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Old 09-28-2007, 07:53 AM
timoK timoK is offline
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Default Re: Best films about drug use and addiction?

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Yeah, I only did a Masters in film/literature, guess I shouldn't comment.

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dude,
you master in film and compare Chirtiane F, the pusher movies and Requiem in one list?

those moives have like nothing in common.
like comparing starship troppers and saving privat ryan just because there are soldiers in both
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Old 09-28-2007, 07:57 AM
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Been years since I last watched it, but there's the nutty La Luna

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079495/


The only oedipal film I can recall. The son is a junky, IIRR. Mom really goes to the limits to try and get her sn distracted off the junk, if you know what I mean.
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Old 09-28-2007, 08:35 AM
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Total rubbish:

Requiem for a Dream (2000)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0180093/


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Railing is your business and the business is good, but please don't make comments about movies ever again.

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Yeah, I only did a Masters in film/literature, guess I shouldn't comment.

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Do you have masters in bankroll management too?

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Old 09-28-2007, 08:36 AM
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Geez, where do you find these films DB!

"the scene where Joe licks the dirt off his mothers face is at once touching and erotic..."


Lol. Sounds really awkward and uncomfortable to me. I'm tempted to add it to my queue.
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Old 09-28-2007, 08:41 AM
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I have to recommend SPUN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spun

Amazing, sick independet movie about methamphetamine slackers and a meth cook (Mickey Rourke)

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Good movie, but I think they stole too much from Requiem...

It has one of the best cover songs ever (The Number Of The Beast by Zwan) as a bonus though.

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Old 09-28-2007, 08:50 AM
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The fatal flaw of RfaD is it's an unpleasant film to watch - and, yet, as Trainspotting and Christiane F show, you don't have to make an unpleasant, unwatchable film just because you're dealing with an unpleasant topic.

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You have masters in film and think being unpleasant is a flaw?

"Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma" is one of the most unpleasant films I've ever seen but it's also one of the best films I've seen.

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Old 09-28-2007, 08:58 AM
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Default Re: Best films about drug use and addiction?

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Geez, where do you find these films DB!

"the scene where Joe licks the dirt off his mothers face is at once touching and erotic..."


Lol. Sounds really awkward and uncomfortable to me. I'm tempted to add it to my queue.

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I can't remember a thing about it, other than at one point the junky tries to open up his arm with a carving knife to get the junk in, and his mom starts making out with him. It could be great, could be terrible, I really can't remember.
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Old 09-28-2007, 09:57 AM
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The fatal flaw of RfaD is it's an unpleasant film to watch - and, yet, as Trainspotting and Christiane F show, you don't have to make an unpleasant, unwatchable film just because you're dealing with an unpleasant topic.

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You have masters in film and think being unpleasant is a flaw?

"Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma" is one of the most unpleasant films I've ever seen but it's also one of the best films I've seen.

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See more films

I'm actually a massive Pasolini films, and Salo is his worst. The Gospel According to St Matthew, Hawks and Sparrows, Oedipus Rex, heck for me even the Canterbury Tales are so much better.
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Old 09-28-2007, 10:34 AM
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Total rubbish:

Requiem for a Dream (2000)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0180093/


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I didn't like this movie the first time. But the second, after the shock value had worn off, I really liked it. The movie isn't about the characters, the movie is about addiction. Addiction is the protagonist and from that point of view I think the movie is done very well.
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Old 09-28-2007, 10:46 AM
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Boogie Nights has pretty much the most accurate coke scene I've ever seen (with Juilianne Moore and Heather Graham).


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i always tought scarfaces "head into the pile" at the end was the most accurate coke scene ever made
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