RANT ON MOVIE "THE DEPARTED"?

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When I first saw the movie i immediately knew the idea wasn't original. I've seen an HONG KONG made film that had the exact same plot called INFERNAL AFFAIRS. For people who've seen the movie (INFERNAL AFFAIRS): isn't it messed up how the director and producers of the DEPARTED get Oscars & awards for a stolen or copied idea? Someone say something.
 
I get what you mean that there are similarities. But thats all their similar yeh, but the involvment in crime is a lot better in The Departed and its just a damn good film.

Now quite your wineing
 
I never saw Infernal Affairs but I do love The Departed. Most movies are based on another movies ideas or thoughts. Its just a matter of which one you like best. Their are no more original ideas for movies anymore. I believe The Departed deserved all the awards they got, it made me want to date someone from Boston (I love the accent)
 
Very few movies are really all that original. The whole premise behind The Departed can be traced to movies going back long before your Hong Kong movie was made, frankly. It's a pretty basic crime drama plot. Winning Oscars and making a great movie has little to do with coming up with original stories. It has everything to do with production values, cinematography, acting, and direction-- all things that Scorsese did NOT steal. I'm still not sold that it deserved an Oscar. It was a mercy Oscar for all the times Scorsese was ripped off in the past. But I would not go so far as to claim what you are claiming. If I did, I'd say NO movie in the past fifty years deserved an Oscar. Everyone is standing on the shoulders of giants.
 
Inferal Affairs was not a very good movie though.

The Departed is one of the few remakes that I actually thought better than the original.

And as someone already stated, there are far too many movies that are similar to each other for this too really matter. It seems that every movie follows one of a few formulas.
 
It doesn't bother me so much that they use others' ideas to make movies: it's that they use them without crediting them! When I first read the book, "The War of the Rats" by David Robbins, I said to myself that it seemed awfully familiar. Then I realized that the movie "Enemy at the Gates" was the SAME story with the same characters and they never even mentioned that Robbins had written the book years before they made the movie! They out-and-out stole the book!

When the movie "Independence Day" came out, it was a huge hit, and all through it's success, people like me kept saying, "It's 'War of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells!" They never even mentioned Wells! What bastards!
 
nowadays movies are spin off or are along the lines of already made movies or sometimes movies that are in production.
 
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