What the corpus says about The Departed (2006)

What was said about it (26)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche. · "there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface"
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter. · "It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?"
3. [The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Departed · theme · The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat. · "the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot"
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Departed · craft · The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street. · "This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:21:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Asked which soundtrack he prefers, Simmons picks Goodfellas. · "Which soundtrack do you prefer this or Goodfellas?"
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:58:26 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Heat · craft · Heat is long and full of huge stars like this, but Mann's decisions were all considered while The Departed feels like flying by the seat of its pants. · "I felt like heat was crafted. Every decision he makes is really well thought out"
7. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:04:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Boogie Nights · career · 1997 was a better year for Leo, Damon, Nicholson and Wahlberg than 2006: Boogie Nights, Good Will Hunting, Titanic, As Good as It Gets. · "Wahlberg had boogie nights."
8. [Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Departed · career · Nicholson in this film is partway toward his Departed performance. · "He's like 40% of the way to his departed performance."
9. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:26:46 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ The Wire · people · James Badge Dale shows up in lots of things, and they note Black Hawk Down had every actor. · "Every single actor was in Black Hawk Down, so you can just say."
10. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:50:13 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Departed ↔ A Few Good Men · people · Nicholson nailed every line of Sorkin's watertight script in A Few Good Men but is all over the place in The Departed. · "he nails every line of Sorkin dialogue. It's like watertight script."
11. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:19:11 · unknown (0.40)] Apollo 13 ↔ The Departed · industry · Movies break into pop-culture lexicon slowly, 10 to 15 years; The Town and The Departed cited. · "I think it takes like 10 to 15 years."
12. [The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:53:12 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Departed · what-if · Asking whether Mark Wahlberg in The Departed beats Reilly in Talladega at that year's Oscars. · "Is he actually better in the departed than John C. Riley is in Talladeganites?"
13. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:02:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Gangs of New York · audience anticipation · Simmons felt the same big-names anticipation for Gangs of New York as for The Departed. · "the other time I remember feeling it was gangs, gangs of New York in 2002"
14. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:02:24 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · too satisfying · Seeing something that is exactly what you want, like this cast or No Country, can feel weirdly unsatisfying. · "I had it too when I saw No Country for Old Men because I love that book so much."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:09:47 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Departed ↔ Heat · star clash · The Nicholson-DiCaprio scene echoes the Pacino-De Niro anticipation of their Heat scene, though with less weight. · "it was like this anticipation of Pacino and De Niro finally being in a scene together."
16. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:11:53 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] The Departed ↔ Goodfellas · greatest hits · Ryan says The Departed recycles Scorsese's camera moves from his career like a greatest-hits album, with no single shot to rival the Copacabana tracking shot or the Goodfellas freeze frames. · "there's not one single shot in the departed that you would put up against like the Copacabana tracking shot or any of the slow-mo freeze frame stuff and Goodfellas or Raging Bull"
17. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Casino · repeated song · Scorsese used Gimme Shelter a third time here after Goodfellas and Casino, which they find funny and a sign of his Stones fetish. · "Scorsese using Gimme Shelter 3rd time."
18. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:39:41 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Departed ↔ Blown Away · Boston geography · Blown Away has its own violations of Boston geography, like a downhill chase for fifteen blocks and a Four Seasons view that does not exist. · "Blown away with Jeff Bridges, which has its own just severe violations of Boston."
19. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:52:21 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ The Irishman · Whitey Bulger movie · Scorsese's next gangster movie with De Niro, Pacino and Pesci would be de-aged digitally and paid for by Netflix. · "It's De Niro Pacino and Joe Pesci."
20. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:56:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Glengarry Glen Ross · speech · Wahlberg dressing down Leo is called the Alec Baldwin Glengarry speech. · "he gives him the Alec Baldwin Glengarry speech."
21. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:56:54 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] The Departed ↔ Cast Away · flaws make it rewatchable · Simmons likes movies with questions to chew on, like Cast Away, which he can talk about for an hour. · "The flaws do make it more rewatchable, right?"
22. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:57:06 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · perfect vs rewatchable · No Country is note perfect but he has watched it far fewer times than The Departed, because flawed movies leave room to check out and ask questions. · "I have watched it 80% less than the departed because the departed, it actually feels like a roller coaster ride when you're on it."
23. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:17:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Dropkick Murphys · craft · The Dropkick Murphys needle drop over the title sequence is singled out as a high point of the film. · "The title sequence coming in 18 minutes in with Dropkick Murphy."
24. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:24:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Robbie Robertson · contrast · A host says that for the fee a name like Robertson commands, the Departed soundtrack should beat classic-radio picks like Gimme Shelter. · "you could do better than every classic radio station in America"
25. [Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:45:29 · unknown (0.30)] James Badge Dale ↔ The Departed · career · Dale is in The Departed as the man who shoots Leo and is revealed to be with Nicholson. · "he's the guy who shoots Leo."
26. [The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:18:55 · unknown (0.40)] Matt Damon ↔ The Departed · what-if · If Damon had spent the mid-2000s on Avatar he might not have been in The Departed. · "maybe he's not in the departed."

Films put beside it more than once (3)

1. [pairs] The Departed ↔ Heat · said 2 times in 1 episode
2. [pairs] The Departed ↔ Goodfellas · said 2 times in 1 episode
3. [pairs] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed · fun · The F word and its variations appear 238 times, making it a tough fit for basic cable. · "there's 238 swears or variations of the F word in this movie"
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:14:43 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] The Departed · fun · Casting what-ifs: Pitt (producer) was Damon's part, Liotta then Leary for Dignam, Pacino for Costello, De Niro for Sheen's part, Gibson for Baldwin's. · "Brad Pitt was supposed to be Damon's part dropped out, ended up producing the movie."
3. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:14:54 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Departed · fun · Wahlberg and Baldwin were shot first because the production only had them for about four days. · "Mark Wahlberg had to film all the scenes at the beginning of the filming because they only had them for like 4 days."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:17:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Departed · fun · The title card arrives 18 minutes in, after a long Nicholson voiceover; Leo pulling up in jail is where the title lands. · "The title sequence coming in 18 minutes in with Dropkick Murphy."
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:23:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed · fun · Worst-aged plot point winner: Damon texting a long message from inside his pocket on a flip phone, the triple crown of texting. · "It's the triple crown of texting."
6. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:40:56 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Departed · fun · Ryan's overarching theory: Leo and Damon are two ways of living in America, compartmentalized ambition vs vulnerability, and America destroys both while guys like Dignam survive. · "either way, even no matter which road you choose, America will destroy you."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (18)

1. [The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
2. [The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
3. [The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Cormac McCarthy ⇒ No Country for Old Men (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts McCarthy's 2005 novel and the Coens refused to water it down. · "You can tell the cones were determined not to water down McCarthy's book."
4. [The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
5. [The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Apollo 13 · programming · The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4. · "Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th."
6. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
7. [The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
8. [Blank Check · Fargo · 2:02:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Stormare ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Gaear caring about Jerry's cruelty is compared to Tommy Lee Jones's sheriff not knowing whether he belongs in this world. · "This is like his Tommy Lee Jones in no country sort of like conundrum where he's like, I don't even know if I belong in this world."
9. [The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
10. [The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
11. [The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
12. [The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
13. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
14. [The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
15. [The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
16. [The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:04:13 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · theme · Both arrived as the Bush era wound down and prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century. · "No country for old men in W arrived just as the Bush era was winding down, and both movies prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century so far."
17. [The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] 12 Angry Men ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · 12 Angry Men is a technicality: a morality play in a side room, not a courtroom drama. · "It's a morality play inside of a side room related to a courtroom"
18. [The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

1. [speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
2. [speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
3. [speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
4. [speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie

The shows' running bits (3)

1. [bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
2. [bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
3. [bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished The Departed (2006) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about The Departed (2006) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche. · "there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter. · "It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?"
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Departed · theme · The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat. · "the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Departed · craft · The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street. · "This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:21:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Goodfellas · craft · Asked which soundtrack he prefers, Simmons picks Goodfellas. · "Which soundtrack do you prefer this or Goodfellas?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:58:26 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Heat · craft · Heat is long and full of huge stars like this, but Mann's decisions were all considered while The Departed feels like flying by the seat of its pants. · "I felt like heat was crafted. Every decision he makes is really well thought out"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:04:58 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Boogie Nights · career · 1997 was a better year for Leo, Damon, Nicholson and Wahlberg than 2006: Boogie Nights, Good Will Hunting, Titanic, As Good as It Gets. · "Wahlberg had boogie nights."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give · 1:11:05 · unknown (0.40)] Something's Gotta Give ↔ The Departed · career · Nicholson in this film is partway toward his Departed performance. · "He's like 40% of the way to his departed performance."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:26:46 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ The Wire · people · James Badge Dale shows up in lots of things, and they note Black Hawk Down had every actor. · "Every single actor was in Black Hawk Down, so you can just say."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:50:13 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Departed ↔ A Few Good Men · people · Nicholson nailed every line of Sorkin's watertight script in A Few Good Men but is all over the place in The Departed. · "he nails every line of Sorkin dialogue. It's like watertight script."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:19:11 · unknown (0.40)] Apollo 13 ↔ The Departed · industry · Movies break into pop-culture lexicon slowly, 10 to 15 years; The Town and The Departed cited. · "I think it takes like 10 to 15 years."
[The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' · 1:53:12 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby ↔ The Departed · what-if · Asking whether Mark Wahlberg in The Departed beats Reilly in Talladega at that year's Oscars. · "Is he actually better in the departed than John C. Riley is in Talladeganites?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:02:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Gangs of New York · audience anticipation · Simmons felt the same big-names anticipation for Gangs of New York as for The Departed. · "the other time I remember feeling it was gangs, gangs of New York in 2002"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:02:24 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · too satisfying · Seeing something that is exactly what you want, like this cast or No Country, can feel weirdly unsatisfying. · "I had it too when I saw No Country for Old Men because I love that book so much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:09:47 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Departed ↔ Heat · star clash · The Nicholson-DiCaprio scene echoes the Pacino-De Niro anticipation of their Heat scene, though with less weight. · "it was like this anticipation of Pacino and De Niro finally being in a scene together."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:11:53 · Chris Ryan (0.75)] The Departed ↔ Goodfellas · greatest hits · Ryan says The Departed recycles Scorsese's camera moves from his career like a greatest-hits album, with no single shot to rival the Copacabana tracking shot or the Goodfellas freeze frames. · "there's not one single shot in the departed that you would put up against like the Copacabana tracking shot or any of the slow-mo freeze frame stuff and Goodfellas or Raging Bull"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:24:16 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed ↔ Casino · repeated song · Scorsese used Gimme Shelter a third time here after Goodfellas and Casino, which they find funny and a sign of his Stones fetish. · "Scorsese using Gimme Shelter 3rd time."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:39:41 · Bill Simmons (0.65)] The Departed ↔ Blown Away · Boston geography · Blown Away has its own violations of Boston geography, like a downhill chase for fifteen blocks and a Four Seasons view that does not exist. · "Blown away with Jeff Bridges, which has its own just severe violations of Boston."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:52:21 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] The Departed ↔ The Irishman · Whitey Bulger movie · Scorsese's next gangster movie with De Niro, Pacino and Pesci would be de-aged digitally and paid for by Netflix. · "It's De Niro Pacino and Joe Pesci."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:56:00 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Glengarry Glen Ross · speech · Wahlberg dressing down Leo is called the Alec Baldwin Glengarry speech. · "he gives him the Alec Baldwin Glengarry speech."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:56:54 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] The Departed ↔ Cast Away · flaws make it rewatchable · Simmons likes movies with questions to chew on, like Cast Away, which he can talk about for an hour. · "The flaws do make it more rewatchable, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:57:06 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · perfect vs rewatchable · No Country is note perfect but he has watched it far fewer times than The Departed, because flawed movies leave room to check out and ask questions. · "I have watched it 80% less than the departed because the departed, it actually feels like a roller coaster ride when you're on it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:17:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Dropkick Murphys · craft · The Dropkick Murphys needle drop over the title sequence is singled out as a high point of the film. · "The title sequence coming in 18 minutes in with Dropkick Murphy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:24:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Robbie Robertson · contrast · A host says that for the fee a name like Robertson commands, the Departed soundtrack should beat classic-radio picks like Gimme Shelter. · "you could do better than every classic radio station in America"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 3 · 0:45:29 · unknown (0.30)] James Badge Dale ↔ The Departed · career · Dale is in The Departed as the man who shoots Leo and is revealed to be with Nicholson. · "he's the guy who shoots Leo."
[The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate · 0:18:55 · unknown (0.40)] Matt Damon ↔ The Departed · what-if · If Damon had spent the mid-2000s on Avatar he might not have been in The Departed. · "maybe he's not in the departed."
[pairs] The Departed ↔ Heat · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Departed ↔ Goodfellas · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:03:12 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] The Departed · fun · The F word and its variations appear 238 times, making it a tough fit for basic cable. · "there's 238 swears or variations of the F word in this movie"
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:14:43 · Bill Simmons (0.75)] The Departed · fun · Casting what-ifs: Pitt (producer) was Damon's part, Liotta then Leary for Dignam, Pacino for Costello, De Niro for Sheen's part, Gibson for Baldwin's. · "Brad Pitt was supposed to be Damon's part dropped out, ended up producing the movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:14:54 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Departed · fun · Wahlberg and Baldwin were shot first because the production only had them for about four days. · "Mark Wahlberg had to film all the scenes at the beginning of the filming because they only had them for like 4 days."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:17:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] The Departed · fun · The title card arrives 18 minutes in, after a long Nicholson voiceover; Leo pulling up in jail is where the title lands. · "The title sequence coming in 18 minutes in with Dropkick Murphy."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:23:28 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed · fun · Worst-aged plot point winner: Damon texting a long message from inside his pocket on a flip phone, the triple crown of texting. · "It's the triple crown of texting."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:40:56 · Chris Ryan (0.70)] The Departed · fun · Ryan's overarching theory: Leo and Damon are two ways of living in America, compartmentalized ambition vs vulnerability, and America destroys both while guys like Dignam survive. · "either way, even no matter which road you choose, America will destroy you."
[The Rewatchables · ‘My Cousin Vinny’ · 1:18:20 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] My Cousin Vinny ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Best double feature: Goodfellas then Vinny, though Vinny is too close in length. · "I was going to say Goodfellas to this is pretty great."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Thief’ · 1:19:45 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Thief ↔ Heat · programming · Rewatchable does Mann films: five done, others remaining. · "How many Michael Mann movies have we done now?"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Cormac McCarthy ⇒ No Country for Old Men (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts McCarthy's 2005 novel and the Coens refused to water it down. · "You can tell the cones were determined not to water down McCarthy's book."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ · 0:15:13 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Misery ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Misery sits in Reiner's incredible trio, all now Rewatchables. · "But when Harry Met Ali, Misery, Few Good Men, is really the best of all of these different great actors, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:08:25 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] Twister ↔ Apollo 13 · programming · The 1995 summer slate (Crimson Tide, Die Hard, Braveheart, Batman Forever, Apollo 13) was when Hollywood began slamming mid-May to July 4. · "Batman forever, Apollo 13th all before July 4th."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:26:39 · Chris Ryan (0.90)] Chris Ryan ↔ Goodfellas · programming · Pick 1 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Easy first pick; one of his favorite movies ever made. · "one of my favorite movies ever made, Martin Scorsese's uh, epic, darkly comic look at the rise and fall of the American mob"
[The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:13:26 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Heat ↔ The Rewatchables · programming · Chris listened to the Reheat Rewatchables episode, celebrating 100 episodes, the morning of recording. · "I also listened to the reheat this morning"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:02:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Stormare ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Gaear caring about Jerry's cruelty is compared to Tommy Lee Jones's sheriff not knowing whether he belongs in this world. · "This is like his Tommy Lee Jones in no country sort of like conundrum where he's like, I don't even know if I belong in this world."
[The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 1:19:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] A Few Good Men ↔ Network · programming · It is in the conversation for most rewatched movie of a lifetime, next to Network, Oz, Godfather, Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction. · "and a few good men is right there with it."
[The Rewatchables · ‘A Bronx Tale’ · 1:32:47 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] A Bronx Tale ↔ Goodfellas · lineage · Fennessey wonders whether the needle drops and the Pesci cameo are purposeful homage or accident. · "I just want to know how much of what he was doing was a purposeful homage to Goodfellas"
[The Big Picture · 300th Episode Ask-Us-Anything Mailbag Spectacular · 2:07:39 · Garrett Bradley (0.90)] Heat ↔ Time · programming · Bradley's last great thing was rewatching Heat, which prompted talk of the 90s. · "I rewatched Heat"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:11:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.80)] The Pelican Brief ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · Disqualified: legal thriller, not courtroom drama, operating outside the courtroom. · "operates almost entirely outside of the courtroom"
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:31:51 · unknown (0.40)] Goodfellas ⇒ My Blue Heaven (the host's read) · lineage · My Blue Heaven is blown out by Goodfellas as it is the same movie, like a sequel. · "It got kind of blown out of the water by Goodfellas because it's the same movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Insider’ · 0:08:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Last of the Mohicans ↔ Heat · lineage · Heat is described as the urban version of Last of the Mohicans, a step in Mann's progression toward The Insider. · "Then you've got heat, which in some ways is the urban version of Last of the Mohicans."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:04:13 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · theme · Both arrived as the Bush era wound down and prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century. · "No country for old men in W arrived just as the Bush era was winding down, and both movies prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century so far."
[The Big Picture · Objection! Top 10 Courtroom Dramas | The Big Picture · 0:12:02 · Sean Fennessey (0.85)] 12 Angry Men ↔ A Few Good Men · programming · 12 Angry Men is a technicality: a morality play in a side room, not a courtroom drama. · "It's a morality play inside of a side room related to a courtroom"
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:36:27 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Shawshank Redemption ↔ Goodfellas · theme · Listener's list of narrated Rewatchables: Shawshank, Goodfellas, Apocalypse Now, Ferris Bueller, Fight Club, Stand by Me, Big Lebowski and more. · "He, best movie of all time, Shawshank."
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Craig Horlbeck · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · First-time viewer of the series; expected Jason and was thrown by Mrs. Voorhees. Rates the film a 4 or 5 and singled out the canoe ending as the best scene. Prefers the Chain Saw's intensity. · stances: Rug-pulled by the killer-mom reveal; The ending saves the movie
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with The Departed (2006); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend The Departed (2006) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.