Shut out of the Oscars and Globes and generally forgotten in the best of 2010 discussion this year, even though I think it's on par with, if not a little better than Black Swan and Inception. I'm comparing the three because they're somewhat similar psychological thrillers with twist/ambiguous endings from 2010 (for the record, The Fighter is my best of 2010 pick).
Is Shutter Island predictable? Yeah. But few movies are more predictable than Black Swan. 5 minutes in you know exactly what's going to happen by the end.
Is it a little hammy and over the top? Yes. But Black Swan and Inception sure as hell are as well. That's not such a bad thing, either. I think all three movies benefited from a little over the top hysterics.
What else? Leo is Leo in two of these films (which is to say, neither great nor awful), and Portman's performance is probably the best out of all three movies. Does that separate Black Swan from the other two?
Scorsese expectations? A lot of complaints I read was "this doesn't feel like a Scorsese," and I'm not even sure what that means. Even though he's best known for his crime pics, Scorsese has a pretty wide range and has dabbled in a lot of different genres.
Maybe it fell to the "early in the season" curse since it came out in January 2010 and has been out of people's minds for a while.
I just don't get why Black Swan and Inception still have lots of buzz while Shutter Island is forgotten.
Is Shutter Island predictable? Yeah. But few movies are more predictable than Black Swan. 5 minutes in you know exactly what's going to happen by the end.
Is it a little hammy and over the top? Yes. But Black Swan and Inception sure as hell are as well. That's not such a bad thing, either. I think all three movies benefited from a little over the top hysterics.
What else? Leo is Leo in two of these films (which is to say, neither great nor awful), and Portman's performance is probably the best out of all three movies. Does that separate Black Swan from the other two?
Scorsese expectations? A lot of complaints I read was "this doesn't feel like a Scorsese," and I'm not even sure what that means. Even though he's best known for his crime pics, Scorsese has a pretty wide range and has dabbled in a lot of different genres.
Maybe it fell to the "early in the season" curse since it came out in January 2010 and has been out of people's minds for a while.
I just don't get why Black Swan and Inception still have lots of buzz while Shutter Island is forgotten.