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| Requiem for a Dream | 
| Category: Movie
Buy New: $9.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  919 reviews
Sales Rank: 2571
Rating: Unrated
Media: Video Download
Running Time: 102 minutes
ASIN: B000JCQCW4
Theatrical Release Date: October 26, 2000
Release Date: July 21, 2008
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 No subtitle options?? August 21, 2008
On of the most amazing films I've got in my collection and offers no subtitle options for any language at all, not even English?. How can this be?. Did they just forget that there are other people out in the world that do not speak English?. What a bummer. From having this DVD as one of my favorite options to share with my non English speaking friends, now I have it at somewhere in the middle of my DVD shelf. Out of the 100 points that I had given the film, just for the no subtitle options I take 30 away, so now is a 70 point movie for me. Such a shame.
 One of the most overrated films of all time? August 1, 2008
I give this film high marks for its editing and ability to hold true to its gut-wrenching focus from beginning to end. It's hard film to watch...but it also lacks much of a reason to.
The story, if you want to call it that, starts and finishes at the same point. There is no beginning, middle or end...it's just a sequence (though a terrifying one at that).
For a film to take itself as seriously as this one does, a viewer should...no wait, NEEDS to care about the characters. For me, at no point did I feel much sympathy or care about any of them, with the exception of maybe the mother.
Despite my frustrations with the script, it is well acted. It's gritty and certainly conveys the despair and dark underworld of addiction. But again, without any sort of arc, I never felt sucked into it and was really expecting some sort of payoff, which never occurred.
The editing is certainly unique and worth showing to film students. I've never seen a film like it from that standpoint.
If you can ignore the writing and just "go along for the ride", then its worth a watch. Personally, I was hoping for more.
 Modern Classic July 31, 2008
The only reason I rented this movie was because I loved the music on the trailer I watched.
Wow. Words really can't describe all the emotions this movie made me feel, ansd I think it may be the only film that has made me feel this way. I loved the story, character, tthe way it was filmed, and oh my god the symbolism! I think that if you had 10 diffrent people sit down at the same time and asked them some questions, you could have ten siffrent opinions, and maybe even what the people thought the movie reprsenrs. This is now one of my favorite films, the greatest part for me is the hauntingly beautiful soundtrack, that has entered my soul, and can make me weep. Please, watch this film, and decide for yourself. You may be really glad you did.
 What did I just watch? July 28, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a flaming turd. It made no sense. You have to be on drugs yourself to appreciate this movie. It was listed under horror in Unbox and that must be because it's a horrible movie. I'd like my money and 2 hours of my life back, Amazon.
Forced "Drama" for Adolescent Minds July 26, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
If I could give this coprolite of a film zero stars I would. This is the worst movie I have ever seen and ever hope to see. The fact that it could be rated so highly, here and on IMDB, indicates the abysmal emotional immaturity of film fans.
1. No likable characters - which isn't to say the characters just sit there, no. They scream off the screen with absolute annoyance. I hated the characters 15 minutes into the film and wondered how they could possible be turned into something worth watching. They weren't. Androgynous boy-man has the voice of a whining buzz saw cutting through a series of jagged metal chalk boards. Jennifer Connelly manages to disguise her attractiveness under a layer of creepout that was hard, physically hard, to keep eyeballs focused on. And the Wayans brother is just annoying token-black-man, thrown in to give the Semitic/Anglo couple some "street cred".
Okay, not all characters in a movie need to be appealing. But the kicker is, when you get to the end of the movie and you realize you are supposed to feel sorry for them...somehow. Despite the fact that they never displayed an ounce of decency or humanity. It's beyond comprehension how I could feel anything other than disgust for them all.
So maybe the mother character is sposta appeal? As she descends into a diet pill frenzy that borders on the comic, and increasingly chews the scenery like a dog with an old bone, you can only hope the movie will end soon so you can begin the process of extracting her visage from your catalog of humanoid faces.
2. Displays all the writing and plotting skills of a privileged, protected college student trying to imagine what life on the edge is like. It's truly laughable. Truly cliched and trite and laughable. Token-black ends up arrested by token-Southern-law-officer and sentenced to forced labor. Semitic junky loses his arm - oh yes, in the South doctors will call the police before treating a case of gangrene - we're just that inhuman. Creepy chick starts having sex for money and drugs, but we're sposta feel sorry for her cuz she doesn't enjoy it. Mother goes into an irrecoverable spastic state from diet pills (DIET PILLS!) and has her brain fried with electroshock. Yeah...that's a believable scenario. Zathura is more believable. Childish junk, this "plot".
3. Purposeless student film devices. The quick cutting, the meaningless split screens, the accelerated/decelerated time, the steady cams strapped to bodies - it all screams, "I am so creative, world look at my genius and despair." What's really lovable is the little montage that accompanies every heroin kick - gee, that never gets old.
4. Stereotypes - the lovable black heroin dealer, the horrible black sex fiend, the n-word using Southern law officers, the doting Jewish mother and her troop of aimless Jewish mother friends, the creepy bald successful guy. Every character in this movie is a hack job pulled from the yellowed pages of some pulp novel found on a bus stop rack.
5. Laughable drug use - For junkies, these people have awfully fussy biological clocks. They can go without for any length of time it takes to flesh out some worthless scene. But then suddenly, they're willing to become sex slaves for a slight taste. Whatever gets the director to the emotional non-moment he thinks will grab the ghoulies of pretentious film critics. And then the mother on diet pills? And she's so stupid she doesn't realize that taking several at a time is inadvisable?
6. Ridiculous plot devices - did I cover the hysterical creepy mental hospital where they go straight to the brain frying levels of ECT? Why didn't the director just do the lobotomy routine from Cuckoo's Nest? The drug shortage with a special Xmas delivery that means nobody in NYC can get heroin...yes, that's believable. The man who can't take care of an infection on his arm until...it needs antibiotics? No, that might be believable. No, it must be cut off. Ridiculous! And the Wayans character...he's operating with the Jewish guy, but he's also in the black mob and they are independent and have money but then don't and...was anybody allowed to review this? Did nobody giving this drut 5 stars think this was a problem? The mother with her TV addiction, who just happens to watch the same show ad nauseum? Believable? Or just meant to inflict despair? I claim the latter.
Dear dawg, I could go on and on about how insanely bad this movie is, and how I hope the director gets put on the next one-way rocket trip to the Andromeda Galaxy...but what's really disturbing is the number of people who could swallow this razor blade and call it candy.
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