[Movie] The Departed VS. Infernal Affairs

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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?

There's nowhere I can't reach.