Excellent example of how music can really make a trailer (and how the Sift can cause one to discover great things inadvertantly). The song is This Bitter Earth by Dinah Washington, rearranged for the ost of "Shutter Island":

Maybe he could have used some of that wisdom for Shutter Island...

Awesome, but that's got far more footage of Inception than it does Shutter Island.

Great mashup.

Well, I had to check IMDb to see if I had even watched 10 new movies last year. As luck would have it, I found eleven movies:

Inception, Kick-Ass, Shutter Island, The Town, The Ghost Writer, Machete, Easy A, Unthinkable, A-Team, Prince of Persia and Frozen

So I guess that makes my list of last year's eleven best movies - and worst movies. It'll be extended by True Grit at some point in the coming months, but beyond that there's not really any movie I feel drawn to.

This video, and a few movies such as Spider (which we were shown during our psychiatry rotation) and Shutter Island depict mental illness fairly accurately.

If you want to delve into the world of the mentally unstable, I would recommend watching those two.

Same here, though I enjoy both.

Seven thoughts as I watched this vid:

1. Gangs of New York was such a nothing film. The Departed and Shutter Island were terrific.

2. Scorsese's early work (Who's That Knocking on My Door, Mean Streets, and Taxi Driver) was very artistic. His movies since that time: not so much.

3. "We Are the People is not the same as We Are the People. Let's not fight. Look, I'm gonna make it real simple. We don't pay for the buttons, We throw the buttons away."

4. The only Kubrick film I was really disappointed with was Eyes Wide Shut. That was also a nothing film.

5. Kubrick's movies are timeless and infinitely re-watchable. But then, so are Scorsese's.

6. Kubrick started as a photographer and so his films are meticulous and beautiful, especially Barry Lyndon. Kubrick was an artist through and through.

7. "Hey Dad. There's a strange fella sittin' on the sofa munchy-wunchin' long tics of toast!"

THE CLIPS:
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
Babylon A.D.
Knowing
Sherlock Holmes
Death Race
The Uninvited
Max Payne
Fast & Furious
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Midnight Meat Train
Quarantine
2012
Ninja Assassin
Twilight Saga: New Moon
Whiteout
The Final Destination
Daybreakers
Race to Witch Mounta More..in
Moon
Inglourious Basterds
The Box
Obsessed
Friday the 13th
Star Trek
Terminator Salvation
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Watchmen
Dragonball
The Spirit
Carriers
Bangkok Dangerous
District 9
Surrogates
The Book of Eli
Mirrors
The Happening
Wanted
(some Russian title)
Sorority Row
Fighting
The Road
Angels & Demons
Jennifer's Body
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Pineapple Express
The Last House on the Left
The Haunting in Connecticut
Shutter Island

THE MUSIC:

AudioMachine - Akkadian Empire
Groove Addicts - Zero Hour
Audio Network - Mars
AudioMachine - Lachrimae (VadoskiN DNB mix)
Wild Rumpus Music - Blame It on the Falling Sky 2.0
John Murphy - The Last House On The Left SCORE

I don't keep track of what's going on in the movies these days, so the vast majority of these are completely new to me.

Shutter Island looks like it could be an interesting story and probably very well acted. It seems it might fall prey to being a predictible rehash of overdone ideas and cheesy "Boo!" cinematography.

I'll keep an eye open for Black Death. Hopefully it's shot more like LoTR and less like 300. Hopefully it can rise above being another medieval action movie riding the coat tails of LoTR.

A Couple of Dicks... yeah, no thanks.

Phillip Morris seems like another brainless comedy. Pass.

I hate Iron Man. The end.

Robin Hood... I'll have to see more. The idea of another remake of this story doesn't thrill me. I'd have been more interested by the original concept, probably.

Predators... Seriously? Didn't we run this far enough into the ground 19 years ago with Predator 2, nevermind the AvP disasters?

Inception... need more info.

Based solely on the cast, The Expendables seems, well, expendable.

Tron Legacy... against my better judgment, I'm looking forward to this. It will almost certainly be fresh and unique even if it's not good.

Hereafter, Mute... need more info.

Paul... Doesn't look like my kinda thing.

I thought everybody liked DiCaprio. Blood Diamonds was great, Catch Me If You Can was fun times, The Aviator! I'm looking forward to Shutter Island especially.