scorsese's departure

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Wednesday, January 10. 2007

scorsese's departure

bullet points on the departed, and why martin scorsese should and shouldn't make movies with plots.

  • matt damon, leo the crap, marky mark, jack nicholson aka vincent price, alec baldwin and vera farmiga were all excellent. however their characters especially that of leo the crap and matt damon lacked the emotional intensity and moral ambiguity that were so prevalent in the original infernal affairs.

  • the drug bust scenes and the one where leo the crap almost discovered the rat weren't that gripping and suspenseful either.

  • the love thingy was good. so good that it made Kelly Chen looked like a cheap perhiasan, or like an after-thought ("oh we've forgotten to put a sui chah boh in the film, let throw kelly in there").

  • the first hour was original, while the next one and half were just botched imitation of the original.

  • the scenes with the chinese gangsters were simply awful, and showed martin's lack of sensitivity to international audience. first, the cantonese was bad. mandarin should have been spoken instead, and not to mention that the gangsters were from mainland china. second, the cantonese scripts were bad. i no speaking cantonese, but i can tell a bad cantonese when i hear one. marty dude, your movies are not just for americans.

  • jack nicholson was great, but too much over the top. marky mark was good. his character should have been given more screen time, and more cusses

  • there's one too many shot in the head


now, if this movie is more about the characters (which the original had successfully blended together, especially for andy lau's character), then it would be a great martin scorsese movie. martin has been about characters (taxi, raging bull, goodfellas...) and not plot and this movie clearly shows how bad he is making movies with plots.

listening to: the rolling stones - not fade away



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Well guess wat, you're the minority; this film is one of the biggest successes of 2006, both with audiences and critics worldwide... and there's nothing you can piss on to change it! Frankly I can't think of one reason why Infernal is anywhere better than Departed other than it did it first!
You saying those 'scenes' weren't gripping or suspenseful means you don't know wat 'suspense' even means. And who says the chinese guys spoke bad cantonese?! Bet yer the type who hates Titanic too.
#1 Costello on 2007-02-17 23:08 (Reply)

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