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.

I loved Black Swan and, tbh, I think it was well aware if its own OTT melodrama, like Suddenly Last Summer or Baby Jane. I remember being on edge the whole time I was watching it, feeling like I only got my breath back when I came out of the cinema!

One film I will never watch again is The Road. And Wolf Creek. And The Pact. V tempted to walk out of cinema with all of them.

Lougle - Yes, I realize that Jeff Bridges' character was right all along and in proven right, lost everything. And why would you say that makes the film "all wrong" and it's ending an "oxymoron"? I really don't get what you are trying to say.

I liked Black Swan. I hate any modern horror movies, so I really didn't think it was that scary or disturbing.
I hated Eden Lake. Awful, awful film.
I can't believe people find the Shining scary! It's an excellent film, a couple of jumpy moments, but not scary IMO. And I'm useless when it comes to scares.

I was about 16 when I first watched it, cote. All the films I'd seen up until that point had a winner and a loser. I just found out disturbing that the 'Wenner' was also the loser. Oxymoron wasn't perhaps the most accurate word to us. More accurately, I felt a sense of cognitive dissonance. I wanted him to be right because he was the good guy and I wanted him to be wrong because if he was right he'd suffer.

Are we on about the same film? It was very dull. Unfortunately I also watched The Kings Speech on the same day and nearly fell into a coma. Both films are shockingly overrated.

I agree that Portman is a fairly ropey actor. Am not sure why she's so well regarded. Obviously she's beautiful, but that's a given with Hollywood actresses.

I was about 16 when I first watched it, cote. All the films I'd seen up until that point had a winner and a loser. I just found out disturbing that the 'Wenner' was also the loser. Oxymoron wasn't perhaps the most accurate word to us. More accurately, I felt a sense of cognitive dissonance. I wanted him to be right because he was the good guy and I wanted him to be wrong because if he was right he'd suffer.

I loved it.
Loved, loved, loved it. Very Jungian, and much better psychodrama than A Dangerous Method.
Hated Vanilla Sky, it really freaked me out.

I thought it was utter rubbish.

I thought it was an incredibly tiresome film, and agree with others that Natalie Portman is not as good as an actress as she thinks she is. She was risible in that dozy film with Scarlett Johansson where she played Anne Boleyn, seemed to speak through her teeth the entire time.

I also don't find The Shining at all scary, it's one of my favourite films and I think it is chilling and with a lot of dark humour.

A good Christopher Nolan film is Insomnia with Al Pacino. I think Inception is a fabulous film and I only wish I had seen it in the cinema and not just on telly.

I started watching it but changed to sonething else because I fiund the acting wooden & the "fake" ballet music annoying.
I may try again one day.

*found, obviously

Watched it with three friends and at one point we all burst out laughing at the same time (yup, the feathers did it)...

Oh yes, The King's Speech, what a yawn fest!

I loved the Friends episode where Joey keeps his copy of The Shining in his freezer so it won't 'get' him-that's me

"Time doesn't "jump around" in Memento. It goes backwards"

Scenes in colour go backwards, scenes in black and white go forwards in sequence.
Absolutely fantastic film

I purchased it on DVD last weekend not sure if I should watch it now.

I was traumatised only really because i saw it at the cinema while sitting between my mum and mil!

It was a huge pile of shite.

Black Swan was absolute tripe.

I thought it was a great film!

Valium- that's me too.

I think it's because I read the book first which really scared the shit out of me.

Yeah,I read it before seeing the film too

I watched Black Swan DVD with a bunch of women friends, we were all really looking forward to it, drinks, nibbles, ice-cream etc. I thought it was crap from the start, but didn't want to spoil it for the others ... then at one point a few of us couldn't stop snorting with laughter. I wanted it to be scary and was very disappointed. Dead Ringers and The Shining are what I call scary.

I thought it looked completely over wrought and pretentious in the trailers alone so I never bothered.

Arlington Road? I actually fell asleep in the cinema half way through that.