LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Freaktana A Major Disappointment

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

jadavix I never felt particularly engaged with "Spun", for some reason. I guess it's a typical cult movie: either you love it or you hate it. The rapid-fire, kinetic editing, aggressively bad, retro-style and generically crazy behaviour of the characters just grew tiresome after a while. The movie feels like "Gummo" made by a music video director. It's superficially "shocking" and "in your face", but there's nothing in the movie to really make you think. So that's what the experience of watching the movie becomes: like a long music video, ie. something which isn't supposed to be really engaged with or deconstructed... but at feature film length, it becomes exhausting. It never really held my attention for long.It's also impossible to take it seriously as a portrayal of something as real as meth addiction.

Dave from Ottawa Jason Schwartzman plays an ordinary guy floating on the margins of the Crank Head culture, crossing paths with dealers, strippers, TV reality show cops (led by a mullet-sporting Peter Stormare), and other assorted fringe dwellers, all of them desperate, crazed and wrong in their own unique fashion. Jason drives for a wrestling addicted drug chemist (Mickey Rourke in a shambling, grunting, full bodied performance that pre-saged his work in the Wrestler) who is admired for his rough cowboy demeanor but who reveals himself over time to be a selfish exploiter. In between trips to convenient stores to buy drug making supplies, Jason slides in and out of an occasionally cartoonish (literally so, animation and all) twisted reality as he engages in the sort of drug seeking behavior that is the daily and even hourly existence of the drug user. This is not a serious look at drug use and its consequences, however, but rather a trippy slice-of-lowlife wander through the motels, strip bars, trailer parks and porn shops where the bottom feeders of the drug world live. One detail of their lives which is not overlooked by the camera is that 'tweakers' are so caught up the chase for their next high that they have perpetual ADHD, living lives of neglect surrounded by the debris of half-finished jobs and empty pizza boxes. Yuck. Look fast for rock heavyweights Debbie Harry (Blondie) as Jason's neighbor and Rob Halford (Judas Priest) as a porn shop manager. Amusing and memorable as a movie, but pay attention to the language advisory. The script is as foul-mouthed as anything since the Sopranos went off the air.

pizzaman2001 All in all a fairly decent drug movie. Very very similar in some ways in how it was filmed to Requiem for a dream. But the plot was not as well thought out as Requium. One thing that bothered me about this movie though (being a recovering addict to many different substances) is the lack of realism of the characters eyes when they got high. Their pupils got constricted (pinpoint) when they got high on the crank when they should have gotten dilated. Opiates make your pupils constricted and uppers such as Coke and Meth make your pupils dilate. Other than that inaccurate portrayal of a side effect of drug use it was a decent way to kill an hour and a half. Just don't expect to learn anything and take it as it is.

rood1974 I would really like to enjoy this movie, but I can't. Someone wrote that it takes us into the lives of junkies, but it really takes you into their comic-book, cardboard cut-outs versions. The plot is OK, but, unfortunately, the characters are flat and somehow badly acted. You can clearly see what this flick wants to be and portray, but it only delivers a one-dimensional, "drawn" schematics of the destination point. Comedy part is too predictable and, yet again, flat and you cannot shake the impression that you are just reading an abstract. And Mr Roberts is as fake as my last girlfriend's boobs. Same goes for the girls. They are just not believable at all.