The Departed

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bender: Thanks in advance, I'll rent it sometime. I think Damon's great.

RDH: The "IA's better" comparison only came after for me. I thoroughly loved The Departed, no moping at any point. In fact, I think I enjoyed the ending more than most people who did not see the original. As evidenced in this thread and elsewhere, lots of people hated the ending, or just didn't think it fit. If you saw the original, you know it fits, so you appreciate the ending. If you just see this movie, it's a little "WTF?", although it's still cool, just a little over-the-top.

Ending-haters: As long as you can stand subtitles, do yourself a favor and see the original. It gives everything more meaning, and the ending makes sense. Actually, not just ending-haters, but anyone who enjoys reading a great book after seeing the good movie version, should see IA. If you don't like seeing things twice, don't bother.

All: I've revised my opinion on the ending, in and of itself it was fine, it was something else that made it wrong. Scorcese f'ed up Damon's character. Too one-sided. You already have one out-and-out villain in Jack, as well as a bunch of criminals. Damon could use a little depth to the character instead of being solely a scumbag.

And Marky Mark needs to get ambushed or something and go into a coma or die. Otherwise, as people have said, Leo's a friggin idiot for not going to Dignam, and trying to make a "citizen's arrest" on Damon.

And none of this should take away from the enjoyment of the movie, just the depth. I still loved this movie for what it was. With no comparison to the original, a 9 (or 5 or whatever scale you use). With the original in mind, an 8 (4). Very very good, probably not great. Although the acting brings it close. And it should definitely be in rotation as a guys being guys movie, for the comic moments in the first half alone.

[talentdeficit]

i liked the ending. is the complaint most people have solely the last scene with mark wahlberg or does it start on the rooftop?

[mindless]

If you haven't seen the movie and are still reading for some reason, this post has a spoiler.



ok, you've been warned.
I loved the movie, but the one thing I didn't understand was how the second informant for Costello knew that there was the meeting. Damon's character was clearly surprised at him showing up, and obviously DiCaprio had no idea. I can't imagine the black cop that DiCaprio called would have told anyone, either.

[Dids]

td,

The 2nd mole just comes too much out of left field to me. The stuff with Marky Mark is fine, it's just that the other guy seemed too much like a nice plot device to let them get to where they needed to be in a nice clean easy fashion.

[TheDudeAbides]

Now that we're nitpicking I have a question. Perhaps I'm too dense to understand the ending, but why wouldn't DiCaprio have called Marky Mark to that building at the end instead of Anthony Anderson? Just doesn't make sense.

[Dids]

Anthony Anderson has more reason to trust him, and Marky Mark is in theory not a police, and Leo clearly wanted to have Damon arrested.

[talentdeficit]

i don't think the second mole comes out of left field. it's setup when costello already knows about sullivan's promotion in the theatre. as for how he knew about the meeting, maybe sullivan told him? they were partners. or anthony brought him, they worked together too.

[EricW]

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i don't think the second mole comes out of left field. it's setup when costello already knows about sullivan's promotion in the theatre. as for how he knew about the meeting, maybe sullivan told him? they were partners. or anthony brought him, they worked together too.

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When a character has 2 lines in the whole movie, then all of a sudden reveals himself as something huge, while killing the main character, and then gets killed off so they don't have to explain anything, that = left field.

[KDawg]

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td,

The 2nd mole just comes too much out of left field to me. The stuff with Marky Mark is fine, it's just that the other guy seemed too much like a nice plot device to let them get to where they needed to be in a nice clean easy fashion.

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I had a problem with how the second mole got presented in the departed. In IA there are hints at a second mole the entire time as you see him with Andy Lau's young character at teh begining when the crime boss is talking to the young soon to be in training cops. You also see the second mole get used a bit more in IA

[IronUnkind]

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I had a problem with how the second mole got presented in the departed. In IA there are hints at a second mole the entire time as you see him with Andy Lau's young character at teh begining when the crime boss is talking to the young soon to be in training cops. You also see the second mole get used a bit more in IA

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And yet it works just as poorly in IA.