I think you mean the Hong Kong movie "Infernal Affairs."

>> ^Trancecoach:

This movie is based on the Japanese film, Internal Affairs.

>> ^kceaton1:

>> ^ant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhEOa82KL_c for the split screens.
I still need to see this movie.

It's a movie that won't disappoint, so make sure you do see it! Defiantly, one of Martin Scorsese's great films and that is saying something.
The "magic" tag helps define the feeling your left with after seeing this film so its use is well used here, for many reasons well deserved and earned...


Personally, I found it to be HUGELY overrated. I really came away from it going 'meh, it was ok'.

* I really disliked the forced colour palette of teal and orange
* I disliked that it was set in France, and yet everyone spoke English
* I found the story just basic fare, with just the fact that it was saying how life changing and wondrous film was being the thing which probably made those in the industry think it was the best thing in the world because it made their profession seem more important than it was.
* I found the humour (especially that of Sasha Baron Cohen's character) to be pretty low level slapstick.

I didn't hate it, but it's not a film I would chose to watch again. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more if it weren't so hyped as being the second coming of christ.

>> ^kceaton1:

>> ^ant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhEOa82KL_c for the split screens.
I still need to see this movie.

It's a movie that won't disappoint, so make sure you do see it! Defiantly, one of Martin Scorsese's great films and that is saying something.
The "magic" tag helps define the feeling your left with after seeing this film so its use is well used here, for many reasons well deserved and earned...


For some reason, the animated trailer (didn't know it had non-animated parts either) didn't excite me but then I saw its reviews and high ratings.

>> ^ant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhEOa82KL_c for the split screens.
I still need to see this movie.


It's a movie that won't disappoint, so make sure you do see it! Defiantly, one of Martin Scorsese's great films and that is saying something.

The "magic" tag helps define the feeling your left with after seeing this film so its use is well used here, for many reasons well deserved and earned...

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Definitely could use a bit of moog or some Steely Dan Chords. http://www.hakwright.co.uk/steelydan/mu-major.html
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I'm going to do a techno remix of it. Do you separate guitar and voice tracks? I know my dagsong is going to be epic!
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DFT, Killer bees, Martin Scorsese, melted cheese, hopping fleas. (I'm warming up for galaxy)

I'm going to do a techno remix of it. Do you separate guitar and voice tracks? I know my dagsong is going to be epic!
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DFT, Killer bees, Martin Scorsese, melted cheese, hopping fleas. (I'm warming up for galaxy)

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DFT, Killer bees, Martin Scorsese, melted cheese, hopping fleas. (I'm warming up for galaxy)

Possibly one of the worst trailers ever. Is the movie better than the trailer? or do they just nominate anything Scorsese does?

Annoying music, Forced comedy, and a shamefully wasted use of a talent like Sacha Baron Cohen
Prat falls, cake in the face, and groaning dogs? seriously Oscar worthy?

Not to mention set in Paris and all the characters have random combinations of American and British accents.

>> ^Quboid:

>> ^ant:
Citizen Kane put me to sleep, Godfather was decent but not my type of flick, Star Wars movie was good, etc.

Citizen Kane was a chore, I only watched it because, well, people like this guy. I didn't notice anything special about it at all. I can only assume that the clever, innovative stuff it did has been repeated in every other movie I've seen so I'm accustomed to it. Maybe if I'd only seen pre-Kane movies before seeing it, it would blow my mind.


You've got it exactly right, after Citizen Kane movies were changed forever. The non-linear way the story was told had never been tried, and the camera and lighting were used in completely innovative ways. Hell, in one scene when Welles couldn't get the camera angle that he wanted he grabbed a pickaxe and shovel and dug a deep hole in the middle of the set in which to place the camera!

Truth is though, my favorite Orson Welles movie is "Touch of Evil" with Janet Leigh, Charlton Heston and Welles himself playing one of the most disgusting villains ever portrayed on film. The opening shot alone is a masterpiece, an uncut tracking and crane shot that goes for more than 3 minutes. Fantastic stuff.

Check out the opening scene here... http://videosift.com/video/Opening-shot-to-Touch-of-Evil

No director has ever surpassed this scene... Altman made a great effort in "The Player" and Scorsese came close in "Goodfellas", but still not quite.

This video has been seconded as a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof seconded with isdupe by Tymbrwulf.

No worries, mate. I was wondering why it didn't wasn't posted before. Looks like Duckman didn't use the proper tags!

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Sorry Tymbrwulf, I was just slogging thru the deadpool and found this.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/FOX-Mad-TV-Raging-Rudolph-Goodfellas-God-Father-Scorsese

Sorry Tymbrwulf, I was just slogging thru the deadpool and found this.

*dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/FOX-Mad-TV-Raging-Rudolph-Goodfellas-God-Father-Scorsese

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by Boise_Lib. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

Thanks!
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*promote

I have to defend Gangs of New York since to me that was hardly a nothing film. It had the quality of a period piece to where you felt like you were IN mid 19th century New York. Perhaps the movie was a bit longer than it needed to be but after re-watching it again recently I feel that it is up to the Scorsese standard. I do have difficulty remembering Eyes Wide Shut, and the only time I saw it was when it was originally in theaters.

Unfortunately I also lack the fortune of having seen either Goodfellas *or* Casino on the Scorsese side which makes for rather awkward conversations with the rest of the world who has. Same thing for Spartacus or Paths of Glory.

I did, however, watch Barry Lyndon for the first time just a few days ago. Now that is some damn fine cinematography. I know they used special f/0.9 lenses for the candlelight scenes, and it shows.

Upvote for the beautiful selection of music for the montage