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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Heat sucked and sucks. and The Departed sucked and sucks. fucking boring fucking shit.
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Heat probably sucked. The Departed did not suck. I'm of a mind to say it
ruled so we can have a parallel conversation here (
) but I don't know that I care enough about it to really get into it with you.
It was a solid Scorsese film. It was a "return to form" from the overlong Casino and Gangs of New York. It was nice and compact and gritty and its plot (though unoriginal, as it's based on a Japanese film) made for great, tense entertainment. It was stylish and well-acted (DiCaprio was at his best in that one, I think... and Sheen? Baldwin? Nicholson? Forgetaboutit!). It was everything GoodFellas fans wanted from a Scorsese film in 2005 or whatever.
I actually think it's good in a lot of the same ways that The Dark Knight is good. It's a solid, never-boring crime drama that delivers. Is it the best Scorsese movie? Fuck no. It's probably not even in the top five. But it doesn't "suck." To write it off so brusquely is almost a little offensive. You could at least say
why you didn't like it.