Requiem for a Dream
Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 8:23 pm
Synopsis:
A rated R afterschool special that had the potential to be one of the greatest comedies ever made.
Review:
I generally like Darren Aronofsky movies, and I recall really liking this one about a decade ago. π is on my list of "movies that get better with repeated viewings," which is pretty goddamn select. After Requiem..., he produced and wrote Below with Riddick's David Twohy, which is sinfully unknown and underrated. Other directorial efforts include Black Swan, The Wrestler, and Noah. Anyhoo, a sort of hit and miss dude, but his hits are fucking awesome, especially the early ones.
Back on track, I saw Requiem... recently and it was so over-the-top bad, it went into parody mode by the second act ... except everyone's still playing it completely straight. Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, ...
... and one of the many Wayans brothers are all smack heads. They decide it's way more profitable to deal and do H instead of just getting high. There are a couple sideplots, including Leto's mom getting prescribed legal amps for weight loss by some quack in a medical facility that doctors from Mad Max would consider a rundown piece of tetanus-infested shit. Every horrible thing imaginable that parents tell their children to scare them away from drugs happens in this flick. Although I suppose I have to let him off the hook a bit since the screenplay was based off a '78 novel. The entire production is a huge PSA. It's now on my list of "movies that get worse with repeated viewings."
Verdict:
See it once, then never again. There is Connelly bush, but no titties.
A rated R afterschool special that had the potential to be one of the greatest comedies ever made.
Review:
I generally like Darren Aronofsky movies, and I recall really liking this one about a decade ago. π is on my list of "movies that get better with repeated viewings," which is pretty goddamn select. After Requiem..., he produced and wrote Below with Riddick's David Twohy, which is sinfully unknown and underrated. Other directorial efforts include Black Swan, The Wrestler, and Noah. Anyhoo, a sort of hit and miss dude, but his hits are fucking awesome, especially the early ones.
Back on track, I saw Requiem... recently and it was so over-the-top bad, it went into parody mode by the second act ... except everyone's still playing it completely straight. Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, ...
... and one of the many Wayans brothers are all smack heads. They decide it's way more profitable to deal and do H instead of just getting high. There are a couple sideplots, including Leto's mom getting prescribed legal amps for weight loss by some quack in a medical facility that doctors from Mad Max would consider a rundown piece of tetanus-infested shit. Every horrible thing imaginable that parents tell their children to scare them away from drugs happens in this flick. Although I suppose I have to let him off the hook a bit since the screenplay was based off a '78 novel. The entire production is a huge PSA. It's now on my list of "movies that get worse with repeated viewings."
Verdict:
See it once, then never again. There is Connelly bush, but no titties.