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Shutter Island - Hmmmm
Posted by N2Peach on 19 August 2010 - 4:29pm.
Any of the great and the good seen Shutter Island. I sat down last night to view it with Mrs 2Peach and hmmm. What a curates egg and so over blown as to be ridiculouse in the centre section. Too much homage to other films and not enough attention to make a good film. Good acting though. The Old Martin quality meter appears to be a bit volatile.
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It
sucked donkeys.
I loved it ...
I loved the Hitchcockian feel, the old fashioned (apparent) villains and the magnificent cinematography.
The best film of the year in the Leonardo Di Caprio psychological thriller/family tragedy department where not everything is as it seems (out of a total of 2).
Couple of threads on this already, if you're interested
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/shutter-island-scorseses-worst-fil...
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/shutter-island-0
Saw it myself the other night, and enjoyed it for what it was - a B-Movie with with some A-Movie actors in it. Entertaining tosh and hokum. Di Caprio acquits himself well, but for me the best performance was from Mark Ruffalo as his partner.
SPOILERS FOLLOW:
There was quite an interesting extra feature on the blu-ray, going back over a few key scenes following the 'reveal' at the end. Ruffalo's reactions to Di Caprio and the other staff and patients are quite nuanced, in what is a pretty overblown film.
Hummmms.
More than a little.It just feels like it's lacking a heartbeat.
I loved it, but I care about style more than plot
It's better than Cape Fear and Inception, two films that it would play well on a double bill with. And, for the record, Scorsese's worst film is Kundun, by a Tibetan mile.
In The Sopranos
there's a scene where Christopher sees Scorsese entering a nightclub and shouts, "Marty! Kundun -- I liked it!"
Too long
Might have been a good movie at 90 minutes, but at two hours 20 way too long. Common failing in movies, and I can't remember a short Scorcese movie since 'After Hours', which must have been over 20 years ago.
Oh dear, had heard
Oh dear, had heard reasonable things about Shutter and was planning to see it. Virtually given up on Scorcese of late, found all his films since Goodfellas weak and I only need it proved to me so many times that DiCaprio is no Bob DeNiro. The only thing I'd wish to remember from Gangs is the 20 mins that Day Lewis was on screen and I can't recall anything of the Departed so it can't have made any impression at all. Oddly though we made a rare cinema trip to see Inception last night and for the first time I thought DiCaprio cut the mustard (possible exception being Blood Diamond). With Marty it's not the disappointment I can't bear - it's the hope...
Cameron Diaz's ex
is indeed the problem for me.
I haven't seen a movie with DiCapRio in it that I've enjoyed since Blood Diamond.
Shutter Is, Inception, that Middle East yoke with Russell Crowe, were all less than good nights out. Either he's a fine actor with appallingly poor selection, or I can't warm to him on-screen.