The first time I watched this around release date i found it ok..ish, mediocre nothing to shout about.. but I recently watched it a second time, it was on normal TV and with nothing much else was on so I thought why not. I enjoyed it alot! It has definitely moved up in my books. So if you have only watched it once and think it is ok...ish give it a few months and try again!
shareUnanticipated, free pleasures are always more enjoyable than those bought and anticipated. TV could wreck the movie industry, or at least do it much damage, if it would only stop "editing for content" the movies they show.
shareI agree.. to and extent... I think the movie industry get way too greedy and flood the market with poor quality films.. remakes.. too many sequels etc.. take star wars for example.. I love them. And the new ones are amazing.. but I know Disney are going to over do it and destroy it till people are sick of them then 10 years time Start again.
shareYour Star Wars prediction was accurate.
shareHow can one view this exceptionally transferred BD, with Scorsese at the helm, a vastly matured Dicaprio as the lead, a cast of extremely talented veterans, with an intelligent mystery and psychological thriller of a script, not like it upon the first viewing then being bowled over catching it on the Boob Tube? "Shutter Island" = "mediocre" is an oxymoron.
shareI get it. Scorsese films can be hard to swallow on first viewing because he doesn’t care about 3 act structures or the normal storytelling rules that make most movies easy to digest.
Shutter island is abstract and crazy, mixing delusional fantasies with dreams mixed with reality, and it can drag a little in places on first viewing. Of course, it’s all worth it for the final revelation and Andrew’s final words.
The film haunts your brain, as great films do, and beckons you back to it - and that’s when it really opens up. On rewatches you can catch all the clues you missed that hint toward reality, and understand why the stylistic flourishes, music, imagery, abstractions… are what they are.
In the end this seemingly small-scale thriller is an epic portrait of a severely damaged mind, and profoundly tragic and sad.