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| benj clews |
Posted - 10/08/2006 : 22:32:10
Not a bad film, but am I right in thinking this film features the most "deaths by headshot" in any film ever? |
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| Tori |
Posted - 03/30/2007 : 03:17:28
I just found out this is a remake. Strange. |
| randall |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 22:47:55
quote:
Originally posted by damalc
i finished watching "Infernal Affairs" last night. excellent!
it lost a lot, though, after having seen "The Departed." if you haven't seen "Departed," and don't mind subtitles, see "Infernal" first.
Yep, that's exactly what I did a few months ago, and sorry you DEPARTED virgins didn't get the chance. After first watching INFERNAL AFFAIRS, you can then set the plot aside and just enjoy. Which I did. It's no Best Picture [sorry, Academy, but at least you removed your head from a nether region long enough to hand the poor guy a statue, so thanks for that, except it will always be for this one instead of RAGING BULL or GOODFELLAS], but it's an assured, tight bit of filmmaking which I will buy used from Netflix because I already want to see it again. Like Kubrick, Marty grows on ya.
Re Bostonspeak, even back in Mississippi we understood that pahk yah cah in hahvahd yahd was an exaggeration [Stephen King probably helped us out by using Mainahs as characters, a-yuh]. It doesn't bother me. And no less than major scumbag Gordon Liddy has taught us that headshots are the most effective against Kevlar. So no surprise there either. |
| damalc |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 17:18:42
i finished watching "Infernal Affairs" last night. excellent!
it lost a lot, though, after having seen "The Departed." if you haven't seen "Departed," and don't mind subtitles, see "Infernal" first. |
| roger_thornhill |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 03:54:06
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
Well you didn't miss much.
I grant you, it is no Attack of the Clones, Downtown. |
| Downtown |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 03:44:54
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Originally posted by Tori
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Originally posted by Downtown
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Originally posted by Tori
Ugh, forget what I said. I could not finish this film.
I said it was overrated...but you're the first person I've heard say they actually walked out on it.
Oh it had nothing to do with it's artistic merits. It was a great plot and it was captivating. But when you have two little ones there's really no way to watch this movie in good conscience. I had it on mute with subtitles and I was stopping it every three seconds because my kids would walk through the living room. Children aside, I am fairly sensitive and the language and violence was just too much for me to handle.
Well you didn't miss much. |
| roger_thornhill |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 03:43:26
Being both childless and totally insensitive, I had no trouble finishing the film. I also really, really liked it. |
| Tori |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 01:03:23
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
quote:
Originally posted by Tori
Ugh, forget what I said. I could not finish this film.
I said it was overrated...but you're the first person I've heard say they actually walked out on it.
Oh it had nothing to do with it's artistic merits. It was a great plot and it was captivating. But when you have two little ones there's really no way to watch this movie in good conscience. I had it on mute with subtitles and I was stopping it every three seconds because my kids would walk through the living room. Children aside, I am fairly sensitive and the language and violence was just too much for me to handle. |
| demonic |
Posted - 03/16/2007 : 15:12:51
That's more to do with its content than its quality I should think - as Tori said she's not much into violence and profanity. This film has both in absolute excess. |
| Downtown |
Posted - 03/16/2007 : 15:07:56
quote:
Originally posted by Tori
Ugh, forget what I said. I could not finish this film.
I said it was overrated...but you're the first person I've heard say they actually walked out on it. |
| Tori |
Posted - 03/16/2007 : 15:02:14
Ugh, forget what I said. I could not finish this film. |
| Beanmimo |
Posted - 03/16/2007 : 14:48:27
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Originally posted by Tori
I generally stay away from films with this much questionable content (sex, violence, language) but a neighbor had it and offered it to me to borrow and I did for the sheer fact that I have to see what finally earned Scorsese his Oscar. I'm looking forward to it. :)
It's a good movie but to be honest Goodfellas won him the oscar they just waited until he made the same sort of movie again to give it to him!! |
| Tori |
Posted - 03/12/2007 : 18:26:01
I generally stay away from films with this much questionable content (sex, violence, language) but a neighbor had it and offered it to me to borrow and I did for the sheer fact that I have to see what finally earned Scorsese his Oscar. I'm looking forward to it. :) |
| ragingfluff |
Posted - 03/11/2007 : 16:11:53
quote:
Originally posted by AIRBOLT
Nicholson is such a powerful prescence that the carpet-chewing is almost excusable.
Ooh, I say!
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| ragingfluff |
Posted - 03/11/2007 : 16:10:58
quote:
Originally posted by AIRBOLT
[br Nicholson is such a powerful prescence that the carpet-chewing is almost excusable.
Ooh, I say!
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| Downtown |
Posted - 02/26/2007 : 16:56:17
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Originally posted by demonic
*spoilers*
Also, any takers on her baby actually being Billy's and not Colin's? 
Seems almost like a silly question to me. It was obviously Costigan's baby. Sullivan couldn't get the job done in the bedroom, remember? |
