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"Requiem for a Dream" is the most depressing movie ever.
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They should show that movie in drug awareness classes at schools instead of the crappy motivational films they usually do.
You've not experienced a soul crushing movie, until you have seen french masterpiece by Gasper Noe, Irreversible.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/
In reverse chronological order, a man and his friend are hunting his girlfriend's rapist, amongst the underground gay club scene in Paris.
A bold and incredibly 'real' film, probably one of the most important films in the past 20 years of cinema.
Rich.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673/
In reverse chronological order, a man and his friend are hunting his girlfriend's rapist, amongst the underground gay club scene in Paris.
A bold and incredibly 'real' film, probably one of the most important films in the past 20 years of cinema.
Rich.
Requiem is depressing for sure, but one of my favourite movies ever. My old roommate and I actually did a parody of it for a Rhode Trip DVD we made about a year and a half ago. (Yes, I meant Rhode trip, not Road trip...can you guess where we went? 
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If anyone wants to see two Canadian university students making asses of themselves, pipe up and I'll throw it on YouTube when I get a chance, haha.
)If anyone wants to see two Canadian university students making asses of themselves, pipe up and I'll throw it on YouTube when I get a chance, haha.
elfin buddy said:Requiem is depressing for sure, but one of my favourite movies ever. My old roommate and I actually did a parody of it for a Rhode Trip DVD we made about a year and a half ago. (Yes, I meant Rhode trip, not Road trip...can you guess where we went?
If anyone wants to see two Canadian university students making asses of themselves, pipe up and I'll throw it on YouTube when I get a chance, haha.
Sounds fun, you should definitely post it! Btw, you don't go to McGill do you?
My brother was looking into it.
bobscliff said:
Alright, I'll try to find time to compress it and post it later tonight or on the weekend.
Nope, I don't go to McGill. I'm a University of New Brunswick patron, and proud of it
I'm originally from Newfoundland, so I considered many options. McGill was one of the few schools I ended up applying to, and they made me a nice offer. The reason I didn't end up going there was because it was still bloody expensive, since I'm not a resident of Quebec 
One of my friend's jokes is to say, "Nah, we're gonna stay in tonight to watch Reqiuem and slit our wrists."
I've always described watching it is like getting hit by a truck. Not figuratively. Literally. It hurts. And people don't believe you until they've seen it for themselves.
The World According to Garp is a solid second place. I only saw it once, ten to fifteen years ago. I thought having the Beatles "When I'm 64" playing during the credits was a very nice touch.
And vniow, I've always thought the same way about how schools should show that movie. I know if my aunt ever asked for advice on what to tell or show her kids Requiem is what I'd recommend. She would never go for it, but I guess effectiveness isn't everything.
The great thing about using it as such is that the movie doesn't have a "Just Say No"-Nancy-Reagan style message. It's just a story. Beautifully told and gut-wrenchingly tragic.
I've always described watching it is like getting hit by a truck. Not figuratively. Literally. It hurts. And people don't believe you until they've seen it for themselves.
The World According to Garp is a solid second place. I only saw it once, ten to fifteen years ago. I thought having the Beatles "When I'm 64" playing during the credits was a very nice touch.
And vniow, I've always thought the same way about how schools should show that movie. I know if my aunt ever asked for advice on what to tell or show her kids Requiem is what I'd recommend. She would never go for it, but I guess effectiveness isn't everything.
The great thing about using it as such is that the movie doesn't have a "Just Say No"-Nancy-Reagan style message. It's just a story. Beautifully told and gut-wrenchingly tragic.
I thought it was a great movie! I've watched it twice in the last six months (as a posed to Requiem which I haven't watched in over a year... though I may watch it tonight now that we are talking about it).Thanatoast said:
Bicentennial Man is another great movie starring Robin Williams. In both cases Williams characters live full and interesting lives. I think it has always been true that how we deal with adversity is very telling about the type of people we are. Stories with adversity are always worth telling (and watching/reading).
Requiem is quite the depressing movie....but I'd go with Dancer in the Dark as the most depressing in my opinion.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168629/
Juice by Mary, juice by Mary, juice by Mary! Whooooooaaaaaaaaaa Mary!!
Requiem is a trip, to say the least. Also it's a great anti-drug flick. Will scare the daylights out of those teenagers.
Requiem is a trip, to say the least. Also it's a great anti-drug flick. Will scare the daylights out of those teenagers.
'Happiness' (I think I'm the 3rd to mention it in this thread) has got to be the all-time soul-sucking champion. I think a handful of quaaludes and valium would be an upper compared to that movie.
Entertaining part of seeing it: I went to see it with my then-girlfriend and her movie-watching club (who had no idea WTF they were about to see, she had talked it up as being really artsy), and the club was about 50% fundies.
Entertaining part of seeing it: I went to see it with my then-girlfriend and her movie-watching club (who had no idea WTF they were about to see, she had talked it up as being really artsy), and the club was about 50% fundies.
freeny said:
Funny you mention that, because I just watched Happiness movie yesterday... and yes, it is depressing!
"Look Down, Look Down that newspaper spoon..."
Hubert Selby Jr. wrote "Last Exit to Brooklyn" in the 60's? I read it after "Naked Lunch" and before "City of Night" thus "establishing my credentials" as a 20-something with 3 days growth of beard, a urine-stained trench coat and an intense wannabe desire to be really genuine degenerate in NYC. A "pretty boy" college grad from the mid-west (Detroit area) I couldn't begin to pull it off. There's a lot more to my story, but the point is it was wannabe.
But for a year, I did work in a half-way house run by the NJ Department of Parole and met the real characters in these books. My suggestion is that anyone reading any of these books or a thousand other similars, go out and live/work in the world you romanticize in your posts.
They don't seem to have an emoticon here for giving a finger, how civilized.
Leareth said:
Hubert Selby Jr. wrote "Last Exit to Brooklyn" in the 60's? I read it after "Naked Lunch" and before "City of Night" thus "establishing my credentials" as a 20-something with 3 days growth of beard, a urine-stained trench coat and an intense wannabe desire to be really genuine degenerate in NYC. A "pretty boy" college grad from the mid-west (Detroit area) I couldn't begin to pull it off. There's a lot more to my story, but the point is it was wannabe.
But for a year, I did work in a half-way house run by the NJ Department of Parole and met the real characters in these books. My suggestion is that anyone reading any of these books or a thousand other similars, go out and live/work in the world you romanticize in your posts.
They don't seem to have an emoticon here for giving a finger, how civilized.
camus said:
yeah!! Rock on!! Stick it to the man..... oh wait. What?!?!
I didn't see anything good about the path the characters take in RFAD written in this thread. Andnofsky even says the hero of the film is defeat (well, I'm poorly paraphrasing).
Could you please explain what your saying to the totally unhip? 'Caus I'm lost...