There comes a point at which anticipation turns into wariness, and you, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorcese, are treading dangerously close to it. Shutter Island was apparently bumped from last fall to Feb. 19 because of the bad economy, so we shouldn’t take that as the sign of a bad film. But having seen — and loved — these trailers for months and months now is starting to numb my excitement over a DiCaprio-Scorcese reunion. (On a super-cool-creepy-looking film based on a Dennis Lehane novel, no less! And set in the ’50s! With accents! I love period-Leo-with-accents!)
Nonetheless, the new trailer — set to premiere during the Super Bowl this Sunday — aims to re-stoke our fervor, with a heavy dose of Scorcese emphasis:
I’m still excited, but I almost don’t want to see any more teasers until the movie is out — I’m starting to feel like the joke’s on me and Scorcese actually just made a mighty fine set of trailers called Shutter Island. What do you think, PopWatchers? Are you still psyched about Shutter Island? Does seeing the names of many Scorcese films with percussive emphasis make you moreso?
Bad book (and I love Lehane)rarely leads to good movie.
I know! I really like Lehane, but this book left me totally cold. It was an airplane read at best. I love Leo and he works so well with Scorsese, but I have a bad feeling about this one.
What? I thought it was an AWESOME book
I read the book by Dennis Lehane a few years ago and was so excited for the movie to come out (and really annoyed when the stuido bumped it back 4 months!). The book was one of the best I’ve read but the movie looks awesome. Whenever a studio inundates an audience with previews it is annoying and often detrimental to the movie. The first few times you are excited to see the movie, but the more times you see the previews, the more you feel like you’ve already seen the movie! Even though I already know the ending of the book, I have still been counting down the days for the premiere!
I’m *trying* to be psyched about this movie, but I’m hitting sheer overload on the trailers and commercials, because I’ve been seeing them since September 2009. I loved the book, so I’m hoping the movie is great. But daaaaaang, February 19 can’t get here fast enough.
Oh God, how did you spell Scorsese? “Scorcese”? What??
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
I read the book and really enjoyed, and was looking forward to the movie ages ago. Haven’t seen too many trailers for it yet, so the anticipation is still there for me.
And I don’t usually nitpick, but I really think you should spell Martin Scorsese’s name correctly.
This film’s always seemed weird to me cause besides Leo’s appearance in the film it looks and feels like nothing Scorsese’s done before. That being said, since it looks so different, I figured they’d play up the fact that it was a Scorsese film long ago. And possibly also write “From the Academy Award winning Director,” since he’s FINALLY won one. But at the same time I feel this, I also think Scorsese is Scorsese. The man needs no introduction. He doesn’t need to gloat about his Oscar win. Doesn’t need to gloat about his filmography. The man’s one of the only directors to come out of the 70′s and constantly challenge himself and his audience with pure brilliance almost every time. Every film he made this past decade was nominated for Best Picture. He doesn’t need this ad campaign, he IS his ad campaign.
Agree –
If I were promoting a movie directed by Martin Scorsese, I would make sure everyone knew it was a film directed by Martin Scorsese.
Then again, I guess we should be glad the marketing department didn’t go with something like “From the studio that brought you ‘Paranormal Activity’”
Why is “Muppets” one of the tags for this article?
Can’t wait for this movie to come out. I wish it came out sooner.
I was pretty excited for this movie when I first started seeing the trailer back in August. Seeing the trailers constantly in theaters ever since August, though (courtesy of the bumping to February) has dulled my enthusiasm considerably. I may still see it, but I’m not only barely looking forward to it, and right on the edge of being burnt out and not caring.
I rushed to read the book last summer, when I heard the movie was coming out in the fall. I was sooo excited when the trailer first came out, and had the release date all but circled in red on the calendar. I was really, really disappointed when it got bumped… Then after all the publicity (and the same trailer, over and over again… Heck they’re already showing trailers for leo’s next film, Inception!)… So needless to say, yes, I’m a little concerned that it’s going to be a let down… I’d say 90% of the time, when there’s a delay, the movie doesn’t fair too well, and the longer it waits the worse it’s received (look at Youth in Revolt, that would have been awesome, had it have been received when it was originally supposed to be released! There are countless others that could have done better, I just hope Shutter Island isn’t one of them!)
I’ll enter that theater with an open mind and a grain of hope!
Loved the book until the end, but it looks the the movie is playing toward the book ending and maybe giving all away early. I am SO cryptic!
It would be very “Shutter Island” to make a bunch of fine trailers as a joke to you, Jennifer. I will see this movie though I hated the book ending.
Loved, loved, loved the book and lent it out a LOT. I have been waiting for the movie to finally show up in theatres. I am a little nervous that the quality of the book will be brought down by the time requirements of a film, but the trailers look unique. Can’t wait to see the “new” trailer during the SuperBowl.
Honestly, I was way more excited about this movie, back before they changed the release date. Now I’m just sort of annoyed. Despite that, I still want to see it.
i am in love with leonardo dicaprio and have been waiting for this movie since 2008! it looks amazing and i cant wait to see it!