Film: Spun

Spun

Spun this movie will be at the Toronto Film Festival. looks pretty good to.

It angers me... I was in the process of writing something similar when I first heard about it.
I'll still be first in line to see it when it comes out here.
Jason Shwartzman playing a crazed tweaker, Micky Rourke as a cowboy meth cook... what's NOT to love?
Still makes me sad.
Adios,
Steve

there'll be a screening of this movie this weekend in san francisco during an SF indie film festival. hopefully they'll also be showing this movie at the indie theaters here in san jose, as well.

check the official site for it. weird video clips.
it parodies something so serious...i get a strange feeling from that.

saw the trailer for it two nights ago and it looks excellent. i will track it down and report back.
alasdair

i read about this movie recently. i'd definitely like to watch it whenever i can get my hands on it. it sounds interesting.

I really want to see this movie too. It looks like its gonna be pretty entertaining.

I had the pleasure of seeing this flick in Montclair NJ over the weekend. I never tried speed and still loved this movie alot.
Great acting and this film was shot in a nice and trippy style.

I blazed a blunt laced with cookup and popped a vicodin and percoset chased with some md 2020 (ghetto wine) so I felt absolutely fucking lovely for this fine film. I highly reccomend it.

As far as I know its only playing in very few theatres across the states. Its currently at 1 theatre in NYC and 1 in NEW Jersey.
the web site is great as well.
spun official site
great speed flick-a little better than 'Salton Sea' (great movie as well)

I didn't really like this movie too much. There is not much you even really know about the characters. It just seems to fly by the meth = craziness flag.

I saw this movie days after i watched the salton sea, and this movie was WAY better than the salton sea.

I have to say that this movie had it's ups and downs most definately. The scene's when he's in his car slow the movie down IMO too much, seemed like they were just trying to waste some time. Brit. Murphy was awesomely cute, loved her, The male main character ( who was in Rushmore) brilliant. Over all I got to see this movie twice, and generally liked it both times.

Mena Suvari, this was the only film I've ever seen by her that I found her to be a good actress in.

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Seen it, didn't like much... damn trailer trash tweakerz. The special effects scenes (where they wig out) were cool but coulda done a whole lot more... I only liked the fact that Deborah Harry was in it. The ending sucked.

I first heard about this movie a long time ago. I was told of a guy who started out making a documentary about tweakers but ended up turning it into a full-fledged, feature-length movie.

After waiting close to two years for this movie, I was very disappointed. It seemed like a Greg Araki version of Requiem for a Dream. A movie with a few bigger name stars and lots of small cameos, all playing caricatures as opposed to characters.

The film makers should have made it into a graphic novel instead. It would have been much better that way.

Reviewing it strictly as a film, without any meth-related bias, it sucked. I understand it was supposed to be a satirical, comical look at tweakers... but it went way beyond it's intended target and came closer to being plain old ridiculous. It was full of tweaker stereotypes, only blown WAY out of proportion. The crazed dealer and his emaciated girlfriend who lives in her pajamas; the old-skool cook and his stripper girlfriend; the tweaker with a heart of gold who got caught up in the middle of it all for the drugs...

Jason Schwartzman did an amazing job with the character he was given, Micky Rourke did an even better job (possibly the best performance of his career). Otherwise, the rest of the cast was lame. Big name actors portraying tweakers on screen is like big name actors portraying retarded people on screen. All they have to do is talk funny and act stupid. With the exception of Schwartzman, Rourke and possibly Leguizamo, I doubt any of the rest of the actors had any real meth experience... no wait... Brittany murphey was probably a tweaker. She had to lose all that weight some how.

It's my belief that you can NOT make a movie about tweakers without giving the drug a starring role. The Salton Sea came closer to paying proper homage to meth. The drug was Val Kilmer's co-star, his leading lady, his love interest. Then it got shot to hell when they tried to tack it all together with a plot, but that's a thread all it's own. In Spun, the drugs seemed to be incidental. A minor plot device to keep the crazy characters moving from one bizarre scene to another. There was no attention paid to the addiction/obsession factor. No explanation as to why they kept on doing it other than they didn't want to sleep.

eh, yeah... I'm bummed, but on the bright side... it leaves the door wide open for my own tweaker movie.

Adios,
Steve

Any other replies from this dead thread??? It just came out on rental, and I thought it was pretty good.. However, I thought it was pretty "tragic" to be considered a comedy in the least... The plot was thin as hell, but the filming kicked Reqium's ass!

Also, the soundtrack was amzing, unfortunately, I dont think it was released.. I cant even find the tracks on Kazaa... Anyone notice Billy Corgan's brief role as the doctor looking at Frisbee?

I hate to say this but it reminded me of Requiem for a Dream as I was watching it. Just the in the way that the movie was edited, and the use of that snorting sound everytime someone would take some meth.

I enjoyed the movie purely based on entertainment value... the acting was so so... Rourke stole the show imho. I do think it was a parody... but I've experienced this first hand, and there are a lot of tweakers out there like that... generalities or not.
I totally predicted the ending though... it was so obvious.

What I wanna know is, how did Requiem and Spun both screw up the whole pupil dilation thing? In Requiem, they shoot up and their pupils dilate; in Spun, they do a bump and their pupils constrict. It should be the opposite...

In requiem aren't they shooting coke?