The Departed By: Rick Radman of Radman_Art

Rating: 10/10 (5 November 2006)

The Departed By: Rick Radman of Radman_Art
Awesome! I absolutely loved this movie. In a decade of bad movies I can barely believe a movie like this was released. Martin Scorsese is a genius, we should cherish this man and honor him before he leaves us like Stanley Kubrick. Like myself and thousands of other artists that never get to create to their full potential. They are ignored by a industry that has completely lost touch with it's audience . But I know the way things are going, the people that hate will stay on the top of the hill destroying all that is TRUE entertainment. "All we need is love", The Beatles.
My dad was a cop in Connecticut all his life and his friends where my friends. Life is cheap back east. I thought in that sense this movie was accurate. That is why I love the west. We are kind out here. This is our world. You have to live here to see what I mean. Don't get me wrong I am from Middletown, Connecticut for as long as I live. My family's family is from there amen. If you want to know why I do not move back there or even visit. Then please contact my sister and two brothers and ask them. Although family sticks together they also (like the movie) turn against each other at the spire of the moment.
I loved absolutely every thing about this move. Except.
Who's brilliant idea was it to make Jack Nicholson the stud? A man at his age he isn't performing any thing remotely similar to the stud he is made out to be in the move. It kind of makes me sick to think of such a thing. Other than that his performance was perfect. It was so cool to see him play a bad guy again. Like in the movie Batman as the joker. It was a thing of beauty. Like I said before, we will not know how much we appreciate someone like this until they are gone.
Oh and how about Alec Baldwin? I just could not hold it in during the conversation at the putting range I began laughing and so did the couple behind me. This is the man at work in such perfect form. It felt like the last scene in "True Grit".
I only hope for more cool movies like this. I think the movie industry makes it's mark like rock music in the 60's and 70's. This past decade of compromise is a mark against us all.