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Penguin wrote:Hugh: About the Departed...Its actually not an American script. Its adapted from a Hong Kong movie Infernal Affairs. The American version (including the rooftop scenes) is almost identical in all major respects to the original. Only the ending is "happier" in the US version - the bad guy does NOT get killed in the original, but only his wife finds out that hes the mole. And he has to live with his wife knowing it.

I thought the original was better, and its plot was a lil more convoluted - but the adaptation was better than usual. But in US version, of course, the cops were in the end portrayed as more moral - the bad guy got shot extralegally.

Well, er, they weren't exactly moral either, though. IIRC, Wahlberg had been suspended/fired by the movie's final scene, so he was kind of sort "non-cop" or "anti-cop" at that moment. Baldwin and Wahlberg were that entire movie for me, I didn't really care for the rest of the movie. Especially the handful of mock snuff scenes. I'm finding I simply cannot bear those scenes anymore, like what is shown on The Wire. I think I'm going to edit that movie down to just the scenes featuring Baldwin & Wahlberg, for my own enjoyment.

Let's talk about the Departed more. Could probably lump in the other 7 or 8 "Southie movies" from the last decade, with plots usually involving cops-and-robbers or at least a subtext of class-perception-management.

Have you seen Gone Baby Gone?

Damn, I haven't yet. I really should.
Some locals are in it I would recognize.

I won't spoil it for you, but it had quite an impact on me. Do see it.

How's this for meme-reversal? Is "Boondocks" black or white?

"Some people in other countries are comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler because of his warmongering," a Boondocks character says of the president. "That's preposterous; even I wouldn't compare him to Hitler," another responded. "I mean, Hitler was democratically elected. Wasn't he?"

This strip drew a barrage of criticism from those who genuflect uncontrollably anytime a reference is made to the fact that George W. Bush was not the people's choice in the 2000 presidential election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boondock_Saints

The Boondock Saints is a 1999 action crime drama film written and directed by Troy Duffy. The film stars Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as fraternal twins Connor and Murphy McManus, who become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian mob in self-defense. After a message from God, the brothers, together with their friend David Della Rocco, set out to rid their home city of Boston of evil. Meanwhile, they are pursued by FBI agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe).

Christ, I'm really behind the ball when it comes to Southie/Boston movies. I haven't seen that movie either, and from the sound of it, the plot is pretty good. (If that obscure movie was somehow intended to meme-jack the now nationally-famous comic strip with its own cable TV series, it did a pretty awful job.) OTOH, I have seen the movie "Southie" about 8 times, which is 8 times too many. There are scenes that take place right where I grew up, and the dialogue is deliciously fucking retarded.

FourthBase wrote:...the dialogue is deliciously fucking retarded.

You just pegged my authenticationalyzer.

I had a one day a week job in the Back Bay a block from Fenway Park for three years...my day of no 'R's...out on the street as hordes of loaded ball fans scooped up pretzels and sausages from the vendors before going inside, what a scene.

Right outta movie or sumpin.'

Well, I always say that any movie that has Jeanna Fine in it is a movie worth watching.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0277618/

Having said that, “Boondock Saints” is just an ok movie.

Far more interesting is “Overnight”, the documentary of how “Boondock Saints” got made: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390336/