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Interesting Take on the Tattoo Bet

Less than a week to The Departed's DVD release. For those of you who haven't Googled it yet, the memorable Irish punk song from the movie is The Dropkick Murphys' "Shipping Up To Boston."

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Bears fan who lost bet must change name to Peyton Manning. Hopefully he likes 6'5" quarterbacks, laser... rocket arm.


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DVD Release Countdown: The Departed

According to Amazon.com, the 2-disc Special Edition DVD of The Departed is set to be released on February 13, 2007. I saw it 3 times in the theater and 45 more days seems like an eternity. I'll be watching with my glass of cranberry juice at 5:01 p.m.

Amazon's information on this release's Special Features is sparse, but it looks like there will at least be some deleted scenes with introductions by Scorsese, a Boston mob history (probably focusing on Whitey Bulger), a Turner Classic Movies documentary on Scorsese and a featurette on Little Italy's influence on Scorsese. The front and back full-size shots of the cover found here indicate there probably won't be a feature-length commentary by Scorsese and/or any of the actors. If that comes about in the future, though, it will definitely be worth a re-up. Also, I'm more than a little disappointed that there appears to be no featurette on the adaptation process from Infernal Affairs. Again, not deterred in the least from picking it up on Day 1.

The poster to the right is one I'd never seen before. Amazon has it up on its Infernal Affairs page as an alternate DVD cover.

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