Like a lunatic's trip to Wonderland, it builds suspense with only brief respites, reaching a climax that is truly shattering. Hang on tight.
Martin Scorsese's sure hand directs this thriller with the precision of a brain surgeon and the grace of an artist
The work of a master at his height. This is Scorsese flexing his muscles and cracking his knuckles and making a movie that's intense and thrilling and engrossing and beautiful and dense.
Scorsese's in Cape Fear mode here, making his own version of the sort of thing that rocked his world when he was younger... [a] horror film, but with a haunted house that travels on two legs.
Shutter Island sets a tone straight out of the gate with dark, shadowy imagery, a muted color palette, and a splash of noir-esque style peppered across the top.
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Wow everyone is saying it rocks.
Shakes says it slightly edges out The Departed. What say ye, Willco!
I thought it was a lot better than The Departed, but I always thought that was Marty's most overrated film of all-time. The Aviator was Marty's best flick from the last decade.
So you've got the guy that put The Departed and Borat on a Green Shinobi-like pedestal... and am nintenho.
I hope you can sleep well at night!
or me.So you've got the guy that put The Departed and Borat on a Green Shinobi-like pedestal... and am nintenho.So I can either go with the man responsible for Monsters & Madmen, or the man who gave Transformers a B-...this is the very definition of a no-win situation.
I hope you can sleep well at night!
or me. to be fair though, the reason I didn't like the aviator very much was also because of the script but because it wasn't really about showing the person, just about showing him at the best of his life. Not when he was old, disgusting, and even more insane. which would have shown you what the actual Howard Hughes was like.So you've got the guy that put The Departed and Borat on a Green Shinobi-like pedestal... and am nintenho.So I can either go with the man responsible for Monsters & Madmen, or the man who gave Transformers a B-...this is the very definition of a no-win situation.
I hope you can sleep well at night!
He is too busy posing for head shots on Facebook 8)
Aviator showed Hughes how he should be remembered. If you want to see a malnurished heroin addict dying in a Las Vegas hotel room, maybe David Lynch will make a Howard Hughes movie for you someday.I really don't see what else was that interesting about Howard Hughes. His mind was so extraordinarily fucked up because of his substance abuse and his germophobia, that any biopic about him should just mainly focus on how he became so fucked up (for the rest of his life...). A movie about that would be very interesting but instead we saw Scorsese focusing on a few physical things that Howard Hughes made, sort of diminishing the importance of how this guy was completely disconnected from reality.
He was an innovater in both film and aviation all while fighting OCD. How is that not interesting?
He was an innovater in both film and aviation all while fighting OCD. How is that not interesting?He was actually focusing his OCD on film and aviation. The movie instead tries to say that he succeeded in those fields DESPITE his mental problems. Seriously, this is like saying Hitler was successful in turning around Germany's economy despite being a complete sociopath.
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What Shutter Island should have looked like:
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Would have been so awesome.