Movie Nights
#201: With the Ambrosio Boys
My dad, my brother and I used to watch movies together from time to time. I would draw out the streak in me that likes a certain type of "guy movies" and for a couple of hours or so, I'd be "one of the boys." On the way home, we'd fill the car with rundowns of the scenes we liked as if we weren't all there watching the same movie.
Strange that the movies we enjoyed together would always have either Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Mark Wahlberg, Brad Pitt, a really fast car or some really bizaare twist in it.
Say "yay" if you liked the following:
1. Catch Me If You Can
2. The Italian Job
3. The Bourne Identity
4. The Bourne Supremacy
5. Ocean's Eleven
6. Fight Club
7. Road to Perdition
8. The Transporter 1
9. Face/Off
Today, I saw "The Departed," a Martin Scorsese film with a powerhouse cast. Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo di Caprio, Mark Wahlberg. It was so darned twisted it actually worked. And it was so bizaare, I actually liked it.
"Every actor is firing on all cylinders: Damon has never been more appealing and conniving, DiCaprio has never been tougher or more layered and Nicholson dazzles as a grinning, snarling Cheshire cat ready to pounce on anyone who looks at him funny. The difference between cop and criminal dissolves in a swarm of surveillance and deception, and Scorsese presides over the whole operation like he's the only one in the world who knows where illusion ends and identity begins." ~ Chicago Tribune
"A deranged sense of humor weaves its way through "The Departed," from outrageous opening scenes introducing the sulfurous crime boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) to its eye-roller of a final shot." ~ Washington Post
Bottomline, It's going straight to that list above.
On the way home, I tried to imagine how it would be in the car with my brother and my dad after watching this movie. I know they would rave about it during our 20-minute drive home. And then some more the following day. But the voices were absent and the bus ride, quiet. And I suddenly sorely missed them.
posted by VivaGlam! at 3:05 AM
1 Comments:
the Departed: an apt title.
at the very end, at the point of bringing all things to a close, a well thought out plot, departed. with a lame ending almost 3 hours into a fairly intricate story, the complexity, departed. as the characters whose connection and relationship had been built, developed and propelled to a clever character resolution, departed, so too, the acting, which holds the movie, departed.
and so as the ending betrays an inability to construct a complete package, appreciation is, thus, departed. humour may be weaved throughout and only scorcese may know where it is going, but he couldn't take it to where it should have gone...
or at the last few minutes of filming and production and, indeed, scriptwriting, the original director and scriptwriters, departed!
9:35 AM
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