Disappointment
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twiggy232 — 17 years ago(January 02, 2009 06:15 AM)
haha exactly
dont say its a classic if watched patiently, just say you liked it very much!
thanks for the lecture, but yes i do know what this film is about, and i just so haappened to think it was poor and generally quite boring. Ive seen much better films in this "category" as you like to put it. -
patchofblue65 — 17 years ago(February 21, 2009 03:41 PM)
I think people who are younger in their 20's will find it boring. People today have the attention spans of a cockroach so unless there is something happening every minute they assume there's nothing happening at all. Sometimes silence is something "happening"! Panic In Needle park is not a Masterpiece but it's better than 70% of the stuff today. The 1970's was the last golden age of film.
Other great 70's films:
Straight Time
The Beguiled
Harry and Tonto
Candy Snatchers
Mean Streets
Conversation
Dirty Harry
Little Murders
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Ragsdolly — 16 years ago(January 29, 2010 12:37 AM)
I find the film brilliantly written, acted, filmedmore like a documentary than like fiction. It is very likely that you had to actually live through the early 70's to fully appreciate the nuances of the movie.
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dj_hottie-910-458400 — 15 years ago(December 24, 2010 06:30 PM)
i thought it was brilliant. the first time i saw it, i was 13 and it really got to me. now i'm 15, and it's not as amazing as i once thought it was, but it's still one of my favourite movies and the best i've ever seen.
frankly, i was impressed and it was better than i thought it'd be. it's not lighthearted, it's not vibrant, it's just stark realism at it's best and it shocks you. it's disturbing. it's not meant to please you, it's not meant to amuse you, or even entertain you for that matter, it's a veritie documentary-style movie. it's basically letting you see the truth and the dirty parts of a heroin addict's life. it doesn't glorify anything, it doesn't lie to you, it just tells it like it is.
i mean, the guy asks his girlfriend to whore herself so he can get a hit. she's bored cuz Bobby won't beep her, she shoots up, next thing you know they gotta worry about getting 2 fixes. the junk turns her into a prostitute. Bobby gets Helen a dog, and they're so high and stupid that it runs off the ferry and drowns. Helen rats on Bobby so she can stay outta jail for whoring. what does that tell you about loyalty? it doesn't exist. now, if that doesn't get to you, i dunno what will, and if, by the end of the movie, you're shocked and disgusted, i guess the Schatzberg has done his job.
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DerKaiser — 15 years ago(February 04, 2011 01:17 PM)
The reason why I like this film is that it delivers an unsentimental and realistic take on drug addiction. The characters are not supposed to be likeable. You are not supposed to be able to identify yourself with them. At least not in the state they are in at this point. You can't trust an addict. An addict will always put himself and his needs first, as illustraded for example by the scene with the baby crying as well as the scene with the puppy drowning. I think this film shows this in an excellent way.
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franzkabuki — 15 years ago(February 17, 2011 12:33 PM)
I dont think the protagonists are particularly UNlikeable either.
And I dont see anything wrong with the script as its not meant to be a plot driven drama in the first place. It tells a powerful, realistic story without resorting to silly, over-the-top antics the way Requiem For A Dream does - Aronofskys film comes off as a comedy more than anything else. A very unintentional comedy.
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LaPfieffer92 — 15 years ago(February 20, 2011 04:49 PM)
i gotta agree with the OP, i didnt really like the movie either. it was sopointless. i didnt get it. just a weird creepy movie about drugs and the inevitable consequences it brings to unfortunate victims. what really irked me was that the girl waited for al pacino to get out of jail at the end. why do that? he treated her like crap and she just gets back with him for more drugs and to further crap up there lives. the lack of music was wierd too. just more weird 70's "realism" crap. thats gotta be the worst decade for movies.
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launlori — 15 years ago(February 26, 2011 12:10 AM)
You've lost your mind. I will always think this is one of his all time best performances.
The movie is brilliant. I've seen this film a few times catching it on Sundance .. etc.
Not a mainstream movie. Totally script driven in excess. I'm very into this type of film and I would compare it to other films such as Candy with Abbie Cornish which is a brilliant film as well.
Kelly: I'm under Evelyn Waugh.
Charlotte: Evelyn Waugh was a man.