The Departed ... and something else

We seem to have gotten into a habit of doubling-up our movie nights. We'll watch the movie we plan to see and then catch something else interesting on TV or watch something short on DVD.
Saturday, we started with The Departed which I'd had home from the library on DVD for way too long. Somehow, despite all the hype from its release last year and the Oscar wins, I managed to keep myself ignorant of the ending (much thanks to my friends who saw it and didn't spoil it for me) which is probably best as many of the better points of the film have to do with the element of surprise.
Performance-wise, there's very little that I can add to the accolades that Nicholson, Damon, and DiCaprio have already garnered. I particularly liked Wahlberg's character who just seems to be one giant ball of cuss most of the time (hence, the less-used teaser poster I chose for my graphic) and I thought his Oscar nomination for Supporting Actor was reasonable. (I particularly enjoyed the irony expressed in the intro at the Academy Awards where they point out that he was being nominated for playing a cop in a city where he'd been arrested over two dozen times in his youth.) Martin Sheen, as the Captain, and Vera Farmiga, as the romantic interest for both DiCaprio and Damon (there's an element of ew there), were also excellent supporting players. I did think that the relationship between Sheen's character and DiCaprio needed more fleshing-out. I didn't see the basis of Queenen (Sheen) asking Costigan (DiCaprio) to go undercover with the "do it for me" line. It was one of the many points that were lost in the translation from the original Hong Kong film, Infernal Affairs, I think.
From what I've found online, Scorsese chose to shoot the alternate ending to IA but incorporate many elements from the two sequels, thus creating a much longer film that tries to tie together the past, present and (somewhat) future of the characters. Madden (Farmiga) is a compilation of three minor female charactes from the three Hong Kong films and Wahlberg's character is almost totally invented for the Hollywood version. The focus on Nicholson's role is also different from the original, wherein the mob boss is a catalyst but not a major player. Obviously, I'll be looking to watch the original (and possibly the sequels) sometime in the future.
I enjoyed The Departed although whether it was deserving of all the hype and awards to the extent that it was lauded is questionable to me. Last night, we caught Goodfellas on the History Channel and I'm pretty sure I'm with the majority in feeling that Scorsese's 1990 work was a much better film.
But Goodfellas isn't the other half of this review. After watching The Departed, we were flipping channels and found Vampiros Lesbos, a 1971 collaboration between Spain, Turkey and Germany. A female-centred re-telling of Dracula, BER cited it as quite possibly the worst movie ever made, which I had always considered the sole territory of Roger Ebert's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (released in 1970 and thus predating VL). Yeah, it's bad. Really terrible. It's a little shorter than Beyond... but, with Showcase cutting away to commercials at the absolute worst moments, it's plot is either really, really, really simplistic or way too complicated for me. Even thrown into the arena of psychedelic soft porn, it fares badly. In short, it's an 89 minute train-wreck (91 minutes in Argentina apparently).