Spun offended me as both a movie lover AND a tweaker.
It was NOT "a terrifying glimpse into the life of a meth addict"
Nor was it "a breakthrough film"
Spun was one horrible cliche after another... lame caricatures of tweakers.
What's even worse is that people often compare it to Requiem for a Dream. That's tantamount to putting Strange Brew and Leaving Las Vegas into the same category... hey, they are both about drinking, right?
Not to mention Jonas Akerlund is a lame director. He should stick to music videos. His attention span doesn't seem to go much further.
What a waste of great talent like Mickey Rourke & Jason Schwartzman.
In my opinion, Fear and Loathing was EXTREMELY overrated.
Ah, good to see some people w/ some sense and the ability to recognize a movie's shittiness.
Spun was just stupid, and Fear and Loathing, I dunno, I just don't see what makes it a good movie, at all.
As for the ones I like, they've already been said of course, but Requiem, Traffic, Trainspotting, B-ball Diaries, and Drugstore Cowboy. I probably forgot something...
Oh and this isn't
yet a movie, but I'm really excited to see how the movie version of "A Million Little Pieces," by James Frey turns out - one of my favorite books ever, it's basically just his experience in rehab to put it concisely, but it is a really amazing story, and I really liked his writing style too. Anyways, I hope the movie turns out good, although someone told me that Lindsay Lohan was gonna be in it. I dunno how accurate that is, but she definitely, definitely would not be the right actress for the main female character in the book.