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Summary: THE BEST FILM I'VE SEEN IN YEARS
Review: Don't get me wrong, I love movies, normally, however, I watch the movies I love over and over again. I haven't really seen a new good movie in a while. Aronofski's independent venture into the surreal world of "pi" left me dumbfounded... this film "Requiem for a Dream," left me... Blown the hell away! I was absolutely amazed! I first saw it two weeks ago... I am haunted by the film. I rented the VHS tape from the store, which was an EDITED version and it was so damn good, I went out and bought the DVD Director's cut the next day. I absolutely love this film, Darren Aronofski, Hubert Selby, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer, Marlon, Jared everyone deserves a damn Oscar, I love this movie. I will never forget how amazing and the impact this movie had on my life. TWO THUMBS UP. I may have lost sleep, got depressed, was left in a dark hole... who cares? I love this movie and I ALWAYS will. Thank you so much for making such a brilliant, life changing movie. YOU ARE INTERNATIONAL TREASURES!! I LOVE YOU!! HERES TO REQUIEM FOR A DREAM!
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Summary: A very intense assault on your senses....
Review: Reviews that warn of how intense a film this is, such as mine, can not begin to truly prepare you for the onslaught of images and sound that flood you when you watch Requiem For A Dream. In his second film Darren Androfsky [sic] has crafted one of the most touching looks at addictions and the effects addictions have on our lives that I have ever seen. As you should in very film you truly come to care for the characters presented, and feel the emotions that they feel throughout.A large part of the reason for that is the director's visual style. Using a combination of quick mtv style cuts during the highs of the film, to give a sense of the high that the character is themself seeking, alongside slower and more drawn out sequences showing the time between the "fix" for the person in need, your eyes are riveted to the screen in awe of what he has accomplished with the budget at hand. Without a doubt he is one of the most exciting prospects out there when it comes to young directors with an ability to tell a story and to do so with a visual style all his own. The acting is superb all around, and after seeing the film I have no idea how anyone could say Julia Roberts deserved to beat Ellen Burstyn at the Academy Awards last year. The performance she gives is so dead on and intense that at no point do you think this is an actor in a role, she IS the character she is playing. For the 2 hour duration of the film the motherly loving woman who just wants to fit in that red dress, is a human being with the same feelings and emotions as you. Amazing job. The rest of the cast was amazing as well with great performances from Jared Leto and Jennifer Connelly. And who knew Marlon Wayans could act? Surely I did not until this film convinced me. Picture on the dvd is very clear and presented in a letterbox format. The sound is mastered wonderfully, and envelops the movie watcher into the world of the film beautifully. The Kronos Quartet along with Clint Mansell have crafted a haunting score for a very haunting film. There's a good deal of extras including deleted scenes, making of, a fake infomercial based on a show Ellen Burstyn's character watches in the film. A great dvd treatment all the way, my thanks to the people who did this disc properly with the extras a film lover enjoys getting.
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Summary: An attempt at the impossible
Review: When I first watched Requiem for a Dream I didn't know that I was getting a guided tour through Hell. As a big fan of Pi already, I was very excited to see this movie. Not being 17 at the time, I didn't see it in the theatres, so I rented it when it came out (the edited version.) I bring it home and start up my self-deconstruction. A few friends that had seen it were discussing it and talked about how intense the movie was. I go through Summer and Fall not understanding how they could think this movie was intense... I was rather confused. Then Winter set in and I realized what exactly they were talking about. I could try to explain how this movie had me crying in a fetal position or how I couldn't sleep because all I could think about was the movie. It wouldn't help, I have tried it before, reccomending this movie to all that I thought would understand the impact of this work of art. The best I can do is say, rent this movie, and watch it.
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Summary: Wow....
Review: A dark movie, not one to watch with those faint of heart. A beautifully disturbing account of the minds and worlds of drug addicts. A television/diet pill junkie and three dope fiends. The acting of both Marlon Wayans and Jared Leto are amazing. These boys donot get enough credit. That ending. Wow. It is the most un-sexually stimulating sex scene in a movie ever. This is a film that will stick to you and sneak into your mind when you least expect it.
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Summary: a masterpiece!
Review: this film made me feel every human emotion possible. i am 15 years old and yes i have already tought of taking drugs.of course my parents taught me that drugs are bad but im unsure that in a situation i would have turned drugs down because of my curiosity of drugs that every teenager has.i watched this movie with my mother ,she knew that it was rated nc-17 but since it was about drugs she tought it it would frighten me from taking any drugs .she was right.every teenager who ever tought of taking drugs should see this movie because in our society drugs are commercialised as fun to take (like in the movie next friday)and that of course arouses our curiosity. requiem for a dream showed me the pain ,the horror and the lost of using drugs.this film should be shown to adolescents!the mpaa rated the film nc-17 making it unaccessible to anyone of the adolescent age.the mpaa must be afraid that it will destroy our fragile little minds,when in reality a film like the r-rated next friday can do much, much more damage.to any parent reading this if you have an adolescent at home make them watch requiem for a dream ,you never know it may one day save their life.
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Summary: A MOVIE THAT WILL STAY WITH YOU FOREVER
Review: Some scenes in this movie will stay with a person for the longest time especially those last scenes. Can't wait for BATMAN 5!! Darren Aronofsky is one of the greatest director's I have ever seen.
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Summary: Show me the Oscar!
Review: This film sure deserved an Oscar. I have never seen a film that made me feel with the characters (yeah, yeah, I laughed, I cried, it worked). It took me two days just to get the images out of my head long enough for me to drive to work. That's what is great about this film: the images. The dialating pupils, carnivorous refridgerator, the TV game show constantly screaming. Yeah, I did cry at the end. I ain't ashamed.
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Summary: Incredible DVD for an incredible movie
Review: There's a reason this is #55 on the top 250 movies on IMDB.com. Absolutely brilliant picture, read the reviews here and at IMDB.com to get all the praise. Since there is no linked DVD review here, I wanted to mention that this movie has an incredible DVD translation. Dolby Digital has never sounded so good. Those of you lucky enough to have a 5.1 set up, you must rent this DVD. The back speakers get as much play as the front ones and it adds *significantly* to the experience. It would be a wonderful showcase for home theater stores, if the movie wasn't so disturbing.
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Summary: Boring, pretentious, and moralizing
Review: Aronofsky uses every gimmicky camera and editing move in the book in an attempt to jolt some life into this otherwise leaden addiction movie. It doesn't work. Ellen Burstyn chews the scenery, Jared Leto commits an aural atrocity with his Brooklyn accent, and Jennifer Connolly just sits there--every now and then you catch her using one of the two expressions in her repertoire. This movie is pointless.
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Summary: Aronofsky showing off
Review: Aronofsky provied with Pi that he was a filmmaker to watch, bold and restless, but a bit too clever for his own good. Requiem for a Dream magnifies these faults, but still holds promise for his future. Still, no amount of razzle-dazzle can hide the fact that the film holds little interest in human terms, other than watching the director torture his junkies. The story is your standard movie-of-the-week cautionary tale. The performances are uniformly excellent (Burstyn in particular is put through the wringer), but to what end, exactly? Drugs are bad, sure. What else have you got? The early scenes are promising and if Aronofsky and Selby had stuck to comparing the lonely Burstyn's addictions to food, television and longing for fame to her son's herion addiction, they might have been on to something special thematically. What they've given us instead is little more than a manic exercise in style that finally falls under the weight of its own inventiveness. Aronofsky throws everything at the viewer but the kitchen sink (including, literally, the refrigerator), but he's trying so hard to be noticed that you quickly forget to care much about his two-dimensional characters. For a more successful riff on the same theme, try Trainspotting, which is similarly harrowing and stylistically inventive, yet somehow more emotionally resonant.
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