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Summary: BRILLIANT SCRIPT. BRILLIANT DIRECTION. BRILLIANT ACTING.
Review: SEE THIS MOVIE. IF YOU APPRECIATE GREAT FILMMAKING, GREAT ACTING AND INCREDIBLE ART DIRECTION THIS FILM IS A MUST SEE. THE ENSEMBLE CAST DOES SOME OF THE BEST WORK OF THEIR CAREERS. ESPECIALLY MICKEY ROURKE.AND WHY OH WHY IS THE SOUNDTRACK NOT AVAILABLE? THE MUSIC IN THIS FILM IS ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR!
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Summary: Best drug movie, yet
Review: Requiem is good, GO is good, PulpFiction also is good, but I think this one is the best. The acting is funny and true-life. Alot of drug movies try be too serious, when this movie looks at the silly aspect of it, just people getting messed up. For weirdness, I think this movies has Happiness beat also.
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Summary: warped and frenetic
Review: This film often times made me feel uncomfortably anxious, but it was this ability to invoke such a strong physiological reacion that made me think this movie was awesomely unique. It is a movie about a bunch of speed freaks, and the brilliant directing and editing literally enable the viewer to share in the characters' "speedy" perspective. If you aren't on speed it will sure make you feel as if you were, and if you are on speed I'd recommend not watching this movie as it will probably make you want to jump out of your skin! This isn't one suitable for the very young or easily offended, but if you can handle it this movie is definitely a wild ride.
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Summary: This is your brain on drugs
Review: Spun is a frenetic, sometimes harrowing, sometimes funny and sometimes over-stylized account of speed freaks. The characters is this film --Ross (Jason Schwartzman), Spider Mike (John Leguizamo), Cookie (Mena Suvari), Nikki (Brittany Murphy) and the leader of this legion of lost souls, The Cook (Mickey Rourke) don't merely use meth, they live and breathe it night and day. Director Jonas Akerlund uses all kinds of visual tricks to emphasize the state of mind this induces --speeding up the action, animated hallucinations and a close-up of an eyeball as the drug rushes to the brain (or what's left of it). Several critics have complained that the style was taken from Requiem For A Dream; perhaps, but the overall mood of the two films is quite different (Requiem is much darker). In some ways Spun reminded me of Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (a better and more original film in my view) --both follow the antics of people who are perpetually in a drugged-out state. Spun does a good job conveying the alternate universe of these addicts. They are always wired, on the verge of paranoia and desperate for their next fix. The drug has complete dominion over their lives. Of course, this is not the first film to portray addiction and watching the aimless, mindless and self-destructive behavior of such characters can get tiresome. What makes Spun watchable and interesting are some good performances, especially by Schwartzmann, Rourke and Leguizamo. There are a pair of cops on their trail, who are also meth freaks. While the characters' lives are pathetic and absurd, the film sometimes overemphasizes this a little, as when Ross chains a woman to his bed and forgets about her for days. Although Spun hardly seems like a movie with a message, it does a better job than any TV movie- of-the-week or moralistic anti-drug commercial in portraying the dangers of prolonged drug use.
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Summary: "Drop the cheesepuffs, Ma'am."
Review: The film "Spun" from director Jonas Akerland is a wild ride through the lives of several Crystal Meth users in Los Angeles. The main character, Ross (Jason Schwartzman) goes to the graffiti-covered, squalid house of dealer, Spider Mike (John Leguizamo). Spider Mike, who obviously tries too much of his own product, lives with bizarre and repugnant girlfriend, Cookie (Mena Suvari). Ross, who just wants to buy some Meth, is coerced into a relationship with the effervescent stripper, Nikki (Brittany Murphy). Nikki, who is the most functional character in the film (she works) is the girlfriend of "The Cook" (Mickey Rourke). Before long, Ross, the possessor of a tatty, brown Volvo, becomes the unofficial chauffeur for The Cook. Ross ferries The Cook back and forth across town seeking ingredients for Meth which The Cook manufactures in his hotel room. "Spun" had my attention from beginning to end. None of the characters in this film are dull. John Leguizamo's kinetic energy is perfect for the role of the tattooed, paranoid Spider Mike whose inability to concentrate frustrates everyone. Spider Mike's hysteria is just below the surface--ready to explode, and he seems barely held in check. There's Frisbee (Patrick Fugit) the acne-ridden, video-game addicted youth who hangs out with Spider Mike, and Deborah Harry plays a nosy neighbour with definite theories about men. However, Mickey Rourke as The Cook was fantastic and entirely, utterly believable. It's great to see him playing a role that fits him like a glove, and Rourke's laid-back approach underscores the single-minded focus of The Cook. The film includes the obligatory stripper-around-the-pole scenes, and nudity, sex and profanity abound. This is not some "Hollywood-goes-to-the-ghetto" film--this is raw, gritty, and very, very dark. However, the film is also hilarious, and this is why I loved it so much. Two Latina girls squabble over men while serving behind the counter at a local mini-market, and two policemen lead raids for the "Cops" programme. The portrayal of the Meth user was accurate and unmerciful--this film succeeded where "Salton Sea" did not. It takes sheer genius to portray the very ugly world of Meth and still scrape humour out from these dregs of humanity. If you decide to watch this film, DON'T get the rated version--it airbrushes human body parts and bleeps out some of the swear words--go for the unrated version, and this is obviously not one for the kiddies. If you liked "Requiem For A Dream," there's an excellent chance you'll enjoy "Spun" too--displacedhuman.
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Summary: Horrible Rip-Off of "Requiem for a Dream" !
Review: Why would anyone want to see a movie that is a horrible imitation of "Requiem for a dream"? ( In case you didn't see that movie,it was an anti-drug movie with quality starring Academy Award Winner Jennifer Connelly,Ellen Burstyn & Jared Leto & was so much more than this crap ! )This movie is supposed to be unusual but the only thing unusual about it is the punishment one gets from experiencing it ! It's cast is 100% wasted. They keep showing a gagged naked woman struggling to get out as she's handcuffed to a bed against her will with her eyes & mouth covered with silver electrical tape while the 'boyfriend' goes out with another girl to get drugs over & over while she may be laying there dying in the motel room. Everyone is filthy in this- for example: Mena Suvari ( the beauty of "American Beauty" movie )has brown teeth,the main character has grease for hair,Brittany Murphy's dressed like a low-paid hooker,Patrick Fugit ( star of "Almost Famous" ) has more pimples on his face than a pepperoni pizza & eats food that appears to be actual crap as his 500 lb. mother asks for food & he ignores her,Mickey Rourke looks like he's been on hard drugs in real life for a long,long time, Eric Roberts plays a gay Elvis Presley impersonator & he looks like his sister: Julia Roberts ! in his 2 minute role in this ! & worst of all they have a scraggly dyed green dog they overdose on drugs ! I am 100% no feminist or animal rights activist but this movie was completely disgusting ! It didn't even try to hide that it was using the same special camera angles,special sound effects to show drug use as was done in "Requiem for a Dream". However prepared for a drug movie one is- this is no druggies movie- this is just a sorry celluoid reason to avoid buying movies without renting first ! It is obviously made by someone who hates women & animals & loves drugs. "Spun" is lacking of any meaning whatsoever.If you want to see a despicable depiction of drug snorting women-haters who kill their pets with the fumes of the drugs they're making-watch this 100 minutes of excrement. Whatever it was trying to be- it was an upsetting terrible waste of time. "Spun" makes one wonder "How low can Hollywood sink ?!" At this point,one learns to RENT movies instead of buying to avoid getting stuck with garbage like this trash.
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Summary: Drowning Puppies One By One
Review: This film won me over with the Cook's(Mickey Rourke in his finest performance since Barfly) final monologue directed at a sleeping Ross(Jason Schwartzman). Without giving too much away he distills to its essence the reason why the world is filled with so many messed up people.
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Summary: Tweekers are bad, people. but they're damn funny!
Review: it was a great film, showing how it really is and how bad it is and how fun it is, all at the same time. best "drug" film i've seen in years. if you liked this one check out The Salton Sea. it's about tweekers too, but a bit more on the serious side. anyway, spun is a damn fine film and should be watched by anyone who knows a tweeker and can laugh at how true to life it is.
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Summary: 'Requiem For A Dream' Wannabe
Review: Spun is an attempt to be like Requiem For A Dream but just came up short. The characters aren't very interesting and the whole movie just kind of wanders. I suggest passing this movie up and seeing Requiem For A Dream instead. Requiem/Dream has a much better and interesting cast including Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, and Marlon Wayans. Plus, the score for Requiem/Dream is way more intense. I give Spun only 3 stars for being just "okay."
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Summary: Mature Audiences Only
Review: Parents Don't Rent This When There's Kids Around. I'm 18 Years Old And I'm Still Pretty Shocked. It Was Okay Till One Particular Scene With John Leguizamo And That Scene Just Turned Me Off. Rent It If You Must But Consider Yourself Warned.
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