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Shutter Island
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:52 am
by jacob Raver, sinTempter
I dunno...it's almost like the whole film was shown in the preview:
Shutter Island
But...we might just have the best horror/suspense film since the Shinning.
Re: Shutter Island
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:52 am
by Loredoctor
jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:I dunno...it's almost like the whole film was shown in the preview:
Shutter Island
But...we might just have the best horror/suspense film since the Shinning.
Good post.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:10 am
by Montresor
It looks interesting, though I also wondered if the whole plot hadn't been given away in the trailer. Too many films seem to do that these days. I hope the trailer is deliberately misleading us, because the 'twist' looks as plain as day.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:46 am
by jacob Raver, sinTempter
I didn't see any twist. Though I was concentrating/thinking about Dicaprio...how horribly unreliable his accents tend to be and how his acting, while brilliant at times can be very flat. Well..not flat, but not deep, I dunno. He usually Cruises it, always playing a different version of himself.
Maybe I should have paid more attention to the trailer.
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2009 6:25 am
by Montresor
Well, the mystery seems to be building up to "who is patient 67?" If the twist is patient 67 is DiCaprio and he's really been a patient all along but just didn't know it, I will be supremely unimpressed. The trailer seems to be leading to that conclusion, though I hope it's a deliberate red herring by marketing.
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:10 am
by jacob Raver, sinTempter
It would make sense since Hollywood is copying Asian concepts (Oldboy again).
I've read that The Departed (one of my favs) is Internal Affairs with a little visual Oldboy sprinkled on it. Has anyone seen IA?
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:27 am
by Montresor
jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:
I've read that The Departed (one of my favs) is Internal Affairs with a little visual Oldboy sprinkled on it. Has anyone seen IA?
I've seen
Infernal Affairs and it's great. I love almost anything with Tony Leung in it but, other than that, it's just a solid drama about police corruption. I haven't bothered to watch
The Departed as it doesn't look or sound like it bothered to do anything new with the material, and Scorcese is way too talented to be doing straight remakes.
Infernal Affairs is definitely worth seeing.