SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

jadavix I never felt particularly engaged with "Spun", for some reason. I guess it's a typical cult movie: either you love it or you hate it. The rapid-fire, kinetic editing, aggressively bad, retro-style and generically crazy behaviour of the characters just grew tiresome after a while. The movie feels like "Gummo" made by a music video director. It's superficially "shocking" and "in your face", but there's nothing in the movie to really make you think. So that's what the experience of watching the movie becomes: like a long music video, ie. something which isn't supposed to be really engaged with or deconstructed... but at feature film length, it becomes exhausting. It never really held my attention for long.It's also impossible to take it seriously as a portrayal of something as real as meth addiction.

Lesha Holland When I saw "Requiem For A Dream" for the first time, I remember that I was puzzled, confused, annoyed, then incensed at the consistent failure to correctly depict the proper physiological effects a shot of any form of opiates would have upon the pupil: Constriction, rather than dilation. Eventually, I decided to stop being so ridiculously anal-retentive about it: Maybe a big ol' pupil was simply considered more... "cinematic" or whatever! HOWEVER: The VERY NEXT major Drug-Flick I saw, "Spun," shared the same, glaring "blooper" of depicting a pupillary response 100% wrong; An oversight [???] made all the more noticeable by the rest of the film's near-unprecedented level of accuracy, realism, and resonance.Can anyone tell me why the pupils get BIG in the heroin movie, and SMALL in the tweak-flick??? I know this question would be a better fit if placed in the message board section, but I can't seem to undulate my way through the verification process. Please, someone: Respond!

SlackerRus2000 I always felt that music and drugs go hand in hand. If rock history 101 has anything to say about it, I'm sure they would agree. Spun is filled with hyper-kinetic energy and fast and frenetic characters. It is also filled with many slow and smooth songs in its soundtrack. There is something about this coupled yin and yang which translates beautifully into the best drug-centric movie I have ever seen. Several scenes, like the drive with Brittney Murphy and Jason Schwartzman, and the opening sequences where the music is so compelling I have replayed it just because it's so damn beautiful. Couple the music, with interesting and crazy characters, a fast and furious script about nothing, which is pretty much what drugs are about anyway, and you've got yourself an awesome movie that will amaze your senses. Nothing can prepare you for being spun.

causticchris2000 Spun is indeed a wild ride, but for more discerning viewers there is little to be gotten from this film.The plot and more importantly the motivation of the characters is incomplete at best. Albeit these characters are operating on methamphetamines or 'speed', but some actions such as the main character tying up a stripper and leaving her in his apartment unbelievable, mainly because of the lack of knowledge of the character's background.The pupil dilating rapid shots of when the characters take the drug is reminiscent of Requiem for a Dream, and as I was watching made me think more and more about that film, and at the end I was convinced that it was nothing more than a knock off of it.The more troubling thing to me was the 'farce' nature of the film. The characters are given cute names such as "spider-mike" and "frisbee" and the police officers that investigate the meth problem surrounding the town put on a deranged "Cops" performance, and are even doing smack themselves when they conduct their police activities. To me, all this didn't make sense and seemed to glorify the use of the drug. The only consequences the main characters meet is a cliché mug shot sequence, and Jason schwartzmans character is denied by his former girlfriend yet again.I could not identify with this film or the characters. Perhaps to understand this movie people must actually use meth, in which a documentary of the actual effects of the drug on people and society would be much more disturbing and realistic. Giant failure, and I really thing this is just a wanna be Requiem for a Dream, which is by far a better portrayal of drug use and the tragedy that ensues.