Although I am not a long-time Martin Scorsese student, I really liked watching The Departed tonight. You may want to skip this blog until you see it. Now, go see it. Get!
I know I need to brush up on my Goodfellas and what have you, but geez, what a movie. Originally I got excited because of Marky Mark and Matty Boy. Come on. I always pay top dollar to see either of them. I know Nicholson is a box office guarantee, but I wasn't prepared for the brand of sinister comedy he would bring to the role. I thought it would be pretty straight up. I want to like Leo less. I want to be resistant to his movie star qualities. He is a MOVIE STAR. His ability to appear physically larger is amazing. Not to mention I could gaze at him for hours on end.
One good thing about being a Scorsese novice is the element of surprise. I began to relax 5 minutes from the end of the movie, thinking that someone would get some sort of happy ending. Nope. It's kinda the same big thrill I get out of scary movies. I've seen, like, five of them. Even a crappy horror movie scares the shit out of me.
Oh! And Alec Baldwin. What a winner. I saw him a couple nights ago on Conan, and it was one of the funniest interviews I have ever seen on Late Night. He plugged Departed a bit, but he was there more for 30 Rock. He also brought beautiful human comedy to an otherwise intensely serious movie.
Try as I may to revolt against guy-stuff (X-Box, bad monster movies, double cheeseburgers, and the like) I got a huge boner for this guy flick. Yay Marty!
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