Shutter Island (new Scorsese, w/DiCaprio, Ruffalo, etc)

If it wasn't for the lead, who is in every scene, and the ending, which is the whole reason the movie exists ...

xp that's all well and good but the tell-don't-show sledgehammer bluntness of the "twist" ending made me want to gouge my eyes out

yeah, i know. leo wasn't awful awful, though, until called upon to emote so horrendously in slow, tear-stained motion. for me, it's really just that one sequence that killed the film. everything else was good-bad to great, even the denouement.

I feel like I may have hated on this movie a bit too much. I will have to re-watch it again someday.

I have to admit from the very first shot (when Leo splashes water on his face on the ferry and looks in the mirror and very overpassionately delivers the line "PULL YA'SELF TUHGETHUH, TEDDY") I was like "oh jeez it's gonna be one of *those* movies"

DOOLY

Though tbh it's always refreshing to see a big improbable conspiracy film that ends with "no, he *is* actually crazy" and of course this is not the first film to do that but that always seems to be the less common outcome of films of this nature

movie was hilarious and dumb and gorgeous and i fully approve

like a nolan movie with 90% less annoyance

Don't forget the many long and lingering shots of dead bloody children

tbf i said 'gorgeous' once

this movie was entertaining as fuck and ridiculous and looked awesome. obviously scorsese didn't care about fooling anybody with the story though.

campily horrible and more entertaining than at least a half dozen or so much shittier Scorsese movies (Bringing Out the Dead etc.)

horrible, serious, and less entertaining than most of his.

I can't even look at Scrunchy Face anymore

yeah Sweaty Bigface is really the worst

saw this on a plane, knowing nothing about it and having no expectations, really enjoyed it and did not anticipate ending, so there. i like that it went all in on its sort of ridiculous style choices. if a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

agreed, but Scorsese excelled at the overdoing in The Departed.

My favourite part is when Ben Kingsley actually starts explaining things with a chalkboard and a pointer.

Ha that didn't even occur to me but made me IRL lol reading it

HEY VIEWER HEY VIEWER LOOK LOOK THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON, HERE LET ME WRITE IT DOWN AND THEN POINT TO IT

yes oh my god just kill me

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by the way, though i liked this movie, i don't remember anything about it, including what the big twist was. actually, no, i remember one thing about it, which is that it rained a lot.

nice heavy-handed score iirc

i did end up feeling deflated by the end because creepy pharma nazi prison conspiracy is just cooler than "you're in mad denial bro"

i hate twists

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

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SHUTTER ISLAND: WILL IT SUCK?

^ another good thread FYI

Whenever I think of this movie I just end up singing "Thunder Island" by Jay Ferguson.

i knew i already bitched about this movie somewhere on ilx!

ha ditto

man I hate Ben Kingsley so much. I was talking to a friend who had seen Hugo a while ago, we settled on the idea that the thing that Ben Kingsley is employed by directors to deliver could more efficiently be achieved by just a sustained shot of him standing in a kind of vaudevillian jazz-hands pose & waving a top hat, just beaming anachronistically, spoonfeeding the audience the old time vibe he freelances so reliably.

I feel like this movie just joins a sad canon of post fight club flicks that are clustered together in impotently trying out the shocking reveal denouement like it was something dramatic & new, a comment on our condition. like the machinist or w/e. it'll be like watching Rambo movies to understand how America felt about the war, watching lazy bloated studio pieces cobbled together from dull trends & wondering why these were what we needed to see.

you hate fun. also the score is fantastic.

the machinist much much worse than this fwiw

well sure but that's not saying much

first blood is a masterpiece

Still baffled by Wolf Street--the film, the enthusiasm for it here--I finally took this off the shelf, hoping for a glimmer of...something.

Didn't get it. I have an interpretation, though. Ben Kingsley is Pauline Kael (or the ghost of Kael), Ruffalo is John Cassavetes (or ditto), DiCaprio is Scorsese. All of DiCaprio's fantasies are stand-ins for all the noise of Scorsese's last two decades--the awards, the grandfathered reverence, the best-since-whatever dance. Kingsley/Kael and Ruffalo/Cassavetes are trying the most radical therapy ever, nursing DiCaprio/Scorsese along to a breakthrough moment of acceptance: "I'm lost."

The day that comes when I take Redacted off the shelf to just look for a glimmer of something (or that I'd ever have it on my shelf in the first place) is the day I know I've lost it.

But, no, this movie's cool. Scor's best in the last decade.

take that DVD copy of Redacted and put it where your heart ought to be.

motherfucking distended Twilight Zone

here's your glimmer: DeP communictaes that the USA is the capital of shit in Redacted

You don't glide quite right.

No definitive google results on that line.

https://youtu.be/t1zxmJ2R0eU?t=29m9s

I watched this a second time a few weeks back. It plays a bit better now with the knowledge that fucking Hugo was up next, but its still a confused mess--why address the (potentially compelling) trauma of Teddy's wartime experience if the whole thing just turns out to be about his crazy wife?

I'm still not over Ben Kingsley explaining the plot with a chalkboard and a pointer, either.

Probably my favourite OST ever

Yeah - the soundtrack for this was remarkable. Forgot about that (and I own it!)

I'm still not over Ben Kingsley explaining the plot with a chalkboard and a pointer, either.

http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/images/stills/psycho/psychiat-psycho.jpg

It's like all my favourite second-tier composers! and Max Richter :/