The Departed

To me The Departed is one of the best movies i have seen in such a long time. Yeah i agree with the fact that the crime is sort of drawn out in the movie but i think that it keeps you interested throughout the whole movie. In this review by Beth accomando, it seems like this woman thinks that she know everything about film. I dont get why she is trying to compare this movie to "Infernal Affairs". "The Departed" is its own movie, so why should you event think about comparing it to anything else. First of all i havent even heard about this movie and this apparently came out in 2002. This review questions Martin Scorceses ways of making film. She thinks that this movie was a huge dissappointment. Apparently the only reason why Martin even made this movie was so that he could win an Oscar. Which yes im sure anyone that makes a movie would be happy to win an oscar and do anything to win a oscar but she makes it out to seem that he wasnt even trying to make a good movie.

I disagree with the part that she says that Mark Wahlberg gets all the good lines in the movie and that jack nicholson is running close in second for the best lines. I mean seriously how do you even judge who has the best lines or not? Are there certain rules or something? Yes Mark wahlberg has some pretty awesome comebacks to Leonardo Dicaprio but come on thats what makes his character interesting but Jack Nicholson in my opinion had the best delivery of lines than anyone else in the movie. His Character just amazed me. I remember right after the movie even came out people were quoting some stuff that jack had said in the movie.

I also dont think taht there was really suppossed to be suspense going on in the movie because the audience basically knew what was going on during the movie. Like we knew that two of those people in the movie were undercover. I think we got suspenseful during the end of the movie when just everyone started getting shot. I remember seeing that in theaters and some people just gasped because they had no idea that, that was going to happen.

She says that the whole gang and drug related stuff in the movie was not accurate to that kind of thing going on in New York. I thought it was pretty darn believeable. it may not be right on the dot of how gangs actually function but who can actually get that thing down to the T.

Just in general i think that this woman just totally over analyzed this movie. The stuff that she said about the movie just didnt exactly make sense to me in general. It feels like she walked into the movie and started comparing it to infernal affairs right away . its like she didnt actually want to get different perspective on it. In my opinion best movie i have seen in while like i have said before. Thanks!

~!sam!~

Harry Potter and ther Flight of Phoenix

I did my blog on the wonderful movie Harry Potter and the flight of the phoenix which to me was an awesome and gripping movie. To me it was either the best or second best out of all of the harry potter movies so far. This review says that all of the Harry Potter movies were in his opinion all terrible. That its just one of those typical movies rgar all teenagers see now a days. He says that the first two movies were terrible and the 3rd one was ok and the fourth one was just your typical teenage movie that they would like just because of all the excitement that goes on. He does make an interesting point though, he says that people tend to judge the movie too much because allthey do is compare it to all the books. For example Harry Potter and the prisoner of azkaban did not follow the book that J.K Rowling wrote whatsoever. He says that the movie lacks the real intesnity from the book but at the same time he says that the book lacks intensity. So what exaclty is this guy actually saying. He is be contridictory in ever way shaper and form. He says that the movie is great one time and the next time he says that its not good enough.

Samantha Crowther