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 | August 17, 2005 | | Summary | One of the best drug films ever made. | Content
 | From start to finish, this film shows what real drug life is about. Even the scenarios in it prove just how a druggie thinks. (And the decisions one can make while on Meth.) Jason Schwartzman and Mickey Rourke's performances were dead on.
This movie has humor, drama, and disturbing scenes all rolled into one. (Depending upon how open-minded you are.) There was alot of controversy about this film with comparing it to Requiem for a Dream. But personally, I've never thought the two were THAT much alike. Requiem was much more deeper and darker. While as Spun showed the 'fun' side of life as well.
If you're into drug cinema films, I'd highly recommend this one.
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| 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.) |
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