Have you seen Requiem for a Dream?

[Lawrence Ng]

WoW. WoW. WoW!

ass-to-ass baby..oh yeah.

Lawrence

[Popinjay]

World of Warcraft?

[eric5148]

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World of Warcraft?

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Damn, you're a nerd. It's a movie (http://imdb.com/title/tt0180093/)

[ZeeJustin]

It's one of my favorite movies.

[greg nice]

its alright

its no Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind though

[Rushmore]

It's a pretty big coincidence, you asking this now, as I just got my copy of the DVD in the mail yesterday.

I had already seen it, but the DVD is great. Lots of extras.

Obviously, this is a great movie. I didn't really appreciate exactly how great a performance Ellen Bursyn gave until I saw her interviewed, etc.

Oh, yeah--and there's ass-on-ass, too.

But not with Ellen Burstyn, thankfully.

[lil']

Heh, I found the scene you are referring to more horribly depressing than hot. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

Actually, the whole movie is a bit of a downer.

[Rushmore]

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Heh, I found the scene you are referring to more horribly depressing than hot.

Actually, the whole movie is a bit of a downer.

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Jeez, and after they said it was "the feel-good junkie event of the summer."

What a gyp.

[Freakin]

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Heh, I found the scene you are referring to more horribly depressing than hot. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

Actually, the whole movie is a bit of a downer.

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[DemonDeac]

this is one of teh most f'ed up movies i've ever seen. i mean, that part in the car with he wraps his arm around the seatbelt to get a vein and then they show he actual arm. wow. kids, be cool, stayin in school. don't do drugs.

[Alobar]

Its one of the best most powerful movies ever made. When my kids turn 13 I'm making them watch it (im not kidding either).

[astroglide]

sigh

[AngryCola]

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World of Warcraft?

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Damn, you're a nerd. It's a movie (http://imdb.com/title/tt0180093/)

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And you're not very observant!

He said that because of the "WoW WoW WoW!"

[AngryCola]

I haven't seen it... yet. I keep planning to though.

It was directed by the same guy who did "Pi".

[Lawrence Ng]

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And you're not very observant!

He said that because of the "WoW WoW WoW!"

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Cum, cum, cum? nah, doesn't have the ring to it.

Lawrence

[istewart]

It gets annoying after multiple viewings. I can't stand the game show scenes.

[Leo99]

I love it. We've had this thread already but the movie does move me. A powerful depressing film. I wish it had more acclaim in the press.

[Ponks]

I thought it was a pretty good movie myself. I thought the characters did a pretty good job.

I got this movie and PI for like $22 bucks a month or so ago.

Ponks

[bholdr]

"Actually, the whole movie is a bit of a downer.

understatement of the year! 'a bit...' /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[astroglide]

"Less filmed than assembled by an MTV task force committed to the final obliteration of subtlety."

"... when the process of finding this meaning is mired in the storyteller's self-indulgent tendencies and harrowing repetitious visuals, the effort is rendered reprehensible."

"The movie fails to make important, early emotional connections to its assortment of addicts."

"Pounds like a jackhammer without letting up, making for a punishing experience with only a few narrative rewards along the way."

i thought i would find some good quotes from the negative reviews! i thought the movie was fine, but i couldn't give a [censored] less about the characters and there's no need to be so irrepresibly didactic when you're dealing with such a straight down the middle topic as the repercussions of addiction. i didn't care about the characters, i wasn't wowed by the intensity, and i didn't learn a single thing from it. big deal.

[ilya]

I like that movie alright and that scene is admittedly hot on some primal beast-man level but if you (as in "one") isn't pretty disgusted with yourself for getting off on that scene, I think there's something seriously wrong with you. Like, morally wrong.

[Freakin]

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I thought it was a pretty good movie myself. I thought the characters did a pretty good job.

I got this movie and PI for like $22 bucks a month or so ago.

Ponks

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I got this movie and Pi like 2 years ago (k, probably like 18 months) for $15... It was an unbelievable deal...

Freakin

[bort411]

Does anyone else think that this film is horribly overrated? I look at films that address addiction well (Boogie Nights and Trainspotting come to mind) and compare them to Requiem and I just don't get the popularity. Halfway through the movie, the point of the film is abundandtly clear; the second half seems to exist merely to shock and repulse.

I get it...they're all addicted. What else is there? Nothing. Nothing but completely flat characters with no goals, no reason to improve themselves, and most importantly no reason to care about them because their situations are obviously hopeless.

Also, the camera shot from inside the plunger is ripped off from Trainspotting (AND USED ABOUT 60 TIMES!!!).

[thatpfunk]

intensity and honesty

[Jack of Arcades]

I cried during this movie, not out of sadness, but because I was overcome with emotion. Only one other movie's done that (Igby Goes Down)

[morgant]

its worth a viewing imo. is it worth accolades no. does it strike a nerve in me, yes. you get it, they are all addicted, and you are unmoved by that, fine.However, the grips of addiction are extremely powerful and worth being portrayed as they effect millions of people, in a shocking and repulsing manner for the addict and his/her loved ones.
the repetitive we get it feeling you experience, is very simliar in nature to those affected by addiction and their families, unfortunately in their case, they cant turn off the DVD player.



i thoroughly enjoyed trainspotting, and boogie nights, and list them both ahead of rfd as a total entertaining movie goes, but rfd certainly affected my mood much more than the latter two. the soundtrack is pretty decent imo.

[Rushmore]

Trainspotting, while entertaining, was a lousy portrayal of junkiedom. Junkies don't frolic or get into any hijinks. They're just junkies.

Boogie Nights was a great movie, but I don't even really think of it as a junkie movie--it was more about the collapse of the utterly unsustainable 70's porn bubble.

Requiem For A Dream is about the addictive personality of human nature. Dope, TV, candy, diet pills, whatever. The fact that it got the NY dope fiend thing down fairly well is just a bonus.

I don't really think any movie has really hit this subject matter on the head.

With the exception of Spun, but that was about speed freaks, which is a totally different animal.

P.S. The plunger shot has been used in every movie involving dope, it seems. Drugstore Cowboy used it, and so did Pulp Fiction. Aaronofsky, of all people, would have "invented it" if no one else had, I'm sure. Call it "inevitable discovery."

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Requiem For A Dream is about the addictive personality of human nature. Dope, TV, candy, diet pills, whatever. The fact that it got the NY dope fiend thing down fairly well is just a bonus.

I don't really think any movie has really hit this subject matter on the head.

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I'd say that Owning Mahowny is the best film I've ever seen about addiction. If you've never seen you should check it out. It's tough to watch more than once, like Requiem, but Phillip Seymour Hoffman is excellent.

[astroglide]

i liked owning mahowny much better than requiem

[jakethebake]

Oh good. Yet Another RFD thread. What is this the 20th?

[Rushmore]

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i liked owning mahowny much better than requiem

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This managed to sneak underneath my radar. I'll definitely check it out.

Even if you think I'm a dick.

[pokerjo22]

I thought the clever part of the film was comparing and contrasting the prescribed high of his Mom with heroin addiction.

But then I think the film went down a very cliched route. Mom gets ECT, girl ends up a prostitute, black guy ends up in deep South prison etc.

Incidentally there's just been a report published that shows that the majority of heroin users hold down jobs just fine and remain functioning members of society:

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A claim that it is possible to pass exams, hold down a good job and lead an apparently normal life while taking heroin was made by researchers yesterday.

A study of 126 people in Glasgow who use the drug found that many worked full-time, had successful relationships and were not receiving treatment for their condition.

The academics claimed that 70 per cent of those who used it for the past seven years had not suffered health problems.

Dr David Shewan, co-author of the report which was commissioned by the Scottish Executive, claimed the chemical properties of the class-A drug did not necessarily lead to addictive and destructive drug use.

But he added that the concept of controlled use was a "largely unexplored" area of research, and he gave a warning that his findings should be treated with caution.

Lord Adebowale, chief executive of the alcohol and drug organisation Turning Point, said: "This report isn't saying that heroin is safe. It says that if you have a job, if you have a house, an income, are well educated and have a health system to support you, it's possible to survive an addiction to a pretty serious substance. Most people don't have this and have mental health challenges as well as a heroin problem."

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