Pretty please!
Here's me:
Requiem For a Dream 11/10 (I have the right to rate it a 11 because it’s my #1 since 15 years)
The Fountain: 9/10 (only saw it once but it was mesmerising)
Mother! 8.5-9/10
Black Swan: 8-8.5/10
The Wrestler: 7.5/10
Noah: 7/10
Pi: 7/10
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Requiem - have not seen it
The Fountain - 5/10
Mother - bailed out after 20 mins 3/10
Black Swan - still not sure what was real and what was not. 5.5/10
The Wrestler - 8/10
Noah - 6/10
Pi - have not seen it
Mother! is like a slow-burn feverish dream for the first hour and a half then it gets bat shit crazy like a neverending nightmare. If you missed the last 30 minutes, you've missed it all.
sharei haven't seen the fountain yet. every time aronofsky releases a new film or someone brings up his catalog, i think 'i really have to get around to seeing that some day' - but that day has not come yet.
pi 4/5
requiem for a dream 4.5/5
the wrestler 4.5/5
black swan 4/5
noah 3.5/5
mother 4/5
from the films i've seen, he's six for six - all of them are good, interesting & worth the time invested. perhaps oddly, the only one i regularly revisit so far is pi, probably in part because it's the shortest (i think?), but also because i love its lo-fi punkish energy. the one i'm actually mostly interested in revisiting at the moment is noah, mainly because it was the one that left the least impression on me. i only vaguely remember a few details - rock monsters, an environmental message - while all the other films left a big imprint, even if i've only seen them once.
mother was detested by some, of course, but i liked it a lot. i can certainly go along with criticisms of its metaphorical pretensions - if you say it's an inch deep or even childish, i wouldn't hotly disagree. i think adolescent might be a perfectly apt description for it, but i don't always think being adolescent or immature is a cardinal sin. the greatest sin a movie, or anything really, can make for me is being boring, and i was never bored for a moment. in that sense, it reminds me of the adage that great and horrible art have more in common than great and average art, that to achieve greatness you have to be willing to potentially make a fool out of yourself. i don't think this is awful by any stretch of the imagination, but i do think it was silly and bombastic and ridiculous, amps turned to 11, and almost like a ken russell romp at the end, & in general i thought it was great fun.
Great input, thanks for sharing.
I agree with most of what you said.
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Ive only seen Requiem, the Wrestler and Black Swan
All were excellent and very memorable!
I dont know that i could rewatch Requiem though...pretty heavy, disturbing stuff!
Requiem is definitely hard to watch again, but The Wrestler and Black Swan are both great and reward multiple viewings. You might like or dislike the rest of Aronofsky's filmography (The Fountain, Noah, mother!, etc), but you'll probably find yourself moved by each film.
shareThe 3 i saw were terrific...his theme appears to be the ways in which we can cause or own downfall...
I will certainly watch more of his as i find them
Thx!