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DVD Spun (Unrated Version)
Spun is an unclassifiable ensemble piece, intentionally bleached of soulfulness and high on visual invention and comic depravity. Set in north Los Angeles, where meth freaks lurch from one motel room to another in search of companionship and a score, the film stars Jason Schwartzman as Ross, whose life is rapidly disintegrating. Fielding phone messages from his mother and trying in vain to reach an old girlfriend, Ross spends most of his time on a feverish circuit with the half-mad Cookie (Mena Suvari) and Nikki (Brittany Murphy), the dangerously paranoid Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), and a macho drugmaker called the Cook (Mickey Rourke). Director Jonas Akerlund's story is nonexistent, but then again Spun is driven by the blurry, hellish energy of a life lived on speed. An obvious influence is Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream, but Akerlund is interested in nightmarish set pieces than tiny horrors of misfired nerve endings and ravaged time. --Tom Keogh
I've watched the movie and I can only come to two conclusions for why this movie was made. A) The director was trippin' as badly on acid as Brittany in the movie, or B) you have to be stoned to enjoy it.
Through the movie we follow Mr Big Dealer and his bimbo fried girlfriend Nikki. Nikki's boyfriend makes the dope at home and he likes to watch porn. Then there's Cookie and her wannabe-drug-dealer-boyfriend Spider-Mike (?!).. You guessed it, they're trippin' too.. Ross just wants to get high so he drops by Spider Mike's place one time Nikki is around. Nikki makes him a deal, and through the rest of the movie we watch Ross tie up his lover in his bed while he's off snorting with his new friends. Basically, if they're not doing acid, they're doing acid.
The only sane one in this movie is Taco, watch out for him.
And it's NOT a wake-up call. It's not shocking, nor does it make me think more about drug abuse than I already did.
Walk on the Wild Side
All I can say about this movie is it will definitely keep you awake and on the edge of your seat. (Think GO with a bunch of real drugs) The characters were a great mix and showed a rougher side to the female actors. I especially liked the raw way everyone was portrayed and nothing was out of bounds for this film. This was another example of a decent story line with the actors making it fun and edgy. If you don't like cussing and drugs, stay away. This film is definitely NOT a chick flick. It is for the serious film watcher who enjoys dark drama/comedy.
out of my league
This movie isn't bad at all. To be honest I was liking it. But I have boundaries and limits and this was just something that disturbed me.
Employing shock techniques and sound design in a relentless sensory assault, Requiem for a Dream is about nothing less than the systematic destruction of hope. Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr., and adapted by Selby and director Darren Aronofsky, this is undoubtedly one of the most effective films ever made about the experience of drug addiction (both euphoric and nightmarish), and few would deny that Aronofsky, in following his breakthrough film Pi, has pushed the medium to a disturbing extreme, thrusting conventional narrative into a panic zone of traumatized psyches and bodies pushed to the furthest boundaries of chemical tolerance. It's too easy to call this a cautionary tale; it's a guided tour through hell, with Aronofsky as our bold and ruthless host.
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In the real world, drug use is unimaginably boring to watch--but it inspires spectacular visuals in movies like Trainspotting and Drugstore Cowboy. To this list add The Salton Sea, a moody thriller starring Val Kilmer as a musician who goes undercover into the world of speed freaks to find the men who killed his wife. Though that plot summary may sound trite, creative direction, strong performances, and a solid script that shifts to and fro in time make The Salton Sea worth a look. Kilmer has an erratic track record but he's always an intriguing on-screen presence; Vincent D'Onofrio has a field day playing a noseless speed dealer called Pooh Bear. The cast is full of excellent character actors, including Anthony LaPaglia (Lantana), Peter Sarsgaard... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Val Kilmer Director(s): D.J. Caruso DVD Release Date: Released the 10 September 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Larry Clark's controversial film about New York City adolescents walking the AIDS tightrope is also an unblinking look at the dehumanizing rituals of growing up. But it really doesn't add up to more than the sum of its various shocks--virgin busting, skinny-dipping, male callousness--overlayed with middle-class disapproval. Clark is hectoring us for cutting kids loose at a terrible time in modern American history, but so are a lot of other people, who also offer alternatives and ideas. The film does nothing to push us toward new thoughts, new solutions, new dreams. It is more like a window onto our worst fantasies about what our children are doing out there on the streets. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Leo Fitzpatrick - Justin Pierce - Chloë Sevigny Director(s): Larry Clark DVD Release Date: Released the 07 November 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A love letter to movies (and the French new wave of the 1960s in particular), Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers starts with a 1968 riot outside of a Parisian movie palace then burrows into an insular love triangle. Matthew (Michael Pitt, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), an expatriate American student, bonds with a twin brother and sister, Isabelle (Eva Green) and Theo (Louis Garrel), over their mutual love of film--they not only quote lines of dialogue, they act out small bits and challenge each other to name the cinematic source. Matthew suspects the twins of incest, but that doesn't stop him from falling into his own intimacies with Isabelle. As the threesome becomes threatened, Paris succumbs to student riots. The Dreamers aspires to be kinky, but the results are more... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Bernardo Bertolucci DVD Release Date: Released the 13 July 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Having apparently anointed himself the American cinema's poet of decadence, filmmaker Larry Clark follows his critically acclaimed Kids with yet another tour through the darker regions of American squalor. Another Day in Paradise--even the title screams of amateurish irony--may be powerfully acted by a fine cast of new and familiar faces, but how many times can we eavesdrop on the lives of murderous, self-destructive heroin junkie thieves before we just get morosely depressed? James Woods and Melanie Griffith are superb as a pair of surrogate parents to the young couple (Vincent Kartheiser, Natasha Gregson Wagner) whom they recruit as accomplices in a series of robberies and dangerous deals, but what exactly is the point of this overindulgent, gutter-mouthed, and ultimately... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Larry Clark DVD Release Date: Released the 05 June 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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