I finally got around to watching The Departed. How the hell is this best picture? It's a really long gangster movie with endless double crosses until nearly everyone is dead. The only thing I found interesting was that Jack Nicholson was a bad ass, something he is in every other movie anyway, and a brief sex scene that was kinda hot. Oh, and there's a great scene with Alec Baldwin overacting because, as you know, no one can out-act Arec Bawdwin!
The rest is a bunch of guys with Boston accents chest thumping and beating the shit out of and/or shooting each other. I found nothing clever about the script or the cinematography. It was entertaining I suppose, but best picture? Not even close.
Gotta say, I'm scratching my head on this one.
I thought it was a great movie.
Not as good as some of his past films, but after years of not even getting nominated I think he deserved it.
All the other movies weren't all that good.