Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[MouseWife]

Spoiler:

Okay, let's hope I am doing this right or I will delete it immediately! I think if we watch the movie again, knowing the end, we'll understand more. I don't see how they got him onto the boat, that wasn't clear. But, the armed guards upon arrival, made sense after. The one patient whispering 'Shhhh' made a lot of sense...it was a secret. The good doctor did say that as opposed to the lobotomies he tried to work with the patients. I didn't like how it ended because I wanted to KNOW for certain what the hell happened and what was going to happen for sure.

After the movie, my husband and I felt trippy. We didn't say anything right away to one another. Went to the bathroom, talked with some friends, walked out to the car, started to drive away. Then in our discussion he was saying {and his face looked worried} that he was looking at himself in the mirror at the bathroom and he felt...he felt...and I did a 'booga booga' in his face 'Weird???' I said. LOL No we aren't crazy.

The movie was a fun ride. I love Leo. :0)

[MouseWife]

Oh yes, even if some parts seemed slow to me {maybe it is me that is slow...hmmmm} it was always interesting. I didn't want to miss a thing!!

Glad, too, I didn't read the book. May want to now, but not sure.

Those books, like I see at Target, they have pictures from the movie on the cover. Are they real novels or just the movie in a book? I don't care for that. I want the real thing. What the movie was modeled after. Is it a different story?

I've seen them a lot, like, the movie he did with Kate Winslet? But, I don't want to read the movie again. I want the real story!!

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by MouseWife

After the movie, my husband and I felt trippy. ... Then in our discussion he was saying {and his face looked worried} that he was looking at himself in the mirror at the bathroom and he felt...he felt...and I did a 'booga booga' in his face 'Weird???' I said. LOL No we aren't crazy.

Ok, this is worth breaking my hiatus over - because your story reminded me of something about my Shutter Island experience I totally forgot about.

We've been going to the theater where we saw it for years. It's the relatively new Pacific in now-hip downtown Culver City. They string rope and stanchions across the wide lobby to take your ticket before you hit the snack bar area. But this time, they moved that way back to the narrow bottleneck between the snack bar and the auditoriums. Makes much more sense, and we told the ticket takers so, and they remarked on the positive change.


After the film, we come out to find the ticket taker position back where it always has been, and all the mile-wide ropes and stanchions in place. We asked why they had moved it back when the new location made so much sense, and they looked at us like we were insane.

We felt so frelling weird and gaslighted for a few moments - then went outside the theater and fell down laughing.







But, like flippy, i didn't buy it at all. There's no way the staff, the doctors, the patients, the guards and the nazis were all in on it, and let crazy Leo have run of the place. Nope - did not fly. And kinda ruined, for me, a movie I liked.


But I totally don't put it past the theater staff to have messed with our minds for fun and sport.


(just to see if my icon is still here)

[Stan4dSteph]

So I should avoid this thread if I haven't seen every movie ever made? Oh well, don't need to see Shutter Island now then I guess. Saves me wasting time and money.

[Deebs]

I realize after watching The Darjeeling Limited that I really don't like Owen Wilson. But I really do like Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman.

[MouseWife]

iSm, that's too funny! Yep, I don't know how they did it exactly but my head was definitely messed with. Not a hard task but my husband usually isn't taken in by anything.

Oh, but I see what Steph means, perhaps, without being the red pen police, you could put that part about the movie into a spoiler tag?

Inywho...what's the next movie coming out? I just saw they are re-releasing 'Alice In Wonderland' on DVD...hmm...forgot to see if it was on Blu-ray. Does it matter? Isn't it the newer animation where it makes a difference?

[SacTown Chronic]

Hello, friend.

[Snowflake]

Oh Boy! At last! Tomorrow night I get to see the UCLA/BFI restoration of The Red Shoes on the big screen (The Castro). I'm so excited! Orgy of technicolor!

Also, in Palo Alto at The Stanford they are having a 100th birthday retrospective of Akira Kurosawa. I just got the schedule and have already missed Seven Samurai and Rashomon (dammit). Thank goodness TCM is also running a ton of Kurosawa films this month. Yay!