movie was hilarious and dumb and gorgeous and i fully approve
― The Finnish Question........after question......after question....a (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
like a nolan movie with 90% less annoyance
Don't forget the many long and lingering shots of dead bloody children
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
tbf i said 'gorgeous' once
― The Finnish Question........after question......after question....a (darraghmac), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
this movie was entertaining as fuck and ridiculous and looked awesome. obviously scorsese didn't care about fooling anybody with the story though.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
campily horrible and more entertaining than at least a half dozen or so much shittier Scorsese movies (Bringing Out the Dead etc.)
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
horrible, serious, and less entertaining than most of his.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:44 (eleven years ago) link
I can't even look at Scrunchy Face anymore
yeah Sweaty Bigface is really the worst
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
agreed, but Scorsese excelled at the overdoing in The Departed.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
My favourite part is when Ben Kingsley actually starts explaining things with a chalkboard and a pointer.
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
Ha that didn't even occur to me but made me IRL lol reading it
― hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
HEY VIEWER HEY VIEWER LOOK LOOK THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON, HERE LET ME WRITE IT DOWN AND THEN POINT TO IT
― hoda nkotb (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
yes oh my god just kill me
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2010/2/9/1265709060595/Shutter-Island-001.jpg
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
nice heavy-handed score iirc
― goole, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― goole, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
i hate twists
― goole, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
http://i50.tinypic.com/ndtu38.gif
― am0n, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 19:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
i knew i already bitched about this movie somewhere on ilx!
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
ha ditto
― goole, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― daft on the causes of punk (schlump), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
you hate fun. also the score is fantastic.
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
the machinist much much worse than this fwiw
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
well sure but that's not saying much
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
first blood is a masterpiece
― am0n, Wednesday, 24 April 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
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."
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
But, no, this movie's cool. Scor's best in the last decade.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link
take that DVD copy of Redacted and put it where your heart ought to be.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:22 (ten years ago) link
motherfucking distended Twilight Zone
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
here's your glimmer: DeP communictaes that the USA is the capital of shit in Redacted
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:57 (ten years ago) link
You don't glide quite right.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
No definitive google results on that line.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 16:01 (ten years ago) link
https://youtu.be/t1zxmJ2R0eU?t=29m9s
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 16:04 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 20:18 (ten years ago) link
Probably my favourite OST ever
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
Yeah - the soundtrack for this was remarkable. Forgot about that (and I own it!)
― That elusive North American wood-ape (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
http://faculty.cua.edu/johnsong/hitchcock/images/stills/psycho/psychiat-psycho.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
It's like all my favourite second-tier composers! and Max Richter :/
― pretty krulls make glaives (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
OP crazy otm tbf
― gelatinate mess (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
Cryptosicko and Josh: as I watched Kingsley's dreary explanatory scene, Psycho was exactly what I thought of--even wondered if Scorsese was partly parodying the Simon Oakland scene, like De Palma did in Dressed to Kill. Actually, I thought Kingsley and von Sydow were pretty good in this--they at least seem to be having fun. DiCaprio's terrible.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
this felt like scorsese wanting to do some kind of absurd OTT project on a whim, just for kicks. Which is nice when you're able to do that on this kind of budget.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:23 (ten years ago) link
I think I read somewhere that Some Kind of Absurd OTT Project on a Whim, Just for Kicks was the working title for his latest.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:25 (ten years ago) link
That was the working title for his never realized SuperHeavy concert film.
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:38 (ten years ago) link
― clemenza, Wednesday, January 22, 2014 6:11 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I thought of countless Mystery Science Theater 3000 subjects.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Thursday, 23 January 2014 01:49 (ten years ago) link
"There was no monster."
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Thursday, 23 January 2014 01:52 (ten years ago) link