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Title: Requiem for a Dream
Year: 2000
Length: 102 minutes
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writers: Hubert Selby Jr. & Darren Aronofsky, based on the book by Selby
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
Music: Clint Mansell
Distinctions: Oscar nomination for Best Actress (Burstyn); currently #60 on the IMDb's Top 250
My reaction
Synopsis: three junkies and one of their mothers have a really bad time
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), yesterday
Concept: Terrible. Guess what, kids? Drugs are bad for you!
Story: Bad. It's really unpleasant to watch unfold, but also you pretty much know everything that will happen from the start of the movie.
Characters: Bad. They're pretty well developed/realized, but they're also universally unsympathetic.
Dialog: Good.
Pacing: Bad. It's frantically paced, and yet it also bored me. Kind of impressive.
Cinematography: Great.
Special effects/design: Great.
Acting: Great.
Music: Great.
Subjective Rating: 3/10 (Bad). If you like feeling awful, this is the movie to watch. It's exceptionally well made, but unfortunately in this case that means it's all that much more horrible to watch.
Objective Rating: 2.3/4 (Okay).
ya - this movie sucks…..and although Jared Leto was very good in the Dallas Buyers Club - over all he seems like an annoying son of a bitch. Definitely way over rated.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to him going down in flames as the Joker.
as far as Aronofsky goes - PI was pretty fucking amazing - so was the wrestler - every thing else has been big goose eggs for me… two good movies though - most people don't make even one…..