The Departed

[jackblack73]

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Planning on seeing it at some point this weekend. Many critics are calling it Scorsese's best work since Goodfellas.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/departed/

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It was a good movie that could have been great. It's no Goodfellas that's for sure. It had some of the worst editing I've ever seen in a decent movie. I think it should have been about 30 minutes longer, but they tried to shorten it while keeping in every scene. It was very choppy.

[Aloysius]

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this movie was [censored] awesome, nuff said

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-Al

[Chris Daddy Cool]

just came back from this movie, i am really happy that scorsase paid homage to infernal affairs by using a lot of the same scenes.

the ending of this movie while very similiar is very very different than the original and i am not sure if it skewed my thoughts on the departed or not, but i will just say i liked the original's ending better.

[Newtown]

Is it just me or does it seem like this movie hasn't been getting a lot of publicity? I mean I didn't see ads/trailers for this till about a week ago. With a cast like that you'd think they'd have been talking about it a few months ago.

[samjjones]

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Is it just me or does it seem like this movie hasn't been getting a lot of publicity? I mean I didn't see ads/trailers for this till about a week ago. With a cast like that you'd think they'd have been talking about it a few months ago.

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After paying Jack/DiCaprio/Damon/Wahlberg/Scorsese/music royalties...there wasn't any money left to market.

[icepick]

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the ending of this movie while very similiar is very very different than the original and i am not sure if it skewed my thoughts on the departed or not, but i will just say i liked the original's ending better.

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Haven't seen it yet, but this is what I was afraid of.

The ending of Infernal Affairs rocked.

[SoloAJ]

In some ways the ending might be considered better. It just isn't as simple unfortunately. I definitely liked the original better. But this one wasn't exactly unbelievable. The thing I am shaky about is whether or not I like how the ending came...because they handled a certain character MUCH differently in the new one.

[astroglide]

great movie. i'm curious about how many times i'll want to rewatch it.

[stabn]

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The thing I am shaky about is whether or not I like how the ending came...because they handled a certain character MUCH differently in the new one.

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I like the internal affairs ending a lot more.

[Jasper109]

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great movie. i'm curious about how many times i'll want to rewatch it.

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I've had the same all time favorite movie for 23 years, but from what I've heard so far about this one, I'm optimistic that it may be in contention.