Stuckonlife Thanks for New York magazine review :) As the wise man says..." Dave and I may both 'look' at DiCaprio but we certainly don't 'see' the same visual :)

Excerpted from the blog of The Hollywood Reporter's Anne Thompson: This Sunday afternoon I indulged myself by trying to choose the best American fiction film of the past 25 years. Martin Scorsese has knocked out super documentaries along with such features as Goodfellas and The Departed, which are both in the greatness zone. But finally, my money's on Clint Eastwood, who with Million Dollar Baby and Mystic River is also at the height of his powers. My vote for the best American fiction film in the last 25 years goes to a western, the great American genre that reveals the violence and lies that threaten our national soul. 1992's Oscar-winning Unforgiven is more timely than ever. More about the cross-cutting (dare I say the double-cross-cutting? :wink: ) at this USC film school student's blog... http://braundiggity.livejournal.com/168980.html Here's an IA fan's reaction to the film (again with the caveat that you'll enjoy it if you haven't seen the original)... http://details-later.livejournal.com/1436.html

It will be interesting to see how those of us who've seen IA will react to TD. Considering I found the original pretty flawed (except for the acting) I have a gut feeling I'll like TD a little better.

oh, well, its no surprise most serious lovers of IA would have reservations about a remake; it's almost natural to make comparisons.

Edward Douglas has reviewed it at ComingSoon.net.

Art It will be interesting to see how those of us who've seen IA will react to TD I loved IA and have watched the trilogy quite a few times and am actually a little nervous about seeing TD as to what my reaction will be. I am sure the film will be different and on another level from the Chinese version which was so effective in the simplistic way it was filmed. The story is so good and maybe Marty's way of filming will enhance it or maybe not????? I always enjoy a performance by Leo but am still nervous of my reaction compared to the original especially after all the good reviews and hype it has received in the press. Am trying to keep a cautious approach to seeing it. Guess we don't have long to wait now!

The fundamental problem with "Infernal Affairs" was that its complex premise was set up very quickly in its opening five minutes, not giving you any time to know the characters before throwing them together.Damn straight. So for Douglas it's a 7.5 for TD and a 6 for IA.

Thanks for the coming soon link, will. The fundamental problem with "Infernal Affairs" was that its complex premise was set up very quickly in its opening five minutes, not giving you any time to know the characters before throwing them together. I agree. Actually, now that I think about it, that may have been the main prob I had with the film. I'm glad to know that there's plenty of character development in TD.

Thanks Will. Good to read this part: Costello is on par with Nicholson's most memorable characters, even one-upping Eric Tsang's jovial gangster from the original trilogy, and the scenes between Nicholson and DiCaprio are as riveting as the best scenes in Scorsese's past work.

On the blogs, I was getting the impression that Douglas had come to like IA more on subsequent viewings. However he says that TD is "a stronger movie overall."

also surprised to read that Douglas thought the camerawork was mundane cause I thought from reading other reviews, that Scorsese had employed some interesting techn iques.

I think he likes IA. The 6/10 for the original film was given by another reviewer. This review seems to me to be on the negative side, and it reads like a response to other ones. "...but by no means a classic". :roll: Does he say the same for every film he doesn't quite like?

wasn't he one of the early blog people who made comments on it before - he's the one who insisted Scorsese had seen IA. Still not clear on whether Scorsese did or not. He definitely said he didn't see it going into making TD but whether he subsequently did, I dunno.

Douglas is one confused dude.