Shutter Island was fantastic. Yeah, just reading that others had figured it out in the first ten minutes led me to muse the possible directions, and I nailed it, but I wasn't sure I was right until the movie laid it out. And for all that, I enjoyed the hell out of it. The movie nicely avoided the usual letdown that accompanies revelations and explanations. For me, at least. I was deeply satisfied at the end of the movie.
One thing that I am not sure about is
George Noyce and his mention of how he had gotten out once but not twice, and it was Leo's fault. How much of Leo's story about George was true? I'm sure it doesn't really matter. But it's Jackie Fricking Haley, so I'm intrigued by the character.
I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson!
Someone teach the word "infrared" to the CNN reporter.
Hee.
And this:
You have it backwards. You can be a high school Science Teacher, or you can settle as a cosmologist.
Hah!
Okay, you asked for it, an Avatar Chaser: 2 parts Smurffs, 2 parts Tarzan, 4 parts Dances With Wolves. In a Disney sippy cup.
t randomness
Chris Pine really is a good looking dude, isn't he?
Juliebird, that the type of question I wasn't sure about reading the book, that is,
since he is basically imagining the whole scenario, how much of what you have read/seen over the course of the story is true.
Finally! A dude we don't agree on!! No fighting over agreeing that you get the hot dude we both like
megan, I wonder because
everything else George says seems to come from the perspective of reality, rather than roleplaying. I mean, maybe it was a mix of both, but there's the fact that many of the players were knowingly playing a role in order to enable the delusion. And here's this guy trying to tell him the truth.
I had heard the book was a lot more ambiguous than the movie, and I feel pretty comfortable with what I think I know in the movie. Except this one part.
Well, in the book,
George says that the fact that he was beaten up was Leo's fault. Leo assumes this is indirectly his fault based on his earlier investigation landing George in the asylum again, but actually he physically beat him up as a fellow inmate.
I spent the first half of the movie why Jessica didn't like it,
The dialogue. Clunky doesn't even begin to describe it.
Oh yeah, totally. It's just that the first half of the movie has a lot less dialog, and the dialog that is there is a lot less clunky by virtue of not containing the awful exposition. But yes, when the credits rolled, I found myself not liking the movie much, and thinking it could have been vastly improved by removing every last bit of dialog.
But yes, when the credits rolled, I found myself not liking the movie much, and thinking it could have been vastly improved by removing every last bit of dialog.
And adding a jaunty piano soundtrack!
