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Shutter Island
2010 · Film · 138 min
Directed by Martin Scorsese
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Agreed on TWoWS. Kind of loved every scene in the movie, but actually strongly dislike the movie in full. I also think that despite what seems like an attempt to critique the destructive lifestyle, it does the opposite and glorifies it. Mostly not a fan of his later career work, but I do really like Killers of the Flower Moon and Shutter Island.
Some movies in various genres that I like:
* Everything Everywhere All At Once
* The Matrix
* Fight Club
* Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
* Pulp Fiction
* Shutter Island
* Inception
It's hard to pick one "best" movie.
Hated it. I was apparently not alone; it did poorly at the box office. I'm also generally not a fan of religious films.
Also hated (and could not finish) the utterly turgid THE IRISHMAN. WOLF OF WALL STREET had its moments, but I'm honestly not sure why the film existed -- I mean, it's the same sort of story as GOODFELLAS.
SHUTTER ISLAND was crap. THE DEPARTED was maybe ok. The last one I loved was THE AVIATOR.
Given how awful THE IRISHMAN was, and the trendline I see with his work, I have no plans to see the adaptation of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON.
Didn't know there were sequels. Don't think I'd want to watch them though. I'm sure they feel the need to explain things, and the good thing about the cube is that it's never explained.
Rant. Why do films insist on explaining things that don't need to be explained. Shutter Island would have been a better film without the last 5 minutes answering the question as to whether he's insane. Even blade runner, why does deckard have to be human, it's much more interesting when the question is open. Same for the sequel.
But the downward spiral is impressive: I feel popular movies in the past felt less like copies of each others than now. It's not just not taking risk: like coca cola they found the perfect formula and arent going to change it. And if they try, they d have insane addicts asking them to bring back the original formula.
Imagine big studios saying now they'll stop marvel movies, there d be a riot. I remember when the Inception + Shutter Island miracle happened and was reading Hollywood execs were flabbergasted and trying to formalize it so they could churn copies every few months.
There s nothing to do: they are private entreprises and they fit an addictive hole. Would be like trying to forbid beer because it s not as intellectual as cognac. I just feel like for some reason smaller markets do films differently because they just cant compete: Im French and live in Hong Kong, in both, local big budget blockbusters flop spectacularly because they feel too much like Ersatz (the CGI is years behind, the love story is under developed, the explosions are not well timed, the enemy is not as manichean, whatever), while smarter movies make us all proud "heh americans couldnt shit one like that, we're so special" :D
That's fair. There's also some stories/movies that are absolutely critical to come into fresh. Shutter Island is the first one that comes to mind.
So you want to say that Shutter Island is a bad example of drama? It's all just old-farts rants, nothing more.
Everything is evolving.
In old movies actors play often too dumb, just few of them have good examples of how to play a role.
Some "legendary" movies from the past would fail in theaters nowadays without their legendary reputation.
We have more movies right now, more choices, so our demands are higher - otherwise we will not have enough time to watch them all. Also, we have much more choices of how to watch them - age of digital distribution.
Higher demands give higher quality, movies evolve both in visuals and in acting art.
I guess it's broken? I picked Chinese, then Shutter Island, then at the "Start the movie now, then press start here." prompt the play button didn't do anything.
That said, I've found this implementation to be really great: https://support.viki.com/hc/en-us/articles/231829048-How-to-use-Learn-Mode-
Although not all movies have all the extra subtitle work done to support learn mode.
And Shutter Island. Good movie, but not in any way a horror movie.
Man's Search for Meaning - ViktorFrankl
Endgame (Biography of Bobby Fischer) - Frank Brady
Walt Disney - Bob Thomas
The Given Day - Dennis Lehane (Fiction)
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane (Way better than movie)
Michael Lewis - The Big Short
Churchill - Paul Johnson (faster read than the others)
A question to all: When the nominees for this year's Academy Awards were released, one film was missing out. Even, it was missing out from all major film awards.
The Shutter Island.
It was a wonderful psych-thriller by master Scorcese, had some power packed performance by Leo, but didn't make it to any movie awards. Any takes?
Cool, it deserved it. It was an excellent movie. The Social Network was my own personal pick for "best movie of 2010", although - to be fair - I didn't see every movie released in 2010. But I would rank it above Inception, Shutter Island, Tron:Legacy, True Grit, Harry Potter, and Red - out of the other good movies that come to mind from last year.
Nice pacing, good acting, great score, inspirational, entertaining, thought-provoking, it really had everything. It was a great trip inside the world that a lot of us live in / aspire to live in. Maybe a non-hacker wouldn't see it in quite the same light, but I really thought it was just excellent.
Inception isn't a classic. Or a masterpiece. It's a slapdash confluence of popular trends within the community of filmmakers:
* Dealing with unreality, with hinted-at promise of imagining fantastical worlds, but really providing an excuse for more car chases, explosions, and gunfire than is plausible within our current legal framework (The Matrix)
* Multiple levels of unreality and ambiguous ending (Vanilla Sky)
* Leonardo DiCaprio isn't sure what's real anymore, and is haunted by visions of his crazy dead wife (Shutter Island)
* Statement about filmmaking itself (perhaps every auteur film in the past ten years)