Talk:The Departed

According to http://www.propstore.com/products.htm?movieIdForm=1455&productsKeywordSearchform=&pageNum=&show_all_items_form=&isSubmitSearch=0&isNewAdditions=0&isArchive=0&categoryIdForm=0&genreIdForm=0&productsSortType=0&recordsPerPage=100

and

http://www.propstore.com/img/products/1455/Damon_SIG228_3.jpg

Damon's gun is a P228. Not a P226.

I've been trying to figure this out myself. PropStore is selling the P228, but in the movie, Damon's gun clearly has the longer barrel and squared trigger guard of the P226. It's possible that armory which supplied the guns was short on 226s and had to use a 228 as a back-up weapon (all "hero" guns on movie sets have a back-up double). But as best I can tell, the only SIGs that appear on-screen in The Departed are 226s. -MT2008 13:09, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

The Image is called Damon_SIG228_3, nothing refering to THIS movie. Could this be a prop from the Bourne movies, didnt he use a 228 in that?

Infernal Affairs rip off

I'm not saying the Departed is a bad movie and they even said they based the main villain boss off a real crook, but I seriously doubt these events were based on anything real. Everything about it is exactly the same as Infernal Affair, except the very last scene of the movie. If you saw the Departed first and then saw the Chinese movie, you'd think the Chinese ripped off a great American movie, but it's entirely the other way around. I'm not going to argue which is superior. They are both good movies since they both told the same story well, just that the Chinese did it first and made a sequel and a prequel out of it. I just want to put down my two cents about this fact. The people behind the movie Departed admitting a bit that their source was a legally acquired "remake" doesn't mean anything. There are remakes, reboots and then there's frame by frame thief. The Departed isn't a bad movie, but that's because it's the same thing of an already good Chinese movie. I mean they even did the same thing in both movies in hiring 2 very well known actors of their respective countries. If the audience sees 2 top actors in their movie, then it must win awards Excalibur01 15:29, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

That is what hollywood does now...they cant make their own movie so they have gone out into the world and start to remake their hard earned movie. Look at "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo". The movie was just put out in 2009 by europe and now hollywood wants to make it again with Daniel Craig and whatever hot american chick they can find. Hollywood wants to remake oldboy...which they should keep their greedy little hands off of because the original is mind blowing. Then lets not forget Death at a Funeral which was a funny movie all and all and it came out in 2007, then hollywood thought they would make a american black version not even two years later and didnt even have the respect for the British Version to replace the midget with another actor, they are that lame with non-originalism they didnt change one thing in the movie almost word for word scene for scene. Spades of Columbia