I finally got around to seeing The Departed the other day and was excited because I heard so many people saying TBD ripped it off, so I figured a lot of the same things would occur. Besides being about the Irish Mob (the Irish factor had little relevance anyway), can someone please tell me how TBD was a copycat of this?
SPOILER:
1. The head boss dies (the head boss dies in almost every mob movie, so no rip-off here)
2. The main characters were cops, none of which were related or even liked one another as they are and do in TBD (still no ripoff)
3. The movie is in Boston not New York (geography isn't a factor, not ripping off)
4. There's a shootout in the end (every action movie ever made, but not a ripoff of The Departed)
5. No Joey Ice Cream Narration in The Departed
6. The Departed was mob vs. cops, TBD was irish vs. italians, then later irish vs. irish and italian vs. italian. Never a mob vs. cop factor.
7. TBD was big on slowmotion action scenes, The Departed didn't have any slow motions(Production and Directing weren't even close in relation) and that was just one factor.
8. The only reason you even remember this is an Irish movie in The Departed is that they play Dropkick Murphys a couple of times. TBD stressed this in every episode (Their name, their Irish neighborhood, hating the Italians, "hot heads")
Where is the rip off that I'm missing? By the way, I thought many of TBD episodes alone were better than The Departed, not to mention when you take the series as a whole and compare it to The Departed.
Full Version: Compares to The Departed?
QUOTE (im mad at nbc @ Jun 6 2007, 10:38 AM) 
I finally got around to seeing The Departed the other day and was excited because I heard so many people saying TBD ripped it off, so I figured a lot of the same things would occur. Besides being about the Irish Mob (the Irish factor had little relevance anyway), can someone please tell me how TBD was a copycat of this?
SPOILER:
1. The head boss dies (the head boss dies in almost every mob movie, so no rip-off here)
2. The main characters were cops, none of which were related or even liked one another as they are and do in TBD (still no ripoff)
3. The movie is in Boston not New York (geography isn't a factor, not ripping off)
4. There's a shootout in the end (every action movie ever made, but not a ripoff of The Departed)
5. No Joey Ice Cream Narration in The Departed
6. The Departed was mob vs. cops, TBD was irish vs. italians, then later irish vs. irish and italian vs. italian. Never a mob vs. cop factor.
7. TBD was big on slowmotion action scenes, The Departed didn't have any slow motions(Production and Directing weren't even close in relation) and that was just one factor.
8. The only reason you even remember this is an Irish movie in The Departed is that they play Dropkick Murphys a couple of times. TBD stressed this in every episode (Their name, their Irish neighborhood, hating the Italians, "hot heads")
Where is the rip off that I'm missing? By the way, I thought many of TBD episodes alone were better than The Departed, not to mention when you take the series as a whole and compare it to The Departed.
SPOILER:
1. The head boss dies (the head boss dies in almost every mob movie, so no rip-off here)
2. The main characters were cops, none of which were related or even liked one another as they are and do in TBD (still no ripoff)
3. The movie is in Boston not New York (geography isn't a factor, not ripping off)
4. There's a shootout in the end (every action movie ever made, but not a ripoff of The Departed)
5. No Joey Ice Cream Narration in The Departed
6. The Departed was mob vs. cops, TBD was irish vs. italians, then later irish vs. irish and italian vs. italian. Never a mob vs. cop factor.
7. TBD was big on slowmotion action scenes, The Departed didn't have any slow motions(Production and Directing weren't even close in relation) and that was just one factor.
8. The only reason you even remember this is an Irish movie in The Departed is that they play Dropkick Murphys a couple of times. TBD stressed this in every episode (Their name, their Irish neighborhood, hating the Italians, "hot heads")
Where is the rip off that I'm missing? By the way, I thought many of TBD episodes alone were better than The Departed, not to mention when you take the series as a whole and compare it to The Departed.
I agree - it is not The Departed at all, nor is it like any other mob movie
Why was TBD compared to The Departed?
A. The Irish Mob
B. It premiered the day after The Departed won Best Pic.
C. Some of the promos NBC whipped up used "Shipping Out To Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys which was also used in The Departed. Note that this song was not used ANYWHERE in the show.
Pretty shaky grounds to call TBD a Departed ripoff if you ask me. By the time the movie came out over half the episodes were already finished.
A. The Irish Mob
B. It premiered the day after The Departed won Best Pic.
C. Some of the promos NBC whipped up used "Shipping Out To Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys which was also used in The Departed. Note that this song was not used ANYWHERE in the show.
Pretty shaky grounds to call TBD a Departed ripoff if you ask me. By the time the movie came out over half the episodes were already finished.
yeah, i don't think it's a ripoff either. i absolutely LOOOVE the departed, it's a great movie. i think it's got to do with the song & just the fact that it's mob related. ok, and maybe there's a couple of hot guys in it...lol. but, to me tbd is about family. the departed just isn't!
QUOTE (4clovers @ Jun 7 2007, 06:28 AM)
but, to me tbd is about family. the departed just isn't!
DING!
QUOTE (polyh3dron @ Jun 7 2007, 03:23 PM)
DING!
I only see the Irish vs the Italian thing in The Departed to me thats it the storyline is not even close I do see a big similarity in Bobby Maresco's film 10th & Wolf only the boys are Italian and it came out in 2006 the ending could easily be the same ending for TBD's its on TMC this month a couple of times, I posted the dates & times on another post
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