The Wrestler was a bunch of **** man. Typical story of an older middle aged white dude with long hair that wasn't in a motorcycle gang.
simple question- is it scary? lotsa reviews claim that it leans towards horror. I cant take those movies at all. so let me know if i can still go ahead and watch this?
You obviously didn't properly understand The Wrestler. Tell me something, did you even understand his other movies? Pi, Requiem for a Dream, and The Fountain? Rep points to whoever can tell me the connection between those three movies.
+1 for wrestler. loved the movie. I am yet to see fountain though. But Darren makes amazing movies based on the psychology of "obsession" - Math in Pi, Drugs in Requiem and now Ballet in Black Swan. I
Saw it last night, and I have to say it was a pretty well made movie. Lots of intensity in the film. I found it really hard to compare to any other movie. A hate watching self inflicted bodily harm, so I was cringing throughout the movie. When the lights came on at the credits, I looked at all the movie goers and I'd never seen so many people with the WTF look on there faces. I've also never seen Natalie Portman perform at this level. Well directed, well written and great overall cast. I give it 8/10
In the original script the setting was the theater, Aronofsky had them change it to ballet. This movie cost $16 million to make and is well on its way to quadrupling that. Meanwhile the Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Paul Rudd & Jack Nicholson garbage How Do You Know cost $110 million to make. It hasn't even made back enough cash to cover Witherspoon's salary ($15 Mil). F-ck you Hollywood! You're moves are sh_t!!!
I watched this one last night as well. I really enjoyed the acting, but thought that the movie dragged. I had high expectations since I have enjoyed all of Aronofsky's work. Was by no means a bad movie, just underwhelmed me a bit.
It's not a horror film like a Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Friday the 13th. It is somewhat like The Shining, IMO, in that it is more or less a psychological horror film that also has a very ominous and foreboding atmosphere. The Ring is another movie like that. I mean there are some scenes in Black Swan that will make you jump out of your seat. I still find myself thinking about it and it has been 36 hours later since I have seen it. It's a great movie, no doubt about it.
I just wasted 106 minutes of my life. The only good minute of the movie was Mila + Natalie lesbo scene. Portman gave a brilliant performance but the rest of the movie was extremely boring.
this was like "no country for old men" and "there will be blood." all movies that received tremendously positive reviews and movies that i went in to really hoping to love because of said praise, but movies that ultimately underwhelmed me and left me wondering what everyone else was seeing in them. don't get me wrong, it was a well made, well shot, and well acted movie, but the story just really didn't pull me in, which is how i felt about the other two movies. the first half was kind of slow and by the time it finished, i just though "that was it? that was all it was about?" maybe i just had a different idea of what i was hoping for and when that didn't happen, it just seemed "meh" by the end. the sex scene certainly lived up to the billing and then some, can't fault them there. also, did... Spoiler the ending really happen? i thought after she "killed" mila in the dressing room that the movie would end with natalie dead in the dressing room just having imagined the rest of her performance after stabbing herself. did she really give the performance without anyone noticing her midsection covered in blood or did she just imagine it while actually dying in the dressing room?
completely agree, I'll give this film credit for being original and well made, but the payoff just wasn't there Movies where you can't be sure if what you are seeing is real is a tired and annoying gimmick. The entire hospital scene for example, what happened there?
