Snatch.

Directed by Guy Ritchie…biggest names being Brad Pitt and Benicio del Toro. The plot, similarily to Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is huge mess of people and confusion…in a good way. It’s good, and it’s a style that he makes work.
There are people searching for the monster of a diamond…and people stealing it off of each other, along with a series of rigged boxing matches with a participant that isn’t exactly willing to win and lose when he is supposed to.
Brad Pitt plays Mickey…the gypsy boxer who has a mind of his own. Definitely my favourite character by far…They joke in the film about them having an accent that is not understandable…it not being English or Irish, but seemingly a combination of them both, mixed with pure gibberish. However, I found myself understanding him quite easily…and I’ve come to the conclusion, that his accent sounds extremely similar to that of a Newfie! I know a few people, a friends family actually, that come from Newfoundland and that’s exactly what they sound like. Anyway, off track.
I was actually a little disappointed by how similar I found it to be to Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels…
Some of the same actors were used, some of the characters were extremely similar, the plot was a similar tangled web of murders and stealing.
It was still good. I just would have liked more to see something a little different from the director…because I really enjoyed Lock Stock…
The short, witty comments almost make this movie for me. I laughed non stop…
It was good…I’m going to stop, cause Im not even going to attempt to begin to loosely describe the plot.

8/10

The Departed

I thought it was a pretty decent film. I read that it was based off another film ‘Internal Affairs’, a Hong Kong movie or something? and might want to check that one out too.
The plot was okay, decent...nothing special or unexpected really…. I mean, I don’t think…
Basically you got two cops…one is undercover for the good guys, one is undercover for the bad guys.
I liked the ending ish...I won't say exactly what happened in case someone wants to see it, but I really wasn't expecting what happened when the elevator door opened. It surprised me at first…but then the more I thought about it mehh…it lost its appeal.
Uhm, this is another one with Leo...huh, I've been watching a lot with him in it lately (I’ve seen Shutter Island, Revolutionary Road, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape all within the past week). I really liked him in it, I thought his acting was good, and he is incredibly good looking to boot. And Jack Nicholson!! He was old and fat lol! (I’ve also very recently seen him in ‘The Shining’ and ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest’) Once I got over that, I really liked him too, the perfect asshole. I think that’s how a total dick is supposed to be played. I think the assholes always come off too full of themselves and it just turns me off.
Now, negative aspects of the film, some of the situations just seemed a little bit too far-fetched. I know its Hollywood; I know it’s a movie blah blah blah. I always keep that in mind, but this went a bit over that.
I hate Matt Damon. That’s it. I think he's a terrible actor in the first place, and I thought his character was pretty one dimensional. I think that’s all the acknowledgment that guy deserves, I really despise him. Same with Mark Wahlberg…oh man, after I saw The Happening, I can never look at him the same again. I never thought he was a good actor…but that movie…fuck.
Also, believe it or not, all the 'fucks' just desensitized me to the word, and then when it could have really made an impact...it didn’t.
Uhm...also the love triangle between the two guys and the shrink...what really was the point of that? I’m probably just being really thick, but in the beginning the way they played it up, I expected it to be really significant later on…and it just wasn’t…I don’t think.

7/10