Shutter Island (A Ilha do Medo) DVD

Today I got the DVD from Shutter Island in a sale, it's a very good movie (exclusive post). The interesting part is I have just started to read the book by Lehane yesterday! And I am sure that at the moment I'm done with the book I'm going to want to watch the movie again! Anyway, it's a great movie, so it's a great acquisition!

Shutter Island (A Ilha do Medo)

Watching Inception this Friday remmembered me of one of the last films I watched in the movies, with some of the friends I went to see Inception. Another film which was really surprising and that I liked very much. This one is also with Leonardo DiCaprio, it's Shutter Island ("A Ilha do Medo" in Portuguese). Very interesting plot, really well constructed with an unespected ending. We left the cinema appalled. It is not as original as Inception, you will not be amazed during the whole film. However, and here I won't say much, 'cause I don't want to spoil the fun, but at some point the story will make a turn that is going to surprise everyone. I also highly recommend watching this movie.

Plot: Addapted from the book by Dennis Lehane originally named "Patient 67" and then changed to "Shutter Island", a drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island. (eddited from IMDb)

IMDb: 8.0

i♥movies: 7.2

Desperate Housewives & Pretty Little Liars

Yesterday the boxes of the first two seasons of Desperate Houseviwes arrived at home... I know it is a very well-know series, but believe it or not I had never watched it or had the interest to watch it. Maybe because of its name, I had never even read of what it was about... 

A couple of months ago, I watched the promo for this new series called Pretty Little Liars, I got interested and watched the first episode, which I really liked... It wasn't until maybe the 3rd episode, that reading more about the series I got to know it was based in a book series by Sara Shepard and that it was being said to be a teen version of Desperate Housewives... Ok, maybe Desperate Housewives wasn't about what I was thinking of after all... I got the 1st episode and... Well, isn't it interesting? It really is an original idea! Pretty Little Liars goes on the same lines, eventhough the storyline is different (after all it is not a copy of DH...).

If you, like myself, never watched neither of them, give it a try... It is very different and catching! If you love DH, try PPL, I think you'll like it! Here are the plots and trailers for you to enjoy!!

Desperate Housewives

Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one suburban neighborhood, after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor. (IMDb)

IMDb: 8.0

Pretty Little Liars

Never trust a pretty girl with ugly secrets. One year after the mysterious disappearence of a friend, four girls band together against an anonymous foe who threatens to reveal their darkest secrets. (eddited from IMDb)

IMDb: no rating yet

The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas

Yesterday I watched the movie The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas, I still hadn't seen the movie eventhough I had already read the book by John Boyne.

It is a very good movie, I was impressed. I thought the adaptation was really well done, it is so true to the book, it is amazing. It's really difficult to see good adaptations these days, of course that in the book the point of view is only Bruno's, which is very difficult to put in a movie, how can you build a story that everyone is seeing through the looks of a child? It is obvious that it wouldn't be possible to be that equal to the book regarding this part, but inspite of that, the story was perfectly constructed, so congratulations to everyone responsible!!
Plot: Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
IMDb: 7.8
i♥movies: 7.4