INCEPTION vs SHUTTER ISLAND

I haven't seen Inception, but there's no way it could be worse than Shutter Island.

i personally am voting for "shutter island"

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it's the great debate of our time

Watched Shutter Island on the plane back from NYC. Enjoyed it vaguely, but also felt... embarrassed by bits of it. Loved Inception.

Twenty years from now it will inspire a crossover film like Alien vs. Predator.

I like the idea of Shutter Island based on the synopsis I read of it but I am more than certain that actually watching it would make me want to punch the movie in its taint

would that even hurt

They are both not good, but Shutter Island was better

Inception, for showing more than telling (or at least showing while telling)

I am pretty sure a taintpunch would sting

shutter island

can we do vs donnie darko next

Shutter with ease.

i haven't seen inception, but i have a hard time believing it's funnier than shutter island

I liked Inception and was actively annoyed by Shutter.

shutter

Inception was awesome, Shutter Island was shit, when you get a choice between awesome and shit you choose awesome

Haven't seen Inception yet, but there's absolutely no way it's worse than Shutter Island.

well maybe you don't but I do
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both are best, i vote knight n day

i haven't seen inception, but i have a hard time believing it's funnier than shutter island

― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

both of these movies could have used more levity, imo

I liked Inception and was actively annoyed by Shutter.

― Simon H., Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:24 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

However, as much as I dislike Shutter Island I feel like I need to re-watch it.

Shutter Island seemed a little too M Night Shamwow from the trailers.

both are best, i vote knight n day

― ice cr?m, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:04 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

MIND MELD

it is crazy to me that people could like one of these movies and not the other one

i do wish leo had an accent in both movies tho

Shutter Island seemed a little too M Night Shamwow from the trailers.

― ô_o (Nicole), Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:18 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Sorta but not really. There's a pretty predictable "twist" in it but that's only part of what irritated me about the movie.

On the other hand there were some memorable scenes that have stuck with me, which is what makes me want to re-view it despite my initial reaction.

I have an irrational hatred for "twist" endings. I might end up watching this when it ends up on Netflix, although I haven't much enjoyed the other movies Scorcese has made with Leo up until now.

shutter island is an unbeatable ride of chills, thrills and delights with an emotional core thatll have you reaching for the kleenex

shutter island is a ludicrous, overheated mishmash of pulp detective & psycho thriller tropes, featuring scrunchyface totally miscast as some kind of brooding, jim thompson-style thug hero, but it's a hell of a lot of stupid fun (up until the ending, when it tries to go deep). reminded me of angel heart, and like that film, partially redeemed by sheer dedication to lurid excess. ending really does suck, though.

weirdly enough not only do these two movies feature leo playing the same character, my girlfriends two "favorite actors" are his sidekicks in each one

by "favorite actors" i mean "dudes whom she ws"

shutter island is so good u guyz

Who are the sidekicks? I haven't seen either. I'm bad with movies.

the ruff and ellen page

haha

ruffalo soldier and joseph gordon levitt

<3 ruffalo, easily the best thing about SI next to the odd effectively creepy scene here or there.

Really liked page for the first time in a long time in Inception

did both of these film have kinda foghorn sounding scores? 'shutter island' definitely did. inceptch -- i think it did.

tbrr i think leo's accent + the chill soundtrack made 'shutter island' the better movie

shutter island soundtrack was amazing. does inception's come anywhere close?

no

i do wish leo had an accent in both movies tho

― max, Tuesday, July 20, 2010 10:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

feel like he couldve had some sort of exceptional boston/afrikaans hybrid accent cause it was all a dream

i liked both of these both the same

shutter island does have mark ruffalo saying "boss" a lot tho

and it looked better, nothing in inception's magical dreamworlds looks as cool as that first scene on the ferry

how about 'don't give a fuck'

^^^ cool dude

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ha!

shutter island because i haven't seen it

SI had crappy plot but that just meant that you could ignore it from the the start and pay attention to the visuals/grief/etc. Inception had a great plot that was complicated and busy enough to keep you interested but also meant that there was no time to pay attention to any of the emotions/character arcs/grief etc...

Inception because on repeat viewing it might be emotionally effective while SI will never have a good plot.

both movies had great grief

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Scrunchyfaces:

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peeonardo dicraprio

ice cold.

its hard to choose a worse film. shutter island looked better but it was such a fucking snoozefest. I was SO BORED during it. Inception was dumb, too, but at least I wasn't bored out of my mind. So Inception wins.

really, why don't I man up and see these ESSENTIAL films after raves like hII's

no one cares that you don't want to see these movies

xpost 'cos it's more fun listening to your critique of movies you have no intention of seeing

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Just watched Shutter Island and was highly unimpressed. I haven't seen Inception yet... I'm just going to assume Inception is better.

I've seen Shutter Island. I haven't seen Inception, but I've seen Memento and The Dark Knight. Somehow, Shutter Island is more unassuming than either of these, abject campy grand guignol and all, and what with my own bias against mediocre stuff that's critically praised (vs. mediocre stuff that isn't), I'm voting for Shutter.

anyone else get the impression that shutter island was scorsese's attempt at mulholland drive?

possible parallel scenes: Leo forced into (and out of) play-acting w/ fake 'Rachel Solando & N. Watts' rehearsal with the creepy older actor...

Really enjoyed both of these, though Shutter Island lost momentum over the halfway mark, it was treading water a lot. But it's some good hokum overall.

Inception though.

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both quality films, but the result was never in question

glad we got this cleared up

inception island, think abt it

these results are totally inverted!

all jus a crazy dream

OK I just saw Shutter Island last night.

O M G. I used to read Word Up magazine.

Leo is just.. a joke. Has he ever been actually good in anything? He was kind of sub-Keanu in this.

Lorax OTM elsewhere that the missing final twist where Leo actually IS a doooly uhpointed feduhrul mahshall, and Ruffalo really IS Chuck, with a big fuckin chase sequence off the island and an exposé of the lobotomy equipment etc was the only way to save it.

Oh I almost forgot, uh thanks for the many, many, long, lovingly detailed shots of DEAD KIDS. I think we get drowned dead kids, frozen dead kids, and hacked to pieces dead kids in this movie. And the camera just stays on them! Mmmmmmm dead kids. I kind of would have appreciated a message at the beginning of this movie that said "Warning: The movie you're about to see has several unreasonably long shots of DEAD KIDS. Plus a concentration camp, cause that's freaky too." I'm surprised Marty didn't have the dead wife try to fuck Leo with her kids' blood all over her body, that's about the level of gender relations I've come to expect from him these days.

Just saw Inception, and, as it happens, I walked out of the theater thinking "I liked that, but Shutter Island did this better."

spoiler and all, but the weird thing is that both movies are pretty good to the extent that they aren't ruined by endless closeups of leo's spongy face going all moony over his (dead) wifes (surprise). and they're both at least half an hour too long largely because of this. shutter island depended almost entirely on the on no dead waife! business, where in inception it feels tacked on to give the star something to act oscar-worthy about, but it's awful in both cases. inestimably more awful, like atrocity olympics in shutter island, whereas just plain ordinary bad in inception - but inception's a much worse film aside from that, so it winds up balancing out.

good soundtracks in both, though shutter island's is again better, while inception gets points for being less heavy-handed about it.

I couldn't believe what a crock Inception ended up being. A great concept ruined by a total lack of imagination.

I just remembered the recreated concentration camp scenes in Shutter Island. JFC was that fucking unnecessary or what.

Haha and I have also just remembered that yes, there is actually a scene - in this Scorcese movie - of a man getting brutally killed in slow-motion while opera plays on a gramophone

Intercut with long slo-mos of G.I. Leo looking conflicted

I liked Shutter Island until the deus ex denouement. The twist seemed so lazy and tacked on, like the Scooby Gang pulling off the monster's mask to reveal some minor character from earlier in the episode.

spoiler and all, but the weird thing is that both movies are pretty good to the extent that they aren't ruined by endless closeups of leo's spongy face going all moony over his (dead) wifes (surprise). and they're both at least half an hour too long largely because of this. shutter island depended almost entirely on the on no dead waife! business, where in inception it feels tacked on to give the star something to act oscar-worthy about, but it's awful in both cases. inestimably more awful, like atrocity olympics in shutter island, whereas just plain ordinary bad in inception - but inception's a much worse film aside from that, so it winds up balancing out.

good soundtracks in both, though shutter island's is again better, while inception gets points for being less heavy-handed about it.

― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Thursday, December 9, 2010 2:57 AM (3 hours ago)

is true true true

agree apart from inception being 'worse aside', tbh.

thought Inception had more potential, but in the end Shutter Island was a lot more film,err FUN.
and *drumroll/irony joke* the best Scorsese since... (i dunno)

'the departed'

lol

nah Gangs of New York maybe, or even Casino.

tho there are scenes from SI that have stayed with me, and tbh i'm not sure can i say the same about inception.

would definitely rather see 'shutter island' again than 'inception'

yeah i think i changed my mind on that in the space of two posts tbh.

bendy cities and architecture/design porn in shutter island were ace, but that's about it. if shutter island had a better ending and less concentration camp exploitation, i'd have loved it.

would definitely rather see 'shutter island' again than 'inception

I might leave one of them on for a bit if it came on HBO late while I was doing stuff on the computer - one has some ham, the other some action scenes - but I can't think of another context where I'd bother to see either again

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if i were going to write a blogspot post on 'martin scorsese and michael powell: PARALLELS' i wd watch it in a double bill with 'black narcissus'

otherwise yeah maybe not for a few years

I haven't seen Inception, but there's no way it could be worse than Shutter Island.

just barely managed to be.

Theme song of Leo's year is Robyn H's "My Wife and My Dead Wife."