Agree that IA2 >>> IA >>> Departed.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
no way it owned
it was the first movie of his since goodfellas that i would characterize as a crowd pleaser
lemme quote this michael mann article from the public enemies thread
One former studio chairman told me that he can imagine what the movie’s problems are without having seen it, based on Mann’s previous work. “It’s going to take itself too seriously, it’s going to be way too long and it will not focus on entertaining the audience,” he says. “Michael Mann, in the past 15 years, has not made one movie I’ve liked.”
the departed was focused on entertaining the audience, not like that lame gay WAVE OF THE FUTURE shit or the fukkin gangs of jew york
― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:11 (fourteen years ago) link
never saw IA2 tho
that former studio chairman obv didn't see "homie is that my briefcase?"
― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
"it was the first movie of his since goodfellas that i would characterize as a crowd pleaser"
Too bad it was so badly acted, written, conceived, etc. . .
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
ahahaha omar YES!!! that is basically my fav movie moment of the 00's
― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Pretty sure I won't be trusting anonymous studio execs opinions on movies, but I do generally agree with that assessment of Michael Mann who I pretty much can't stand.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i agree with it completely even tho i like mann a lot
― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I was just telling someone how I never comment on film threads because they intimidate the hell out of me but I just have to say
homie is that my briefcase?
<3<3
Also, The Departed was great.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i like or love all of those mann flicks which fall within that period but obv they're never gonna rake in $200 million. that studio exec still sounds like the kind of dude who greenlights horrendous crap though.
― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
fukkin gangs of jew york
s/b
― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:23 (fourteen years ago) link
the quest for 102
― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
why did shakey ask to be s/b
happy to help him out though
― Mariela Ure (jeff), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 5:13 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
dude if you're going to come with the challops you're going to have to give us more than "it was bad in several major areas"!
― Michael tapeworm much talent for the future (s1ocki), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
jews did 9/11, peace.
― ruffalo stance (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
jews did the departed
― Michael tapeworm much talent for the future (s1ocki), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
the jewparted
― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't even realize that thinking the Departed was weak was a challenging opinion.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
Hell it won an Oscar. That pretty much makes it the definition of crap these days.
this is some "if ebert liked it, it must suck!" territory we're entering
― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm actually really curious to see Martin Scorsese's take on psychological horror blah-blah (even though I hated a lot of Cape Fear). I just wish it didn't involve Leonardo as an old-timey detective with a beguiling accent.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Anytime Scorsese and DePalma want to make a mainstream movie I'll check it out - guaranteed a few great set pieces even if miscast people wear funny hats and shit
― da croupier, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I really do not get why these big-name directors love Leo - dude is terrible
― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:43 (fourteen years ago) link
But anyway the main reason I didn't like the Departed was that it's got three of my least favorite actors (these days that is--Nicholson was once awesome) in it chewing scenery left and right and two of them are hamming up bad Boston accents the entire time. You've got to work awfully hard to overcome that and Marky Mark shooting dude in the head in the final frame just doesn't cut it for me.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
― da croupier, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 5:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
QFT
― Michael tapeworm much talent for the future (s1ocki), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:47 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post
two of them are hamming up bad Boston accents the entire time
A friend of mine was writing about Boston accents in movies the other day:
The entire cast of “The Departed.” The natives (Damon, Whalberg) did splendidly of course, Leo did his best and wasn’t totally egregious, the rest of the ensemble bordered between Drunken Kennedys (Baldwin, Sheen), Diane Lane craptacular (the woman shrink, whatsername), and god-awful and getting away with it (Jack, because he’s Jack). All over the map. But then again, actual Boston natives tend to be all over the map accent-wise, so maybe it works.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
chewing scenery left and right and two of them are hamming up bad Boston accents the entire time.
my wife and I routinely shout "Are you a KAWP?!" at each other, lolz ensue
― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw that short film The Big Shave on AMC once when I was flipping channels and think dude should just have all of his characters kill themselves with a little orchestral score for like five minutes and then end it
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
im just a guy who never gives a shit about consistent or "good" accents in movies i think
― Michael tapeworm much talent for the future (s1ocki), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
in all of his movies I mean xp
yeah i never cared about bad accents in films, the boston ones sounded pretty accurate to me beyond nicholson.
― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno in general I seem to get a kick out of shitty accents (see also: Keanu everybody in Coppola's "Dracula")
― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Living here I have to say I think she pretty much nailed it regarding the ones in TD. The people actually from Boston were great the others . . . not so much. I guess that's not entirely surprising though.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm generally in the same boat w/ slocki re: movie accents, but phony southern accents really piss me off. especially when it's a redneck character who sounds like scarlett o'hara or foghorn leghorn or something.
― a sad little creature (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
BTW - The Diane Lane thing was a reference to her accent in The Perfect Storm which was really awful.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
boyah you do them chores hear or i'll put my boot upside your head
― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
:D
― a sad little creature (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Scorsese's been overrated his entire career.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^the real challops
― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no he didn't!
― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, I really do not get why these big-name directors love Leo - dude is terrible― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, July 7, 2009 5:43 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, July 7, 2009 5:43 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
uh i think scorsese clearly loves leo because he can get any fucking movie he wants made as long as leo's attached
― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
I have a hard time believing Leo is a bigger box office-drawing name than Scorcese, especially at this point in his career
― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
heh well u can believe whatever u like lil nublet
― FUCKIN 'TALLICA BRO (cankles), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm sure you have a hard time believing a lot of things
― a sad little creature (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ha x-post
That Scorsese still thinks Leo deserves a second look tells me that he's hoping a soupcon of inspiration helps him overlook the dotage of his "craftsman" years.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
his craftsman years, what years are those
― enbba champions (omar little), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
btw I saw this trailer before Public Enemies and it reminded me of Cape Fear.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
The Age of Innocence onwards. I like a couple of those movies though.
― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 July 2009 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link