TheManWithoutFear
#1 reason not to join UC
Out of all of the crappy movies some of the members post about on this site...
No one's started a thread about the almighty The Departed?
Just my two cents because I just really wanted to vent here...
This movie's been dubbed as one of the greatest films of all time (I'm serious) by some people. I couldn't stop hearing about it. I was pretty anxious to see it and I got the chance to last night.
Now I'm pissed. Let me put this in terms that Ultimate Central fans can relate too. If you love shock reveals in the "OMG KFSIAFSHLK!!!!" fashion (i.e. Ultimate Spider-Man: Clone Saga), you will love this movie.
The acting was awesome. And it should be. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, and Alec Baldwin. Now you'd think when these guys get together there's nothing serious to come out of it. Yet, while all of the sarcasm used by Wahlberg, Baldwin, and Nicholson are present, their acting brilliantly helps characterize some of the best acting that I've ever come across. So yeah, for the first 90% of the movie I'm really digging it.
Then we have to throw in the twists. Now all I heard about the film was it was a great film about Organized Crime (Irish even) and that I'd never guess the twist ending.
Well, no ****.
Out of nowhere comic relief guy pulls out a gun and shoots the good guy because he was in on it the entire time. You never have any hints about it, you never see it coming. So of course I wouldn't be able to see the ending coming. They took some random element just to make us think we're stupid and couldn't see what was happening.
Why? I like watching movies and being had and took. I like finding out I missed something along the way but this was just cheap.
Lucky Number Slevin was genius. This was not.
P.S. I know it was a remake of a chinese film. I heard they used the same techique so they're more guilty than the American version.
I'm pissed.
Another thing, Organized Crime figures don't deal with international terrorists. Now I'm not sure if Costello actually was an informant and maybe I missed the part where it said the F.B.I. caught the Koreans but if the Koreans did, in fact, get away with those chips because of a deal they struck with the Irish Mob, it's totally out of character. Especially post 9/11.
3.5/5 and overhyped
No one's started a thread about the almighty The Departed?
Just my two cents because I just really wanted to vent here...
This movie's been dubbed as one of the greatest films of all time (I'm serious) by some people. I couldn't stop hearing about it. I was pretty anxious to see it and I got the chance to last night.
Now I'm pissed. Let me put this in terms that Ultimate Central fans can relate too. If you love shock reveals in the "OMG KFSIAFSHLK!!!!" fashion (i.e. Ultimate Spider-Man: Clone Saga), you will love this movie.
The acting was awesome. And it should be. Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, and Alec Baldwin. Now you'd think when these guys get together there's nothing serious to come out of it. Yet, while all of the sarcasm used by Wahlberg, Baldwin, and Nicholson are present, their acting brilliantly helps characterize some of the best acting that I've ever come across. So yeah, for the first 90% of the movie I'm really digging it.
Then we have to throw in the twists. Now all I heard about the film was it was a great film about Organized Crime (Irish even) and that I'd never guess the twist ending.
Well, no ****.
Out of nowhere comic relief guy pulls out a gun and shoots the good guy because he was in on it the entire time. You never have any hints about it, you never see it coming. So of course I wouldn't be able to see the ending coming. They took some random element just to make us think we're stupid and couldn't see what was happening.
Why? I like watching movies and being had and took. I like finding out I missed something along the way but this was just cheap.
Lucky Number Slevin was genius. This was not.
P.S. I know it was a remake of a chinese film. I heard they used the same techique so they're more guilty than the American version.
I'm pissed.
Another thing, Organized Crime figures don't deal with international terrorists. Now I'm not sure if Costello actually was an informant and maybe I missed the part where it said the F.B.I. caught the Koreans but if the Koreans did, in fact, get away with those chips because of a deal they struck with the Irish Mob, it's totally out of character. Especially post 9/11.
3.5/5 and overhyped