S16 Ep856: The Departed (2006, W❤️M) EXTENDED PREVIEW
We Hate Movies
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4.7 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
“Martin Sheen pops like a grape!” - Andrew on Captain Queenan’s demise
On this month’s We ❤️ Movies, Remake-ril is in full effect as we chat about Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning remake, The Departed!
A reimagining of Andrew Lau Wai-Keung & Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs, this is the flick that finally won Scorsese his first (and only) Oscar for directing. How majestic are all these wild-ass accents flying around this movie? Is this Marty’s most grim look at the mob? How great is this Damon/Farmiga elevator meet cute? Isn’t it great looking back at all this quaint cell phone technology? And how lucky are we to have gotten one last amazing Nicholson psycho performance? PLUS: If Yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy shows up at your apartment wearing paper booties, look out!
The Departed stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Corrigan, James Badge Dale, and Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello; directed by Martin Scorsese.
Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
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| 0:00.0 | I've never seen that I didn't have time to watch Infernal Affairs. |
| 0:14.0 | I always mean to watch it. |
| 0:16.0 | So I've never seen it. |
| 0:17.3 | Is it faithful? |
| 0:19.7 | Apparently, Scorsesee didn't watch |
| 0:21.4 | Infertil Affairs before. Kind of didn't even know he was making a remake until he did the movie and like, then refused to watch the movie to not be influenced by it. Well, I mean, that's fair. I mean, I could see not wanting to be influenced by it. It's similar. Yeah, I rewatch, well, I watched it for the first time, I should say. |
| 0:37.8 | I like to say re, because it's requal. |
| 0:40.3 | Or see, McRle. |
| 0:41.3 | Re. It's similar. Yeah, I rewatch, oh, I watched it for the first time, I should say. |
| 0:37.8 | I like to say re, because it's requil. |
| 0:40.4 | Remaicrel. Remaquel. I rewatched. I watched it. Oh, my God. I watched it the other day. And it's good. It's good. It is pretty faithful to this. you got the whole like one guy going into the police academy, one guy, you know, the, the dynamics there are pretty much similar. There's a pile of bodies at the end that's very similar. There's not the love triangle, though, I don't think. But then again, I wasn't bribing. It was the weekend. Hey, dude, you were off the clock. It was off the clock. Some off the clock infernal affairs. Oh, yeah, dude. Don't worry about it. I won't remember half of them. Chris, is that what? You've seen it. Oh, yeah, yeah. The first one is really good. I've seen the other two, but I complete this. I was imbibing quite a bit when I did watch them. It was a while ago. Whenever the criterion put out the big set is when I did it. |
| 1:31.5 | I do. |
| 1:31.9 | I mean, it makes sense, though, because, like, all the action movies from China and from Hong Kong, from all that area, it was all influenced by Scorsese. |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.0 | They were all obsessed with mean streets. |
| 1:43.8 | They're all obsessed with taxi driver. |
| 1:45.9 | Like that, |
| 1:46.3 | it totally makes sense that this would come back in some way. |
| 1:49.6 | And I honestly, |
| 1:50.7 | the pace, |
| 1:52.2 | which does feel, |
| 1:53.3 | like this feels like what brought us to Wolf of Wall Street. |
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