The guy that did our historic tour around Boston played a detective in the movie....nice guy. I can't wait to see it, now. DD
http://www.infernalaffairs.com/ I think Infernal Affairs was better than Departed but both are still GREAT MOVIES!
I haven't seen either 2 or 3, but this sounds insanely stupid. So IA ripped off Taxi Driver because the two main characters both were obsessed with a woman? IA ripped off Taxi Driver because there was a climactic shootout? IA ripped off Taxi Driver because the main character attempted suicide? This seems like a very weak comparison. This is the problem with wikipedia. Random people can put whatever they want on the pages and people will just accept their opinions as fact.
First off, IA 2 & 3 to 1 is like Reloaded and Revolution are to the original Matrix. Don't bother looking too hard for them if you haven't seen them. I liked The Departed, but the way the movie ended took away the entire meaning of IA. It'd be like watching a rip off of The Titanic where Jack Dawson does not die at the end (disclaimer: I've never seen the movie, but I understood that to be the point). Character development is in a way more fleshed out in The Departed, but the deletion of the ex-girlfriend, the daughter, the author girlfriend really detracted from the depth of character, leaving the characters themselves to have to do all the work (hence the 2 1/2 hr. run time vs. IA's 100 or so minutes, plus Nicholson is a screen hog). If only we could combine the best of both films. Spoiler Btw, Mark Wahlberg should have been the main point of contact and Martin Sheen should've been a cameo, like their respective characters in IA. Not only does Wahlberg ruin the point of the movie, he also creates a big plot hole -- he knows who Leonardo DiCaprio is despite the deletion of his file from police records. Also, I never paid too much attention to the details of IA's ending, but watching it again this weekend I realized that the psychiatrist found the files in the academy principal's personal articles six months after the incidents. That's kind of bizarre. How did she gain access? And what did they do to have the ceremony in the last scene given the time lapse? Dig him up from the grave and rebury him? Just weird.
Saw it this weekend, never saw the Asian flick but this movie was awesome! Not a big fan of these type of flicks over all but I think this one was smartly written and everyone one of the cast was excellent.
HOW DOES IA END??? COMPARED TO DEPARTED?!!! Spoiler How is this a plot hole? He doesnt work there anymore? How would he ever know? That was the whole point of the letter that Leo gave to the girl..It said give this to Wahlberg, if i die......With the tapes.....
IMDB only lists three songs in the film, Gimme Shelter by The Stones, the cover of Comfortably Numb by Van Morrison, and "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" by Dropkick Murphys. I'm assuming that third song is the one I'm thinking of, since the rest of the movie was classically scored...
GREAT MOVIE. the girl i went with doesn't like cop movies but was pleasantly suprised. spoiler i think the pychiatrist might of had something to do with that. i forgot what leo's character told her to do with the package once he's either dead or calls.
Spoilers I don't understand the point, didn't wahlberg's character bring dicaprio's in along with sheen's, why wouldn't he know him, he recruited him.
TURN AWAY NOW IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR...SPOILERS In IA, Matt Damon's character does not die. In fact the Mark Walhberg character isnt even in the first Infernal Affairs. Instead, he has to live with the guilt that the other guy died, and right in front of his eyes. In fact, by the end of IA, he was actually trying to become a good guy; I didn't really feel that from Damon, he was just trying to save his own ass the whole time. In fact, I didn't even think of the fact that Mark Walhberg was still alive to reveal Leo's identity. In IA, only the captain knows and they ONLY meet on the roof everytime they need to talk.
[SPOILERS] In IA, Tony Leung was screwed because everyone who knew his real identity died, and Andy Lau erased his police files. In The Departed, Matt Damon did the same thing, BUT MARK WAHLBERG KNOWS THAT LEONARDO DICAPRIO IS A COP. And yet DiCaprio was all freaked out. Doesn't make sense. In IA, it also made the death of the captain so much more traumatic because Tony Leung knew nobody else was left who could identify him (though come to think of it, he could have just waltzed into any police station and given them the code for accessing his file, so I guess his "Oh **** I'm so fcked" face when the captain died didn't make much sense either). Plus, they cut out the whole dialogue between Andy and Tony on the roof top with Andy pleading for a second chance and wanting to be a real cop and Tony saying, sorry, I'm a cop, not a judge (especially powerful since the character already expressed the sentiment that they're tired of being a cop). And Andy had to live the rest of his life knowing that he can never be the real thing. There was none of that from Matt Damon. Doesn't matter anyway, 'cause he got a bullet to the head as well. But then, knowing the story for IA, you end up watching The Departed and thinking (at least for me): "And the point was?"
[SPOILERS] Mark Wahlberg ruined the "point" of the movie by killing Damon. Wahlberg created the big plot hole by being alive -- he still knew DiCaprio being undercover. I think we're saying the same thing (but it's not clear to me whether you've seen IA to appreciate the comparison I was making -- I should've put a disclaimer that my audience was people who have seen both).
I saw this movie over the weekend, and I thought it was amazing.An instant classic to me.Acting,story,ending were all good.
