I thought the rest of the actors did a masterful job emoting through a gritty and original script. I have nothing but praise for DiCaprio, Wahlberg, Baldwin, Damon, Winstone, and Sheen.
Did i just read "gritty" and "DiCaprio, Wahlberg, Baldwin, Damon, and Sheen" in the same text? (Notice I ommited Winstone.) :rofl: These Hollywood Pretty Bois couldn't emote a milligram of grit if their lives depended on it! What
can they emote? If their cappacino was not delivered to their set trailer at the proper warmpth? If their personal assistant did not bring them a copy of Vanity Fair or The Hollywood Reporter and made their nail filing appointment 2 minutes late? If 14 mirrors were not adjusted just so in their trailers (1400 for Jacked). A pair of interior designers names Stefon and Stheven arguing over the last silk roll at a West Hollywood or Greenich Village fashion boutique would have 100Xs the "grit" of these cookie cutters. Sheesh. You and 'koast are killing me.
As to the juvinile dialogue of ad nauseum swearing, again the aforementioned had zero believability. Casting directors would have to look as long and far to find such talented actors as, oh say Beaviss and Butthead to have delivered the swear exchanges with all the oomph and ahh of the above. It was insulting. And heeeres and idea :ding: , instead of the lame swearing exhanges, why not have some script development. Esp on the lame final sequence where Score$$Easy has Kill Bill *creativity* and mentality.
Dicaprio certainly did display some acting in a good part of his role, you could not help but pull for him in his role cast and thank goodness someone had him pump iron big time. His babyface along with the other cookie cutters cast as gang and cop playas in rough n tough streets of Boston. Ahaha. As for the only two with true Boston accents, Marky Mark Walberg and Damon so overdid their accents, trying too hard to let everyone know they are really from da hood. :bash:
Alas Dicaps near end high stakes scene where Wrinkleson made rat faces at him (barf). Dicaps "I didn't dooow it, I rwealwy didn't doow it." Please.
Winstone has many of us asking why not have cast him as Costello? :ding: We know why...
Okay, so it was far from a stand-out performance by The Jack. Which for one thing, when you go to a Jack Nicholson movie, you know he is not going to be anybody other than Jack Nicholson. That is the difference between a character actor (Kevin Spacey, Michael Caine, Johnny Depp, Russell Crowe (of old)) and a leading-man actor (Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Russell Crowe (present)). You could tell Nicholson's half-hearted attempt at the Boston accent lasted for maybe the first quarter of the shoot, then he was just like "ah, screw it, I'm Jack Nicholson, I ain't foolin' no one."
Yet the script called, no screamed, no begged for a
believable character actor/leading
man to play Costello the Tough streets of Boston Crime Lord. How can you possibly deliver this with Wrinkleson? Skander we agree, you can't. He has his place as The Joker and Cuckoos Nest. In The Departed all we needed was for Maggie Simpson to stuff her pacifier in his mouth 10 seconds into the movie. Problem solved. Hey maybe that can still happen as Wrinkleson could get a cameo in the new Simpsons movie. Now there is a fit.
Scorcese got the best out of these people and he got what he bargained for when he cast The Jack.
Bargained yes. Only Skander replace the word "bargained" with "sold out", which Score$$Easy did to the 10th degree.
In case any lurkers are reading, do not Depart with $10 per person.
