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

"it was the first movie of his since goodfellas that i would characterize as a crowd pleaser"

Too bad it was so badly acted, written, conceived, etc. . .

ahahaha omar YES!!! that is basically my fav movie moment of the 00's

Pretty sure I won't be trusting anonymous studio execs opinions on movies, but I do generally agree with that assessment of Michael Mann who I pretty much can't stand.

i agree with it completely even tho i like mann a lot

I was just telling someone how I never comment on film threads because they intimidate the hell out of me but I just have to say

homie is that my briefcase?

<3<3

Also, The Departed was great.

i like or love all of those mann flicks which fall within that period but obv they're never gonna rake in $200 million. that studio exec still sounds like the kind of dude who greenlights horrendous crap though.

fukkin gangs of jew york

s/b

the quest for 102

s/b

s/b

why did shakey ask to be s/b

happy to help him out though

Too bad it was so badly acted, written, conceived, etc. . .

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 5:13 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude if you're going to come with the challops you're going to have to give us more than "it was bad in several major areas"!

jews did 9/11, peace.

jews did the departed

the jewparted

I didn't even realize that thinking the Departed was weak was a challenging opinion.

Hell it won an Oscar. That pretty much makes it the definition of crap these days.

this is some "if ebert liked it, it must suck!" territory we're entering

I'm actually really curious to see Martin Scorsese's take on psychological horror blah-blah (even though I hated a lot of Cape Fear). I just wish it didn't involve Leonardo as an old-timey detective with a beguiling accent.

Anytime Scorsese and DePalma want to make a mainstream movie I'll check it out - guaranteed a few great set pieces even if miscast people wear funny hats and shit

yeah, I really do not get why these big-name directors love Leo - dude is terrible

But anyway the main reason I didn't like the Departed was that it's got three of my least favorite actors (these days that is--Nicholson was once awesome) in it chewing scenery left and right and two of them are hamming up bad Boston accents the entire time. You've got to work awfully hard to overcome that and Marky Mark shooting dude in the head in the final frame just doesn't cut it for me.

Anytime Scorsese and DePalma want to make a mainstream movie I'll check it out - guaranteed a few great set pieces even if miscast people wear funny hats and shit

― da croupier, Tuesday, July 7, 2009 5:43 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

QFT

x-post

two of them are hamming up bad Boston accents the entire time

A friend of mine was writing about Boston accents in movies the other day:

The entire cast of “The Departed.” The natives (Damon, Whalberg) did splendidly of course, Leo did his best and wasn’t totally egregious, the rest of the ensemble bordered between Drunken Kennedys (Baldwin, Sheen), Diane Lane craptacular (the woman shrink, whatsername), and god-awful and getting away with it (Jack, because he’s Jack). All over the map. But then again, actual Boston natives tend to be all over the map accent-wise, so maybe it works.

chewing scenery left and right and two of them are hamming up bad Boston accents the entire time.

my wife and I routinely shout "Are you a KAWP?!" at each other, lolz ensue

I saw that short film The Big Shave on AMC once when I was flipping channels and think dude should just have all of his characters kill themselves with a little orchestral score for like five minutes and then end it

im just a guy who never gives a shit about consistent or "good" accents in movies i think

in all of his movies I mean xp

yeah i never cared about bad accents in films, the boston ones sounded pretty accurate to me beyond nicholson.

I dunno in general I seem to get a kick out of shitty accents (see also: Keanu everybody in Coppola's "Dracula")

Living here I have to say I think she pretty much nailed it regarding the ones in TD. The people actually from Boston were great the others . . . not so much. I guess that's not entirely surprising though.

i'm generally in the same boat w/ slocki re: movie accents, but phony southern accents really piss me off. especially when it's a redneck character who sounds like scarlett o'hara or foghorn leghorn or something.

BTW - The Diane Lane thing was a reference to her accent in The Perfect Storm which was really awful.

boyah you do them chores hear or i'll put my boot upside your head

:D

Scorsese's been overrated his entire career.

^^^the real challops

oh no he didn't!

yeah, I really do not get why these big-name directors love Leo - dude is terrible

― Apollo C. Vermouth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, July 7, 2009 5:43 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

uh i think scorsese clearly loves leo because he can get any fucking movie he wants made as long as leo's attached

I have a hard time believing Leo is a bigger box office-drawing name than Scorcese, especially at this point in his career

heh well u can believe whatever u like lil nublet

i'm sure you have a hard time believing a lot of things

ha x-post

That Scorsese still thinks Leo deserves a second look tells me that he's hoping a soupcon of inspiration helps him overlook the dotage of his "craftsman" years.

his craftsman years, what years are those

btw I saw this trailer before Public Enemies and it reminded me of Cape Fear.

his craftsman years, what years are those

The Age of Innocence onwards. I like a couple of those movies though.

Scorsese's been overrated his entire career.

― My name is Kenny! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, July 7, 2009 6:01 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://a-m-p.gr/media/image/large/EGConsidermymindblown.jpg

lolllll

anyone who thinks 'the departed' is badly written is... a dick.

Guilty as charged. . . then, I guess.