Requiem for a Dream

Melisandre121

Just watched this for the first time, alone, at night. Big mistake.

Melisandre121

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Just watched this for the first time, alone, at night. Big mistake.

Oh! One of my favourite films!

It's beautiful in its stark portrayal of human desire and tragedy.

fatknacker

It's sh1te.

XR3i

speed

Afroshack

Its beautiful. The music is something else

bodice ripper

I have never seen this, because I got a phone call from my then girlfriend at 3am, hysterically telling me we could never do drugs again.

Also, my life is just crawling with pathos - I do not need any more.

grindle

Jesus. Play something to raise your spirit, quick!

Ghostbusters, the Lion King, Dancer in the Dark - something uplifting.

pragmatic1

That film stays with you for a while after watching it. Not very realistic though.

donegaLroad

I really enjoyed it, its dark... but funny in parts.

siblers

ASS TO ASS

Cake Man

One of the stupidest fcuking films I ever had to endure. Turned it off half way through. Don't get how some people are fascinated with it.

sabat

I hate this film more than any other ever made and whenever anyone says how much they like it I instantly lose all respect for them. It's hysterical exploitative nonsense.

BOHtox

Bit of a joke we didn't see Connelley's tits in it tbh

Your Face

First Years Arts

The_Valeyard

Afroshack wrote: »

Its beautiful. The music is something else

I used to enjoy the music, then it got overused by every second usermade youtube film!!!

The Randy Riverbeast

I didn't take it out for air

Arsemageddon

The_Valeyard wrote: »

I used to enjoy the music, then it got overused by every second usermade youtube film!!!

Anders Brevik Behring played the mean theme song on repeat on his ipod while doing a spot of gun rampaging on Uttoya Island.

Now there's a crap endorsement.

B.A._Baracus

Utter garbage and weird movie.

Ruu

I just watched 'All Dogs Go To Heaven' on my own. ;_;

Overrated and overwrought.

Not terrible, good acting, great score, just...annoying. Squarely aimed at impressionable teenagers who believe it's awfully deep.

Love the movie and my girlfriend likes to rewatch it as well. It's an overly dramatic portrayal of addiction that hits hard.

Compare the mother to the Mormon opiate problem.. They hate drugs but think Oxycontin is fine because it's prescribed. Too many still think like that so anything that shows the dangers of legal addiction is a good thing.

thegreatgonzo

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Just watched this for the first time, alone, at night. Big mistake.

I haven't seen it. A friend of mine was a bit traumatised by watching it so it put me off. I'd end up thinking about it all week and get depressed at the thought of things like that happening in real life.
It must be good though, there was a guy who ran the movie soc in AIT who never shut up about it.

osarusan

fatknacker wrote: »

It's sh1te.

Seconded.

Pointless sh!te.

valoren

What a pretentious title though.

Requiem for a Dream.

gtfo

Boom_Bap

I used to love that movie, I must rewatch it now that I've grown up a bit and am less of a snob.

Duggy747

Haven't seen it in a long time, not since college I think when people were talking about it like it was the most important film put to celluloid.

Didn't find it "traumatising" like others did or particularly brilliant then but will give it a re-watch to see how it holds up. That theme has been ruined for me though by the likes of every 2nd Youtuber and Sky Sports.

razorblunt

I watched it a good bit after it first came out.
Definitely enjoyed it I have to say, though I probably won't ever rewatch it.

The guy Wayans (Marlon is it?) was very good too in a straight role.

Dr Crayfish

If you think that's bad try watching "Bill: On his own" on your own

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ3qa46ItXo

Only $59.99 for your own copy (in 1983!!)

smash

It was ok. A bit different and controversial but dark and depressing as fcuk. Kids was another one along the same lines.

HensVassal

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Just watched this for the first time, alone, at night. Big mistake.

Christ, that movie is so depressing.

One of my favourite pieces of movie trivia:

During the filming of that fantastic monolugue that Burstyn gives about the Red Dress, Aronofsky noticed that the camera slipped slightly out of frame, called "cut" and when he went to confront the cinematographer, Matthew Libatique, about it, he realized that the reason that Libatique had let it slip is because he had started crying and had fogged up the lens, thus not realizing. Aronofsky kept this in the final cut of the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZACZbFFsrw

Regardless of whether you like the movie or not, there's no denying that there's something so sad about this exchange.

HensVassal

Next time you're alone at night and want to watch a movie, I recommend Antichrist.



:eek:

boobar

I enjoyed it. I think you either enjoyed it or you didn't. Nothing wrong with you if you did...nothing wrong with you if you didn't. It's all just personal taste.

I don't understand this constant....well I thought it was crap so everyone else should think the same nonsense.

Rothko

I haven't seen it in a while but I liked it. However, Happiness makes it look like Happy Gilmore in comparison.

smash

HensVassal wrote: »

Next time you're alone at night and want to watch a movie, I recommend Antichrist.



:eek:

Why would you recommend anything by Lars von trier? All his movies are god awful.

Sky King

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Just watched this for the first time, alone, at night. Big mistake.

I shared a flat with a guy who collected DVDs (back before downloads / Netflix etc) and as I was coming up to my exams I asked him to recommend something easy to watch and lighthearted to take my mind off the study and stress, because I was finding it difficult to sleep.

He recommended Requiem for a Dream. The fking asshole!

Bandana boy

Back when owning DVDs was the in thing I got Requiem and π (pi) in a double DVD deal
That was one depressing double bill , My eyeballs itched after it !.

whiskeyman

Love it when first watched it after renting it.
Felt terrible after it.
Bought it on DVD soon after.
Could never bring myself to watch it again though.
Really gotta be 'in the mood' for it, but I never want to be in *that* mood!

KomradeBishop

It's one of those films where the melodrama is so overdone, that your suspension of disbelief disappears completely, and the 'climactic' build up of misery and horror, ends up having the opposite effect - becoming completely anti-climactic, and getting progressively funnier and funnier as each characters misery worsens in an unconvincing/overacted way ("Ass to Ass!" :pac:) - until you're just pissing yourself laughing.

Was good fun.

jester77

HensVassal wrote: »

Next time you're alone at night and want to watch a movie, I recommend Antichrist.



:eek:

Add Enter the Void that list

I enjoyed Requiem, like some of what Aronofsky does, Pi is def worth a watch

Great movie, obviously not cool enough for After Hours.

Billy86

Elaine Burstyn in that movie is as good as just about anyone in any movie over the last 15-20 years.

"Harry, I'm going to be on teh-leh-vision!!"

evolving_doors

Pretentious crap... trainspotting for the US middle classes... without a plot.

Same as 'Pi',,, just a vehicle for the music.

Strumms

It's a brilliant film but a seriously bleak one. Never re-watched it for that reason pretty much although I'll probably come back to it at some point down the road... +1 on the brilliant soundtrack.

ToddyDoody

Requiem for an underpants change.

20Cent

They should show it in schools.

donegaLroad

Melisandre121 wrote: »

Just watched this for the first time, alone, at night. Big mistake.

I remember watching the Amityville Horror on my own one night when I was about 14... I was almost too scared to walk across the room and switch it off after 45 minutes. Life wasn't quite the same for about 1 year after.

pragmatic1

20Cent wrote: »

They should show it in schools.

Why it's unrealistic bull****.

J Mysterio

Not exactly a terrifying movie to 'watch on your own'? I dont get that. It's emotional but you're not going to be reaching for a weapon?

pragmatic1

Gebgbegb wrote: »

Pretentious crap... trainspotting for the US middle classes... without a plot.

Same as 'Pi',,, just a vehicle for the music.

Trainspotting is far superior.

evolving_doors

pragmatic1 wrote: »

Trainspotting is far superior.

naa trainspotting was crap too... the essence of brit-pop.