The Shutter Island series

Ever notice that Shutter Island and Salt both feature a character named Ted?  I did, and I'm not always sure it is a coincidence.  The whole thing, the Seth MacFarlane Ted films included, plays like a video game, where you try to pin down the character's origins and relationships to other films.  It left me with this list of my favorite of those films and the other films that it makes me think of:

1. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

2. Psycho 1998

3. Casino

4. Shutter Island

5. Salt

6. Hugo

7. Alone in the Dark (very underrated, plays just like an epic videogame)

8. Inland Empire

9. The Transformers series

What did everyone else have?  What did you think?

Is Scorsese retiring?  I never though I would celebrate it like this......