Spun | | Cast : | Jason Schwartzman, Mickey Rourke, Brittany Murphy, John Leguizamo, Patrick Fugit, Mena Suvari | | Director : | Jonas Ã…kerlund | | Studio : | Columbia Tri-Star | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | January 01, 2002 | | DVD Released Date : | July 22, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | Unrated | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 20, 2005 | | Summary | Drug Abuse | Content
 | Insanity has never been such a fun theme in movies. I can't stop enjoying this movie. Drugs are an over used theme in movies these days and it is refreshing to see it done so well.
I don't ever really know what I am talking about but I love this movie.
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| Rating | | | Date | July 16, 2005 | | Summary | Let's staighten the record... | Content
| First of all, wannabe critics, the movie Spun has nothing to do with Los Angeles or California. In fact, it is never mentioned in the movie where the story takes place. However, if you had done any research before you wrote your review, you would know that Will De Los Santos wrote the story about experiences from his matriculation at the University of Oregon. During the movie there are at least 2 references to this fact: 1) Jason Swartzman wears an U of O letterman's jacket (suitably w/o the varsity letter) as his costume 2) The strip club "Jiggles," a wholesome Oregon mini-chain for "Harmless visual stimuli", mentioned twice in the film, used to be right on W. 11th behind the Pak 'n' Save. Withholding that the Eugene/Springfield area produces more meth-amphetamine than PA,NY, and NJ combined, only if you were out crack-shopping or soliciting hookers would you recognize Circus Liquors as being part of N. hollywood and think this an LA tale.
Now, as for the movie... when you think of it as a little Eugene addict's diary on film its kinda cute, and would have been entertaining if De Los Santos had made the movie himself (he tried and failed in Morocco). With MTV's Ackerman directing, the project turned into a quirky music video with the kind of tongue-in-cheek displayed in "Smack My Bitch Up", sheltering the audience from the truly sordid lifestyle of the addict. This is a portrait of a young man's life unravelling, and shouldn't be as forgiving or comic as it is. This depiction robs its veiwers of the very real situations that drown addicts in a nightmare collapse of tenuously placed dominos that is the structure of their lives. The past, the present and future collide vacuously in an addicts mind, their lives and relationships futilely become based on nothing but the drug. Watching this movie will make you laugh at drug addicts, and will never give you real insight into what being an out-of-control, scattered, drug-addled tweaker really is! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 09, 2005 | | Summary | wow! | Content
| this movie was so messed up from beginning to end. i didn't know what to expect after the opening scene. it's hard to describe the type of dysfunction this movie portrays, but if you have ever seen a crackhead in action arguing with another crackhead, then you might know what to expect. my friend told me about this one and i recommend it to anyone with a sick sense of humor or anyone who needs a wake up call from doing a drug binge for too long.
i would have to say that the best scene in this movie is the end which i won't give avay, the one with mickey rourke, but the other scene i liked alot is where this kid locked and tied down his 'girlfriend' in his room for 3 days with a cd that keeps skipping loud as hell. i'm not sure if it lands on the really disturbing or really funny side, but it is entertaining. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 07, 2005 | | Summary | MICKEY ROURKE!!!!! | Content
| This movie has Mickey Rourke in it. It's automatically a great film, and if you disagree...well, you're wrong, because hey, it's got MICKEY ROURKE (!!!!!) in it!
In case you don't spell English very well, here's a translation:
MICKEY - "Very"
ROURKE - "Friggin' great!"
That means any movie with Mickey Rourke is "very friggin' great!"
So you must be crazy not to like a really friggin' great movie! Get over it already!
(P.S. Can someone bail me out of jail? Thanks.) |
| Rating | | | Date | June 15, 2005 | | Summary | The world of meth addicts is highly intoxitcating. | Content
| This is a film that centers around 5 meth addicts. Ross(Jason Shwartzman), Nikki(Brittny Murphy), Cookie(Mena Suvari), Spider Mike(John Legizimo), and Frisbee(Patrick Fugit). It centers mainly around Ross and Nikki and The Cook(Mikey Rouke) in which The Cook has Ross do jobs for him and he drives him around town in exchange for Meth. Ross has been up on Meth for days and days. Then, all somehow everybody's whole lives go spinning down the drain, as one by one of them have some key event that signals the beginning of the end for them.
This film wears its influences on its sleeves. I was noticing hints of Lost Highway(The long road with only headlights to light it up), The animation sequences from Natural Born Killers, and the downfall of all the characters lives and the ending from Requiem For A Dream. Some people have written reviews saying that this movie is a Requiem For A Dream rip-off. When in retrospect, that is only part of the plot. The film has a highly original way of telling the story, and Jonas Ã…kerlund provides his music video experience, which sucessfully gels with the pace, tone, and feel of the movie. The movie was fast paced, head-spinning, weird, quirky, and random. The cast was maginificant, Jason Schwartzman was great as Ross, he really got the part down, and did a solid performance. Brittany Murphy as Nikki was solid, too. Although, I don't like some of the movies that she was in. She really took this part and made it shine. John Lezigumo's performance was outstanding in the short amount of time that he had on screen. Same thing goes to Mena Suvari. Patrick Fugit was disapponting, mainly because nothing really big happend to his character towards the end. Mickey Rourke as The Cook was brillant, because The Cook was cool, and Mickey Rourke is cool.
This film was a great one. It is a masterpiece of the drug cinema, and can solidly put itself among some of the best movies.
I liked it and had a great plesure watching this enjoyable film. |
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