Requiem for a Dream

Bond · 06-22-2007, 11:24 PM

Anyone seen it?

GameMaster · 06-22-2007, 11:47 PM

I haven't not seen it.

Are you familiar with the theme?

Its one of those classic tunes that stands out.

DeathsHand · 06-22-2007, 11:58 PM

I bought it awhile back...
The old woman made me cwy :<

Teuthida · 06-23-2007, 12:14 AM

Scared me off drugs for a good year.

Acebot44 · 06-23-2007, 05:13 AM

Yeah, excellently directed and filmed and depressing as hell.

My favorite scene is definetly Marlon Wayans (forgot the characters name) running with the camera shaking at a low angle towards him. Very prettyful

Angrist · 06-23-2007, 06:37 AM

My brother watched it and tells me to watch it as well.

I did see Trainspotting a while ago. Another depressing movie about drugs.

Bond · 06-23-2007, 08:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Angrist

My brother watched it and tells me to watch it as well.

I did see Trainspotting a while ago. Another depressing movie about drugs.

I'm actually currently watching Trainspotting. It's decent so far.

Professor S · 06-23-2007, 08:50 PM

Saw it and will never see it again. Excellent movie, but it affected me to the point I had to go for a walk to shake it off.

SPOILER

The saddest and most disturbing part was that nobody dies... they all have to live with what they've become...

Yoda9864 · 06-24-2007, 01:21 AM

One of my favorite movies. Jared Leto is the man! Pi, by same director and similar style, is also pretty good.

GameMaster · 06-24-2007, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Bond

I'm actually currently watching Trainspotting. It's decent so far.

I hear it has a great sex scene. Yes, no?

Bond · 06-24-2007, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by GameMaster

I hear it has a great sex scene. Yes, no?

That would be a negative.

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For the sake of turning this into a drug debate, did your friends "graduate" to "harder" drugs, or are they just potheads?

Because there's quite a difference... Quite...
Or so I've been told to say...

Care to elaborate as to what you're implying?

DeathsHand · 06-24-2007, 09:59 PM

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Care to elaborate as to what you're implying?

It's been years since I briefly looked into the whole "Weed isn't as bad as hard drugs" issue so I can't really elaborate too well, other than to say I know a number of people that smoke pot (some quite frequently), none of whom are pitiful people with terrible lives that anywheres near parallel what is portrayed in the movie (not that the movie doesn't portay the drugs it deals with realistically)...
To be a tad more specific, I'm willing to bet that there have been very few cases attributed to pot usage that result in removal of various body parts (or the infections that caused it, for that matter), complete mental breakdowns, and the selling of one's body out of desperation for a joint...
Just a hunch...

Also I personally know of only 2 adults (that is to say, a generation before me, not "adults" as I, a 21 year old, am an "adult") who were into pot bigtime when they were younger, and both have survived and are able to make it on their own (with their families) in the mind-bogglingly expensive Arlington/DC area... One even owns his own (non-drug-dealing) business...
And, I suppose, that I tried it 5 or 6 times before deciding it wasn't doing anything for me (other than making me extremely dizzy when combined with alcohol) and walking away unscathed... I doubt I'd have been so 'lucky' if I was trying, say, heroin... 5 or 6 times...

But I was moreso just curious if MrCoffee's friends had indeed graduated to harder drugs than I was interested in sparking some form of debate...
The "and now are just ****ed up...very realistic..." seems to imply that they did, but depending on one's upbringing and whether or not they had actually heard anything beyond the simple "Drugs are bad" and "You'll run over little girls on bicycles" rhetoric, the definition of "****ed up" can vary...

Although I probably feel that way because when I was around 16 and I found out a friend of mine smoked pot (and later than a number of other acquaintances did), I (the isolated little boy brought up by a nice, drug-free, bad-word-free, realism-free family) was rather shocked and dissapointed, and probably would have labeled the whole situation as "****ed up" before, as you can tell, I eased up a bit on that whole stance...

*shrug*

thatmariolover · 06-23-2007, 10:55 AM

Without a doubt the most depressing film I've seen to date. Great movie, but not something to watch when you're already blue.

The Germanator · 06-23-2007, 02:26 PM

This was one of my favorite movies for a while, but I'll have to watch it again. I like movies that aren't too uplifting every once in a while because hey, life isn't always fun and games. Other depressing movies I'd recommend are The Bicycle Thief and Scarlet Street. Depressing, but great films.

BlueFire · 06-24-2007, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by The Germanator

This was one of my favorite movies for a while, but I'll have to watch it again. I like movies that aren't too uplifting every once in a while because hey, life isn't always fun and games. Other depressing movies I'd recommend are The Bicycle Thief and Scarlet Street. Depressing, but great films.

The Bicycle Thief is incredibly sad. The last scene was pretty effective.

And Requiem was sad... but I enjoyed it a lot. The "getting high" scenes were great. The mother's scenario was terrifying.