My opinion may be bias as this is a Chinese film and I'm Chinese but I really preferred the original over the departed. I felt that the "great fall" scene in Infernal Affairs was much better done, the whole slow motion and soundtrack at that point made the moment so much better. Like Kairi Li said, the Canto actors they hired were garbage, when I first heard them I was like wth!? I could hardly understand them myself. The American version in general I felt didn't portray enough emotion, they tried putting comedy into a serious story.

I was also pretty ticked that they didn't give proper credit to the original. Maybe it was just the version I got, but I only saw "In association with Asian Media Film" and nothing else.

And yeah, I noticed that they called it a Japanese film, which, no offense to Japanese people, ticked me off. But yeah, getting Best Picture for a movie you basically copied scene for scene was suprising.

Actually Orion just PMed me and said the producer and Marty both thanked the original movie.

THANK YOU! Marty, you defintly deserve your prize now. Dunno about whoever came up with "let's make a remake", but props to Scorses for mentioning it.

And boo to those who said it was Japanese, the Chinese Americans are probably having a field day. Its like calling an Aussie guy a Brit, or a Canadian guy American, you DON"T GO THERE unless you're sure, and if you can't tell, ASK! Or in the case of the movie, uh, 5 seconds on google?

This is just as bad as hiring random Chinese guys who can't speak Canton, and try to pass them off as such.

Yeah, I was happy when they said in the thank yous that it was based off the Hong Kong film. But yeah, it still puzzles me how you win best picture for having a movie that is adapted. Best picture is like best story or overall movie right? So since the story wasn't even his, how does he win it?

Oh. OH. Watch Garfield 2 and the pub scene with "Brits" shouting "Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!"

Now that The Departed has won the biggies for the Oscars, I think I might finally watch it. I've never been a fan of Leo DiCaprio but after watching Blood Diamond I think I might put the differences aside.