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I wonder what Jennifer Garner did to Muldfeld to piss him off.
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Starred in a JJ Abrams show, I think.
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He must've been a huge Elektra fan.
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Apparently he's retroactively mad that Alias wasn't politically insightful enough.
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He probably wasn't, but I was trying to be a serious man.
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Shutter Island:
Wow. Even though I had read the Vertigo comparison, had no idea how sad this film would be. Just tragic. And before that, supremely creepy and unsettling, moreso than simply "scary". Just stuff that sticks in the brain.
DiCaprio is just phenomenal, arguably his finest work to date, and impressively a 180 from the internalized tension of his character in The Departed. The whole cast was note-perfect.
While Scorsese certainly hasn't covered a lot of emotional terrain in the last 15-20 years, this is to me his most moving work since The Age of Innocence.
Wow. Even though I had read the Vertigo comparison, had no idea how sad this film would be. Just tragic. And before that, supremely creepy and unsettling, moreso than simply "scary". Just stuff that sticks in the brain.
DiCaprio is just phenomenal, arguably his finest work to date, and impressively a 180 from the internalized tension of his character in The Departed. The whole cast was note-perfect.
While Scorsese certainly hasn't covered a lot of emotional terrain in the last 15-20 years, this is to me his most moving work since The Age of Innocence.
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She had sex ... with a jew (triggered his racism) while blowing Ronald Moore (triggered his jealousy).
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I'm really bad at this whole "review" thing...so bare with me.
Shutter Island: (7/10)
I wish I hadn’t read the book before viewing the movie. Nether the less, Shutter Island was still very, very good. A lot creepier than the book in my opinion, maybe because my mind didn’t make some of the more…err... “violent” scenes towards the end as horrific as Scorsese envisioned them. But hey, I’m not complaining.
The camera movements towards the begining were really quick, really disorienting, set the mood for the entire film, I thought that was just brilliant…I’ve never really seen anything like it.
And Leo DiCaprio…what more can I say about Leo that hasn’t already been said…just a incredible actor. Some of his facial expressions were just so heartbreaking. Every emotion felt genuine.
I think I had unrealistically high expectations for this film. Some parts felt a bit messy (which really surprised me) and it simply took way too long to wrap everything together at the end. When I think back on it, I believe Scorsese chose to film it this style pay homage to those B movies classics. Regardless of whatever flaws it may have had, Shutter Island was still a good (but not great) psychological thriller.
Shutter Island: (7/10)
I wish I hadn’t read the book before viewing the movie. Nether the less, Shutter Island was still very, very good. A lot creepier than the book in my opinion, maybe because my mind didn’t make some of the more…err... “violent” scenes towards the end as horrific as Scorsese envisioned them. But hey, I’m not complaining.
The camera movements towards the begining were really quick, really disorienting, set the mood for the entire film, I thought that was just brilliant…I’ve never really seen anything like it.
And Leo DiCaprio…what more can I say about Leo that hasn’t already been said…just a incredible actor. Some of his facial expressions were just so heartbreaking. Every emotion felt genuine.
I think I had unrealistically high expectations for this film. Some parts felt a bit messy (which really surprised me) and it simply took way too long to wrap everything together at the end. When I think back on it, I believe Scorsese chose to film it this style pay homage to those B movies classics. Regardless of whatever flaws it may have had, Shutter Island was still a good (but not great) psychological thriller.
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Shutter Island:
Wow after reading the script I found the actual movie better than expectations. It looked like some Vertigo/Shining/Powell & Pressburger movie. Great acting. DiCaprio can really act. Knowing what was going to happen just helped the movie as I could see some of the double takes of the prison staff and DiCaprio really looks like he believes what he's saying when he says it. The movie editing and cinematography really looked old fashioned in a great way.
Wow after reading the script I found the actual movie better than expectations. It looked like some Vertigo/Shining/Powell & Pressburger movie. Great acting. DiCaprio can really act. Knowing what was going to happen just helped the movie as I could see some of the double takes of the prison staff and DiCaprio really looks like he believes what he's saying when he says it. The movie editing and cinematography really looked old fashioned in a great way.
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DiCaprio most certainly does bury himself in a role, sure in his late 90's superfame time period he wasn't exactly going deep into roles, but GONY, CMIYC, Aviator (especially), Blood Diamond, The Departed, Revolutionary Road, SI, all some of the best acting of their respective years.
Also, all the actors in Mudfeld's list have some acting talent when they work with the right director, and I'm so sick of the Tom Cruise only play's Tom Cruise cliche, sure maybe that's true if you've only watched him play Ethan Hunt, but Collateral, Born on the Fourth of July, Rain Man, Lions for Lambs, Magnolia? Excellent performances, hell even Minority Report contains a strong emotional performance from Cruise that could have simply been an actioner. For someone who's looked at as a 'movie star', he's a stronger actor than most.
Also, all the actors in Mudfeld's list have some acting talent when they work with the right director, and I'm so sick of the Tom Cruise only play's Tom Cruise cliche, sure maybe that's true if you've only watched him play Ethan Hunt, but Collateral, Born on the Fourth of July, Rain Man, Lions for Lambs, Magnolia? Excellent performances, hell even Minority Report contains a strong emotional performance from Cruise that could have simply been an actioner. For someone who's looked at as a 'movie star', he's a stronger actor than most.
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Lehane admits he wrote the novel to straddle the line between b-movie cinematic, and literary exploit. He says he was shocked to see the literary community accept him so much with Mystic River, so he had to mess with expectations the next time around.
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Your Son told me to tell you that he adored Shutter Island as well. He also sends his regards.
Hearing this from you, Kenny, and the like has really got me psyched, as if I wasn't already.
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Tell that whoreson to come in here and post a proper review. Same goes for that Fagin who abandoned us again.
Marty should bring us together.
Marty should bring us together.
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Shutter Island
I'm eating major crow with this one. Holy shit. I can't quite believe just how appropriate Glenn Kenny's Vertigo comparison really turned out to be. It's as if you took Scorsese the thoroughly modern filmmaker and all his thoroughly modern filmmaking tools and techniques, gave him a time machine and sent him back to 1950s Hollywood to make a wild studio picture. This isn't just set in the 50s, but feels like it was born then as well, which probably accounts for why the vast majority of my screening audience hated it. Or on the flip-side it might be something like what we'd get if you gave 1950s era Hitchcock said time machine and sent him forward to 2009 to make the same film. It's uncanny.
Of course it's still a very Scorsese movie though, and there's nobody alive that could have made something so bizarre and wonderfully coupled traditional-modern in its filmmaking. It was more or less cued in to what he was doing from the very first conversation between Ruffalo and DiCaprio on the ferry; itself framed, cut, scored, acted and written is such an acutely classical style even in its carefully designed "flaws" like the awkward exposition throughout and heavily stylized acting. Brilliant stuff.
Now the plot of the film is about as obvious and absurd as they come, in all the best ways. If you don't know what's really going on here narratively from watching the first teaser trailer, you probably shouldn't be watching this in the first place. But that extreme familiarity really frees Scorsese up to some of his most wild and playful visual storytelling to date. It's such a rich and nuanced piece of storytelling that I think it's really being lost on most viewers and critics under the sheer artifice of its obvious genre-narrative. I'm not sure we've seen something so raw and evocative on a tragic emotional level from him in decades. Again, it recalls Hitchcock's best. Such a committed expression of this lead character's emotional turmoil and bigger ideas of psychological suppression and innate human villainy... just, wow. Nothing like I expected from this.
I'd be remiss not to mention just how visually sumptuous Shutter Island is. The entire thing just plays like a wonderland of big cinematic genre tropes pushed to their aesthetic limits. The Shining is another obvious influence in the best ways. But really, I knew Scorsese had me hooked immediately after that first major dream sequence/hallucination with Teddy's wife. Easily my single favorite sequence he's ever put to film, and I can't remember the last time I've seen something quite so haunting and beautiful in a movie theater. Can we make Marty up a special plaque or something for "Best Dream Sequence of All Time?"
So OK Laz, you fucking win this time. Movie was overwhelmingly amazing. Fuck you.
I'm eating major crow with this one. Holy shit. I can't quite believe just how appropriate Glenn Kenny's Vertigo comparison really turned out to be. It's as if you took Scorsese the thoroughly modern filmmaker and all his thoroughly modern filmmaking tools and techniques, gave him a time machine and sent him back to 1950s Hollywood to make a wild studio picture. This isn't just set in the 50s, but feels like it was born then as well, which probably accounts for why the vast majority of my screening audience hated it. Or on the flip-side it might be something like what we'd get if you gave 1950s era Hitchcock said time machine and sent him forward to 2009 to make the same film. It's uncanny.
Of course it's still a very Scorsese movie though, and there's nobody alive that could have made something so bizarre and wonderfully coupled traditional-modern in its filmmaking. It was more or less cued in to what he was doing from the very first conversation between Ruffalo and DiCaprio on the ferry; itself framed, cut, scored, acted and written is such an acutely classical style even in its carefully designed "flaws" like the awkward exposition throughout and heavily stylized acting. Brilliant stuff.
Now the plot of the film is about as obvious and absurd as they come, in all the best ways. If you don't know what's really going on here narratively from watching the first teaser trailer, you probably shouldn't be watching this in the first place. But that extreme familiarity really frees Scorsese up to some of his most wild and playful visual storytelling to date. It's such a rich and nuanced piece of storytelling that I think it's really being lost on most viewers and critics under the sheer artifice of its obvious genre-narrative. I'm not sure we've seen something so raw and evocative on a tragic emotional level from him in decades. Again, it recalls Hitchcock's best. Such a committed expression of this lead character's emotional turmoil and bigger ideas of psychological suppression and innate human villainy... just, wow. Nothing like I expected from this.
I'd be remiss not to mention just how visually sumptuous Shutter Island is. The entire thing just plays like a wonderland of big cinematic genre tropes pushed to their aesthetic limits. The Shining is another obvious influence in the best ways. But really, I knew Scorsese had me hooked immediately after that first major dream sequence/hallucination with Teddy's wife. Easily my single favorite sequence he's ever put to film, and I can't remember the last time I've seen something quite so haunting and beautiful in a movie theater. Can we make Marty up a special plaque or something for "Best Dream Sequence of All Time?"
Finally I just have to comment on how amazing the final scenes of the film are, delivering far more after the "twist" than I ever expected the film would. The extended flashback to his family's death by the lake took my breath away. Michelle Williams' performance finally pays off there, and it's just so stunning in its purity of storytelling in that isolated scene. That high angle shot of the three children lined up on the grass with Andrew and his dead wife wrapped around his waist at the end... that's going to stick with me. And of course the very last scene is just pitch-perfect and haunting.
Oh annnnd that conversation between DiCaprio and Ted Levine in the jeep. Yeah, that's fucking awesome.
Oh annnnd that conversation between DiCaprio and Ted Levine in the jeep. Yeah, that's fucking awesome.
So OK Laz, you fucking win this time. Movie was overwhelmingly amazing. Fuck you.
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That scene was incredible...incredible and disturbing. You could hear a pin drop in that theatre.
The look on Teddy's face when suddenly realizes
that this kids are floating in the lake
And am I the only one who thought that:
The shot where Teddy screams "No" and the camera is looking down at him, was very reminiscent of this scene in Mystic River.
YouTube - Sean Penn Yelling Scene From Mystic River
Both characters realizing a terrible truth.
YouTube - Sean Penn Yelling Scene From Mystic River
Both characters realizing a terrible truth.
lazarus
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Similar, but Penn was completely over the top in that film. He should have been nominated (and won) for 21 Grams instead that year.
Also, well done, Lance. I'm glad we're both ecstatic about this one. Also liked how you singled out the first scene for its clunkiness and how it plays into what follows. Something just feels "off" at the beginning; even the music seems totally overcooked, right up until it's cut off as they reach their destination.
You can now go back to your hibernation; I'm sure you're busy with that auto-biopic you're working on:
Also, well done, Lance. I'm glad we're both ecstatic about this one. Also liked how you singled out the first scene for its clunkiness and how it plays into what follows. Something just feels "off" at the beginning; even the music seems totally overcooked, right up until it's cut off as they reach their destination.
You can now go back to your hibernation; I'm sure you're busy with that auto-biopic you're working on:
deep
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I am glad I looked in here
I had planned on seeing Shutter Island tonight
but was having reservations after seeing this negative review:
Review: No escape from 'Shutter Island'
I'll trust my fellow Zoo Station friends over that ^ guy. (Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic)
I had planned on seeing Shutter Island tonight
but was having reservations after seeing this negative review:
Review: No escape from 'Shutter Island'
I'll trust my fellow Zoo Station friends over that ^ guy. (Mick LaSalle, Chronicle Movie Critic)
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I'm with deep. It seems to be a divisive film, but the right people are saying they like it. I'll use my free ticket I got after a fight broke out at the beginning of Wolfman last week
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those Toronto brawlers
I guess they were going for a Rocky Horror Picture Show experience
I guess they were going for a Rocky Horror Picture Show experience
lazarus
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Mick LaSalle is a fucking moron, no surprise he couldn't get behind this film.
I'd look to other critics for advice.
Other than Lance and Laz's glowing reviews, I actually haven't read what anyone has said about it. Should be good to formulate my own opinion. I try to do that with music as much as possible.
Go on...
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the third film i have seen (its the first one they made chronologically) featuring Alain Chabat and Charlotte Gainsbourg working together in the same film (the others being I Do, and The Science of Sleep, "I Do" being the best of the three)
the characters in this movie are nowhere as likeable as the other films and i felt like turning off this film so many times. gainsbourg came off being quite bitchy, but thats her range - shes either adorable or appalling... but at least she's game to do that, not many actors like playing unlikeable characters
the film did have this redeemable scene though ->
YouTube - Creep - Radiohead
the third film i have seen (its the first one they made chronologically) featuring Alain Chabat and Charlotte Gainsbourg working together in the same film (the others being I Do, and The Science of Sleep, "I Do" being the best of the three)
the characters in this movie are nowhere as likeable as the other films and i felt like turning off this film so many times. gainsbourg came off being quite bitchy, but thats her range - shes either adorable or appalling... but at least she's game to do that, not many actors like playing unlikeable characters
the film did have this redeemable scene though ->
YouTube - Creep - Radiohead
Just got back from Shutter Island moments ago. I don't have much to say that Laz and Lance didn't already say, but yeah, I liked it a great deal.
In my recent quest to watch all of Eastwood's westerns, I watched Two Mules For Sister Sara a few days ago. Despite the enormous amount of cheese, it still had it's entertaining moments.
The final moments and conversion of the film were incredible.
In my recent quest to watch all of Eastwood's westerns, I watched Two Mules For Sister Sara a few days ago. Despite the enormous amount of cheese, it still had it's entertaining moments.
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It was actually quite entertaining. I think a group of thugs left to get popcorn and another group of thugs stole their seats. As the movie started, we could hear them talking back and forth about 'taking it outside' etc etc. My girlfriend and I were in the aisle seats opposite them. I'm not 100% what happened next, but they started scuffling and eventually ended up fighting in my girlfriends lap. (Of course then I push them off of her and got a scratch on my arm!!!! it nearly broke the skin and everything). Then security came. One of the girl thugs ended up bleeding all over the place while yelling "DO YOU WANNA DIIIIIIE?!?!" to the other group about 10 times. We heard her yell it once more when she was outside the theatre and everyone laughed. Then security came again and escorted a second group of thugs out. It ruined the start of the movie, but I enjoyed it a great deal
purpleoscar
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Just be careful. I had a screening where a young girl who read the book was doing a play by play comparison between the movie and the book and this old guy was shushing her throughout the movie. Some people should be sent to Shutter Island if you get my meaning.
I also hate the new trend to text views and opinions of the movie IN THE MIDDLE OF THE F&^%ING MOVIE so I'll be watching and some light from a gadget flashing next to me while I'm trying to absorb the movie. I'm starting to think we need bouncers at the theatre.
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I also hate the new trend to text views and opinions of the movie IN THE MIDDLE OF THE F&^%ING MOVIE so I'll be watching and some light from a gadget flashing next to me while I'm trying to absorb the movie. I'm starting to think we need bouncers at the theatre.
I fucking hate that...
And you know what really sucks, WHEN YOUR "FRIEND" DOES IT 2.
What should I do in a situation like that, I don't want to come off as a complete bitch...
purpleoscar
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Just say you are a movie snob and want as perfect an experience as possible. If that's not possible then just concentrate on the movie like you're going to do a published review on it and try and take in every detail.
I mean why can't people wait until after the movie is over to text? Are the textees waiting to decide to see a movie in a bunker at the theatre and waiting for the affirmative to advance the troops?
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