Hi guys, i'm here to tell you that besides The Prestige, The Departed is definitely a must see too! Very fluent english and very very fluent vulgarities too :lol: Their usage of words is powerful i would say. Their charisma would keep you hype throughout the whole 2 and a half hrs.

Anybody else watched it yet? Give some comments too =)

Jack Nicholson & Leonardo DiCaprio were awesome!!! It did better than I thought it would... yes, a must watch! :lol:

Did you see the original Hong Kong version? What's the difference?

My friends also gave positive reviews on this show. But no one (in my opinion at least) can beat Tony Leung's acting.. His soulful eyes...

A. ^_^

I saw the first and second parts of the original HK version (was there a 3rd?)... which is the one with Andy Lau VS Tony Leung & the prequel with Carina Lau, Edison Chen & the other guy who was also in Initial D (sorry, can't recall his name).

The script for Departed uses the same important touchpoints, with Leo as the good guy acting as a bad guy (Tony Leung's character) and Matt Damon as Andy Lau's successful cop (but secret mole for the bad guys) character. I thought they may cast Danny Devito as the main baddie to play Eric Tsang's (small statured) big bad gangster boss character but they made the right choice with casting Jack Nicholson, who was brilliant for the role! :lol: I'm just joking about the Devito bit... heh.

The ending at the lift (ahh, spoiler alert!) is similiar... but Hollywood being Hollywood, the final ending is a justified one ^_^ The movie is excellent, you'll enjoy the ride. Very nicely done... you really shouldn't miss this!

Ning ;)

Yes. There was a third one. The third was the one with Andy Lau vs Tony Leung vs another guy (can't remember his name; used to be one of the four heavenly king from hong kong).. Anyway, the third one wasn't very good. First of the sequel was the best.

:off: I heard that for the HK movie, there was two different version for the finale. One version is the good guy survives; the other version the opposite.

A. ^_^

Yeah I heard that too... apparently, we got the version where Andy Lau lives but there are some countries where it's the other way around. Hmmmm...

Haha oh yea, ning you totally forgot about mark wahlberg. You guys should really see the way he criticise Leo, you'll be blown away! Totally! Not to mention, The last part of the show..... Shan't spoil it all for you guys.. Lol.

That would be Leon Lai. I thought the first Infernal Affairs was pretty damn good, considering the fact that I do not watch asian movies that often...

Are you sure you all are that young? Didn't know who's Leon Lai? Or am I that old already? Ah.... :!!:

I actually saw Infernal Affairs 1 during my army days, I think.

I do remember who Leon Lai is..
Just that i couldn't remember his english name. He didn't really make a deep impression on me, the heydays of the Four heavenly king in hk was when i was still in primary school. ^_^ Haha.

Ade.

Yo bro, we are getting old. I think the 4 heavenly kings are par-se to the youths now. I'm not surprised if there are those who have not heard of the phrase 4 heavenly kings before. Haha... :lol:

2 different endings for Infernal Affairs? Interesting... I loved the movie a lot and I told my friend from Hong Kong to get me the trilogy set but the ending is the same as the one we watch here. If Chan Wing Yan survives in the end then the sequel and prequel makes not much sense cause the link is broken. Funny why the directors would make 2 endings.

It reminds me of another HK move called "Young & Dangerous" not sure you guys heard of it, it was very popular during my secondary days and it starred Ekin Cheng and Jordan Chan. Not only did the movie had differnt endings, the movie had a different beginning as well. The HK version features Ekin playing a triad memeber. Whereas what was shown here features Ekin as an undercover cop. The different ending made the sequeal not possible. Well I guess, our local authorities did not want to feature Triad as such a hip thing back then.

Actually I am not too sure of who the 4 Heavenly Kings is. My time was all about Leslie Cheung, Anita Mui, Alan Tam... oops I mean Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai and SHE.. :P

Anyway, yup, there was 2 versions of Infernal Affairs. The politically correct version was where Andy Lau was arrested in the end but Tony Leung still didn't survive. It was the version they showed in China only, so the version we had in Singapore was the "orginal" version.

About the Young And Dangerous (which I watched during Poly days!!!), the version which Ekin was an undercover cop is rubbish. If you younger generation want to watch it, get it from those Dvd shops, they are selling the original versions of it now.

I... I remember those 20 cents machines where you slot your coin in, twist the knob and an 'idol' card will come out *sheepish grin* I had a mega collection then in primary school... no idea where it went to already but mostly of Aaron Kwok (arrrgh...) and of Takeshi Kaneshiro though he wasn't very hot back then.

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Ahh, the kings would be Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau, Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai.

Man... I think I'm too old for my age ):

I thought the Four Heavenly Kings were Leon Lai, Aaron Kwok, Andy Lau and Jacky Cheung.

Correct me if i am wrong, anyway recently there are too many good movies. The Prestige, The Departed and more to come.

So many good movies, so little cash $$$ :(

Somehow heard from friends, that the story line is very much similiar to The Infernal Affairs as in like breaking the casting of Tony Leung.

Hmm.. How can anyone be too old for their age? Meaning you look 39 when you are only 29? :P