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

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

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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

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lolllll

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

Guilty as charged. . . then, I guess.

(xpost s1ocki)

My reaction after Cape Fear, Casino, Bringing Out The Dead, and Gangs of New York.

they blew your mind wide open?

how could u not like casino?

x-post LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL Slocki

Upon reading that comment to someone else on the thread:

[18:09] ME: You can't just say that - you need to elaborate or back that shit up somehow.
[18:09] J: ilx is the home to these sorts of empty challops
[18:09] Me: yeah I know, I know
[18:09] Me: but like
[18:10] Me: I'm afraid of saying something without having ample evidence or whatever to back up my SERIOUS BELIEFS
[18:10] Me: and these guys . . . do that on purpose?

Mean Streets and Goodfellas are great movies, and he's made a few other really good ones, but that's not enough for me to look forward to another Leo-anchored blockbuster.

casino is awesome, bringing out the dead is kinda weird but i loved it, gangs of ny is sloppy but pretty dope, cape fear "i have no use for"

ENBB, do you...do that on purpose?

"how could u not like casino?"

You are one dumb guy, cankles.

now im definitely not gonna stan for everything scorsese's done, gangs of new york and the aviator are pretty horrible, i never even saw bringing out the dead, the last half of casino is pretty dead in the water etc etc. he still rules tho

I mean I like Casino, but it's not some masterpiece that no one is going to find fault with.

As Scorsese stan s1ocki points out, it's only about 17 hours long.

And I never said he sucked -- it might help if you reread my OP -- but that his career has not been such (esp lately) that I anticipate feverishly each new release.

it says right here on my casino dvd, running time 1020 minutes

it's a long movie, it takes all the waking hours of a day, but i think in the end it's worth it