Requiem for a Dream (2000)

I actually enjoyed this, even though I find his movies a bit overwrought.

Did Julia Roberts deserve to win the Oscar over Ellen Burstyn?

What did Julia win for: "Always A Bridesmaid"?

I always have to chuckle when their eyes dilate when they're shooting up heroin. Or when they fuck like rabbit on it because this is what heroin does to you. NOT. I have much more respect for the narrative arc of the older woman, the depiction of stimulant-induced psychosis which on the other hand feels very real and always makes me depressed because it hits close to home.

R3 Erin Brockovich

Ass to ass!

Thanks R6 for linking a two year old thread with 16 posts in it.

Closed thread.

OP is killing DL.

You'll love it, OP -- if you don't kill yourself first.

And if that Jennifer Connelly flick doesn't make you suicidal, watch House of Sand and Fog.

Then we'll see how tough you are.

R7 beat me to it

Ellen Burstyn's character is heartbreaking.

I worked at the Virgin Megastore in Hollywood when this came out.

After every showing, people would stream into the store, with a dazed look on their face. On no less than five occasions , one of these people would come to the register, and they would say to me some version of, “Have you seen that movie, Requiem For a Dream? WHOA!”

Considering the people who came into that store were mostly jaded industry people, I thought that was telling.

The book is fantastic.

I never saw it.

I remember when it came out, back when Blockbuster rental stores were still around. I was with a friend's friend and I pointed this out. He was almost angry "I've already seen it!" Like it was some terror he wished never to return to. I ended up never watching it myself.

It makes you hollow

Ellen Burstyn should have won the Oscar for this. There's one scene where she plays two versions of her character. Her original character, torn down and disheveled, is mocked by her alternate self, looking glamourous with make-up, an expensive hairstyle and a nice dress.

Agreed r18. Laura Linney also turned in an amazing performance that year in You Can Count On Me, and both were beaten by that homewrecking big toothed bitch Julia Roberts, who was playing Vivian Ward in a law office in Erin Brockovich.

Good movie - not as dramatically depressing as some believe. Like Melancholia, it just lives with the depression throughout the movie. Sadness breaking out into grief occasionally. Very un-American I guess - not enough optimism.

Burstyn is champagne. She’s EXQUISITE in Requiem. The performance of her career..

Roberts did not deserve to win that Oscar. She’s a dreadful actress.

Burstyn shoulda gone Supporting

R22, I completely agree. Burstyn is always bringing up how she would like to win again and this would have been her chance to be at the ceremony and accept the award in person.

I know that it would’ve been category fraud and I know that she’s old school, but she’s a supporting nominee too. I don’t think it would’ve been so tragic. She was worthy.

It reminds me of when Rosalind Russell probably would have won if she had gone supporting for Picnic, but she did not want to win if she couldn’t win as a leading lady.

The book is good but unsurprisingly, it’s disturbing.

The account of to how Jennifer Connelly’s characters lip smell after her heroin bang is rough.

For those interested and have the time below is an interview with Ellen Burstyn interviewing Shelby about life and the book.

R21 = Herbert Ross

[quote] The book is fantastic.

R15 Selby also wrote Last Exit to Brooklyn which was made into a movie with Jennifer Jason Leigh. His books are compelling.

Juice by Sara, juice by Sara, ohhhhhh Sara!

Last Exit to Brooklyn is very disturbing. And it stays with you.

Love the Congo on set scene

One of those movies that I saw and appreciated..but would never watch again. See also: Schindler’s List.

Same, R31.

I was profoundly disturbed for a few weeks after watching it. I was much younger, then, so perhaps it wouldn’t really disturb me now.

Either way, I’m not sitting through that film ever again. It was very well done, & a good film, but just too heartbreaking for me.

And yes, EB should have won that year. I let out a tiny scream the moment JR was announced as the Best Actress. I don’t dislike JR, but EB’s performance was and remains Oscar worthy.

It’s one of the most depressing movies.

I was taken on a first date to see this. It's a very well made film. The cast, especially E.B., do a great job.

The film is a "one and done" for me too. So was the date.

A heartwarming, uplifting charmer… the way movies USED to be!

Most feelgood movie along with Sophie's Choice, Schindler's List, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Florida Project and 1984.

It was such a wrenchingly self-serious movie. I found Ellen Burstyn’s performance to border on camp.

The movie was originally to have the Beethoven dog as the mom’s companion, and them getting into some subplot hijinks on the beach. But those scenes were cut.

R38 voiced by Hollywood legend and DL Fav Debette Goldry no less!

Two thumbs up… WAY up!

All this chitchatting but it doesn't take away from the fact we're in peril. Americans live held hostage by the 2nd Amendment supporters and we can't do anything about it because they have the guns!

We can't take away their guns. So they're going to keep shooting us randomly and we're going to have to live in this shit hole on edge, sensitive, ready to rage at anyone who looks at us the wrong way.

Because greed! Sam Colt and dick measuring contests! Fuck!

Everything always ends in the old double dildo.