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.

Arlington Road is just wrong. Compellingly wrong, but wrong all the same. I watched it years ago and was really disturbed by it, but when it came on tv last week I just had to watch it. The ending is a complete oxymoron.

I didn't read the reviews of black swan and the description on lovefilm was a young ballerina being pushed to her brink by a demanding director while another ballerina wants to steal her role. I was thinking dancing, angst and hissy tantrums.

Did anyone watch The Island? That concept was quite awful.

Minority report was another one. My eyes.

What do you mean when you say AR is "wrong"? What is it wrong about?

Also can't imagine what you mean by "it's ending is a complete oxymoron". Oxymoron is a figure of speech with contradictory terms, like "a smart idiot". Do you mean to say that the ending of AR was contradictory?

its ending, rather.

Yabu, it was shit

Momento is a good thriller, if you can stand to watch a movie that jumps around in time the whole movie.

Total shit. The dialogue was worse than daytime tv drama. It's like someone handily referenced a book of cliches every 20 lines or so when writing the script.

Cote-looking forward to seeing that

Widget-exactly

The whole film seemed very 'dated' as well-and not in a good way!

Time doesn't "jump around" in Memento. It goes backwards. It's genius, IMHO, and allows the audience to share the confusion of Guy Pearce - he doesn't know what just happened, how he got there, and who is chasing him. And neither do we

Which film, valium?

And who is Widget? [not fully awake yet]

Black swan seemed very dated imo Cote

Dated, how? Was it the Ecstacy?

Ha ha,I meant WODGER

I'm posting from my phone and not awake either

Cote, yes. main char is right all along, so he 'wins' but in being proven right he loses everything.

I haven't seen it but agree with flipchart!

Natalie Portman is terrible in everything even the Chanel adverts.

She was great in Leon the Professional but she should have stopped then.

Dopey-she is! But she's very pretty

I rarely get freaked out by a film but Arlington Road did the job; it stayed with me for a long time and I'll never be able to watch it again!

I can't remember Arlington road being anything other than an enjoyable film, and that was mainly because Jeff Bridges was in it-what freaked you out?

I watched Persuasion after Black Swan because it did disturb me.

I am not a massive fan of this genre though but I do have an interest in all things mental health related.

I love it, though it was disturbing. However I was more shocked that it was only rated a 15

Having read flipchart's list of brilliant films and her review of Black Swan I can happily say...

I won't bother watching it

Thanks flipchart

Having said that if we're talking psychological thrillers with a mental health theme I liked Shutter Island - is it anything like that?

It is a horrible horrible film both in quality and in that scene with Winona Ryder slashing at her face that stayed with me for ages

Oooh I didn't know Black Swan was psychological thriller. Shall add that and Arlington rd to my list to see.

Anyone seen Eden Lake? Made me so and !!!
I made DP and my friend watch it and they were cross and ranting for days!!

I've not seen Eden Lake but I've heard it's pretty shocking.