Watched butterfly effect and that is a really depressing film. Not that it was bad, i thought it was good but it just kept getting more and more depressing
quote:Originally posted by wiseblood: Prat. Nobody said ALL drugs,nobody said ALL mental illnesses were caused by drug abuse,nor that prescribed drugs were wrong. Cant you read??? You aint even worth arguing with you are so obviously pro-drugs. Sad..
carmel- didn't you say above "Drugs are shitty, don't tkae [sic] any..."- sounds to me like you're lumping all drugs together, if not, please be specific. "...you will get mental illness in the long-run"- any evidence for that? So after taking "Drugs...[non-specific]...you will get mental illness"? That's what you're saying! See, I can read! (my first-class degree in English kinda proves that- I managed to pass, despite having take drugs from time to time in the years before!!!).
I hardly ever take drugs- a weekend in August I had a smoke. Then a year or so before that- so I'm hardly "pro-drugs" sitting sucking on a crack-pipe. I just think your stance is a bit simplistic and hysterical. Many people who hold down jobs & create consume these illegal drugs- while people with ailments gain relief from a drug like cannabis. Why physical-pain is less important than mental illness is beyond me...
Are you not even worth arguing with as you're so obviously anti-drugs? Closed minds are depressing...
drugs are a crutch for weak-willed people.[/QUOTE]
- ANYTHING can be a crutch for weak-willed people: religion, food, cigarettes,heck, even posting on the net! Get a grip- plus you're leaving out the Herculean-feats people who take drugs go through! Don't give the impression that drugs suck, as that was one of the things wrong with Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign- people thought they'd die...and then they didn't. Don't see why 'drugs' are so easily targeted- back to the topic, a depressing film I've seen is Persona by Ingmar Bergman...
"See you on doomsday!"- Sadegh Hedayat's suicide note
quote:Originally posted by ClairH: Watched butterfly effect and that is a really depressing film. Not that it was bad, i thought it was good but it just kept getting more and more depressing
i watched that the other week, and i totally agree was a good film but after wards you do feel pretty depressed!
I went looking for an experience. Something that would take me to the limits of my own existence and remind me that even in the darkest corner of my own life, there was hope. I was reminded, instead that along with the triumph there must also be sacrifice. A part of me died in that theater, but I walked out feeling renewed, refreshed...and a little cursed.
I think Paul Edgecomb feels the same way.
Tom Hanks has to be the epitome of a Hollywood living legend...and the guy's only in his 40s. He went from scraping his way through sophomoric slap like The 'Burbs, Turner & Hooch, and Bachelor Party to rise up in the 90s as our towering "everyman." Anyone who marvels in his "simple guy in complicated circumstances" roles such as Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan knows that he can deliver the goods...and an Oscar nomination (or win...or two...in a
ROW!!!) But Tom does something very interesting in The Green Mile. He lays back.
The breakout performance in this film goes to Michael Clark Duncan (right now tied with Sixth Sense's Haley Joel Osment for my Best Supporting Actor vote). Crippled by his size, Mr. Duncan has a limit of the roles he can play. However, given the role of a child-like behemoth with Christ-like powers of healing, Duncan brings to the screen a performance that will transcend the Denzels and the Poitiers of the world.
The Green Mile is Cell Block E in a Louisiana State Prison, death row. Paul Edgecomb run this wing with compassion, a startlingly different approach considering the legendary cruelty of southern prisons. He is surrounded by men in him employ who all share his philosophy that these men ultimately await the most devastating punishment. Why make their stay any more troubling.
All save one: Percy Wetmore (Doug Hutchinson), relative of the Governor and always ready to remind anyone who disagrees his HIS methods just who got him his job. Percy hates everything about The Green Mile; the prisoners, other guards, even a tiny, brave mouse who befriends one of the inmates (Michael Jeter). It isn't until another new inmate is processed, a man they call "Wild Bill", that Percy will meet his equal.
So where is the common thread? What is a messianic character doing on death row? What role will Tom Hanks play in his redemption? And what's this "curse" thing I brought up in the beginning of this review?
If I could tell you, you wouldn't slap the money down on the box office and find it for yourself. Let me just tell you that the final blessings bestowed by John Coffey (Duncan) could make optimists and pessimists alike find a common ground. How you perceive the final moments will be up to how you impart on yourself...and the world.
If John Coffey guilty of his crime? Are the fates of the characters in this film deserved? Half and half. Evil is punished, bu t goodness must bare witness...and that has a price as well. Will Tom Hanks win another Academy Award? He shouldn't. Is this a good film? No. It's an incredible film.
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quote:Originally posted by johnny99: I go along with Wise. Alcohol is a far more dangerous and addictive drug than cannabis and it's legal. And the whole issue of prohibition clearly doesnt and never has worked hence the massive drug problem in this country engineered by a so-called anti-drug state which instead of solving the problem exacerbates it by creating the conditions for a criminal underworld to exploit the drugs black market and produce drugs of variable quality,which in some cases, can be lethal.
utter claptrap,drugs are far more dangerous! get a brain you moron..
Alcohol is responsible for far more deaths each year than any illegal drug
A retired couple receive a "Protect and Survive" leaflet, follow all the instructions with utterly sweet naievety, then the bomb goes off and they slowly die of radiation poisoning.
They showed this to us at school, which I consider to be a form of child abuse, frankly.
quote:Originally posted by Psychonaut: They showed this to us at school, which I consider to be a form of child abuse, frankly. .
(My emphasis)
That's a bit of a harsh statement, isn't it? I read the Raymond Briggs book and watched the film when I was around 10 years old and certainly don't consider myself a victim of child abuse. Apologies if your statement is just a bit of playful hyperbole, but it's pretty ambiguous as to whether your joking or not...(the graemlin icons tend to clarify - yeah, sometimes I need you to draw a picture for me! )
quote:Originally posted by James Creamer: That's a bit of a harsh statement, isn't it? I read the Raymond Briggs book and watched the film when I was around 10 years old and certainly don't consider myself a victim of child abuse. Apologies if your statement is just a bit of playful hyperbole, but it's pretty ambiguous as to whether your joking or not...(the graemlin icons tend to clarify - yeah, sometimes I need you to draw a picture for me! )
It was just a joke, James.
I tend not to use emoticons. They undermine my deadpan humour
quote:Originally posted by JungleCat1: try telling that to the HIV positive junkies (needle-sharing) and the people dying through drugs,collapsed veins,wrecked systems,heads ****ed up,stealing & jailed all through heroin addiction. Its rife in edinburgh and i suspect in other cities throughout Britain & the World.
I'm not sure what you're point is. Alcohol is responsible for more deaths than all illegal drugs combined. That is a fact.
It would probably be rather tactless to say this to an HIV+ needle sharer, but that does not make it untrue.
All the foregoing are positively uplifting compared to 'The Reflecting Skin' (can't remember the details, check on IMDb if you've really o.d.'d on weapons-grade Prozac). Lindsay Duncan starred; that might have been enough...
quote:Originally posted by Fear: Schindler's List Saving Private Ryan Donnie Darko MAGNOLIA The Crow One Flew Over... Powder Born on the 4th of July Platoon The People Vs Larry Flynt The Deerhunter A.I. The Elephant Man - makes me boo my eyes out Last of the Mohicans
and lots of others can't remember
platoon? I loved that film, I watched it in school last month and thought it was fantastic.
Originally posted by WishIwasSam: The Green Mile, i cried so much at that. And its pretty gross when you see that guy getting fried cos Henry didn't wet the sponge. Ass.
utter claptrap,drugs are far more dangerous!
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