Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio struck box office gold with their latest film Shutter Island which raked in $40.2 Million dollars opening weekend. Did any of you LIFERS see the movie this weekend?
Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. (IMDB)
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Psychological Thriller, Scorsese comes through yet again, but then again, when doesn’t he? Leonardo Dicaprio was on point, some of his best work
great movie but advertised as a much different kind of movie. reminded me somewhat of hitchcocks vertigo but not as good.
GREAT MOVIE SHIT!!!
I too scary to see something like that. :-/
i liked it a lot.
what can I say? Scorsese!
I loved it
He says Rachael like a hundred million times that is the best part!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know if you guys know this but Scorsese is a racist, I haven’t seen this film, but if you look at his others and the way he portrays blacks, and his treatment of them it’s deplorable. He treats blacks like animals, he rapes them, beats them, dismembers them, any disgusting or demeaning thing you can do to a human he does to blacks. Just as an example, watch Gangs of New York, and see how the black characters are treated in comparision to the whites, Anthony Andersons character is called a nigger and shot in the head in “The Departed”, after taking notice you may never patronize a Scorsese film again!
hmm good point…I always chalked it up to them being period pieces where that was just how blacks were treated, but I think you’re on to something. The Departed was a contemporary film but nigger was used quite rampantly. Something to think about. I still loved Shutter Island though.
I can’t lie I still watch his films, but I am aware of the racial undertones… I like good movies, it makes me sick, i’m not more Malcolm X!
You are a fucking idiot. The black characters in Gangs of New York where treated poorly because it takes place in fucking 1863 and that the way blacks were treated back then. Calling him a racist for showing history as it really was is like calling Steven Spielberg an anti-semite for making Schindler’s List. Also Anthony Andersons character in The Departed is one of the few good cops in the film, as was Leonardo DiCaprio, both of them are called an ethnic slur and shot in the head. Scorsese makes a lot of films that feature gangsters and thugs THEY ARE NOT GOOD PEOPLE!!!! So yes they use racial slurs and treat people who aren’t like them poorly they also are never portrayed as the heroes, thats the point they are assholes and by the end they always have bad things happen to them so just stop with all the racial paranoia.
And before you call the man a racist how about you check out “Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues – Godfathers and Sons” which is a documentary series he produced and directed about the history of the blues. It features all black artist and none of them get shot in the head.
+1 Thank You……
Ummm…. It was also 1863 in New York, not the deep south, this wasn’t Mississippi, This was the North where blacks escaped to. And really one thing has to do with the other this film wasn’t about the treatment of blacks in the northeast, that was added in, it had very little to do with the story line of clashing cultures of the city’s native’s vs. the influx of incoming immigrants and they problems they faced. And maybe he made the blues movie to quiet morons like you who believe that one uplifting piece makes up for all the down-trodding!
@HotMizzyDotCizzy!!!
It’s obvious you don’t know anything about anything so here’s what I want you to do. Head down to your local library and look up “The New York City Draft Riots” and then come back and tell me how good blacks were treated in 1863. Until then STFU about this stuff because you are very misinformed.
he was recommended to produce that film due to his racist reputation and verbal/physical treatment of blacks in all his big mainstream films.
the racism of MS as a director is inexcusable.
the amount of black, nigger comments in ALL of his ‘a-list’ movies are off the charts. i wrote about this on imdb and my post was deleted. historical disclaimer aside there a lot of LOUD ‘nigger’ bombs all over the place in his films.
also note in taxi driver he cameos a character that proclaims he is going to ‘kill a nigger’. i’ve fought this issue out on numerous boards and can’t be bothered no more, simply put scorcesse ALWAYS has to have the word ‘nigger’ in his big movies. it’s a strong re-occouring theme.
Umm, THE DEPARTED was about the BOSTON MAFIA, which was IRISH! Not sure how many peeps on here been to BOSTON, but it’s one of the most ignorant, racist states you can visit or live! There is even a line, where Leo tells dude that it dont matter if he is a cop, he is still a Black man in Boston!!
the movie was too predictable……..not that great if you are a movie buff.
agreed. ending sucked
the whole theater boo’d when it ended
true – it was obvious he was going to be a patent to some degree, but after watching it once i would like to go back a second time to pick up the tails.
the intro was too quick, but hey – a decent film at least. nice lighting a production design too.