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!~
6 comments:
wow, sam! you're critique was very strong, but i liked that because most of the other blogs that i've read are from people that just agree with the critic because it seems easier, but i like your originality :) i haven't actually seen the departed, but i went on to reading the review about this critic and i agree with your opinion because it does seem like the critic just tries to find a weak point in the film, and then she proceeds to base her entire review off of this or that bad thing. My favorite part about yout assignment was the part where you supported the characters being portrayed through the actors; nicely done, my friend :)
duuuude sam! nice critique of the critic! i agree with the mark walhburg argument! he got some really good lines, but so did jack Nicholson! you were 100 percent right on that!
I only saw part of the movie, but i do think there were some weak points in the part i saw. good critique though.
nice sam! i actually didn't watch thae movie yet but after reading your reveiw i want to. i really like your reveiw because after i read that critic's reveiw,and the way she kept reaching for negative points it was brutal.awesome job!
Sam: The link to your review isn't working, so it's hard for me to comment too much. I do know, though, that The Departed is a remake of Infernal Affairs, a Hong Kong film -- so it's pretty much inevitable that the two films will be compared. And, generally speaking, comparing and contrasting one film with another can be a very useful way for readers to gain insight into the movie being reviewed.
Oh, one more thing -- be careful with typos like spelling errors, etc.
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