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Haha, oh man, I went to watch this yesterday and it was FUCKING BRILLIANT!!
I haven’t felt that satisfied and excited after coming out of a cinema showing in my life.
This movie fucking rocked my world. The acting from everyone was top notch. Nicholson, Wahlberg and DiCaprio especially were so fucking great. DiCaprio had an air of De Niro about him. The dialogue was so witty and brilliant. The soundtrack was incredible. There was nothing in this movie that I didn’t like except the scenes which dragged on a bit, but with a climax such as the one in this film, that’s nothing.
Classic Scorsese. His funniest and coolest film yet. He is still the master of depicting urban violence. So many stand-out scenes, the film had a bit of everything. After so many films and so many years, it’s incredible how he still manages to bring something new and fresh to his films and add to his already immense talent. If this film doesn’t win an oscar, I will kill somebody. It really was that good, and I definitely want to go watch it again.
10/10
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I understand your enthusiasm, but I don’t really think this is going to be a Scorsese film for the history books. I’ve been to see it twice in the the theatres now, and I’ve noticed something both times I went. I got the whole picture; there was nothing left to your imagination, nothing to notice the secong time around.
It was a heavily noticeable exercise in plot, and audience pandering is too good of a phrase for it.
I mean DiCaprio was on a par w/ Liotta’s portrayal of Henry Hill, and Nicholson was almost as good as DeNiro’s Conway.
However 20 years down the road what’s really going to make the Frank Costello character a truly memorable one(albeit an interesting and entertaining mix of Irish mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, and Mafia hit man Richard "Iceman"Kulinski). Marty’s funniest? His coolest perhaps, but in term of sheer dark humor I tend to favor Mean Streets. And in terms of Oscar-worthiness I’m not so sure this particular film is deserving of that honor; only because of the fact that it relys on ludicrous plot devices one after the other. Martin’s strengths are people, places, and times, and while there is plenty in The Departed it’s not quite the same as his previous works. Especially when it comes to the ending that was all wrapped up in a neat little package. Coming from a director who usually leaves the audience with a certain sense of ambiguity is very hard to accept. Look I’m not saying it’s a shit film, or that Scorsese didn’t put the neccesary effort into it. I’m sure I sound like a crotchity, pessimistic, prick I know I do; it’s just that considering who and what he had to work with it’s somewhat difficult not to be dissapointed to some degree.