Saw this movie once and it was just so rediculously depressing and F'd up it almost seemed unreal. I have no desire to ever watch this turd again.

Since I saw it in a theater I didn't walk out but I thought about it. If I'd been watching at home I would have shut it off. I didn't like it at all.

I loved it a lot when I was younger, but upon watching it again I've noticed some things that I used to love (the editing being the big thing) I started to find really annoying and manipulative. I think a film should be led by the acting, not the editing. Could have been so much more subdued and allowed the scene's more time to breathe. I dunno, it's still good and I recommend everyone see it, but it's just not the masterpiece I once thought it was.

I second Morpheus.

Here's some good responses from a thread earlier this month:

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=468824

I agree. The editing can get a little overly kinetic at times. While the performances are great (especially from Wayans and Burstyn) and the subject matter is engaging, it is overwhelmingly draining to watch the film.

I'll mention the music; I love the soundtrack-Lux Arnerta is beautiful.

"Ass to ass!"

Loved it!

I still say that they should show this movie to every kid in junior high and high school instead of doing the stupid "D.A.R.E." or "Just say no" shit that they do. If this movie doesn't scare you from doing drugs, then I don't know what would.

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I don't see how they are similar other than the fact that they were both huge indie-film hits that were released around the same time period. (I happen to like Memento a whole lot more and it's in my top-10 list)

Yeah, I don't see any similarities between this and Memento.

Other than the fact both are good movies (though I prefer Requiem... but that's another story.) I do recall really enjoying movies around that time though (Crouching Tiger, Black Hawk Down, Memento, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Requiem for a Dream).

I agree with CK
It's good but time hasn't been good to it. It takes huge poetic license to get the point across...
Reefer Madness of the 00's I read somewhere... not so far off

I believe he's talking about how in both movies people are smoking ciggarettes.

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Yeah I've rarely seen a film that deals with the consequence of human behavior.

Comparing this film to a turd does great injustice to shit.

Well, folks, I finally saw it...and...
Wow. What a drag. What a drag that I spent $3.99 + tax to blind buy it (Best Buy had it on sale last week). The "cool cinematography" sucked. The plot was fair, but it's execution was just ... bad. Completely unrealistic. Were Jennifer Connelly a true addict, she'd have been doing those things (giving head, etc) for dope LOOOOONG before the point in her character's life in the movie. I know, I've been in/around the music biz for almost 30 years, and hell, I've had women on my living room floor or bathroom shower stall doing more than her ("Ass to ass!") for much less, LOL. I want my 102 minutes back!
Finally, the characters could garner no sympathy from me or my wife, who suffered through this "film" also.

Very dark and intense film.
I think they should show this movie to young kids to curb their curiosity for drugs.

Not likely.

How young could you show kids "ass to ass"?

Funny you should mention those films as they are two of my very favorites from the last decade or so while Requiem is probably the movie I hate the most in that period.