Requiem For A Dream?

[tutu1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKJpWfSHEs4

Has anybody seen this film? It is a film about addiction. This doesn't always include drugs, but includes television, money and body disorder. It is a fantastic movie - a real moving one. I love it... and am about to watch it again.. so thought I would share it, and see who else loves it.

[Misawa]

A fantastic picture.

[Neil]

Not seen it but it's one of my girlfriends favourite movies, she's seen it many times.

[Magnetez]

A fantastic picture.

Picture? Did you jump right out of Sunset Boulevard or something? Picture?

[Misawa]

Heh. I use a variety of terms for film.

[Neil]

Picture? Did you jump right out of Sunset Boulevard or something? Picture?

Since a film is a moving picture the term "picture" is fine.

[Shinigami]

i saw this earlier today, at first i wasn't too sure but i can see what a great film it is

[Magnetez]

Since a film is a moving picture the term "picture" is fine.

Fine, I'll refer to my mobile as a cellular electronic device, and my desk as a tree.

It's the pretense that is applied to referring to films as "picture"
I would consider, under your philosophies, a silent film to be the absolute definition of a "moving picture". If Misawa hated the music and sound of Requiem For a Dream, then so be it.

[Misawa]

"Picture" is just short for "motion picture". A lot of people say it, namely people such as Martin Scorcese.

[Magnetez]

Well now Scorsese says it, it's fine!

Humbug. It's just a rather pompous choice of wording and you can't deny that.

[Misawa]

As I said, it's just the second word of "motion picture". It's old fashioned. Many film-makers use it today and it used to be a more popular term for a film than "movie". "Pompous" or not, I and many other film-makers will continue to use it.

[Magnetez]

What are you talking about? You're referring to film-makers as if they are a different kind of people, almost stereotyping them.

I'm a film-maker myself, I don't refer to them as "pictures". Does that mean I'm not a good film-maker? Jesus, man. Your egotistic nature really seeps through doesn't it?

[Misawa]

What are you talking about? You're referring to film-makers as if they are a different kind of people, almost stereotyping them.

I'm a film-maker myself, I don't refer to them as "pictures". Does that mean I'm not a good film-maker? Jesus, man. Your egotistic nature really seeps through doesn't it?

Not at all, but your posts question the validity of saying "picture", therefore I am defending the word by using film-makers as an example, as we are the ones who use the term more than most.

[Magnetez]

Well I guess I stand out amongst the crowd then, don't I? :D

[Misawa]

Anyway, the last time I checked this was a thread about Requiem for a Dream.

[Magnetez]

It's in my top list, but I haven't watched it in a long time. I just know I'll find it preachy and annoying if I was to re-watch it. Still, Ellen Burstyn's performance was top notch.

What are your favourite performances in film? Any film...

[Arch]

Seen parts of, was alright :P

[Misawa]

Roy Scheider's in Jaws, Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption off the top of my head.

[Magnetez]

No Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? or Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver?

[Misawa]

Nope. Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter, Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast, James Stewart in Vertigo. I rate De Niro higher in Raging Bull than Taxi Driver.

[Shockwave.2CC]

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