The Departed

Just saw The Departed with Tim and Busta. I felt physically sick afterwards, partially b/c I was hungry, but also because it was so stressful and I felt bad for all the characters. It was better than Infernal Affairs, of course. I loved Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Wahlberg, they are geniuses. Jack Nicholson was genius but too freaky. I found it very weird that they stuck with so many random scenes from the original! Why would you do that? First of all, the overall plot is exactly the same--except a little bit of the ending, which is to be expected anyway since the there are two versions to the ending of Internal Affairs. I guess the HK version was just TOO GOOD to change HUH? Like, they kept all the little details like meeting on the roof, and coming out the movie theater with the phone ringing, and the cast on the arm, and trying to spot who's a cop, etc etc. But they totally embellished on the characters of DiCaprio's boss (not Wong Sir) and Nicholson. And thankfully, they made Sammy Cheung and Kelly Chan's characters into one. The original girls were excruciating to watch--Sammy's shrieking (does she ever stop?) and Kelly's bad crying as usual.