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Posted by tunenut (A) on February 25, 2010 at 17:05:43

In Reply to: Shutter Island posted by Prisoners on February 20, 2010 at 11:21:21:

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.

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Topic - Shutter Island - Prisoners 11:21:21 02/20/10 (14)

I liked it too... - mpathus 12:41:12 02/28/10 (0)

found it a little annoying - tunenut 17:05:43 02/25/10 (0)

RE: Shutter Island -- Pass On It - Daryl Zero 00:17:19 02/21/10 (0)

I would have preferred a different ending. * - mr grits 20:27:54 02/20/10 (9)

It would have been a different story than the book then...(nt) - mkuller 23:26:34 02/20/10 (8)

Commonly, endings in films are different from the books. nt - tinear 07:40:57 02/22/10 (7)

In this case, the ending is crucial to the story...(nt) - mkuller 10:11:25 02/22/10 (6)

That's true in most stories. Hollywood traditionally changes negative endings. nt - tinear 10:25:44 02/23/10 (5)

RE: So there's a negative ending? - Shlooby 11:15:11 02/23/10 (4)

Spoiler Alert! - Ladok 11:23:58 03/04/10 (0)

not really positive or negative (NT) - tunenut 16:58:36 02/25/10 (0)

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)

You missed the spoiler alert warning which prefaces every post with a spoiler alert? - jamesgarvin 12:33:04 02/23/10 (0)

RE: Shutter Island - volunteer 12:34:52 02/20/10 (0)

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found it a little annoying - tunenut 17:05:43 02/25/10 (0)

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