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Requiem for a Dream

  • 27-05-2016 12:04AM
    #1
    Melisandre121
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭


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


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #3
    fatknacker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,342 ✭✭✭fatknacker


    It's sh1te.


  • #4
    XR3i
    Site Banned Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭XR3i


    speed


  • #5
    Afroshack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭Afroshack


    Its beautiful. The music is something else


  • #6
    bodice ripper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #7
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭grindle


    Jesus. Play something to raise your spirit, quick!

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


  • #8
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


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


  • #9
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭donegaLroad


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


  • #10
    siblers
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    ASS TO ASS


  • #11
    Cake Man
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    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.


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  • #12
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    BOHtox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,306 ✭✭✭BOHtox


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


  • #14
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    First Years Arts


  • #15
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭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!!!


  • #16
    The Randy Riverbeast
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,770 ✭✭✭The Randy Riverbeast


    I didn't take it out for air


  • #17
    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭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.


  • #18
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,309 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Utter garbage and weird movie.


  • #19
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


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


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
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    Overrated and overwrought.

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


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


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  • #22
    thegreatgonzo
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    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.


  • #23
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    fatknacker wrote: »
    It's sh1te.

    Seconded.

    Pointless sh!te.


  • #24
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    What a pretentious title though.

    Requiem for a Dream.

    gtfo


  • #25
    Boom_Bap
    Moderators, Music Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    Duggy747
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #27
    razorblunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,300 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    Dr Crayfish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,960 ✭✭✭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!!)


  • #29
    smash
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    It was ok. A bit different and controversial but dark and depressing as fcuk. Kids was another one along the same lines.


  • #30
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


    Melisandre121 wrote: »
    Just watched this for the first time, alone, at night. Big mistake.

    Christ, that movie is so depressing.


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
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    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.


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