8 thoughts on “New “Departed’ site”

1. Is there a Telluride rumor recap to be had?

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2. Can’t it just be a really great crime flick without having all these Oscar aspirations. I mean look at Heat, I can’t recall if it went to Toronto, and I am pretty sure it didn’t get much in terms of Oscar noms, and what, isn’t it one of your favorite films of all time?

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3. “Once masterful Scorsese”? how could you write that??? I hate Hate HATE it when people don’t give respect when it’s due. The man has done raging bull, mean street. taxi driver, goodfellas, casino, alice doesn’t live here anymore, after hours, Kundun (yes I count Kundun) the list goes on and on. So what? He as moved on to a diffrent stage of his career as all great artist/masters will do. What would you being saying about him if we was making raging bull 9, like M. Night is onto six sense part 5? you would say doesn’t he have anything else to say? When a filmmaker stops making the films he made at the start of his career people will envitably say “he lost it” and you know what jeff?? That is such a fucking cliche. So shut the fuck up and judge is new films not based on what he did before but what he is doing now and you will discover he’s still after more than 30 years in biz one of it’s masters.

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4. By “masterful”, I believe that Jeff is referring to the way in which Scorsese once made movies that took filmmaking to its artistic limitations (or, to put it more realistically, used most of the then-known ‘tricks in the book’) and then, rather impressively, created new tricks (and gave new meaning/use to the old ones).
   To be blunt, Scorsese no longer seems to be interested in the fall-or-fly type of artistic explorations that once made him such an exciting director to watch. He now seems to approach movie-making rather clinically, as if following minutely detailed instructions in some grand, old masters textbook. Where his films once felt organic and spontaneous and ‘alive’, they now feel like the sturdy, nothing-special output of some B-list television director. (Bringing Out The Dead could’ve easily been an episode of ER, while Aviator felt to me like a sweeps week bio-pic.) Hell, even his once thrilling and signature extended handheld shots now feel as if he’s simply checking one of his routines off a to-do list.
   Or perhaps that’s just me.

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5. Just saw the new trailer for this over the weekend and it’s looks good. I’ll be there.
   Sure, it’s commercial studio filmmaking, but so what?
   Scorsese is still a great director and I, and most, if not all, movie lovers, will see whatever he does.
   Some of his films will be better than others, but you can say that about all the greats i.e. Hitchcock, etc.

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6. “Bringing out the Dead” may not be vintage Scorsese, but it had some wonderful moments the same with “Gangs of New York” and “The Aviator” was at least entertaining. I’ll take mediocre Scorsese over recent Speilberg and almost any other current filmaker.

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7. Sure, ‘The Aviator’ and ‘Gangs of New York’ had
   some WONDERFUL visual treats contained within.
   But, overall, they sucked! I’m sorry, but sometimes
   the truth hurts, and this is one of those cases.
   Scorsese’s last brilliant work was ‘Kundun’ in ’97
   and since then its been a HUGE mixed bag. My main
   problem is the casting of DiCrapio in his last
   two films (I pray he doesn’t RUIN ‘Departed’ for
   me), but I simply can’t STAND the kid. ‘Bringing
   Out the Dead’ made Scorsese look really OFF HIS
   GAME and very UNhip. That sort of film would’ve
   worked about 15 years BEFORE, but time had/has
   passed Scorsese by. I hope this monks in Japan
   movie is made, so that Marty can get back to what
   he does best. However, my GREAT fear would be that
   ghastly idea of Leo playing T.R. in a bio-pic.
   That would mean the DEATH of Scorsese to me.

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8. Is there a Telluride rumor recap to be had?

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