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Requiem for a Dream
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"It's not often that someone manages to successfully create the genre of Greek tragedy in a modern setting. If I were to pin any director's name to such a project, it would be Darren Aronofsky. That being said, he's already managed to create said-tragedy in Requiem for a Dream. The story about a group of druggies attempting to break out of their sorry states but ultimately failing and ending up worse off then they they started is something that, had it not revolved around drugs, could have come from Sophocles. It is a story that is well constructed and well executed, but a story I can only watch a handful of times over a period of years. I can only liken watching Requiem of a Dream to watching a train wreck happen. On some primal, horribly morbid and vulgar level, it is entertaining and interesting to watch. It isn't until you realize you're watching people being hurt that you start to feel bad. In most cases, this transition last only seconds, but in Requiem for a Dream, the audien ... "
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"The Wrestler: When I was in high school, I joined the wrestling team. Now, amateur wrestling of the sort I was participating in is not the same thing you see on TV. That wrestling is usually called "professional" wrestling. Both sports have some things in common, but amateur wrestling is much closer to other martial arts while the professional variety is closer to the theatrical arts. Thus professional wrestling is usually referred to as "fake" wrestling... and no one was more guilty of that than us "real" wrestlers. Of course, in some ways, our griping was justified, but on the other hand, we were also rather ignorant of the realities of professional wrestling. There is still quite a bit of physicality involved in the sport, and over time, it can certainly take quite a toll. Bill Simmons gives an excellent description of this in his review: Pro wrestling chews up and spits out its athletes with grueling schedules, brutal physical punishment and a tacit understanding that performan ... "
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"Due to the unsurprising popularity of our “10 Movies Sold on a Sex Scene” list a few weeks back, I’ve decided to unleash a sequel. However, catering to both Spoutblog’s traffic and the interests of ever-abundant sex-attracted internetters is only half my reason for this follow-up list. I was mainly motivated by the outcome of the release of Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a film that also initially inspired the first list. While Vicky was partly sold on the promise of a threesome between Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz, it is now fortunately being celebrated, and it will likely be remembered, primarily for Cruz’s performance. Not for the threesome or for the lesbian kiss. Other movies sold on a sex scene, though, are not typically so blessed with accolades. And even some that are recognized with high praise at time of release are often later forgotten as anything but fodder for MrSkin and other followers of onscreen sex and nudity. Obviously this means t ... "
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Mash-Up: Requiem For A Day Off
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"Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Requiem For A Dream have very little to do with each other. Yet somehow, when combined, the results are strangely awesome. (via Fimoculous) "
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A strange comparison
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"I recently saw Eraserhead, after months of waiting for it come back into stock on Amazon.com, and I loved it. It was, without a doubt, the strangest film I've ever seen, surpassing anything I've seen as of yet by far. I watched it with my sister, and she was actually disturbed for several days after watching it and I felt really bad...especially since I found it so amazing. Throughout the film, I kept thinking whether or not it was good that I saw the extremely similar Pi before I had seen Eraserhead. Pi is a very obvious tribute to this movie in more ways than one, and in more ways than the extremely obvious black and white (15mm?) film and the general surreal, bizarre tones. Both films are centered around a misfit, probably early 20s, disillusioned male in worlds and societies that neither of them can really even begin to understand. They both live in small, secluded inner-city apartments with very sexy neighbors that they are obviously very attracted to but are too scared t ... "
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"Darren Aronofsky is known through the film world as the guy who made the movie 3.18462387343(or whatever the hell Pi is). Yes, that is a math joke, thank you for noticing. In case you don't get math jokes, he directed a movie called "Pi". So what do we have here? Sweet, it's going to be...no...hold on. I'm being told it's not going to be Shakespeare, instead we get a movie about....drugs? What? Oh come on, seriously? Alright, it's a movie about drugs. So yeah, it's a moive about drugs and addiction and people having no grip on reality. Mostly it focuses around A mother who wants to be on some TV thing(ellen Burstyn), her deadbeat drug peddling son Harry(Jared Leto), his crackhead girlfreind Marion(Jennifer Connelly), and his best buddy/partner in crime Tyrone(Marlon Wayans). The film lacks one big key element, good acting. And a second big element, good actors. I'm sorry, but how did Jennifer Conelly go from David friggin' Bowie to the whin ... "
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Happy Pi day!
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"First of all, I would like to say that Pi Day is the worst holiday ever created, and I hope the creators of it die a terrible death (well, maybe not that bad, but I hope they at least get crapped on by a bird). However, since I recently saw Darren Aronofsky's outstanding film Pi, I figured that this holiday was good for something and that I would write something about it.As you can see, I did a recent post on another of Aronofsky's films, The Fountain, and as you can see, I was not a huge fan of it. As a result, I didn't have enormous expectations in seeing this movie. I mean, I remember that Requiem for a Dream was very good, but I saw that about three years ago, and I only saw the R-rated version, not the full one.Anyways, I found Pi to be an absolutely amazing movie. I was actually convinced of how much I was going to like it by the haunting techno music playing while on the menu screen of the DVD.Sean Gullette is surprisingly good as the lead character, a math g ... "
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"As I hinted in my previous entry, this week's Netflix movie was Requiem for a Dream. I have to begin this review with qualifiers because I can already tell you that this was not my favorite film in the world. It does not pass any test I have; I could never watch this again. I've watched a few drug movies in my day, and some sit better with me than others, but this is definitely not one of those. I knew this movie was going to be hard to watch by virtue of its subject matter. I knew, with its NC-17 rating, that I was going to have to resist any squeamish impulses and see if I could appreciate the art of the film. I consider it a personal triumph whenever I muster the courage to sit down and watch a film like this.In college, I went through a phase of watching movies with dark themes, including addiction movies. The art houses in Ann Arbor seemed to favor playing those movies, and I distinctly remember going to see movies like Trainspotting and Leaving Las Vegas in thos ... "
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Powerful.
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"Honestly, It's one of those films that I "hate to love" i guess I can say. It honestly gets me sick everytime i watch it (I guess it's because I relate to Sarah and her son Harry so well), but it's also one of those films that I can't help but watch over and over again. The way it was put together was outstanding, the charcters are so powerful, & Mansell's music is also very powerful. How the film all starts with each character's connection with Harry and then braches off into their own horrible mishaps is just --- i don't know how to explain it. I love how it's different from most "storylines" where everyone comes together. In this case everyone breaks apart.It's frightening, it's sickening, disgusting, and yet so relateable. I give it a 4 out of 5. "
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