Requiem For A Dream?

[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?

[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

[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.