Does The Departed hold up as a great film?

[lleeder]

Who ya got?

Are these quotes memorable? (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/quotes)

[razorboy]

When was it ever not a steaming pile of shit?

[drjoek]

I said it in the listening thread that was an awful bit today. Dave couldnt even come up with a plausible arguement and he didnt even sound like he was convinced. Fez should have been able to shut the redheaded moron down but he didnt.

The movie was fair nothing memorable about it. They gave Scorsese the oscar for life times work not for that dog

[Donnie Iris]

Entirely average film. Entertaining to some degree but not worth more than a watch or two.

[foodcourtdruide]

Saw the film twice, couldn't tell you any specific quotes from it. Not terrible, but not great. Parts of the film were hard to digest and honestly, intellectually insulting.

[BronxJohnny]

I don't think it was a bad in film. The problem is that folks tend to hold up the Departed to every other gangster film Scorsese has done. That was the first modern gangster film Mr. Scorsese has done, Good Fellas went all the way back to the 50's and workes its way up, Casino another period peace as was Gangs of New York. The Departed doesn't have the classic nostalgic feeling like the other films, but I dug the film, didnt dig the final death scenes alittle to South Park-ish for my taste but overall strong film.

[Moe Lester]

ill go with fez on this one. definately a GOOD film, wouldnt call it great. definately loses alot after the first time seeing it.

[PD]

as was said, it's not a bad movie, but it's not as good as the praise it received.
It wouldn't' make Scorsese's top 5

[mikeyboy]

It wouldn't' make Scorsese's top 5

Where does Gatsby fall?

[ToiletCrusher]

No.

Cell phones ruin mob movies.

[hammersavage]

I never thought it was that great of a film. I thought it was really good. But a weak Best Picture winner, even though the other noms that year were weak too (Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Queen, Little Miss Sunshine was probably the best of the rest).

Pan's Labyrinth, Little Children or Children of Men are better films from that year.

They gave it to Scorsese for a lifetime of work which I didn't even mind. But yea, its a really good film

[lleeder]

Where does Gatsby fall?

Ahead of Aquaman but behind Queens Boulevard.

[mikeyboy]

Ahead of Aquaman but behind Queens Boulevard.

Scorcese didn't direct those, dummy. Duh.

[lleeder]

Scorcese didn't direct those, dummy. Duh.

Sorry I misunderstood the question.

[Furtherman]

I think it holds up as a good film, and it does have some great lines in it:

Frank Costello: Who let this IRA motherfucker in my bar?
Frank Costello: [laughs] Only kidding. How's your mother?
Man in Costello's Bar: Oh... I'm afraid she's on her way out.
Frank Costello: [walks away] We all are. Act accordingly.
[smiles and his straightens tie]

I love that exchange.

I also like when when Mr. French asks Billy what he wants to drink than gives the "what is it, your period?" line again. The look DiCaprio gives is great.

And the whole warehouse scene at the end with Damon and DiCaprio was really surprising the first time I saw it.

But Jack's over the top performance and the fact that DiCaprio still looks like a 12 year old kid made it hard to take seriously.

Good film.

[BlackSpider]

I own it.
I don't think I ever made it straight through...

[Serpico1103]

I thought the Departed sucked when I saw it, so I think it holds up as a sucky movie.

I saw the Korean version, Infernal Affairs, first and liked it. I don't see how Scorsese improved the movie.
The only good thing in the movie was Wahlberg.
Nicholson played the part like he was the Joker. He brought a comic book kingpin overly dramatic flair to the film that it otherwise was properly without.

[realmenhatelife]

Terrible movie.

[cougarjake13]

nah


i only barely remember the plot

[Landblast]

I'll go with Fezzie on this one, like the caller said the accents going in and out took me out of it, good movie but forgot about it a few days after. and I think the academy awards for this was bullshit! Best Picture and Director?... The Departed?? I think another example of sympathy votes from the academy,.... since they fucked it up in 2004. Yeah right, like it's never happened before and it'll never happen again. I saw all those movies and they weren't even in the same league as The Aviator. Just my opinion.

* 2004 Million Dollar Baby - Warner Bros. - Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, Tom Rosenburg
o The Aviator - Warner Bros. & Miramax - Michael Mann, Graham King
o Finding Neverland - Miramax - Richard N. Gladstein, Nellie Bellflower
o Ray - Universal - Taylor Hackford, Stuart Benjamin, Howard Baldwin
o Sideways - Fox Searchlight - Michael London

[sailor]

could never get into the movie. never thought of anyone as anything but the actor playing the role. "and then nicholson said to marky mark..."

[Enabler]

"Business is bad? You opened up a store in an Irish neighborhood...these are dirty dirty people. Dont you know that? Sell potato's...I dont know what youre gonna do."

[Gvac]

It doesn't "hold up" because it never was a great film.

The Academy gave Scorcese the Oscar for this piece of shit because they had fucked him so badly in the past by not awarding it to him for either Raging Bull or Goodfellas.

The Departed is an average-at-best movie.

[TheMojoPin]

I saw the Korean version, Infernal Affairs

It's a Hong Kong trilogy, not Korean.

[Serpico1103]

It's a Hong Kong trilogy, not Korean.

Oops, confused it with Oldboy, amazing Korean movie. It think Spielberg is trying to remake it/ruin it.

But, I did like Infernal Affairs and just didn't think Scorsese did anything special.

[GreatAmericanZero]

I never thought it was that great of a film. I thought it was really good. But a weak Best Picture winner, even though the other noms that year were weak too (Babel, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Queen, Little Miss Sunshine was probably the best of the rest).

Pan's Labyrinth, Little Children or Children of Men are better films from that year.

They gave it to Scorsese for a lifetime of work which I didn't even mind. But yea, its a really good film

i loved "a scanner darkly" from that year

but it is an important point that the year "The Departed" won Best Picture was a weak year for any type of mainstream movie that would win a best picture. So they threw Scorsese a bone, its not that offensive to me. I don't think they passed anyone up that year that so far and away absolutely deserved it.

i didn't get "Little Miss Sunshine" though...it seemed like a 90min "Malcolm in the Middle" episode with elements stolen from National Lampoon's Vacation.

[Contra]

I think the movie is good. Not great, not amazing, but pretty good.

[happytypinggirl]

hate the movie

[KnoxHarrington]

I don't hate the movie, per se, but it's just such a weird mess of a movie in so many ways. There's Nicholson's bizarre performacne, that psychologist chick is such an awful character (involved in one of the most improbable love triangles either), and by the end people are basically standing around waiting to get shot in the head.

And that final shot...pure fucking cheese. What were you thinking, Marty?

[Freakshow]

The problem is that folks tend to hold up the Departed to every other gangster film Scorsese has done.

isn't that the point, it was a list that put it ahead of almost all the other gangster films he's done?

I personally haven't seen it so I can't comment. I think As Good As It Gets was the last Nicholson movie i've seen.

[newport king]

this was never a great movie. nicholson was so miscast it took away from the great performances of leo, alec baldwin, and marky mark.

ed harris would have been a better choice but i guess he was busy filming a much better movie in gone baby gone.

[Slumbag]

this was never a great movie. nicholson was so miscast it took away from the great performances of leo, alec baldwin, and marky mark.

ed harris would have been a better choice but i guess he was busy filming a much better movie in gone baby gone.

I heard DeNiro was originally gonna play Frank, but was directing The Good Shepard.
I don't think he would've been good as Frank, either.

Nicholson was really my only beef with it. The chick shrink annoyed me, but it wasn't the actresses fault. It was a weak character.

I liked it. Had some good lines, and an engaging story.

[TripleSkeet]

Saw the film twice, couldn't tell you any specific quotes from it. Not terrible, but not great. Parts of the film were hard to digest and honestly, intellectually insulting.

"Who the hell are you?"
"Im the guy that does his job, you must be the other guy."

Loved that line.

Overall it was a good movie, but definitely overrated.

[A.J.]

Good, not great.

Fez's line about the "Love Boat A-list cast" was perfect.