Part 1
That Martin Scorcese really knows how to make a gangster flick! I'm not long home from a mid-evening screening of his new give-the-man-his-Oscar gangster hit set in Boston: 'The Departed'. It is one intense story!
Double-crossing, family debts, rats int the ranks, bent senior detectives, wives and friends caught in the crossfire - it's all in this movie and more. It often isn't an easy story to watch or listen to, but at the same time it's much more articulate and clever in its continuity twists than many crime flicks that are simply about hit-and-run action or last-man-standing plots. Leonardo has finally stopped looking fifteen years old all the time. Jack Nicholson always looks like he's revelling in the chance to be the guy you hope will get it in the guts -but only after he's made the whole rivalry-riddled detective team sweat and bleed hard to track him down.
Pt 2 in next post, I promise.
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Nice to see you have joined in the fun of the blog. I too am addicted, however my blog is probably a little less sane and more pointedly angry some of the time. Enjoy it! Jum of Bungendore: www.jumofbungendore.blogspot.com
Thanks Jum!
'The Departed' isn't exactly aimed at the Young Family demographic -but then when was the last time Scorcese made a movie that was? Still, I think you'd find it well worth renting the movie on DVD if unable to see it on big screen. A big-screen TV and stereo sound at home would provide a very intense experience.
cheers
Tim
Yes, well, there isn't a cinema in Queanbeyan (not really surprising) and our television is what you would call 'intensely average' with an 'overwhelmingly average' sound system. The good thing is ther is a video hire place in Bungendore. WOOHOO!
Sadly true, Jum. Some years back, while living in the nearby 'estate' of Jerrabomberra, I became well used to Q's lack of movie theatres. A movie had to be really really promising to make it worth an epic trip to Canberra by the local bus co.
Maybe you could try the DVD-through-the-mail option, as in that Telstra (?)ad where the guy takes his dog for a walk to get a new DVD...and strolls all the way to the postbox on front lawn. The dog wasn't impressed. :)
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