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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 11:01 Post subject: |
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wait, what? back that shit up.... story? when!?
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 11:46 Post subject: |
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my problem with the film was thatl the ENTIRE film was cobbled together out of plot devices, so yeah thats the reason she accepted everything so quickly. was a nonexistant story that was strung together with fights. which was why the ending was such a massive letdown.
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 11:48 Post subject: |
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yep the fight half way through (roughly) was fucking beautifully choreographed... cgi fest, but it was one of the most amazingly choreographed and satisfying fights that ive seen in a long time.
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 11:52 Post subject: |
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I agree, entertaining! However, it would have been more enjoyable with a better story.
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 12:32 Post subject: |
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| Parallax_ wrote: | Shutter Island 8/10 - Interesting mystery/thriller from Scorsese that leaves you guessing until the end. Great, powerful performance by Dicaprio, possibly his best performance to date. Also Ben Kingsley does a nice role as the eccentric Dr. Cawley, as well as the rest of the cast. Scorsese has a way of pulling out the best in actors. No cardboard characters here, instead many layers both character- and plotwise. Both cinematography and music is very 60s Hitchcockian in nature.
Not for everyone though, it's quite slow moving (but wouldn't work any other way). If you expect 500 explosions every 7 minutes, GTFO  |
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insane?  this movie doesnt have an end, you dont know if he is insane or sane.
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 14:31 Post subject: |
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Gamer - 1/10 - Barely discernable story wrapped up in jump-cut vfx-overload, with lots of random explosions and "high-tech" garbage and closeups on guys/girls flexing their muscles/showing their tits.
Clearly I am not the target audience, but if this is what kids like, no wonder they get ADHD. ^^
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 16:41 Post subject: |
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| streetunder wrote: | Spoiler: | insane?  this movie doesnt have an end, you dont know if he is insane or sane. |
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He IS insane. All the clues are there, almost right from the start. You can't really argue that he WASN'T, that just means that you didn't get the movie in the first place (I suggest you rewatch it).
Consider this, Laeddis was having strange dreams/hallucinations before he was given anything from the doctor and others (aspirine, cigarettes, whatever). All the memories you see Laeddis having throughout the movie are real, there is no way the people working there would have "implanted" those memories (plus, this ain't a sci-fi).
Consider other clues, "Teddy" was having a band-aid on his forehead most of the movie, giving a hint what has happened to him before, the anagrams of all the names of the characters he has made up, the shrink (acting as a "marshal") fumbling with the gun at the gate at the beginning, and so on. His hallucinations are of his own doing, the doctors at the facility are not doing this to him. Salando and the scene in the cave was all in his mind. The storm was a manifestation of Teddy's fear for water, which comes from the scene where he finds his children murdered (this event real, as well as that he murdered his wife). Another clue to this is, after the storm when he is sitting at the stairs, all the trees and everything that was wrecked during the storm, is suddenly back to normal. It was not real. He is a patient on the island, he is insane right from the start.
The doctor and his shrink also explains it to him at the end in the lighthouse, a scene which judging by the characters, is no doubt telling the truth to Laeddis. It is also explained that they made it all up ("role play"), in order to try to snap Laeddis back to normality for good (which was tried 9 months earlier, but Teddy "reset" back into his cycle of insanity).
Also consider the ending, which is conclusive, not without an end, as you claim; At the end he is talking to his shrink, which asks Laeddis "now what?". In which he replies, "This place makes me wonder, is it better to live as a monster or die a good man?" Laeddis has realized who he is at the end, but he walks willingly to the lobotomy because he has decided it's better to "die" a good man - he don't want to live as the monster Laeddis, in which he feels responsible for the death of his wife, as well as his children (because he was unable to find help for his wife). The lobotomy is a way of erasing the guilt for good. |
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 18:13 Post subject: |
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Couples Retreat - 6/10
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 21:11 Post subject: |
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has anyone seen Shutter Island yet? Scorsese fanboy <--
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 21:12 Post subject: |
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| Anthirs wrote: | | I agree, entertaining! However, it would have been more enjoyable with a better story. |
i lolled... mainly because a) i thought all of this chatter was about rec 2 [i figured it out after gory ninja action]
and b) I thought rec sucked cuz of you guys and i lost my mood to watch it 
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 22:04 Post subject: |
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A Prophet - 9++/10 , extremly well made movie , some say it's par with Gommorah , tho i really loved this more than Gommorah and the story was better.
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Posted: Sat, 27th Feb 2010 23:03 Post subject: |
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| Cohen wrote: | | has anyone seen Shutter Island yet? Scorsese fanboy <-- |
See my comment on the previous page.
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Posted: Sun, 28th Feb 2010 05:34 Post subject: |
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The Crazies
6/10
Went and saw this with a few buddies tonight. Lots of dumb things happen in this movie. Some jumps here and there. Reminded me of Left 4 Dead in a few spots.
Could have been much better. Needed more fighting off "crazies" in it. Would rather have seen them fighting off hordes of them than the little skirmishes.
Not what i thought it would be but not terrible either.
Wait for it to come out on DVD or bluray.
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Henry, portrait of what the fuck did I just watch - 2/10
Can understand its supposed to be brutal and lack any moral, but what the fuck, its so stupid, surely the real Henry Lucas wasnt this fucking retarded. they stop a guy in the middle of the busy road with the hood up, and just stand there and shoot him in the face, and climb back in casually then drive off.. all of a sudden there are NO cars anywhere. WTF?
Another thing, without spoiling, the stupid bitch sister of that fucking hillbilly.. she sees henry like 3 times in the entire film and within 1 week, she loves him? (well he did saves you from your insest loving buttfucker brother.. but still).
I can only concolude that the makers of this film wrote the script only on what they thought Henry Lucas did, without actually looking at any of the evidence of the real crimes because the whole thing was dumb and retarded, portraying Henry as a stupid fuck (no way in hell did someone this stupid in real life get away with 300+ murders) this movie fucking sucked.
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Posted: Sun, 28th Feb 2010 08:41 Post subject: |
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the first one. the one that has 7/10 which i thought would be good. :/
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Posted: Sun, 28th Feb 2010 10:29 Post subject: |
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Armoured - 6/10 ... decent, but you really have to ignore all the plot holes, and think of it as entertainment. If you start thinking about the reality of the situation you're going to realize that this movie isn't very realistic at all.
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Posted: Sun, 28th Feb 2010 10:44 Post subject: |
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| fisk wrote: | | Armoured - 6/10 ... decent, but you really have to ignore all the plot holes, and think of it as entertainment. If you start thinking about the reality of the situation you're going to realize that this movie isn't very realistic at all. |
hang on... wait wait wait... movies as entertainment? movies lack realism?
you know what... up till this point in your life, i think youve been watching movies alllllllll wrong 
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Posted: Sun, 28th Feb 2010 15:48 Post subject: |
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Shutter Island - 9/10
Don't think I ever saw a movie that depressed me more than this one.
However, it didn't stop me from thinking how funny would the scenes with Michelle Williams look with the song from Dawson's Creek playing.
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Posted: Sun, 28th Feb 2010 16:13 Post subject: |
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| Cohen wrote: | Henry, portrait of what the fuck did I just watch - 2/10
Can understand its supposed to be brutal and lack any moral, but what the fuck, its so stupid, surely the real Henry Lucas wasnt this fucking retarded. they stop a guy in the middle of the busy road with the hood up, and just stand there and shoot him in the face, and climb back in casually then drive off.. all of a sudden there are NO cars anywhere. WTF?
Another thing, without spoiling, the stupid bitch sister of that fucking hillbilly.. she sees henry like 3 times in the entire film and within 1 week, she loves him? (well he did saves you from your insest loving buttfucker brother.. but still).
I can only concolude that the makers of this film wrote the script only on what they thought Henry Lucas did, without actually looking at any of the evidence of the real crimes because the whole thing was dumb and retarded, portraying Henry as a stupid fuck (no way in hell did someone this stupid in real life get away with 300+ murders) this movie fucking sucked. |
It's an excellent movie - you lack taste...thats all 
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Posted: Sun, 28th Feb 2010 16:27 Post subject: |
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Ninja Assassin - 6/10 Entertaining but silly. Reminded me too little of the great trashy ninja movies of the 80'ies with Sho Kosugi. I'm not a fan of CGI-splatter either.
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