Shutter Island

speedboatchase

Haven't watched it yet but I LOVED the book. What a cast - Di Caprio, Ruffalo, Jackie Earl Ray, Kingsley, Von Sydow

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/shutterisland

Driver 8

Love the book too, and the trailer looks fantastic.

faceman

Saw the trailer this morning, a bit of a departure for Scorcese? (sorry, couldnt resist! ) Looks good.

Driver 8

I'd steer clear of the trailer on youtube, it's already crawling with spoilers in the comments. People are so nice

JP Liz V1

looks like its finally get released here in a few weeks

Outkast_IRE

I wonder are the constant delays a good or a bad thing , wasnt it originally a november release date i seen the ads in the cinema back in september

Magic Eight Ball

I'm currently reading the book at the moment and if it's anything to go by I can't wait for the movie!

I don't even wanna watch the trailer untill I finish the book.

DazMarz

Book was class. Absolute class. Bought it in McCarran Airport in Vegas on my way home, thinking to myself, "Now, that'll do me for the two legs of my trip" (Vegas to Newark, then Newark to Dublin)... Had the bloody thing finished before we landed in Newark!!!!!! It was that good, I couldn't stop reading it for a second!!!

wonderboysam

promising!

senordingdong

Sick of this trailer at this stage, and may very well not see the movie as a result.

_LilyRose_

trailer looks brilliant..di caprio is a great actor, his south african accent in Blood Diamond is excellent...so whats the book about?

speedboatchase

_LilyRose_ wrote: »

trailer looks brilliant..di caprio is a great actor, his south african accent in Blood Diamond is excellent...so whats the book about?

Try to avoid spoilers as much as possible so maybe avoid the trailers.

Basically all you need to know is that the movie has two U.S Marshals (one of which is Di Caprio) investigating a disappearence of a woman from on an island hospital for the criminally insane in 1954. The marshalls start to get a bit suspicious as to how the patient "vanished" and whether or not they can trust the administrator and wardens of the hospital so its very intriuging

Sir Gallagher

The trailer is ridiculous, it gives loads away.

zimovain

Dennis Lehane is an amazing writer. All his books rock:cool:

strobe

_LilyRose_ wrote: »

..di caprio is a great actor, his south african accent in Blood Diamond is excellent

I think he's a pretty good actor but wasn't his accent in BD absolutely slated by South Africans?

brk3

Does anyone know if this is out in Ireland yet?

bnt

Opens here on 12 March (says Movies at Dundrum).

senordingdong

Been put back a few times now...no?

Corholio

To say this has divided critics in the US would be an understatement.

Ebert has said "No one who lives and breathes movies would dream of missing it" Giving it 3 1/2 out of 4 stars.

While the Chicago Tribune called it "classy, well acted junk" Giving it just 2 stars.

The NY Times also called it "terrible"

Should be interesting

senordingdong

Well so long as it was well acted.

zimovain

BBC

Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese's new film with Leonardo DiCaprio, has topped the US and Canada box office chart with first weekend takings of $40.2m (£26m).
The dark thriller stars DiCaprio as a cop investigating a disappearance at a hospital for the criminally insane.


It had been scheduled for release last October before being abruptly bumped to February by its distributor Paramount.
Last week's top movie, romantic comedy Valentine's Day, fell down to two, with Avatar still going strong at three.


Worldwide, James Cameron's sci-fi epic has now made just short of $2.5

billion (£1.6 billion).
Shutter Island's better than expected performance represents a personal best for Scorsese, the Oscar-winning director of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.


His biggest opener in North America before this weekend came in 2006 when crime drama The Departed made $26.9m (£17.4m) in its first weekend on release.



Paramount's vice-chairman Rob Moore has defended putting Shutter Island's release back, a decision that made it ineligible for this year's Academy Awards.


"We knew more time was only going to help us get the word out and get a broader audience," he said.
As well as Scorsese's film performed, however, it was trounced on a screen-for-screen basis by Roman Polanski's latest The Ghost Writer.


Opening at just four cinemas in New York and Los Angeles, the political thriller made $179,000 (£115,686) over the weekend - an average of $44,750 (£28,921) per screen.


In contrast, Shutter Island - which opened in almost 3,000 cinemas - made an average of just $13,440 (£8,686) per screen.
Polanski's arrest in Switzerland last year may have stoked interest in the title, which tells of a writer hired to "ghost" a former Prime Minister's memoirs.
Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan star in the film, to be released in the UK on 16 April as The Ghost.
Shutter Island is out in the UK on 12 March.

chalad07

I saw this movie last night, and to be honest i'd have preferred if i'd stayed away from the Trailers. There are some spoilers in them, but really not too much.

Overall good movie - but i can see why critics are divided. Leo is excellent as always.

Handsome Bob

Awesome film, I really enjoyed it. For awhile the film was going along a bit aimlessly but the last 30 minutes or so are absolutely brilliant. It's embarassing that Paramount execs sat down, watched The Lovely Bones and watched Shutter Island, and decided that The Lovely Bones would be a better bet for the Oscars. Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo and DiCaprio are brilliant in the film.

ziedth

I'm torn between seeing this and green zone tonight.

I'm a fan of both leading men so it's really a coinflip

Alicat

Can't wait to see this, it looks excellent Love Mark Ruffalo and Leo

Is this the opening weekend? Tonight's all booked up and Saturday is filling up fast

Handsome Bob

Alicat wrote: »

Can't wait to see this, it looks excellent Love Mark Ruffalo and Leo

Is this the opening weekend? Tonight's all booked up and Saturday is filling up fast

It is indeed, at least it's jousting with Green Zone, I'm sure both won't be fully booked. :eek:

humanji

Wasn't there a film back in the 70's or 80's set in an asylum in a castle, that had pretty much the exact same plot twist? Something like "The Castle" or "The Fortress" or something?

ultain

This will be solid enough I'd say, trailer looks inviting..

hitlersson666

Excellent!!!!! so alike the book and i loved it lol :D:D:D really good use of 6 euros

speedboatchase

Great film, loved the book and wasn't let down. Only complaint I would have is that 1. the hallucination and flashback scenes were a little drawn out and 2. the scene with Leo and the Warden was unnecessary. However despite that I think they handled the ending a lot better than the book and Leo was as usual, excellent. Very impressed with Jackie Earl Haley's performance too

Hogzy

Im not good with horror movies in general, i can deal with gore but what i cant deal with are jumpy scenes, ie quiet, quiet quiet quiet and BAMMM big loud noise!!!!

Are there any scenes like this in Shutter Island. And yes i am a big girls blouse!

Linguo

Hogzy wrote: »

Im not good with horror movies in general, i can deal with gore but what i cant deal with are jumpy scenes, ie quiet, quiet quiet quiet and BAMMM big loud noise!!!!

Are there any scenes like this in Shutter Island. And yes i am a big girls blouse!

A few but it's more tense then out and out scary, saying that I like scary movies so I may not be the best of judgement!!

We went to see this on Friday, we both really enjoyed it, good solid tense movie with good acting

weemcd

Have to say i was blown away by this film, never felt my har stand on end or tension like it in a film (the road to an extent but not to the same degree.), the score is truly chilling, I had no idea what way things were going to pan out. I had really high expectations for the film and it lived up to everything I'd hoped I'd see. Amzing scorsese is still putting out films of this quality.

Alicat

Loved it! Although part of the ending was a bit ruined for me because I guessed after a clue in Empire's review it was still brilliant. I'd totally watch it again.

JP Liz V1

I really liked this film - Leo is a damn fine actor and extremely easy on the eye

One question

Who was the character in the cave that was played by Patricia Clarkson? I see that the other Rachel one was a nurse

happymondays

Hogzy wrote: »

Im not good with horror movies in general, i can deal with gore but what i cant deal with are jumpy scenes, ie quiet, quiet quiet quiet and BAMMM big loud noise!!!!

Are there any scenes like this in Shutter Island. And yes i am a big girls blouse!

well its not a horror movie, it more a thriller so not really scary.
though it was average 3/5

PeterIanStaker

I saw this saturday and was impressed. DiCaprio is actually very good in this. I think the tension was adequately maintianed throughout, and it was very atmospheric.

Sleazus

Loved it - Scorcese's love letter to the old RKO horror films. Light on plot, heavy on mood and atmosphere.

Also, am I the only one who read this as Scorcese's Holocaust film. He was reportedly offered Schindler's List, but turned it down recommending a Jewish director. Aside from

the scenes at Dachau

, I also thought the the underlying themes of

denial and the inability to confront the horror of what happened

seem to reflect a Roman Catholic perspective on the atrocities.

But maybe I'm talking out my backside.

tricky D

humanji wrote: »

Wasn't there a film back in the 70's or 80's set in an asylum in a castle, that had pretty much the exact same plot twist? Something like "The Castle" or "The Fortress" or something?

The Ninth Configuration??

tok9

I wasn't sure if i liked the movie or not after i came out of it. I had an idea of the twist when

teddy talked to George. The way George talked about teddy especially when he kept lighting the matches was what gave it away for me

but there were so many little clues throughout the film.

After 2 days I've decided i loved it. The way the ending was explained was very well done considering it took 50 pages in the book i hear.

I have 2 questions though.1

Was there ever a fire? Thats how his wife died he said but really he shot her... did he burn the house after? I'm trying to remember back to the scene in the fields when Teddy and Butch go to the cemetery to find Rachel, they talk about how Andrew was caught, anyone remember the conversation?

2. Just want to know peoples opinions on this one.

Do you think he restarted the cycle again or does he remember everything? Imo it's the latter.. just from the question he asked Butch "would you prefer to live your life as a monster or die a good man?" Which were his 2 scenarios.

Sleazus

tok9 wrote: »

2. Just want to know peoples opinions on this one.

Do you think he restarted the cycle again or does he remember everything? Imo it's the latter.. just from the question he asked Butch "would you prefer to live your life as a monster or die a good man?" Which were his 2 scenarios.

I took that ending as implying that

he was aware that he would be labotomised if he couldn't be cured - and he figured it was better "to die" as a noble and misguided Federal Marshall who had done everything he could rather than live on as a failure of a husband and a father. I think he knows the truth, but to admit it would destroy him, so he's still playing along.

humanji

tricky D wrote: »

The Ninth Configuration??

Tht's the one. I think I was getting the title mixed up with another film.

AttackThePoster

Re: Shutter Island

How come there's snow in the Dachau scenes?

randomuser77

tok9 wrote: »

I have 2 questions though.1

Was there ever a fire? Thats how his wife died he said but really he shot her... did he burn the house after? I'm trying to remember back to the scene in the fields when Teddy and Butch go to the cemetery to find Rachel, they talk about how Andrew was caught, anyone remember the conversation?

I don't think we were told that there actually had been a fire in reality. There was nothing to suggest that he burnt the house after murdering his wife either. As re the scene with Teddy and "Butch" (it was "Chuck" right?) I'm pretty sure that he told Chuck that Andrew was caught after he set a fire in a school that killed a little girl.

tok9

oh ya sorry Chuck not Butch... don't know where that came from

JP Liz V1

Elias Koteas reminded me of De Niro in Cape Fear in his scene

Sleazus

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Elias Koteas reminded me of De Niro in Cape Fear in his scene

I actually thought about DeNiro as Branagh's Frankenstein when I saw him, with the scar and all.

ginoginelli

I read the book at the weekend and just viewed the film. Overall I think the film was an excellent adaptation of the book but..

That Ending ****ing sucked! How many times have we seen 'it was all in his head" or "just a dream". It would have been much better if the conspiracy turned out to be true at the very end. Utterly dissapointing conclusion to what otherwise was a gripping thriller.

hitlersson666

randomuser77 wrote: »

I don't think we were told that there actually had been a fire in reality. There was nothing to suggest that he burnt the house after murdering his wife either. As re the scene with Teddy and "Butch" (it was "Chuck" right?) I'm pretty sure that he told Chuck that Andrew was caught after he set a fire in a school that killed a little girl.

There was a fire which is why he took them to the cabin in the woods. The fire happened in the apartament and not the cabin

Sleazus

ginoginelli wrote: »

That Ending ****ing sucked! How many times have we seen 'it was all in his head" or "just a dream". It would have been much better if the conspiracy turned out to be true at the very end. Utterly dissapointing conclusion to what otherwise was a gripping thriller.

I love the ending, just because well... it's flat out ballsy.

Anyway, the whole

conspiracy stuff has an extra layour of historical basis, because we know from declassified documents on the history of the Cold War era that the American government and the MK Ultra project were actively experimenting on the American public (as in people living in their own homes, completely unaware), let alone inmates. One can actually only imagine what could have happened behind locked doors.

Where do you think LSD came from?

I like the fact that these sharp (and, to some horrific degree, correct) observations come from an insane character, even though

he's wrong about the particulars

. It kinda hammers home the key theme that in order to understand or comprehend the twentieth century, you'd have to be nuts to some degree or other.

ginoginelli

Whats ballsy about it?

Its a totally unoriginal concept that has been done 20 times before but only better? Its also a total rip off of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", which was filmed in the 20s, and has itself been ripped of countless times..

A Swiss Doctor named Albert Hoffmann discovered LSD by the way, not the american government..