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user-inactivated  ·  3756 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Movie Club - Voting Thread #3

    4) It isn't an exercise in inevitability, like every Scorcese/Coppola/Pileggi film.

Yeah. Take The Departed. Scorsese spent a lot of time making the first two hours a very interesting movie, I guess because he didn't even have to think about the ending, which was set in stone from the moment he decided to make a genre crime film.