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What's the confusion, Spartan? Costello had more than one rat in the police dept. (The guy who killed Billy was also a Costello rat!) Obviously, Madolyn gave the tapes that Billy gave her to Dignam that informed him who the last rat was. Then Dignam got justice for Queenan and Billy! BTW: It is implied that the baby is probably Billy's as Collin Sullivan was impotent as was suggested when he couldn't perform when he didn't want to talk with Madolyn in the earlier scene! She never told Sullivan it was his baby when she showed him the sonogram picture!
Guys, the name of the movie is call "The Departed." It gave away that these are the stories of the departed. So Frank was going to sell out the other white cop to the FBI to cover Matt if he ever got too much heat on him. That cop knew Matt was also a Rat so he figured he had to help him. When Billy called the other cop who was with him in the academy is also on the same team with the White Cop Rat who knew he had to kill him too since he was caught helping Matt out. Matt knowing he has to tie up all loose ends, take him out too to save himself. Dignam, was informed by the psychiatrist due to her letter Billy left her. She told Matt not to worry because she had an abortion and knew Dignam was going to kill him. This movie is peak and when you realize, why call it "the Departed" it makes sense that it would end up this way.
Him texting without looking was a real thing lol alot of people did it back in the day with flip phones, that type of texting was called T9 basically you would remember how many times you would have to click a certain number to get the letter you wanted pretty easy once you memorize it lol
Yes in fact i had everything so memorized i never made a typo on my text and with the phone being small enough my fingers could reach all the buttons, but when i had to get a new phone they said i had to upgrade it for a bigger widwr touch screen, i was so mad because my fingers couldn't reach across the phone and the touch screen will always mess up my text but the guy says I have the option to talk text which also messes up more than my perfectly seamless blindly texting with one hand lol but the screens are better bigger for watching videos and reading but those flip phones we had no butt dialing with those lol
I did it then, and i do it do now. When the bottom half of my screen went dark, i was still texting ppl before getting a new phone. Its mostly from muscle memory.
A lost art. I’m not sure if I could still do it. Might take me a while to get back into it. I didn’t do nearly as much T9 texting as I do since I got my first smart phone in 2010.
57:27 William had a good plan, but there are things that he couldn't foresee. Like the fact that Costello didn't have one but two cops under his payroll. Matt Damon was one of them. The guy that killed William was the other. Matt Damon and the other guy did not know about each other. But if you pay attention at the very beginning of the film, you see that they graduated from the academy at the same time.
One thing that’s hard for non-US reactors is that the FBI and other departments (city police, special investigations unit) do not cooperate or share info, so the FBI was using Costello’s informing for their own purposes (and corruption in the FBI according to Queenan), but that info doesn’t get communicated to the other departments trying to take Costello down. You guys really pieced it together well in the end, great reaction as always!
Many countries that are federations have this problem. In my country (Pakistan), we also have FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) which is similar to US FBI also don't share info with provincial and local agencies/departments.
Homeland Defense was theoretically created to alleviate the issue of cooperation between local law enforcement, FBI, CIA, and NSA. It didn't work. Tribalism persists because it's human nature. All it did was create another agency that is inefficient and adds billions to the budget. If the US Government was an automobile, it would get 2 miles per gallon of gas.
You missed some important information. The guy that killed Leo DiCaprio was another corrupt cop paid by Costello. Costello had 2 rats in the police department, Matt Damon, and that other guy. Matt didn't know about the other guy. Also, if you pay attention at the very beginning of the film, when Matt Damon graduates from the police academy, that other guy, the one who killed Leo, is right behind him. Similarly, you missed that the reason why the guy who caught that Leo was a cop didn't tell Costello, is because he is a cop too! The same way that Captain Queenan had at least 2 cops in Costello's crew who didn't know each other, Costello had 2 corrupt cops in the police that didn't know about each other. Lastly, the reason Matt Damon's girlfriend opened his mail is because she recognized Leo's name on the envelope, and was curious. And since he had just given her a letter too, but promised not to open in unless he told her to, or something happened to him, she decided to open Matt Damon's letter. Also the film is called _The Departed._ Departed is a euphemism for dead people.
I am pretty sure that Queenan only had Costigan as a rat in Costello’s crew. The only hint at a second rat inside Costello’s crew was the TV report that said that the one from Costello’s crew who died in shootout after Queenan was killed was an undercover cop. First, Costello himself said the police jut said that to screw with Costello’s mind. Second, the TV report said he was an undercover Boston Police Department cop. Queenan wasn’t BPD, he was state police.
100% back in the day. I could text on an old flip phone like that without looking. You did it everyday so you knew how many times to push each button and where they were.
They shouldn't watch the Sopranos until they've seen the real deal: The Godfather and Godfather Part 2 (which the Sopranos reference over and over again) and Goodfellas and Casino (which Sopranos is a watered down of). And of course, the cast of the Sopranos comes from all those movies, from Uncle Junior to Spider.
What he gave her in the envelope was the same thing he mailed to Matt Damon to get him to come to the place where his boss died. It was to cover his bases to make sure that someone else had all the information that the dude was a rat for Jack Nicholson's character. So we already knew what was in the envelope, she was listening to it on the crazy McIntosh audio setup, as he made copies and sent it directly to Damon.
I always loved the Juxta position in this movie. the bad guy pretending to be a good guy and the good guy pretending to be a bad guy. a cinimatic masterpiece
Spartan you are so right. The banter from Mark Wahlberg is next level. ------- Whoever wrote his dialogue is a master at snapping back. So quick paced, clever and snappy. ------- Adds great pace to the scenes with the need for physical action, fighta and gun play. No wonder it got best adapted screenplay.
Great reaction! After many re-watches with friends, family, and watching RUclips reactors I noticed the crazy little details that the other Costello Rat Officer was in most of the major scenes and the camera pans on him for a second or two from the beginnng . The officer training, the interrogation scene, the microchips processor deal, and there's probably more. It's a great detail that I love whenever I re-watch.
@BennyBlancoNL While I respect your opinion, I don't agree 💯. The French Connection, has a really good story, and a car chase. While most movies do use car chases to avoid a good story, that isn't true for all ✌️
@@raymondamador1487 of course you could find movies with car chases that are still good. Most of the time its just for the director to show off a new camera trick or something. Most of them take far too long. Most of the time its cheating because they know most of the audience is simple
The into scene with Mark Wahlberg is absolute fire. He did into Leo's soul. Asking why is he pretending to be a cop. I know what you are you are no fu&#*@king cop --------- Then Martin Sheen rips him from another angle. Asking Leo, do you want to be a cop or pretend to be a be a cop. -------- Intense dialogue treating Leo apart. Amazing scene.
Scorcese has this fascination for the mob and organized crime but a real disdain to the people in it as well. The movies always portray them from their perspective at first: suave, clever, independent, rich. Then it inevitably switches to show them as being cruel, dumb, selfish and self-defeating.
I LOVE Scorsese. I'd try to argue specifics, but it'd just be listing a handful of other directors, all of which are incredible depending on your choice in cinema. I think a tier list is absurd for these dudes. Scorsese's one of the GOATs.
Why watch The Sopranos when they haven't even seen The Godfather, which Sopranos is always referencing? And definitely watch Goodfellas and Casino before the watered down TV version, which is the Sopranos.
@@MrMin316 I like originality, not watering it (and dumbing it) down for TV. I find The Sopranos super overrated. Like I said......Coppolla and Scorsese invented this shit, I'm not into the copycats.
What a lot of people forget is this is a “remake” of the “Internal Affairs” trilogy. The internal affairs films were a huge phenomenon in the early 2000’s anywhere I went back then that has a chinese population, everyone would ask “have you seen internal affairs. It was so good. This is Martin Scorsese’s remake of “internal affairs” combined with real elements of Whitey Bulgers story. The infamous Boston gangster.
Hey Pudgey and Spartan, Frank Costello's character was loosely based on Boston crime boss. James "Whitey" Bulger. I was in Santa Monica L.A. when Whitey was caught. I lived down the street from where he was caught. I passed his building almost every day. When I saw the helicopters and overload of police that day I thought they were shooting a movie. But it was a criminal takedown of one of the country's 10 most wanted.
I used to text without looking all the time in school. Back when you could feel the buttons and had muscle memory, it wasn’t that difficult. Especially with T9 predictive text that would fix most typos.
Once you accept that this isn't a mob/cop movie where justice is of any consideration. Anyone can die the most stupid way when an unforseen element catch up to you. It is like a raw and unprocessed telling of a series of event. This is a remake of the first part of trilogy from Hong Kong called , which is a tad more dramatic and focuses on each individual's "suffering" of their choices and circumstances.
I saw this in a packed theater opening weekend when I was in high school. The shoot of Queenin(sp) falling and the elevator kills and the entire theater was, no pun intended, dead silent.
Everything Sullivan (Matt Damon) did was to cover his azz. He killed Costello cause they set him up and there was a chance Costello would expose him if they took him in (Costello would have immunity from working with the FBI, but not Sullivan). At the end, Sullivan killed the other rat to make sure that when he indicted the other rat for DiCaprio's death, the other rat wouldn't have a chance to implicate him too. The film sets us up to believe the bad guy won...then, we get justice. Which is why there was so many deaths at the end.
Its not about winning or losing its just a story about some people - the Departed. So its implied this is a story about sone people thats no longer with us.
It's so funny hearing Scorsese, one of the greatest directors of all time, described as the shutter Island guy 😂 you guys definitely need to watch like a dozen more from him
This movie is so underrated. Your reaction to the elevator was so good. I fucken love this movie. I used to live close to Boston when they shot this movie and released. It's so good.
I actually had some Tim Tam randomly recently at a work function in the US here. I heard about it for years and wanted to try it. It was how I expected, which was good. BTW The Aviator is also a great movie with Leo and this director.
It's not a happy ending but that's the reality when you're dealing with the criminal underground. Undercover work isn't glamorous and sometimes they end badly. I'm glad they didn't try to sugarcoat things.
Great reaction like always, love this movie its another Scorsese masterpiece, this film is a remake of a Hong Kong film called Infernal Affairs (2002) and some fun facts about this movie Scorsese was the only person who warner Bros wanted to direct the film, and he agreed to do it pretty quickly. Warner Bros had bought the rights to Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs (2002) and always had Scorsese in mind to direct a remake. When Scorsese read the script he loved it as it reminded him of classic Hollywood genre pictures by people like Robert Aldrich, Sam Fuller, and Don Siegel. Specifically, Scorsese said it reminded him of White Heat - a 1949 film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney. Production of the film was so long and arduous that even Martin Scorsese was left ill and exhausted from making the film. Scorsese later said, “I call The Departed ‘Moral Ground Zero’. All the characters are killed at the end, and there was no place to go after that. Scorsese had been nominated for 7 Oscars previously, and lost every time. The Departed, though, was the movie where Scorsese finally won. The Departed won Best Picture (the first remake of a foreign film to do so) and Scorsese won Best Director. When Scorsese won the Oscar, it was presented to him by three of his old movie brat pals in Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola. The lead role of Billy Costigan is played by Leonardo DiCaprio, in one of his most acclaimed roles. When the studio bought the rights to Infernal Affairs, however, they had another famous actor in mind for the role. The studio originally planned for Costigan to be played by Tom Cruise. And the main female character in the movie is Madolyn, who has relationships with both Sullivan and Costigan. She’s played by Vera Farmiga but Scorsese originally had a shortlist of 4 big stars to play Madolyn: Kate Winslet, Emily Blunt, Hilary Swank and Jennifer Aniston. One of the most popular and acclaimed moments in The Departed is when Costello is talking to Costigan about the rat, and questions if it could be Costigan himself. Costello pulls out a gun and points it in Costigan’s face. That wasn’t in the script - Nicholson improvised it, and DiCaprio wasn’t expecting it. Then Costello burns a drawing in front of him with a lighter - this was also not scripted. Nicholson also improvised the, “I got this rat. This gnawing, teething f***ing rat,” line. Keep up the amazing work.
Scorcese was doing Tarantino style dialog well before Tarantino, both are fond of the everyman style of dialog so you see that in a lot of their films. Goodfellas, Casino and Taxi Driver are the best films of his to watch, others are good but those are the peak of his craft. They also set you up for the compare/contrast of whether you prefer his kind of mob movie or Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather type of mob movie which is always a hot debate, you should get to Coppola's films as well eventually.
Love this movie. Thought you guys were following pretty well until the end but a lot of people got tripped up at that point. I believe the baby is Costigan’s
The ending is shocking, but not surprising in retrospect. Not even in the first view if you notice the subtleties. That's what separates a good director or writer from a great. Boardwalk Empire would be a great series to react to. It's like Peaky Blinders on steroids.
More like a sloppy hack job that Scorsese hated making, was embarrassed by and couldn't believe people were praising. But by then, he'd been snubbed so many times, people were just praising every thing he did, even though he peaked in 1990, and hasn't really done any work worthy of his classic period since 1995.
I know y'all are mostly tv show heavy reactions but man assuming you haven't seen them in your own time, I highly recommend other gangster type films, The Godfather, Scarface and Goodfellas, I think y'all would enjoy those 🙏 maybe something to consider for 2025 👍
Hey Spartan and Pudgey, I got to see this at a personal movie screening for New York movie critics. It was in a theater with only 40 seats (which was half full). -------- It's such a cliche in my life the best movies I have watched I got to see for free, including the Matrix, Gladiator, Fellowship of the Rings, King's Speech. Beautiful Mind, 28 days later, Pan's Labyrinth, Sunshine. --------- The hookup for this movie was with a Moviefone writer. --------- I would go with them to see movies after work to keep them company during the crappy flicks. Every once in a while I would get to see a movie like, "The Departed"
I always assumed the baby was Willam's. Don't they insinuate and mention Sullivan having... *issues* in the bedroom? Or did I understand all that wrong?
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What's the confusion, Spartan? Costello had more than one rat in the police dept. (The guy who killed Billy was also a Costello rat!)
Obviously, Madolyn gave the tapes that Billy gave her to Dignam that informed him who the last rat was. Then Dignam got justice for Queenan and Billy!
BTW: It is implied that the baby is probably Billy's as Collin Sullivan was impotent as was suggested when he couldn't perform when he didn't want to talk with Madolyn in the earlier scene! She never told Sullivan it was his baby when she showed him the sonogram picture!
Guys, the name of the movie is call "The Departed." It gave away that these are the stories of the departed. So Frank was going to sell out the other white cop to the FBI to cover Matt if he ever got too much heat on him. That cop knew Matt was also a Rat so he figured he had to help him. When Billy called the other cop who was with him in the academy is also on the same team with the White Cop Rat who knew he had to kill him too since he was caught helping Matt out. Matt knowing he has to tie up all loose ends, take him out too to save himself. Dignam, was informed by the psychiatrist due to her letter Billy left her. She told Matt not to worry because she had an abortion and knew Dignam was going to kill him. This movie is peak and when you realize, why call it "the Departed" it makes sense that it would end up this way.
Pudgey, the tapes were in the envelope
Him texting without looking was a real thing lol alot of people did it back in the day with flip phones, that type of texting was called T9 basically you would remember how many times you would have to click a certain number to get the letter you wanted pretty easy once you memorize it lol
Yes in fact i had everything so memorized i never made a typo on my text and with the phone being small enough my fingers could reach all the buttons, but when i had to get a new phone they said i had to upgrade it for a bigger widwr touch screen, i was so mad because my fingers couldn't reach across the phone and the touch screen will always mess up my text but the guy says I have the option to talk text which also messes up more than my perfectly seamless blindly texting with one hand lol but the screens are better bigger for watching videos and reading but those flip phones we had no butt dialing with those lol
AND ITS AMAZINGLY STAYING WITH ME FOR WHOLE LIFE,i could do it right now even tho i got newest iphone every year and havent used flip phone in 10 yrs
Yup, I used to text from my pockets during high school 😂
I did it then, and i do it do now. When the bottom half of my screen went dark, i was still texting ppl before getting a new phone. Its mostly from muscle memory.
A lost art. I’m not sure if I could still do it. Might take me a while to get back into it. I didn’t do nearly as much T9 texting as I do since I got my first smart phone in 2010.
I just can’t get over how lost Spartan always is 😂
Huh? ..............
Syndrome
57:27 William had a good plan, but there are things that he couldn't foresee. Like the fact that Costello didn't have one but two cops under his payroll. Matt Damon was one of them. The guy that killed William was the other. Matt Damon and the other guy did not know about each other. But if you pay attention at the very beginning of the film, you see that they graduated from the academy at the same time.
One thing that’s hard for non-US reactors is that the FBI and other departments (city police, special investigations unit) do not cooperate or share info, so the FBI was using Costello’s informing for their own purposes (and corruption in the FBI according to Queenan), but that info doesn’t get communicated to the other departments trying to take Costello down. You guys really pieced it together well in the end, great reaction as always!
Most other countries have the same problem. Often by design.✌🏾
Many countries that are federations have this problem. In my country (Pakistan), we also have FIA (Federal Investigation Agency) which is similar to US FBI also don't share info with provincial and local agencies/departments.
Homeland Defense was theoretically created to alleviate the issue of cooperation between local law enforcement, FBI, CIA, and NSA.
It didn't work. Tribalism persists because it's human nature.
All it did was create another agency that is inefficient and adds billions to the budget.
If the US Government was an automobile, it would get 2 miles per gallon of gas.
“I’m gonna go for a smoke break, wanna smoke, you don’t smoke? What are you one of those fitness freaks, go f**k yourself”… favorite line 🤣🤣
Speaking of the Dune director, Denis Villeneuve, check out "Sicario" (2015). That movie is TENSE, and the cinematography is just peak level.
Spartans confusion in the end was worth watching lol
I found it to be irritating 🤷♀️
He's definitely not a fan of Shakespearean tragedies! @@ladyhotep5189
He's the worst reactor on YT lol Total moron.
@@phoenixwatch2697 talking about fake guns and stuff in the elevator like what 😂
@@Slick-n-ick It's classic denial during shock. 😂
Matt Damon's first scene in the classroom studying what happens when a bullet enters a person's head foreshadows his last scene in the film.
So that’s it everyone’s dead? Well it is called the departed
the depahhted
Spartan calls it a church 2 secs after the legit tell u there's a great view of the statehouse from here lmfao 🤣🤣
You missed some important information. The guy that killed Leo DiCaprio was another corrupt cop paid by Costello. Costello had 2 rats in the police department, Matt Damon, and that other guy. Matt didn't know about the other guy. Also, if you pay attention at the very beginning of the film, when Matt Damon graduates from the police academy, that other guy, the one who killed Leo, is right behind him. Similarly, you missed that the reason why the guy who caught that Leo was a cop didn't tell Costello, is because he is a cop too! The same way that Captain Queenan had at least 2 cops in Costello's crew who didn't know each other, Costello had 2 corrupt cops in the police that didn't know about each other. Lastly, the reason Matt Damon's girlfriend opened his mail is because she recognized Leo's name on the envelope, and was curious. And since he had just given her a letter too, but promised not to open in unless he told her to, or something happened to him, she decided to open Matt Damon's letter. Also the film is called _The Departed._ Departed is a euphemism for dead people.
I am pretty sure that Queenan only had Costigan as a rat in Costello’s crew. The only hint at a second rat inside Costello’s crew was the TV report that said that the one from Costello’s crew who died in shootout after Queenan was killed was an undercover cop.
First, Costello himself said the police jut said that to screw with Costello’s mind. Second, the TV report said he was an undercover Boston Police Department cop. Queenan wasn’t BPD, he was state police.
Incredible that Walhberg was nominated for best supporting actor and not any of the others
Why is Spartan confused? Good lord.
They gave William a funeral, an officers funeral. Did you not see that Spartan?
You might not realised yet, but they are not the brightest reactors.
@@nyuszicsib and you're definitely not a nice person and probably not that bright either buddy.
100% back in the day. I could text on an old flip phone like that without looking. You did it everyday so you knew how many times to push each button and where they were.
Yep. Same
Knew without even thinking about it... it became intuitive rapidly
We could legit type as fast if not faster then qwerty setups.
people saying they should watch Sopranos.. only if you want Spartan to have that confused look forever
They shouldn't watch the Sopranos until they've seen the real deal: The Godfather and Godfather Part 2 (which the Sopranos reference over and over again) and Goodfellas and Casino (which Sopranos is a watered down of). And of course, the cast of the Sopranos comes from all those movies, from Uncle Junior to Spider.
It’s crazy how lost he always is lol
Exactly. He's talking about secret plans and shit. Don't remember anyone's name. 🤦♀️
He's not the brightest bulb
What he gave her in the envelope was the same thing he mailed to Matt Damon to get him to come to the place where his boss died. It was to cover his bases to make sure that someone else had all the information that the dude was a rat for Jack Nicholson's character. So we already knew what was in the envelope, she was listening to it on the crazy McIntosh audio setup, as he made copies and sent it directly to Damon.
Yeah I thought that was pretty clear.
“What the hell is this? Game of thrones?” 😂😂😂
I always loved the Juxta position in this movie. the bad guy pretending to be a good guy and the good guy pretending to be a bad guy. a cinimatic masterpiece
Jack Nicholson, Leo Di Caprio and Matt Damon together in a Scorsese movie. What a treat.
Life isn't fair. There's no guarantee that the good guy will win in the end.
Exactly
The baby was Billy's...for 9ne thing 😂
Spartan you are so right. The banter from Mark Wahlberg is next level. ------- Whoever wrote his dialogue is a master at snapping back. So quick paced, clever and snappy. ------- Adds great pace to the scenes with the need for physical action, fighta and gun play. No wonder it got best adapted screenplay.
The song is shipping off to Boston by the Dropkick Murphys. Great band!
52:45 lol Spartan had my exact reaction to this. I'm sure I looked exactly like that.
Great reaction! After many re-watches with friends, family, and watching RUclips reactors I noticed the crazy little details that the other Costello Rat Officer was in most of the major scenes and the camera pans on him for a second or two from the beginnng .
The officer training, the interrogation scene, the microchips processor deal, and there's probably more. It's a great detail that I love whenever I re-watch.
Twists, turns, and betrayal. This movie has everything, except car chases. Ending was a surprise 😮
Car chases are cheating , in my opinion. Nice visuals to mask the fact the story isn't that good.
@BennyBlancoNL While I respect your opinion, I don't agree 💯. The French Connection, has a really good story, and a car chase. While most movies do use car chases to avoid a good story, that isn't true for all ✌️
@@raymondamador1487 of course you could find movies with car chases that are still good. Most of the time its just for the director to show off a new camera trick or something. Most of them take far too long. Most of the time its cheating because they know most of the audience is simple
The into scene with Mark Wahlberg is absolute fire. He did into Leo's soul. Asking why is he pretending to be a cop. I know what you are you are no fu&#*@king cop --------- Then Martin Sheen rips him from another angle. Asking Leo, do you want to be a cop or pretend to be a be a cop. -------- Intense dialogue treating Leo apart. Amazing scene.
Scorcese has this fascination for the mob and organized crime but a real disdain to the people in it as well. The movies always portray them from their perspective at first: suave, clever, independent, rich. Then it inevitably switches to show them as being cruel, dumb, selfish and self-defeating.
Which backs up what a lot of former gang and mob guys say, years after they're out. There's no honor among thieves.
This movie is crazy . Another un needed proof that scorcese is the greatest living director
I LOVE Scorsese. I'd try to argue specifics, but it'd just be listing a handful of other directors, all of which are incredible depending on your choice in cinema. I think a tier list is absurd for these dudes. Scorsese's one of the GOATs.
It's heavily 'inspired' by the movie 'Infernal Affairs' though. Not really an original movie of him, even though i think it's better
GOTTA do "American Gangster" (2007)
I like the think the baby is Billy's
Sullivan had "issues".. really subtle hint.
100% agree and I think Sullivan was gay but had to play the part of macho straight guy due to his profession and dealing with Costello.
Literally one of my favorite movies of all time. The pace and editing are just incredible, and, of course, the actors... DiCaprio at its finest
It’s how life would go. Scorsese doesn’t often give us the expected Hollywood ending. He’s a huge influence on Tarantino.
I love watching reactors during "that scene." It always goes from absolute shock and anger, to disbelief, and then finally absurd hilarity
The name “Billy” comes from William, it’s the same name
Bad things happen in real life with no soundtrack lead up. Movies that aren't afraid to depict that have a special place in my heart.
Oh man. The Sopranos would be great. Goodfellas. Taxi Driver.
Yeah the Sopranos.
@@MrMin316 no.. they are to dense to get the plot lines
Why watch The Sopranos when they haven't even seen The Godfather, which Sopranos is always referencing? And definitely watch Goodfellas and Casino before the watered down TV version, which is the Sopranos.
@@TTM9691 The Sopranos is watered-down? Are you having a laugh.
@@MrMin316 I like originality, not watering it (and dumbing it) down for TV. I find The Sopranos super overrated. Like I said......Coppolla and Scorsese invented this shit, I'm not into the copycats.
That Anthony Hopkins Jack Nicholson mixup was hilarious :D
What a lot of people forget is this is a “remake” of the “Internal Affairs” trilogy. The internal affairs films were a huge phenomenon in the early 2000’s anywhere I went back then that has a chinese population, everyone would ask “have you seen internal affairs. It was so good. This is Martin Scorsese’s remake of “internal affairs” combined with real elements of Whitey Bulgers story. The infamous Boston gangster.
Thought I was having a Mandela effect moment. It's infernal affairs.
"Infernal"
Yessss! Representin' Boston
Hey Pudgey and Spartan, Frank Costello's character was loosely based on Boston crime boss. James "Whitey" Bulger.
I was in Santa Monica L.A. when Whitey was caught. I lived down the street from where he was caught. I passed his building almost every day. When I saw the helicopters and overload of police that day I thought they were shooting a movie. But it was a criminal takedown of one of the country's 10 most wanted.
I used to text without looking all the time in school. Back when you could feel the buttons and had muscle memory, it wasn’t that difficult. Especially with T9 predictive text that would fix most typos.
No one ever expects the ending to this lmao, first time left my jaw on the floor for hours, ABSOLUTE CINEMA!
Once you accept that this isn't a mob/cop movie where justice is of any consideration. Anyone can die the most stupid way when an unforseen element catch up to you. It is like a raw and unprocessed telling of a series of event.
This is a remake of the first part of trilogy from Hong Kong called , which is a tad more dramatic and focuses on each individual's "suffering" of their choices and circumstances.
I saw this in a packed theater opening weekend when I was in high school. The shoot of Queenin(sp) falling and the elevator kills and the entire theater was, no pun intended, dead silent.
lol, Spartaniums thought a gold-domed building was a church. Churches have steeples, son, with a crucifix atop and sometimes a church bell too.
2:01 bruh, out of Scorsese’s whole filmography I was definitely not expecting Shutter Island to be the one mentioned lol
Still remains a top 5 movie of all time for me. Just soooo good.
Mark Walhberg and Matt Damon are actually from Mass, and that song y'all like is by The Dropkick Murpheys.
You need to watch goodfellas next
Sleepers
Yeah, let's get to the REAL Scorsese! Goodfellas!!!
One of my Scorsese's favorites!!!! I love this movie! And that intro!!!!❤
Everything Sullivan (Matt Damon) did was to cover his azz. He killed Costello cause they set him up and there was a chance Costello would expose him if they took him in (Costello would have immunity from working with the FBI, but not Sullivan). At the end, Sullivan killed the other rat to make sure that when he indicted the other rat for DiCaprio's death, the other rat wouldn't have a chance to implicate him too. The film sets us up to believe the bad guy won...then, we get justice. Which is why there was so many deaths at the end.
Its not about winning or losing its just a story about some people - the Departed. So its implied this is a story about sone people thats no longer with us.
😂loving the confusion on the face😂.
It's so funny hearing Scorsese, one of the greatest directors of all time, described as the shutter Island guy 😂 you guys definitely need to watch like a dozen more from him
This is a goddamn classic! About time you watched it!
This movie is so underrated. Your reaction to the elevator was so good. I fucken love this movie. I used to live close to Boston when they shot this movie and released. It's so good.
I actually had some Tim Tam randomly recently at a work function in the US here. I heard about it for years and wanted to try it. It was how I expected, which was good.
BTW The Aviator is also a great movie with Leo and this director.
Fantastic film
It's not a happy ending but that's the reality when you're dealing with the criminal underground. Undercover work isn't glamorous and sometimes they end badly. I'm glad they didn't try to sugarcoat things.
Súper súper excited about this, one of my favorite movies
Great reaction like always, love this movie its another Scorsese masterpiece, this film is a remake of a Hong Kong film called Infernal Affairs (2002) and some fun facts about this movie Scorsese was the only person who warner Bros wanted to direct the film, and he agreed to do it pretty quickly. Warner Bros had bought the rights to Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs (2002) and always had Scorsese in mind to direct a remake. When Scorsese read the script he loved it as it reminded him of classic Hollywood genre pictures by people like Robert Aldrich, Sam Fuller, and Don Siegel. Specifically, Scorsese said it reminded him of White Heat - a 1949 film noir directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney.
Production of the film was so long and arduous that even Martin Scorsese was left ill and exhausted from making the film. Scorsese later said, “I call The Departed ‘Moral Ground Zero’. All the characters are killed at the end, and there was no place to go after that.
Scorsese had been nominated for 7 Oscars previously, and lost every time. The Departed, though, was the movie where Scorsese finally won. The Departed won Best Picture (the first remake of a foreign film to do so) and Scorsese won Best Director. When Scorsese won the Oscar, it was presented to him by three of his old movie brat pals in Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Francis Ford Coppola.
The lead role of Billy Costigan is played by Leonardo DiCaprio, in one of his most acclaimed roles. When the studio bought the rights to Infernal Affairs, however, they had another famous actor in mind for the role. The studio originally planned for Costigan to be played by Tom Cruise.
And the main female character in the movie is Madolyn, who has relationships with both Sullivan and Costigan. She’s played by Vera Farmiga but Scorsese originally had a shortlist of 4 big stars to play Madolyn: Kate Winslet, Emily Blunt, Hilary Swank and Jennifer Aniston.
One of the most popular and acclaimed moments in The Departed is when Costello is talking to Costigan about the rat, and questions if it could be Costigan himself. Costello pulls out a gun and points it in Costigan’s face. That wasn’t in the script - Nicholson improvised it, and DiCaprio wasn’t expecting it. Then Costello burns a drawing in front of him with a lighter - this was also not scripted. Nicholson also improvised the, “I got this rat. This gnawing, teething f***ing rat,” line. Keep up the amazing work.
Officer Dickburn!!! Lmao
Scorcese was doing Tarantino style dialog well before Tarantino, both are fond of the everyman style of dialog so you see that in a lot of their films.
Goodfellas, Casino and Taxi Driver are the best films of his to watch, others are good but those are the peak of his craft. They also set you up for the compare/contrast of whether you prefer his kind of mob movie or Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather type of mob movie which is always a hot debate, you should get to Coppola's films as well eventually.
It’s assumed that it’s Billy’s child.
Spartan's face 🤣🤣
you can say they all departed.
Love this movie.
Thought you guys were following pretty well until the end but a lot of people got tripped up at that point.
I believe the baby is Costigan’s
Killers of the Flower Moon is also a great Scorsese film you guys should see
The ending is shocking, but not surprising in retrospect. Not even in the first view if you notice the subtleties. That's what separates a good director or writer from a great. Boardwalk Empire would be a great series to react to. It's like Peaky Blinders on steroids.
If you like Scorsese movies, I would highly recommend you watch Taxi driver, this movie is a masterpiece
You guys would have a blast watching The Sopranos.
Brilliant film, the good guys and the bad guys lost.
I never considered this to be a movie that anyone could possibly be confused about lol.
Wahlberg's best performance
Marky Mark for vengeance. You gotta believe
You simply have to Feel the Vibrations...of Marky Mark's rage.
Let’s go, great movie right here y’all
5:47 Let's hope it's not a head...🥸
Top reaction..question what are your backgrounds?
X’s appear in the background of everyone who is going to die at some point in the film.
I swear I was just saying I wish that would watch the departed, warrior, and Troy 🤣
Of course Spartan is so disappointed that Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon didn’t survive!
Pudgey is face blind 😂😂😂 You guys should see The Wolf of Wall Street. It's really great.
This was a good movie and the cast is just crazy good but yea there needed to me more of a conclusion
A brilliant modern Shakesperian black comedy....
More like a sloppy hack job that Scorsese hated making, was embarrassed by and couldn't believe people were praising. But by then, he'd been snubbed so many times, people were just praising every thing he did, even though he peaked in 1990, and hasn't really done any work worthy of his classic period since 1995.
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@@lesgrice4419 "You can't handle the truth!" LOL.
I know y'all are mostly tv show heavy reactions but man assuming you haven't seen them in your own time, I highly recommend other gangster type films, The Godfather, Scarface and Goodfellas, I think y'all would enjoy those 🙏 maybe something to consider for 2025 👍
Good old T9
This is great movie
Hey Spartan and Pudgey, I got to see this at a personal movie screening for New York movie critics. It was in a theater with only 40 seats (which was half full). -------- It's such a cliche in my life the best movies I have watched I got to see for free, including the Matrix, Gladiator, Fellowship of the Rings, King's Speech. Beautiful Mind, 28 days later, Pan's Labyrinth, Sunshine. --------- The hookup for this movie was with a Moviefone writer. --------- I would go with them to see movies after work to keep them company during the crappy flicks. Every once in a while I would get to see a movie like, "The Departed"
Crime pays ....... Until it doesn't. It was the only way to end the movie. No one was willing to go to jail.
jack nicholson was in the shinning, i reckon thats what pudgey was thinking of. Unless she hasn't watched that yet either
A very good Cop Movie. You guys should see HBO's the Wire. :)
Watch “the town”
Not difficult. Matt had to get rid of anyone who knew he was in Costello’s crew.
I always assumed the baby was Willam's. Don't they insinuate and mention Sullivan having... *issues* in the bedroom? Or did I understand all that wrong?
Whaaat ?! The departed? S+P? Dropped 25 mins ago? No sleeping today it seems
MYSTIC RIVER NEXT!!!!!
Yay - Fun for the whole family! See, Timmy - Wanna be a policeman?
I feel old that I know how it was to text without looking...