The Worst Film Ever

A lot of fun.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

Jason Schwartzman plays an ordinary guy floating on the margins of the Crank Head culture, crossing paths with dealers, strippers, TV reality show cops (led by a mullet-sporting Peter Stormare), and other assorted fringe dwellers, all of them desperate, crazed and wrong in their own unique fashion. Jason drives for a wrestling addicted drug chemist (Mickey Rourke in a shambling, grunting, full bodied performance that pre-saged his work in the Wrestler) who is admired for his rough cowboy demeanor but who reveals himself over time to be a selfish exploiter. In between trips to convenient stores to buy drug making supplies, Jason slides in and out of an occasionally cartoonish (literally so, animation and all) twisted reality as he engages in the sort of drug seeking behavior that is the daily and even hourly existence of the drug user. This is not a serious look at drug use and its consequences, however, but rather a trippy slice-of-lowlife wander through the motels, strip bars, trailer parks and porn shops where the bottom feeders of the drug world live. One detail of their lives which is not overlooked by the camera is that 'tweakers' are so caught up the chase for their next high that they have perpetual ADHD, living lives of neglect surrounded by the debris of half-finished jobs and empty pizza boxes. Yuck. Look fast for rock heavyweights Debbie Harry (Blondie) as Jason's neighbor and Rob Halford (Judas Priest) as a porn shop manager. Amusing and memorable as a movie, but pay attention to the language advisory. The script is as foul-mouthed as anything since the Sopranos went off the air.

I am a big fan of stories. It's probably the main reason for me to watch movies. This movie is a sequence of follies, it goes from one scene of a drug trip, to another. But there is no real plot. It's for people who find it funny to see humans freaking out on drugs. Usually those are kids that don't have much experience with drugs. Back in the days, me and my friends kept watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. We found it funny as hell. So I do understand the fun of drug movies. But unlike Spun, Fear and Loathing is a good movie, and has a good story. I seriously fail to understand the point of Spun. It doesn't even seem to be negative about drugs. All it seems to be, is one big drug trip. - Fun to watch for drug "fans", pointless for others.Actors have been good in this movie. It was pretty much the only thing worth watching. Sadly I didn't find the characters convincing. The few people on drugs that I learned to know, haven't been anything like them. Most characters are totally exaggerated. Which makes this movie not only pointless, but also totally unrealistic.(I just checked the IMDb rate-history. People below 18 rated this movie way higher than others. Suits my theory totally.)

It was one of those movies were it is intended to make a point, but in my view it was just another lame pointless movie. I have never seen a movie with such disgusting scenes, and three of those scenes were just too disgusting to watch. The first was when Frisbee (Patrick Fugit) was having, at least what I think it is, a steak. The look of his meal, the way he eats and not mention his mother siting in her filth was sickening! The second scene was when Cookie (Mena Suvari) was in the toilet, there are no words to describe it, and can't imagine how any actress would agree do this scene. The final scene was when Spider Mike (John Leguizamo) was practicing his "habit", I just don't understand what the director was trying achieve from all this! The only perfect thing about the movie was the cast, they were very successful to act as losers.All in all, an awful disgusting pointless movie with a perfect matching cast.

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.