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Requiem for a Dream

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  • #32
    HensVassal
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,569 ✭✭✭HensVassal


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



    :eek:


  • #33
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭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.


  • #34
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


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


  • #35
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,808 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #36
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭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!


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  • #37
    Bandana boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,375 ✭✭✭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 !.


  • #38
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #39
    KomradeBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭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.


  • #40
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 12,836 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Great movie, obviously not cool enough for After Hours.


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  • #42
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭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!!"


  • #43
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


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

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


  • #44
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,189 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #45
    ToddyDoody
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    Requiem for an underpants change.


  • #46
    20Cent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,947 ✭✭✭20Cent


    They should show it in schools.


  • #47
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭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.


  • #48
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    20Cent wrote: »
    They should show it in schools.
    Why it's unrealistic bull****.


  • #49
    J Mysterio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,442 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #50
    pragmatic1
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    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.


  • #51
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    pragmatic1 wrote: »
    Trainspotting is far superior.

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


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  • #52
    evolving_doors
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Clint Mansell must be making a fortune from the title tune from the soundtrack


    Lux Aeterna

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiNvk4xizc0


  • #53
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Gebgbegb wrote: »
    Lux Aeterna


    Ah. Thanks for that, Gebgbegb. I've not got round to this film yet. I clicked ye link though. Stood just short of the three minute mark before confirming; Yes! I'm familiar with this tune!

    Now, where would I have heard it? Great bit of music anyway.


    Incidentally; This film is mentioned quite a bit on the films board. There's a thread there about the 'Most Bleak Films'. Fantastic thread. Led me to Ray Winstone and " The War Zone ". (Trigger Warning! ... Not for the delicate flowers that, these days, require 'Trigger Warnings'!)


  • #54
    bandwagonesque
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭bandwagonesque


    A brilliant piece of film making. It's rare a film can really affect so many people the way it does.

    I won't be watching it again though!


  • #55
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Gebgbegb wrote: »
    naa trainspotting was crap too... the essence of brit-pop.
    We'll agree to disagree. I thought trainspotting was fairly realistic, minus the zombie baby type things.


  • #56
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 22,384 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Gebgbegb wrote: »
    naa trainspotting was crap too... the essence of brit-pop.

    I always thought of it in terms of Underworld's "Born Slippy .Nuxx"...and pretty much the film, and anthem, of the mid 90s...


  • #57
    wtlltw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 350 ✭✭wtlltw


    Gebgbegb wrote: »
    Clint Mansell must be making a fortune from the title tune from the soundtrack

    Mad to think Clint was the frontman to PWEI


  • #58
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    Watch goodbye Uncle Tom. After that requiem for a dream will feel like a bit of light comedic relief.


  • #59
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    Is that the movie where he keeps selling his mams telly


  • #60
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    sabat wrote: »
    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.

    Lose all respect for someone because they like or really like a film you don't? Get a grip!


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  • #61
    timthumbni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,845 ✭✭✭timthumbni


    petes wrote: »
    Lose all respect for someone because they like or really like a film you don't? Get a grip!

    I agree with you aside from anyone who likes the film P.S I love you. They are all wan@ers to be avoided at all costs.


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