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Snake Grand Master

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Too close to E3 to be a coincidence

 

Also, the username who put up the trailer is "MortalKombatRebirth"

 

name of the new game or maybe a bad a*s Christopher Nolan type re imagining!!!

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Holy sh*t. That trailer is awesome,looks like a nice reboot.I still remember the first movie with Liu Kang as lead character.

 

Saw Prince of Persia today-a waste of time.Opening sequence was pretty good and the movie as a whole was not bad till about intermission.Hated the last third of the movie.

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saw shutter island 2-3 weeks back, Dont know about you guys,

the frequent visions of his wife and in the scene where the cyclone hits and the place where they hold most insane patients, where leo attacks one of the mad scientist, for me it was a dead give away tht He is the one who is crazy.

 

 

Also saw Ninja Assassin, was happy to see tht the film was more gorier and bloodier then NG2 game and extensive use of Kusari gama , my fav ingame weapon.

but overall the film was below average and my expectations :doh:

 

 

/Hi5

 

I am pretty sure he is sane at the end. The whole die a monster line at the end couldnt have been a bigger giveaway. Also it was a bit unnecessary, it was too "wink, wink, nudge, nudge". Should have left it a bit more open ended.

 

 

And yeah I agree with Tyler. Dicaprio is a bloody brilliant actor.

The scene at the end by the lake was absolutely mesmerizing.

 

 

 

But there was also the possibility of him losing it because of the pills, food, cigarettes etc.

 

Also, Afty is right, the ending is ambiguous. Even I don't think he was crazy, he just accepted it. He was never gonna get out of there.

 

 

 

I think I will watch the movie again.

 

 

In the End , chuck calls him by his new name (which he created whilst insane) 'Ted' but he refuses to acknowledge/reply and also the monster line. Hence i think he was cured

 

 

My interpretation of the last line is as follows:

 

 

 

Teddy was somehow manipulated/drugged into believing that he murdered his wife and was a patient at Shutter Island. There was no escaping this no matter how hard he tried. The island was cut off from the mainland and was controlled by the doctors. So he'd rather die as a good man (Teddy the Federal Marshall) than a monster (Andrew Laeddis) which he was made to believe he was. And by dying he meant undergoing the lobotomy.

 

Then again, the ending is deliberately left open for interpretation and if you choose to believe that Ted was in fact insane, it's perfectly fine. Because the story makes sense that way too. I just feel that by believing that Shutter Island was a truly evil place run by evil doctors it kinda makes the movie a lot more sinister.

 

Also, even if you accept that Teddy had been a patient, I don't think he was cured at the end. He went back to being Teddy and thats when Chuck looked at the doctors and gave a disappointed look. At which point the doctors and orderlies start escorting him presumably to the lighthouse for the lobotomy. Thats why the last shot was of the lighthouse.

 

 

 

Either way, it was a brilliant movie. Made me think about it for a long time after I left the theater. That hasn't happened in a long time.

 

 

What i understood was that he couldnt bear the burden to understand if it was all a truth or a lie so he called him chuck so that he could be put out of his misery and escape the mental anguish of finding out the truth.

 

 

Teddy referred to Chuck all of that deliberately, so as to make him think that he still is insane... Chuck made that clear to the doctor who then was prepared for a lobotomy... and in the end, Teddy raised the ambiguity to Chuck that he is actually cured (hence, Chuck's reaction) but couldnt live with all the memories related to his family...

i think he was confused himself!! :rofl:

 

 

I agree with these two. He was cured but couldn't live with knowing who he was, what he had gone through and what he had done. So he faked the end bit and went ahead with the lobotomy very, very peacefully. Also, ironic or genius as to how he left the doctor in the end confused by the line "live a monster or die a good man"..if he was actually cured and faking it or was he still criminally insane. That would live on the doc/his partner's conscience forever.

 

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Snake Grand Master

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The Mortal Kombat trailer was a demo reel to shop around for studio's to pick it up.

 

Do It WB.....

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I agree with these two. He was cured but couldn't live with knowing who he was, what he had gone through and what he had done. So he faked the end bit and went ahead with the lobotomy very, very peacefully. Also, ironic or genius as to how he left the doctor in the end confused by the line "live a monster or die a good man"..if he was actually cured and faking it or was he still criminally insane. That would live on the doc/his partner's conscience forever.

 

IMO This is the correct interpretation of the ending.

 

 

The fact that he was a patient and not a US Marshall is actually not debatable. At least in the book. But whether he was pretending to be insane at the end or had actually regressed is debatable. I thought he wanted the lobotomy because it would help him forget what he had done or at least make it easier to live with. But there is a case to be made for the other option as well, esp since they mention he had regressed once in the past.

 

And thats why I didnt like the "monster" line. It heavily skews the opinion in the favor of the former. It should have ended before that and things would have been a lot more vague.

 

 

Saw Departed last night. I really wish they hadnt cast Jack Nicholson and gone with someone else for the bad guy. He is way over the top and every time he is on screen it totally pulls you out of the scene. Someone like Ian Mcshane (who can play threatening without being over the top) would have been a much nicer choice.

 

Mark Wahlberg is brilliant in it though. As is (of course) Leo. Matt Damon does a good job too but is overshadowed. And I think Sheen is pretty underused, IA did a much better job at portraying the commissioner.

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