

The Departed has two settings: ham and cheese. And not even the biggest fan has been able to defend the clumsiest last shot in cinematic history. Scorsese's off the boil, the cast are hideously predictable and uninteresting and the writing is lazy, cliched nonsense, even managing to fudge up some great action sequences that were there for the taking in the original script to Infernal Affairs. If you want gags, swearing, a bloated and muddled plot and The Joker throwing cocaine at prostitutes then The Departed is for you. If you'd rather watch something with efficient scriptwriting, understated performances and some emotional resonance then Infernal Affairs may be more your cup of tea.

The name Scorsese on the poster means nothing if the end product is a mess. Unfortunately, the Academy don't think so.

judasmuppet · Post by **judasmuppet** » 26 Feb 2007, 04:28

Some guy on Amazon.co.uk wrote:If you want gags, swearing, a bloated and muddled plot and The Joker throwing cocaine at prostitutes then The Departed is for you.

Eviltoastman · Post by **Eviltoastman** » 26 Feb 2007, 15:28

That bit was class. the only part I agreed with.

Redundant Retard · Post by **Redundant Retard** » 26 Feb 2007, 16:56

This film sucks more than Rick Cave thinks I suck. A lot more.

Thunder Beer · Post by **Thunder Beer** » 26 Feb 2007, 18:14

He must love you then...

Redundant Retard · Post by **Redundant Retard** » 01 Mar 2007, 17:45

One of the worst movies I've ever seen (of a "certain" quality, e.g not including youtube etc) and it wins a fucking Oscar!? I lost my faith in the academy.

Thunder Beer · Post by **Thunder Beer** » 01 Mar 2007, 18:49

How is it one of the worst movies youve ever seen? Explain why it sucks.
I dont belive you. You said in a earlier post that you only saw ten minutes of it...

I lost my faith in the academy years ago. Well, actually Ive never had faith in it... But still, Departed is Oscar worthy, along with several other Scorsese films.