I like the opening narration - and I love that whole sequence. From the opening frames to the end of the character introductions is one of PTA's best sequence as a filmmaker thus far, up there with the Boogie Nights drug deal and the first processing session in The Master.I think this is PTA's best movie. Maybe. Or Boogie Nights. Or The Maste. One of those. Either way, this is the fastest 3-hour movie film ever made. Flies by. I swear it's actually only two hours long, at most.It does include his worst scene ever as a writer/director though. Actually, I fucking loathe it. I forget it's in the movie every damn time I watch it:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ_phQnNE80
so after all the chatter a little while back aboutThe Departed (2006)I decided to just see the movie again. The first time I saw it, I didn't like it much, but largely due to trying to me trying to be too smart by half (I deciding I KNEW some major plot twist that never happened and kinda screwed me ) I saw it anew with a clear mind, and this is a good movie. I give it an 8/10
Haha told you. And it will continue to grow on you with future re-watchs.
I just told any single member of this forum on many occasions that this film grows on you with re-watchs.
which means I read your initial review
And it has not that much interesting style compared to all the Scorsese stuff from the last century.
The original from Hongkong is the superior film.
I have no problem with the opening sequence itself (it didn't age well, that's all) but with the voice over. Who's doing the voice over? Is it a professional actor? I even wondered if PTA did it himself. I have the feeling I could do better (I just doesn't have much of a voice, but the guy doing the voice over usn't that impressive either).Once again, I love most of the individual scenes but what is this movie about? If the topic is just "we're lonely, and sometimes we really meet, but above all, strange things happen", it's a bit light for me. Especially the "and it did happen" part.Yeah, terrible singing sequence. Same reaction here.
The Newsroom: Pilot EpisodeProbably the best single episode of a TV show I've ever seen. Brilliant.
one of the greatest films of the decade in my personal ranking