Thu Mar 21 01:21:52 2002
It's a shocking and numbingly horrific view into the lives of four drug addicts.
If you haven't seen it, trust me, and do so. It's grotesque in its despair.
Especially the last two minutes of the film. Positively ghastly in it's dehuminzation. You can almost feel it happening to you.
Ever wonder what can happen to you as an addict? You find out fates much worse than death.
The realism, director's flair and shocking twists/turns are freaky, to say the least.
A great "just say no" movie for kids *if* it didn't have such strong sexual content.
Check it out.
4.5/5 stars.
M.
Thu Mar 21 02:34:46 2002
Thu Mar 21 03:55:03 2002
Sorry, but if I want to be depressed, I can do that all on my own, I don't need a movie to do it for me.
Thu Mar 21 09:07:27 2002
I'm an addict, ( well, recovering )... think I should watch it?
Thu Mar 21 10:32:54 2002
It was truly wonderful.
Thu Mar 21 18:18:16 2002
It's one long fucking.
Jennifer Connely is getting screwed by that girl at the party, while the men chant "cum".
But it's really a metaphor for how life was fucking them *all*.
Marlon Wayan's character, churning yoghurt, seems almost sexual in his actions and Jared Leto's entire body on the gurney, moving through the hospital corridors is one long orgasmic penetration with the payload being the "cumming" by Connelly. Still, Wayan's vomit is also alike the cumming, as is Leto's "facial", as his blood is splattered on this face within the operating room, when they're forced to take his arm...
I find it so terrifying, I guess, because their fates are so far worse than death.
Ellen Burstyn's character loses her mind.
Wayan's character loses his freedom.
Leto's character loses his arm(and possibly his life)...
Connely's character loses *her self*, becoming a bisexual whore and *liking* it. :(
Keep in mind there's two vesions of the movie to boot. The one I bought has some interesting tidbits. For example, when Leto's arm becomes necrotic after so much heroin use, there's a scene where the doctor at the jail says:
"It'll cost more to treat it. Gover'ment won't pay for that..."
Which adds to the horror that the arm may *not* have been lost.
Freaky shit.
M.
(Edited by Madan at 10:19 am on Mar. 21, 2002)
Thu Mar 21 20:03:55 2002
It sounds fucking freaky. I'm down with that.
Jennifer Connely getting fucked. Sign my ass up.
I still need to grab Blue Lagoon. Mmmmm....
Thu Mar 21 21:59:02 2002
Anyway, I really would like to see Amelie, but my girlfriend is being dumb and doesn't want to be cultured. That's what it means in the states when you go to see a movie where another language is spoken at any time.
Including Hunt For Red October.
Thu Mar 21 23:52:22 2002
Requiem for a Dream is just TOO FUCKING DEPRESSING. I don't need any more depression, thanks, got plenty on my own...
Fri Mar 22 12:30:10 2002
You've got a pretty wife that loves you. A job that allows you to live reasonably well and that gives you room to learn new things. You're healthy....
You're doing pretty well, Jeremy. Be thankful man.
M.
Fri Mar 22 12:50:20 2002
sometimes we just don't know how lucky we have it. All of us have a roof over our heads, food in our stomachs, a place to sleep, a computer and are in mostly good health. There are a lot of people out there who have none of the above and worse.
Fri Mar 22 13:17:09 2002
Fri Mar 22 16:49:08 2002
Mostly because I know that there's a decent chance that I'll never try heroin. That's pretty much where I draw the line.
Fri Mar 22 17:42:07 2002
Madan is right (for once).
E_M, you misspelled: "Madan is right, as usual..."
;)
M.
Mon Mar 25 19:04:58 2002
You've got a pretty wife that loves you. A job that allows you to live reasonably well and that gives you room to learn new things. You're healthy....
Hey, you're right! :)
But I think my problem is that I am very highly empathic, so that I tend to experience the same feelings and emotions that I am seeing. This makes movies like Requiem for a Dream especially hard for me to watch. Other people could just look and say "well, they're just druggies, they got what they deserved" or whatever, but it just isn't the same for me.
This is why I like movies with happy endings. :)
Mon Mar 25 19:15:18 2002
This is why I like movies with happy endings. :)
[size=1]*OK, No, you shouldn't. It fellated farm beasts.[/size]
Mon Mar 25 19:18:30 2002
Mark Wahlberg badly needs a new facial expression. And what was that blonde babe there for? She did nothing! The ending made no sense, and if you listen to the DVD commentary, when the director tries to explain it, even he can't.
SUCKTACULAR!
Mon Mar 25 19:23:22 2002
from Jeremy Reimer posted at 2:18 pm on Mar. 25, 2002
And what was that blonde babe there for? She did nothing!
Estella Warren? She did absolutely EVERYTHING!
http://www2.rare-nude-celebrities.com/week3/Estella_Warren2.jpg
from: [url=http://www.rare-nude-celebrities.com/main.html]here[/url].
Mon Mar 25 19:27:01 2002
Boy, did Planet of the Apes suck.
Mark Wahlberg badly needs a new facial expression.
And what was that blonde babe there for? She did nothing!
The ending made no sense, and if you listen to the DVD commentary, when the director tries to explain it, even he can't.
SUCKTACULAR!
[size=1]*This is false. I can barely remember what I had for breakfast today, making me utterly unqualified to pass any but a cursory judgement on any particular piece of entertainment. Oh, except that the end of POTA sucked hairy balls. Even I remember that.[/size]
Mon Mar 25 20:16:44 2002
She did nothing!
Like the goggles? ;)
HitScan (On Mark Wahlberg):
But isn't he a singer?
Well, he did pass himself off previously as a rap artist; I'll leave it to you to judge if that qualifies him as a "singer". :biggrin:
Mon Mar 25 20:42:56 2002
Well, he did pass himself off previously as a rap artist; I'll leave it to you to judge if that qualifies him as a "singer". :biggrin:
Mon Mar 25 20:46:04 2002
And acting lessons. But isn't he a singer? That's at least as good an excuse as massive retardation.
Funniest thing I've heard all day. Possibly all week.
M.