It Should Be Shudder Island

(Chiefly from the horror that you paid good money to feel like a boob during a movie that is criminally dull.)


Just consider this a little PSA from me to you.

My friend and I went to see Shutter Island this weekend suspecting that it might be an unintentionally funny drama. You know the type-- so over-the-top melodramatic that many elements become comedic. Frankly, I think all parties involved need to have their butts spanked for this one. In the vein of Coffee Talk-- the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman, discuss-- Shuttah Island was neither funny nor dramatic. Near the end of the film when its mysteries were supposed to be revealed, I was nodding off. Now there are all these nerds on IMDb hashing out which parts of the film were real and which were not. For me, this was the kind of film where I truly do not care what the answers are. I won't post any spoilers here about it as I guess this was Marty Scorsese's attempt to create a film somewhere between the M. Night Shyamalan twist and the Alfred Hitchcock "don't trust first appearances" school of cinema. I had a flashback to the time we saw Michael Clayton and a hick on the way out said it all: "This was like Ishtar."

Touche.

Go at your own risk. And consider getting a large coffee on the way in-- you're going to need it.

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