Quoted from Takeshi I hope it wins Best Picture and Director for Jordan's sake. Lol.

It will win best director, if he doesn't i will read all of dan robinson's scripts, and write a two page report on each

Quoted from Takeshi Come on, Jimmy, what about: The Basketball Diaries, Boogie Nights and The Perfect Storm?

I wouldn't make such a rash statement if I hadn't gone to IMDB and read Mark Wahlberg's entire catalog. The Perfect Storm was okay. The other just aren't my thing.

I also didn't mean to imply that Mark Wahlberg has only starred in stinkers, rather just un-noteworthy or forgettable films.

Just my opinion though. A lot of people seem to dig his work.

Quoted from The boy who could fly It will win best director, if he doesn't i will read all of dan robinson's scripts, and write a two page report on each

I might have to hold you to that, Jordan .

Quoted from James McClung I might have to hold you to that, Jordan .

At least I'll have a reason to kill myself if he doesn't win

Woah. That's dark. You are seriously dark.

He'll win. Or else...


Cheers, Chismeister.

Just watched the movie, and let me say that now it is my favorite movie of all time...

Everything about this movie is perfect... I just read the screenplay as well, brilliant!!!

-SPOILER




The end was shocking when Billy was killed in the elevator. But when Colin entered his apartment, and Dignam was standing there. My jaws dropped, and I actually cheered... That was how into the movie I was!

This tops Goodfellas in my opinion!

: )

*****/ ***** stars.

Quoted from Takeshi On the way home my wife and I had a debate about the ending. She said that it was pointless because everybody died, even though Dignam (a good guy) was the last man standing.

haha my wife had the same reaction saying the movie was stupid cause everyone died...what do you expect from a movie that is called "the departed" which is basically another way of calling the movie "The Dead"

here's a funny short version of the film.

There are some SPOILERS in it, so if you havent seen it I would recomend you wait till you have seen it.  Also there is a lot of profanity in it so if you get offended that's just a warning.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c-uwa9dUCk0&mode=related&search=

Quoted from The boy who could fly http://youtube.com/watch?v=c-uwa9dUCk0&mode=related&search=

Hahaha! That ran a lot longer than I expected it to. After watching it, I just couldn't resist...

The Departed ranks #23 on Wikipedia's list of films that most frequently use the word fuck. That's more than Scarface, True Romance, and the South Park movie. The list also contains Scorsese's Casino (#3) and Goodfellas (#9). Check it out if your looking for a laugh.

Hahaha. That was awesome.

Didn't seem like there was that much when I was watching it lol.


Cheers, Chismeister.

According to the latest edtion of FilmInk, The Departed writer William Monahan, is allegedly already at work on a sequel. Mark Wahlberg has been talking about appearing in the follow up, which may also star Robert De Niro. Martin Scorsese is yet to commit.

Way ahead of you, Chris:

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-Movie_Rumor/m-1170246996/s-new/


Cheers, Chismeister.

"The Departed" is the overrated movie of 2006.   The acting was solid, but the ending was disappointing.  

Lucky Number Slevin was a more solid movie.

Here's an article on The Departed Writer Bill Monahan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Monahan

  

Directed By Martin Scorcese

The Departed won the Best Picture Oscar for 2006 and it's not hard to see why.  Whilst no my favorite film of 2006 (Chlidren of Men takes that dubious honor), it is Scorcese's best film since Goodfellas.  It is a thrilling and simple crime film about the Irish gangs of Boston.  The film centers on Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon), two men involved with both the mob and the police.  Billy is a police recruit sent undercover into the gang of Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson), whilst Colin is recruited by Costello at a kid and he join the police as a mole.  The film follows this pair as they attemp to discover each other's identities.

The reason the film works is that it doesn't really have any twists (save for one), putting all the players on the field from the beginning, and leaving us to watch the hugely entertaining game.  Because we know the characters right from the start, the script gets riht inside their heads, aided by some spectacular performances (especially DiCaprio's).  Scorcese said he won the Oscar because, "It's the first film I've done woth a plot."  And it's a damn riveting plot at that.  Writer William Monahan keeps the two and a quarter film moving at a speedy pace, never letting the audiences attention slip.  He also gives the film a very unique style of dialogue, infused with swearing but never feeling gratuitous.  Scorcese's direction is solid.  He shows everything with a strange slickness, cutting away to show a security camera mid-dialogue.  The editing is far mor quick-firing that his previous films and it works, for the most part.  The only spot where it doesn't is during the climactic gunfight, where the editing just feels clumsy.

This is old-fashioned crime story, not caught up in unnecessary philosophy but instead simply telling a story, something that has been sorely missing in Hollywood movies lately (good ones anyway).  It' the kind of film where the acting, writing, directing, editing and all the rest come together to create an outstanding whole.

Loved this movie.  Still do, naturally.  Best film of '06.  

I don't see a reason to compare it to the HK Infernal Affairs flicks, because aside from the basic concept of undercover cop vs undercover gangster, the films are worlds apart.  The HK flicks focus on plot -- the close calls, the near misses, the double identities.  Don't get me wrong -- I'm a big fan of the first Infernal Affairs film (Anthony Wong's one of my favorite HK actors -- fantastic in Beast Cops, The Untold Story and so many others).  

But The Departed focused more on the characters, the stress of Dicaprio living a lie and losing his sense of identity long before the proof of his existence is erased from the system.  It's this theme of perverse, almost inescapable duality, losing one's self to a bigger, more complex creature that is trademark Scorcese.  Travis Bickle surrenders himself to a fantasy and loses his identity to it in Taxi Driver; Henry Hill dreams of being something he's not, becomes it and is forever lost, in Goodfellows; Christopher Walken is so traumatized by his tormentors that he actually becomes like them in The Deer Hunter.  All these films are about people forever lost to and/or corrupted by an entity much more powerful than themselves, which is why the similarly-themed The Departed fits very comfortably into Scorcese's ouvre.  

That it was inspired by another film is inconsequential, because Scorcese's handling of that same subject matter is handled in a very different way.  I'm not saying it's better than Infernal Affairs, which is a fantastic movie on its own merits.  I'm saying it's the same story, but handled in a very different manner.