The Departed (2006)

BUMP.

Even though this thread was first, everbody posted in another one.

Oh, well.

I'll post in here because

1.)It was here first
2.)It should have been merged with the other Departed thread when I asked

3.) It's mine. 😛

So the film, which I'm sure everybody has seen except me and a few others who rented it yesterday.... was F-ING Excellent.

Really good. I just loved all the performances.

It's funny because I knew everything going in, the story, the set-ups, and that certain people did and didn't make it.

I just didn't know how they came to be....departed.

I really dug the whole Southie angle of a gangster film.

Having watched and enjoyed Goodfellas, Casino, and even Godfather in a way as Italian mob movies, this was a different and welcomed change.

The acting was great, not that anybody expected different. I used to hate Leo D., and I mean hate, but with this film, and Blood Diamond, and the Aviator, he's becoming a solid actor.

Matt Damon was good, but other than where he stabs the asian guy in the street, he's not intense enough. I liked his whole friendly, cool young cop deal, but I wanted to see his eyes turn cold and get ruthless on somebody, like a real mob informant might.

Still, the two leads were great and the differences between the two men undercover made sense.

Jack of course was Jack, but I'm not one of those whose of the opinion that that's a bad thing. He plays the villian well, and I believed him.

Seriously underused, but not with much room for more were Wahlberg and Baldwin. Loved them both, especially when they trash talk each other in the briefing scene. 😛

This is a great film, my second fave of Scorsese's after Goodfellas.

I don't know if it's the Best Picture of the year, but I can see why it deserves to be up in the top 5 that were nominated.

Hope Scorsese gets his Best Director Oscar, I think he will.

Secondly, aside from Jack, the acting was just terrible, especially Donnie Wahlberg. It was so forced and unconvincing, and for a native Bostonian, even he didn't sound genuine.

I didn't get what all the fuss was about him, I read stuff about Wahlberg saying he was amazing in this film, deserved awards for his acting and bla bla. Um no...

I meant Mark, BTW. Still waiting for a merge.

i don't know, mark wahlberg was in a pretty demanding position when you think about it. he managed to steal scenes from alec baldwin, leonardo dicaprio, AND martin sheen (three undoubtedly talented actors).

He overacted, though, and that accent was just too thick to be credible. Hell, he was more effective in both "The Yards" and "Four Brothers". I laughed when Martin Sheen (who was very well cast) said "Officer Dignam has a style all his own."

No shit.

Merged.

Loved the movie, by the way. Jack was a genius.

wait...did you just accuse marky mark of overacting when jack nicholson was in the movie? i kind of see what you mean though. i'm not from south boston, so i can't really comment on the thickness of his accent, but i think the martin sheen line you quoted basically explains it all.

Originally posted by manorastroman
i don't know, mark wahlberg was in a pretty demanding position when you think about it. he managed to steal scenes from alec baldwin, leonardo dicaprio, AND martin sheen (three undoubtedly talented actors).

Word. Marky Mark was the best thing in the movie; he was absolutely hilarious.

I've said it before in another thread, but the original (Infernal Affairs) is a much more accomplished movie. I enjoyed The Departed - apart from that ridiculous shot of a rat at the end - but it ain't all that and a bag of chips.

Merge me! I'm a lemon.

Im going to agree 100% with The Core on this one, he hit it pretty much on the head as far as how I felt about The Departed. cept for Marky Marks accent being too much... The guys from boston, his accent was fine...

Matt Damons accent was the one hugely overdone to the point you could really tell he was 'acting' .... Matt D killed it for me.

And Jacks performance was okay, but the dude looked like he had one foot in the grave... and for being a boss, he looked like freakin bum in most of his scenes.

The movie didnt come off like a gangster movie at all.. Jacks crew didnt even seem like a crew, we didnt even know there names it seemed like.

And how hard is it to find the rat, ... the new guys always the rat..geez.

Sweet!

All three threads merged to one.

Maybe we ought to add a poll Dusty, whadaya think?

Since the opinions are getting varied from: awesome, okay, and snoozer.

I've said it before in another thread, but the original (Infernal Affairs) is a much more accomplished movie. I enjoyed The Departed - apart from that ridiculous shot of a rat at the end - but it ain't all that and a bag of chips.

That I agree with.

"The Departed" is getting a lot of praise because most of last years movies were total crap.

It just seems like every time Scorsese makes a "gangster" film, the Oscar hype machine's gears start spinning. They did the same thing with "Pearl Harbor", load it with all this talent, and toss a marketable director behind it, and it more or less tanked.

please say you're not comparing the departed to pearl harbor,please say you're not comparing the departed to pearl harbor,please say you're not comparing the departed to pearl harbor,please say you're not comparing the departed to pearl harbor,please say you're not comparing the departed to pearl harbor...

For some reason I was under the impression that Nicholson had a smaller part, but I am sure glad he didn't. He did a great job. There were many things I loved about this movie but my favorite was the writing. I loved the idea that the guy who looked like a cop was really a rat for the mob and guy who looked like a mobster was really a rat for the cops.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Word. Marky Mark was the best thing in the movie; he was absolutely hilarious.

Originally posted by manorastroman
please say you're not comparing the departed to pearl harbor

I'm talking about stacking your cast with A-lister's and expecting it not to backfire in some regard.

Originally posted by Coolhalvo
For some reason I was under the impression that Nicholson had a smaller part, but I am sure glad he didn't. He did a great job. There were many things I loved about this movie but my favorite was the writing. I loved the idea that the guy who looked like a cop was really a rat for the mob and guy who looked like a mobster was really a rat for the cops.

..which made for some confusion. I could make the distinction, but there were times where it seems the rat didn't even remember he was the rat, and played it on screen like so.

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Marky Mark was the best thing in the movie; he was absolutely hilarious.

Waaaaaay too over the top. I'm surprised they didn't work "chowda head" in there at one point, the stereotypes were so blatant.

There were many things I loved about this movie but my favorite was the writing. I loved the idea that the guy who looked like a cop was really a rat for the mob and guy who looked like a mobster was really a rat for the cops.

Well that's nothing new in the writing department since it was like that in the original film.

Originally posted by MildPossession
Well that's nothing new in the writing department since it was like that in the original film.

Agreed. Also, I just feel that the atmosphere in the original was far more menacing and duplicitous, whereas in The Departed it was more cartoon-like and contrived.