The Departed
I saw The Departed last night.
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg and Jack Nicholson, the film is about organised crime in Boston and the agencies investigating. Of course, it’s more complicated than that with insiders on both sides, but I won’t spoil the story.
It’s great though: tense, funny and (at the end) quite shocking in its violence.
DiCaprio, Damon and Wahlberg remind us that they’re among the best actors of their generation, and Jack Nicholson… Well, he’s Jack Nicholson. Which in my book is a Good Thing 
Go see!
In other news: Stephanie and I have accepted defeat in the face of enormous buckets of popcorn. A wee Ben & Jerry’s will do nicely.
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October 23rd, 2006 at 2:33 pm
“DiCaprio, Damon and Wahlberg remind us that they’re among the best actors of their generation”
Are you TRYING to send me to an early grave?
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October 23rd, 2006 at 2:48 pm
I’d say those guys are all good actors, who’ve done some poor films…
I think they’ve earned their stripes a bit DiCaprio in particular, with this little Scorsese number… I could almost forgive him for Titanic.
That’s three hours of my life noone can ever give me back.
October 23rd, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Any film that has Kate Winslet’s tits in it can not be marred even by DiCaprio poncing about or Billy Zane wearing eyeliner.
DiCaprio, Damon and Wahlberg all went to the Keanu school of acting and though I’ve yet to see The Departed, I highly doubt any of them put in a performance to compare them to Gielgud or Guinness, or even more modern equivalents like McKellan.
Yes, Nicholson is good, but lets be honest his last decent flick was almost a decade ago (As good as it gets), unless you count that god awful ‘tug on the heartstrings’ travesty “Something’s gotta give”.
And Scorsese, he’s done shit all since Casino, I don’t care HOW many academy awards Aviator won, it remains one of the most dire and uninteresting films in the history of Cinema.
I mean, I want to see this film, it looks dark and gritty.. but I’m expecting what Scorsese does best, wiseguys squaring off against each other, I doubt I’ll be blown away by the tragic emotional depth of the characters or the superbly scripted dialogue.