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Shutter Island

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Saw it last night and was very impressed. DiCaprio is once again excellent as is Ben Kingsley. The less you know about this film beforehand the more enjoyable it will be...suffice to say it's well worth the time and ticket.
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I liked it too... - mpathus 12:41:12 02/28/10 (0)
...solid picture that somehow managed to have me suspend disbelief - that's tight editing and good direction - even then a departure in genre for Scorsese but very deftly handled methinks.
Demi-spoiler: One of the film's points truly hits home: insanity is not being able to take account of or responsibility for, one's actions.
We saw it in "XD": "extreme digital" (close to as good an image as the "IMAX" Star Trek I saw).
(Peve: for the first 3/4 of the movie some teeny-twit two rows ahead of me was texting every blasted 5-10 minutes or so - really. Informed the manager after the movie and was told ushers are supposed to check for this. Guard said had I informed him, and he'd throw them out or something. Infuriating rudeness.)

Edits: 02/28/10 02/28/10
found it a little annoying - tunenut 17:05:43 02/25/10 (0)
First off, the music is just great. Robbie Robertson picked out a bunch of modern classical pieces and it's brilliant music.

The atmosphere likewise is almost perfect. The green island, the menace seeming to seep out of every damp leaf.

But the story itself kind of fell to pieces for me. At first, it was fine, there were all these strange mysteries and strange events, memories and dreams. As long as the sense of mystery exists, I could go with the rather melodramatic DiCaprio and his rather distracting "Boston" accent. But then about 1/2 way through I sort of thought it might be going in a direction and sure enough, it went right in that direction and everything was tied up in a ribbon that fell flat. Maybe they just could have retained the ambiguity.

Well, it's a long movie, over 2 hours, and the last hour didn't do much for me.
RE: Shutter Island -- Pass On It - Daryl Zero 00:17:19 02/21/10 (0)
Pedestrian story that I guessed the ending without knowing the book just by the previews. If you must see it, matinee only.
I would have preferred a different ending. * - mr grits 20:27:54 02/20/10 (9)
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Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
- It would have been a different story than the book then...(nt) - mkuller 23:26:34 02/20/10 (8)
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  Edits: 02/21/10
  - Commonly, endings in films are different from the books. nt - tinear 07:40:57 02/22/10 (7)
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    - In this case, the ending is crucial to the story...(nt) - mkuller 10:11:25 02/22/10 (6)
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      - That's true in most stories. Hollywood traditionally changes negative endings. nt - tinear 10:25:44 02/23/10 (5)
        
        In Reply to: RE: In this case, the ending is crucial to the story...(nt) posted by mkuller on February 22, 2010 at 10:11:25
        
        dfsa
        
        RE: So there's a negative ending? - Shlooby 11:15:11 02/23/10 (4)
        
        In Reply to: RE: That's true in most stories. Hollywood traditionally changes negative endings. nt posted by tinear on February 23, 2010 at 10:25:44
        
        I didn't know. Thanks for spoiling that for me.
        
        Spoiler Alert! - Ladok 11:23:58 03/04/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: So there's a negative ending? posted by Shlooby on February 23, 2010 at 11:15:11
        
        About half way through the movie, the DiCaprio character is riding along in a car with two other guys, and they hear something bumping around in the trunk. They open the trunk and find a guy who is half dead, and they finish him off with a butcher knife. Then DiCaprio, in voice-over, says, "As long as I can remember, I've wanted to be a gangster."
        
        not really positive or negative (NT) - tunenut 16:58:36 02/25/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: So there's a negative ending? posted by Shlooby on February 23, 2010 at 11:15:11
        
        NT
        
        I said traditionally, not in this case. I have NO knowledge of this particular film not having read much about - tinear 20:08:25 02/23/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: So there's a negative ending? posted by Shlooby on February 23, 2010 at 11:15:11
        
        it or seen it.
        Relax.
        I do use "spoiler."
        
        You missed the spoiler alert warning which prefaces every post with a spoiler alert? - jamesgarvin 12:33:04 02/23/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: So there's a negative ending? posted by Shlooby on February 23, 2010 at 11:15:11
        
        I mean, that is, like, common courtesy, is it not?
RE: Shutter Island - volunteer 12:34:52 02/20/10 (0)
I'm going to see it next week.

-Wendell

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