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Author Topic: Shutter Island Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-20-2010 10:21 PM                     WOW! Absolutly amazing piece of film work. I will see it again tomrrow. Incredible acting, casting, script, camera work, effects, and precise editing all contribute to this extremely creepy masterpiece!  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-20-2010 10:45 PM                     Please allow me to rephrase. Reels 1-6 are very good. Reels 7-8 suddenly try to make it something bigger than it needs to be to be effective and ends up failing in a predictable M. Night sort of way.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 02-21-2010 10:15 AM                        I hear that nobody likes the ending.  |  IP: Logged Dan Lyons Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 698 From: Seal Beach, CA Registered: Sep 2002 posted 02-21-2010 11:12 AM                     I also loved the first six reels. Very much like a good Hitchcock film. The rest...  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 02-21-2010 01:23 PM                     I figured out the ending in the first 15 minutes, and just kept hoping they would throw in some curves. Although very linear in plot, it was still moderately ok in my book. Good script, acting and filmwork kept it from being horrible. And thank god no shaky cam footage.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-22-2010 05:18 PM                     I'm with Mark G. on this one. This film has no dragging spots, has some outstanding acting, and pays homage to Hitchcock in some interesting ways. We really enjoyed this one! As always, music is an important part of this film, as it is with most Scorsese projects. Much of the music was classical music composed at about the era of the story. I wish I could have heard ALL of the music, because the right channel sound in room 24 of the AMC LENNOX 24 was either very low or non-existent. Is this film very active in the surrounds? I heard none at this screening, and Scorsese usually puts lots of music in the surround tracks. There are a couple of scenes in the film I would like to see again knowing the ending. <non-spoiler here> The dialogue with the prisoner in cellblock C could be very interesting in retrospect. This one gets an A.  |  IP: Logged Chris Slycord Film God Posts: 2986 From: 퍼항시, 경상푹도, South Korea Registered: Mar 2007 posted 02-22-2010 11:08 PM                     quote: Mark Lensenmayer I wish I could have heard ALL of the music, because the right channel sound in room 24 of the AMC LENNOX 24 was either very low or non-existent. Is this film very active in the surrounds? I heard none at this screening, and Scorsese usually puts lots of music in the surround tracks. Quite a few AMCs (at least ones that weren't obtained through mergers with other chains) have SDDS only for surround sound and run stereo as the backup. But I know nothing of that theater in particular, and when I watched it, I could hear the surrounds quite well.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-23-2010 12:02 PM                     This was in one of the 4-central, big rooms with multiple digital sound systems. Sounds like things were just messed up for that screening. There was also some weirdness with the pre-show projector. Looks to me like someone at AMC LENNOX 24 just wasn't paying attention. I reported the problem, but got a blank stare from the customer relations desk. Still, Shutter Island is a good movie and I did enjoy it.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-24-2010 12:19 PM                        I was disappointed with the film. It's a good B-movie script, and the performances and direction are not horrible, but I expected much more from Scorsese. I didn't even find it to be particularly entertaining, for the most part. Still, it is one of the best current films that I have seen in months, which is sad.  |  IP: Logged Mike Croaro Master Film Handler Posts: 394 From: Millbrae, CA Registered: Apr 2005 posted 02-26-2010 12:01 PM                     Hi Folks: Saw this yesterday. I enjoyed it but Brad hit the nail on the head. The first 3/4 are very good and the last part was dissapointing. Mike  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 02-27-2010 09:19 AM                     I stayed and watched on opening day after my shift. I bascially enjoyed it, but I was distracted by the fact that reel 2 had a small hair in the printer gate dancing around at the top right of the screen for the 2nd half of the reel, and part of the cyan sound track was bleeding into the left edge of the picture for all of reel 3 on my print.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-01-2010 12:13 PM                        I saw SHUTTER ISLAND at Regal's Pearl Highland yesterday afternoon and enjoyed the film very much. As mentioned, the classical music pieces made the movie more interesting and entertaining. Beside the music of Gustav Mahler, the film featured a lot of music by Gyorgy Ligeti whose music was also used in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY. The photography was drab looking and set the mood for the movie. All of the performance by the cast was very good. I thought the entire movie was good. The only complaint I had with the movie as well as many 35mm film presentations I had seen since I got Blu Ray and a 1080p HD television was the picture quality in the theatres was not as vibrant as I have become accustomed to seeing at home in HD. This was mentioned in another thread I had posted in the Afterlife forum. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Jonathan Smith Expert Film Handler Posts: 201 From: Youngstown, OH Registered: Jan 2010 posted 03-01-2010 12:22 PM                     I was SO DISAPPOINTED that a Scope movie could look so soft. The "flashback scenes" for DiCaprio's wartime past (without spoiling it) were supposedly shot, in part, on 65mm 5-perf. film. Couldn't tell with such a shoddy 2K DI. These things ought to be BANNED on 4-perf. scope/5-perf. 65mm films. Image quality has taken such a nose-dive in the last decade (if you don't believe me run a "Thin Red Line" trailer immediately followed by "Shutter Island") that it makes me sick. Digital is going to replace film because the studios have INTENTIONALLY made 35mm prints look like This movie is worse than the DI work I saw on Indy IV. At the same time, I liked the story, even though the whole film looked like it was shot out of focus. It wasn't perfect, and I agree that it kinda died after the end of reel 6, but I'd give it maybe a B- at worst. No "One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest" but easily the best work in this genre in a long time. Most "psycho dramas" fail miserably; I like this much better than "Gangs of New York" or any of the hundreds of TV shows I've seen that try, unsuccessfully, to deal with this subject.  |  IP: Logged Joe Elliott Master Film Handler Posts: 497 From: Port Orange, Fl USA Registered: Oct 2006 posted 03-02-2010 02:44 PM                     I do agree with you, I think the film companies are watering down the 35mm copies, to force us to digital. I have never seen such poor quality as the prints that have been coming out since about mid summer 2009. Bad focus, bad color, extreme film grain. Their digital equivalents look great, so it is all added in during print production. If they aren't adding it in on purpose, they are doing a piss poor job during the printing process. It would be interesting to hear someones take on this from one of the labs.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-02-2010 05:54 PM                     Actually the print I saw looked very sharp and had superb blacks. If you read my review you'll see that I was amazed they cold get Eastman to do the black ranges it did for this film. Mark  |  IP: Logged

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