I dunno, man, maybe I just don't like gangster movies.

I just finished watching The Departed and all I could say was: For this Scorsese won the Oscar? Everybody and their sister seems to think this is a great film, and I'm not saying it's bad. I don't believe in "auteurs" but if I did Scorsese would be one.

What kept this film interesting for me was that I kept imagining it as a story I was being told in his trademark coked-up (even if he's straight) verbal style. The characterizations overall seemed to me to be about as dimensional as a piece of cardboard, and the woman's part...

Well, far be it from me to stereotype, but if you didn't know already that Scorsese was Italian...