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HypnoticFreddy
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I highly recommend Darren Arronsfkys movie "Pi" It was released in 1997 I believe.
To the best of my knowledge, this is the only movie where the lead character appears to be sufferring continulously throughout the movie with CHs. The effects and the sequences when he is having attacks are all so powerful, and yet so familar.
If anything, watch it with a friend or relative who does not understand the agony of CHs. When you see what is going on to this guy during the movie? That is what it feels and looks like. Amazing. The movie is dead-on.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #1 on: May 1st, 2004, 8:35pm » |
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After reading your post I found and read a couple of reviews. Sounds to me like you're right.
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« Reply #2 on: May 1st, 2004, 8:39pm » |
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I heard that about 3.14% of peaple didn't like it.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #3 on: May 1st, 2004, 8:47pm » |
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Those people that didn't like it are probably the ones that prefer a sweet fruit based desert wrapped in dough.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #5 on: May 1st, 2004, 10:20pm » |
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'Pi' is great. Picked it up in a two pack with 'Requim for a Dream'... also a top-notch flick. Same writer.
Requim is one movie that makes you say 'Hmmmmm.' Show it to your kids... they will never touch heroin. I have some loose acquaintances once-removed who are in-rehab-on-even-months/out-of-rehab-on-odd-months heroin addicts... it is them in Requim to a tee.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #6 on: May 2nd, 2004, 12:12am » |
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This movie has been mentioned in the past. Just don't watch it in cycle, while your getting hit, while your on shrooms. You just don't appreciate it as well.
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HypnoticFreddy
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Hey Rock,
Do any of those relatives' arms get so infected from the needles that they have been amputated?
Yes Requiem For A Dream, another Arronsfky flick is powerful and true to its writer (Hubert Selby Jrs) premise.
Addiction.In all forms. Addiciton to food, to tv, to dope, to sex, to chocolate, even to hope.
Just plain addiction. Very powerful, but both movies are not for the weak of heart.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #8 on: May 2nd, 2004, 6:43am » |
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Whoaooo ...
Hubert Selby died last Monday. His Last Exit to Brooklyn was a major book of the late 60s, at least for me anyway. His writing Requiem For A Dream has to make it a fine film.
I learn a lot more than just stuff about CHs here on these boards.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #9 on: May 2nd, 2004, 9:25am » |
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I watched it on DVD and listened to the commentary tracks by the director and the actor and they got the headache details by studying and watching a friend of their's that got daily 'migraines'. I was guessing she was misdiagnosed.
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Oh no Hubert Selby Jr died!?!? Crap!
Yes, I read Last Exit to Brooklyn, which is supposed to be his piece of work.
Damn. He was an older guy though.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #11 on: May 2nd, 2004, 2:58pm » |
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I've never seen the flick PI.......was supposed to be on statillite some time ago mentiond on here but it wasn't apparently the same schedule on ours cuz I never found it. Do they sell it at video stores like Best Buy or is it sumthin ya need ta order. Would like to get a copy on DVD. Info seeker Pam
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Re: Pi
« Reply #12 on: May 2nd, 2004, 3:45pm » |
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I ordered it from Amazon.com yesterday and it was shipped today.
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HypnoticFreddy
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Yeah definitely order it online or rent them both at Blockbuster on DVD. If you can get the DVDs, buy them. They have extra features, and directors commentaries. They are both spectacular. The special effects used in both films are unlike special effects seen in films like The Matrix or many other high budget Hollywood films. In these movies, the effects are more "realistic", yet use high-tech movie-making instruments, etc. Very cool.
Enjoy the films. Do not watch it in front of your 8 yr old, and don't expect to have that "feel-good" kind of effect after viewing the movie(s).
-Scott
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Re: Pi
« Reply #14 on: May 2nd, 2004, 6:59pm » |
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NOT to change the subject.....sorry........anyone see that dumb ass movie 'Reefer Madness'........oh the horror of it all. Good grief........totally unrealistic as hell ! Too funny.....stupid rediculous funny ! Been there seen that but never had that reaction Pam
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Re: Pi
« Reply #15 on: May 2nd, 2004, 8:14pm » |
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Quote:| NOT to change the subject.....sorry........anyone see that dumb ass movie 'Reefer Madness'........oh the horror of it all. Good grief........totally unrealistic as hell ! Too funny.....stupid rediculous funny ! Been there seen that but never had that reaction Pam |
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LOL! I mentioned this movie under a fake name on the movie poll we had a while back. It is sooooo bad it is a must see movie, I had tears in my eyes I laughed so hard even though it was supposed to be serious!
Still looking for PI to come out on TV, probably won't come to video around these parts.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #16 on: May 2nd, 2004, 10:58pm » |
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I actually bought that movie (Reefer Madness) a long time ago from a video store......funny how it starts out with people goin mad smokein pot them next thing ya know there doin mega lines of coke and goin completley raveing lunatic mad. The moive was so outragious I was embarrassed for the producers ! When movies go bad Pam
Still gotta find that PI movie........would like to get that double set Rock got......I'll be lookin at a store near you !!!
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Reefer Madness is pretty ridiculous. 
I would imagine you could buy Pi online, E-bay?
Get the set.
-Scott
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Re: Pi
« Reply #18 on: May 3rd, 2004, 9:16am » |
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 I own the move, Columbia House carrys it.
I love it, but I am the only one in the house that gets it.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #19 on: May 3rd, 2004, 9:30am » |
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on May 2nd, 2004, 10:58pm, cootie wrote:
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$10.63 for the 2-pack with free shipping
Sorry... same director... not same writer...
Note that 'Pi' was a low budget film (~$60,000). No effects.
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Two dark, edgy dramas from acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky are included in this 2-pack. Both his first film, PI, the surreal tale of mathematical obsession, and his second, bigger movie, an adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, the tale of drug addiction on Coney Island, are here.
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Rock,
There are effects in PI. You have to see it. It just ain't like Hollywood-type effects. Pretty rad!
-Scott
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Re: Pi
« Reply #21 on: May 4th, 2004, 12:59am » |
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=617&item= 4186003450&rd=1
You can find this thing on ebay if you type in pi. This one ends in about 15 hours. You'll find several others.
It's nothing I've seen though. Good luck if you bid.
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Re: Pi
« Reply #23 on: May 8th, 2004, 2:40am » |
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on May 3rd, 2004, 9:30am, Rock_Lobster wrote:
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Two dark, edgy dramas from acclaimed director Darren Aronofsky are included in this 2-pack. Both his first film, PI, the surreal tale of mathematical obsession, and his second, bigger movie, an adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr's REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, the tale of drug addiction on Coney Island, are here.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/books/04/27/obit.selby.ap/index.html
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Hubert Selby Jr., the acclaimed and anguished author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "Requiem for a Dream," died Monday of a lung disease, his wife said. He was 75.
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Vig thanks for the link to that article. I missed it when it was released. I started this thread and I speak highly of Hubert Selby Jr. He was a great American writer of the late beatniks. Post-Burroughs, if you will.
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a great book. Requiem for a Dream, I have not read, but is an awesome movie. Both Requiem and PI are awesome and poweful movies (that yes, only 3.14% people liked). Just put your seatbelt on and put the kids to bed. These are tough dark, but real films.
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