Oh zow! Quick cuts! Wide angle lenses! Animation! This must be a work of genius.
The trouble with the success of movies like Snatch, Lock Stock, Requiem For A Dream, and Pulp Fiction is that it's assumed that quick cuts and snappy camera angles make a good movie. Spun is such a contrived Requiem-imitator that it is nearly unpleasant to watch. Close-ups of pupils dilating when taking a hit? Colorful characters trying not to admit they have a problem? A final montage of the characters in static positions while a somber song plays? This movie has been made! No amount of epileptic editing and over-exposure can change that. It's story has nothing. It tries to take a new slant on the drug tradedy by adding humor, but it only produces sad imitation after sad imitation of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Watch the excellent films this movie is derived from, save your self an hour and a half of an excellent cast helping a mediocre music video director try to be like Darren Aronofsky.
The trouble with the success of movies like Snatch, Lock Stock, Requiem For A Dream, and Pulp Fiction is that it's assumed that quick cuts and snappy camera angles make a good movie. Spun is such a contrived Requiem-imitator that it is nearly unpleasant to watch. Close-ups of pupils dilating when taking a hit? Colorful characters trying not to admit they have a problem? A final montage of the characters in static positions while a somber song plays? This movie has been made! No amount of epileptic editing and over-exposure can change that. It's story has nothing. It tries to take a new slant on the drug tradedy by adding humor, but it only produces sad imitation after sad imitation of Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Watch the excellent films this movie is derived from, save your self an hour and a half of an excellent cast helping a mediocre music video director try to be like Darren Aronofsky.