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The Power of Christ compels three more actors to appear in Scorsese's SHUTTER ISLAND!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Martin Scorsese's SHUTTER ISLAND already has the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kinsley, Michelle Williams and Patricia Clarkson attached.
I see why, too. The story sounds great... I've mentioned it before, but the quick-quick version is 1950s. Insane asylum on an island off the Coast of Massachusetts. Escaped mental patients. US Marshals investigate. Hurricane hits. The loonies get out. But who's crazier? The inmates or those running the asylum?
Newly attached are Max Von Sydow (playing a physician at the hospital), Emily Mortimer (playing a runaway loon) and Jackie Earle Haley (an inmate, what else?).
I promised to read this book the last time I had some news on the development. I bought the book and have it sitting on my table... I was distracted by a Chuck Palahnuik book, Joe Hill's short story book and now Stephen King's DUMA KEY, but Shutter Island is next on the stack.
Can't wait. This cast is getting exciting! This movie will be awesome, I feel it!
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premiere? first?
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...But good cast, and I'm sure if anyone can make a tight genre piece out of this material, its Scorsese.
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Jeez, I didn't think this movie could get any higher on my must-see list but all three of these actors are so enormously talented that I cannot fucking wait to see this movie. Marty, you need a PA for a day? I seemed to be good luck last time around, just sayin'.
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God, I hope so... under-rated that was all the way around. Still, The Departed kicked all sorts of butt, so he's forgiven.
scarier than you think!!
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....wrote the book how about giving him some credit? And it's a great read.
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Or Prison Break.
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The book is kind of a one trick pont, but it is one holy fuck of a trick.
That being said, I have always wanted this book to be made into a movie, and I could not be more excited thinking of the heads that are going to be blown open on opening night. -
Con Air was pretty damn awesome.
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just askin' is all.
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A big ass 10. If they don't mess with the ending in the movie version it will blow your mind.
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... but I suppose now he's got the fear of being as 'unworthy' of an Oscar as Hitchcock was (like fuck) off his chest, he can start having some fun with his films again.
Sounds like it could be a classic in the making. Hope so! -
Wikipedia has this film's eventual title listed as Ashecliffe. That true? If so, why that name?
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Go on and read it. It's killer. Found a copy in the back room at my job, read it as a fluke. One of the best books I've read this year, for sure.
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The book is excellent!!! All the book by Dennis are. Quint, think you have to decide if you want to wait for the movie to experience the awesome twist ending, or if you want to read it first, then go in, knowing what is happening. I akin this to the Usual Suspects, which had the great, awesome, ending. Once you know what will happen though, the whole movie takes on a different meaning. You might want to watch the movie first.
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...makes any film better. Yes, even Judge Dredd and especially Strange Brew. But Strange Brew was already great on its own.
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You must be thinking of someone else. Perhaps the other side.
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Duma Key blows away Shutter Island.
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Just out of curiosity. And I don't thin DiCaprio has even broken the record of films shared between Kietel/Scorsese.
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Max was EXCELLENT in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Who the hell knew he spoke fluent French?
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Dude....this is NOT your usual Lehane novel. By that, this is not anything like his other works. Got to me Lehane last year and hear him discuss Shutter Island and some other works. Got a signed copy of Mystic River AND Shuuter Island...woo hoo! Anyway, I love most of his work and really like the rest. This book is difficult; at times, I loved it, others I hated it. Hell, at the end, I thought Lehane was nuts when he wrote this. Reading it first may well have you overwatching and analyzing every frame and bit of dialogue instead of just watching the film! I suggest you watch it cold...carefully...then read the book and see if they got anywhere close to what Lehane did in the book. SALINACJ tells you there's a twist, so you know this could go the M. Night route...WOW, that was great or WOW, you call that a twist? A word to the wise is efficient! (bonus points kids...which character said that last line to who in what long running CBS TV series?) :o)
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I did not know that.
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(mild spoilers). And I'm a big Lehane fan. It's easily his weakest though. Regarding potential for a movie, I'd say it's gonna be very similar to IDENTITY (and no, it doesn't deal with mp disorder. So that's not the spoiler there - but a big stupid twist at the end that turns the whole thing into a gimmick).
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As I said earlier, I loved and hated the book. In the end, I think I was disappointed because there was so much potential in the first 3/4 of the book. That last bit...really did jump the shark. That was my reference to MNS twists...might be good, might just piss you off. This one, I suspect, regardless of cast and direction, will probably just piss people off. Especially if they stay 100% true to the book.
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I think Ben Kingsley is a better actor for that role.
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But I thought there were some good opportunities squandered. Really atmospheric stuff in the middle of the book just wasn't taken forward the way I hoped it would be. I thought Shutter Island was a well conceptualised departure from his detective series to take on a stand alone thriller in a different genre, but Mystic River was a superior book. After Lehane's involvement with The Wire am curious to see how much more of a literary approach will be apparent in his next work. He always seemed very smart as crime writers go and I kind of get the impression he's been slumming it or sandbagging himself to some extent.
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If the ending is as ambiguous as the book's was. What I want is NOT a mindfuck of a twist, NOT just a straightforward drama, but a movie that builds and builds the audience toward THINKING there will be some kind of a twist and then... leaves it up to them to decide if there was one or not.
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Just finished Duma Key and never considered comparing it to Shutter Island; they're different animals. I think this may be an interesting book for what it doesn't QUITE say, which is; King is tired of writing and this may be one of his last novels, at least in the horror genre. Not his best book, but far better than Dreamcatcher and Cell, which were lousy retreads of Tommyknockers and The Stand. Duma Key was good to very good. It will make for a decent movie, but they'll probably get Uwe Boll or some other hack and it'll be yet another crappy excuse for an SK novel-turned-movie. Hope not, but we'll see.
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He is the man.
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...is in "Snow Fall on Cedars". I am not particularly fond of the film, but he is absolutely great in it.
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Get ready to wait for this one.
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Read the book last month...was
constantly re-reading previous
chapters just to see if Lehane was
playing fair after springing each
twist. And the final twist is
devastating, dramatically. If Scorcese and his actors pull this off (and I'm betting they will)you can count on multiple Oscar nominations and awards. -
Dennis Lehane is my favorite author but Shutter Island has an EXTREMELY canny twist that I saw coming from a mile away that ruined some creepy and atmospheric scenes that came before. Scorsese is amazing but adjust your expectations accordingly.
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