Shutter Island

[Battle.Angel]

Leaving very soon to see it..
I haven't seen too many Scorsese films, but I like the ones that I did see.. The story for this one sounds pretty exciting and I love anything that involves psychopaths and nutcases of any kind
Review will come later today when I'm back. (BTW, for all Seattlelites: Isn't the weather just gorgeous? I feel like it's May! )

 

[Shpongled]

Don't spoil it, I really wanna see it too.

Yes this weather is great!!! Looks like Spring came early for us

 

[Chromatose]

ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

[Super Mahrio]

I do want to see this movie. I probably will on Monday if im feeling better.

 

[Will Bozarth]

saw it yesterday. enjoyed

 

[Brooks]

Thanks for the review, Siskel!

 

[Craysh3]

Well how shit can it really be, it's Scorsese...

 

[Brooks]

Most of the reviews in newspapers I've seen today have been less than stellar.

 

[ShadowsWithin]

just got back from seeing it, pretty damn good, kind of a mind fuck for the most part, well for me at least. little too long though, and a few parts that bugged me.

 

[Battle.Angel]

Yeah, it was okay... Decent movie. It didn't blow me away though... The light in many of the outdoor scenes looked incredibly fake, and sometimes the sky changed the color after every cut.. Might have been intentional. I'm not sure.
Leonardo DiCaprio suddenly speaking German and it wasn't subtitled was great! haha

 

[derek]

From what I can gather it's a fairly run of the mill movie bolstered a tad by Scorsese's experience and skill.

 

[theoden236]

Personally, I thought it was pretty damn good. I'm somewhat of a sucker for elaborate plots, and this movie had a damn good one. I'm actually still feeling confused about it.

 

[DreamNeonBlack]

I'm actually still feeling confused about it.

Well, that isn't to hard to believe.

 

[Will Bozarth]

I'm actually still feeling confused about it.

You don't think that often, do you?

 

[theoden236]

I'm just saying there were parts that made me think "what the hell is going on?" I mean, Dicaprio's character is a federal marshall at first, investigating the mental institution with his partner Chuck. Then when the institute head said "you've been a patient at the institue for two years" and "you've never had a partner" and Chuck reveals that he's a psychiatrist monitoring the mental state of Dicaprio's character, things got interesting. BUT, then at the end when he said "So, what's our next move Boss" and Dicaprio's character said "To get off this rock," that was what left me thinking was is a brilliantly well orchestrated act they did or was Dicaprio's character truly insane, living in a so-called "fantasy world" that the institute created for him? Maybe that sounds a little crazy, but that's what I left thinking after I saw it.

Did a bit of thinking right there Will. Surprised?

 

[ShadowsWithin]

i think by the end of the movie the question of whether he was a patient or actually a federal Marshall wasn't in question, i was more interested in the question of did he actually revert back to his psychosis or was he faking it so he didn't have to deal with the mental anguish of knowing he is in there for life because he killed his wife and his 3 kids are dead.

my choice that he was faking so they would lobotomize him.

i had kinda suspected early on that he was indeed the 67th patient, they still threw in some twist's i didn't expect but for the most part this movie was really easy to understand, some of Scorsese's I couldn't fully figure out but this one i did for some reason.

 

[derek]

Yeah, I agree with your interpretation of the final "twist".

 

[Morganna]

I've been wanting to see either this one or the wolf man. Which is better? From people who have seen both that is.

 

[ShadowsWithin]

Shutter Island, the Wolfman was ok but the over use of gore (which is usually a plus for me) was just a little too over done.

 

[derek]

Shutter Island is way, way better.