To feel quite traumatised after watching Black Swan?

[lougle]

I don't use the word lightly, either. I don't do well with psychological thriller type movies and that sort of thing.

I thought I was going to be watching dancing with a power struggle. Not blood, hallucinations and the rest.

[cumfy]

Marmite anyone ?

[KalevalaForMePlease]

Yep, I thought it was crap too, so completely up it's own arse.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

I thought it was a great film but one scene stayed with me for days afterwards. Really really bothered me.

For those who have watched it - when Natalie Portmans character is being announced as doing x role and then locks herself in the bathroom. The bit between her going in and Mila Kunis' character knocking on the door.

shudder

[TotesAmazeGoats]

Another that watched it on a plane, so I'm guessing it was heavily sensitised as I didn't find it too disturbing. And the lesbian scene was just a kiss (that's when I realised it must be watered down). Still loved it but would like to see it again.

It's all the 'woo' doors banging and night vision films that freak me out. You won't get me anywhere near Paranormal Activity!

[lottieandmia]

It's a great film. As someone with previous mental health problems some bits of it really made sense to me. It is very intense and quite exhausting to watch though.

[valiumredhead]

Oh God,I was so looking forward to seeing out and I found out as dull a ditch water.

The Shining, now that's a scary film!

[valiumredhead]

It not out

[flipchart]

Film I have watched recently and loved (some are old ones that our local cinema has put on)
Kid with a bike,
Animal Kingdom,
Spike Island,
Argo, Drive.
Intouchables.
Martha Marcy May Marlene,
Harold and Maude,
Killer Joe,
Lars and the Real Girl,
Jar City,
Don Juan de Marco,
Control, Harry Brown,
Even the Rain.
Volver
Barton Fink ( I like the Coen Brothers)
Searching for Sugar Man
Amores Perros
Blindness
The Motorcycle Diaries.

There's loads more that I have loved.

I quite enjoyed Behind the Candleabra, Made of Stone, Spike Island.
I didn't enjoy 'I'm so excited' I was really looking forward to seeing that

HTH

[flipchart]

Sorry my last post was to Alconleigh.
Sorry I gave examples of films that I found good.
What I class as a good film is one that doesn't go out to be a Blockbuster which tend to try to be people pleasers.
I like a story that makes sense.
Depending on the genre on that can keep me gripped and guessing or genuinely have me laughing/

[CoteDAzur]

wiggle - My mistake - Black Swan was nominated for Best Film & Best Director Oscars, but won Best Actress.

[valiumredhead]

I LOVE Harold and Maude

[valiumredhead]

Flip chart-wrt her growing feathers,I said 'oh ffs!' Had I been with a mate I can imagine hysterically laughing at that point in the film

[aldiwhore]

It's a goodish film.

YABU. Read the write ups, even the crappest will give you an idea it's a psycho-thriller.

I was expecting an actual horror and was massively disappointed. I suspect if I was expecting a psychological thriller it would have least been a little interesting. The premise was good, but it dragged on. Thought it was clever and then failed.

I still liked it.

Avoid Bambi at all costs.

[anonacfr]

I thought it was rubbish. Dull pretentious pseudo psychological 'drama'. The whole sex/masturbation thing was so heavy handed and tedious.

Beside am I the only one who thought Natalie Portman overacted the whole thing ridiculously?
And as for the dancing I thought it was v distracting- it was so very obviously not her dancing- it went from close ups of Portman flapping her arms about to v far away obvious stand in doing more technical dancing.

I rate it as my new Forrest Gump- film that critics raved about that I thought was shite.

[PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline]

Do we know which bits did or didn't happen?

I presume she didn't sprout feathers but did any of it really happen?

[valiumredhead]

Anon-nope, you aren't the only one

[CoteDAzur]

As for similarly weird and brilliant films that I have known and loved:

Pi (directed again by Darren Aronofsky, iirc)
Requiem For A Dream (another Aronofsky film)
Memento (Christopher Nolan)
Inception (again, Christopher Nolan)
eXistenZ (David Cronenberg)
Dead Ringers (D Cronenberg) >> closest to Black Swan in this list, imho)
Naked Lunch (again, D Cronenberg)

That's my list, off the top of my head. If anyone would like to add to it, I'd love to hear more films like these

[PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline]

I loved Inception. Again I'm not sure if I understood it!

[flipchart]

anon no you weren't the only one that she overacted.
I thought she was going to need a brown paper bag to breath in at one point she was gasping that much!

[valiumredhead]

Not seen Dead Ringers for years but remember loving it at the time.

[PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline]

I also enjoyed Identity.

I've not seen it for years.

[CoteDAzur]

I didn't think she over-acted.

That would be Keira Knightley in A Dangerous Method.

[CoteDAzur]

Valium - There is a new documentary about Kubrick's film The Shining called "Room 237". It is produced by two friends of mine in the US

[SupermansBigRedPants]

Inception is bloody awesome I've seen it ten times at least it's so so gripping it's not often I 'get' films like that so I'm happy I did shutter island otoh over an hour i watched it and it didn't click at all. I wiki'd it in the end.

[wigglesrock]

CoteDAzur we watched Room 237 the other week, it was very good, my husband loved it.