Just caught Black Swan thanks to you fuckers talking it up. Was defo creepy the whole way through, and a great movie overall. I'm hard pressed to think of anything Natalie Portman has done better. Maybe
The Professional, or possibly
The Phantom Menace.
I do, however, really think that F3lix needs to explain this shit once and for all:
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Originally Posted by f3lix
Black Swan - Ho-lee-fuck. A perfect delivery. You know a movie is great when others in the theatre are expressing confusion over what is going on and you're sitting there smiling, eyes watering, and paralyzed by the grip the movie has on your mind, heart, and soul. I had to pee the last hour and refused to get up. The acting was good, but the directing and manner in which the story was told came off was flawless. Even as I was figuring out who was what, what was going on, and how it would all come together, I still was just a passenger on the ride of this brilliant film. 4 stars, 10 out of 10, my pic for movie of the year.
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Anybody who didn't realize
she was clearly suffering from psychological disorders the moment she fucking rips off half her god damn finger, and then it was fine afterwards, which set the tone for the rest of her hallucinations the entire movie, is a fucking retard, F3lix. You're not a genius and your review pisses me off even moreso now that I've actually seen it.
Beautiful, yes. Paralysis-inducing and tear-inspiring, no.
Let's just get down to brass tacks here. You had an emotional connection to this film because of your work as an aspiring conductor. That is it, plain and simple. You were able to personally empathize with many of the characters in the film and the kinds of pressure they were under, which the director was able to do excellently by aligning the audiences emotions perfectly with the characters' emotions. This caused you to feel that you somehow got a "deeper understanding" of the film, when in fact, you were simply more emotionally connected to it.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but based on how ridiculously seriously you take yourself and your orchestrating-or-whatever-the-fuck-you-call-it, I doubt it. The dumbest thing about this is that if you would have said what I just did (relating your experiences to those of the characters in the film, based in your history in the performing arts), none of us would have given you any shit in the first place (well, not as much anyways). It's the fact that you seem to have sincerely thought you were in the upper echelons of movie critics that could truly appreciate what happens to be a blockbuster film.
/rant