Black Swan... quite possibly

[MELSMICE]

Just saw it the other night. We enjoyed it.

I think it's one of those movies that you have to watch more than once to pick up on different things.

 

[Freyja]

I liked it a lot. Thought Natalie Portman did an amazing job.

 

[LuvLDM]

I just got this from Netflix, Dh said he would watch it w/ me...but only after I told him the movie contained female nudity.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

I haven't watched it yet, but I want to. I can't imagine it was any more over-hyped than The Dark Knight. I thought that movie was awful and I didn't understand everyone's rave reviews of it or Heath Ledger in it.

Loved the movie and Heath Ledger, and I am not a big Batman fan.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

I just got this from Netflix, Dh said he would watch it w/ me...but only after I told him the movie contained female nudity.

They could have spent the whole movie naked and it wouldn't be worth watching.

 

[Swan4Me]

Interesting... I can't think of anything chick-flicky about this movie. Drama? Yes. Thriller? Yes. Chick flick? No way.



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Hello- its a movie focusing on BALLET

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

I just got this from Netflix, Dh said he would watch it w/ me...but only after I told him the movie contained female nudity.

He's gonna be mighty disappointed if that's the only reason he's willing to watch it! I don't believe there's any nudity, and if there is it's very minimal.

Hello- its a movie focusing on BALLET

I'm well aware of what the movie is about. It's a creepy, twisted, psychological thriller about a woman going insane set against a ballet theme... and it messes with your own mind in the process. The same plot could have been done if she was the CEO of a corporation. And it could have been done with two guys instead of two girls.

You can call it what you want, but to me it is NOT a chick flick. Typing in red letters isn't going to change my mind. Neither is being rude

 

[Swan4Me]

My point is -if the subject matter is Ballet-most guys will not look at it-thus i called it a "chick flick"

I'm also surprised the OP watched it-no way my DH would.

 

[LuvCuteBoys]

If people don't want to find out what a movie is actually about before they decide whether or not they want to watch it, that's their choice.

But I know plenty of guys who saw it. Some liked it, others didn't. I guarantee that none of them thought it was a chick flick.

 

[Jennasis]

It's not a chick-flick. Romantic comedies and Sex And the City are chick-flicks. Having a backdrop of ballet/dance does not automatically qualify a film as a chick click...Would that make White Nights or Tap chick flicks??

 

[JenM]

My point is -if the subject matter is Ballet-most guys will not look at it-thus i called it a "chick flick"

I'm also surprised the OP watched it-no way my DH would.

But the subject matter wasn't ballet. It was a psychological thriller that happened to be about a ballet dancer. Lots of guys in the theater when I saw it, and it was sold out that night.

If the movie was about a girl starring in Swan Lake...that would be a chick flick about ballet.

That sure wasn't what this movie was about.

 

[CIA]

No way in the world can this be considered a chick flick!

 

[MELSMICE]

Hello- its a movie focusing on BALLET

The movie did not focus on ballet. The main character just happened to be a ballet dancer.

The movie was a psychological thriller. As someone else said, the subplot could have been about any profession out there.........an athlete, a CEO, anyone at all. It just happened to be about a ballet dancer.

The movie most certainly did not focus on ballet. Now if you watch the older movie Center Stage..........that focuses on ballet.

 

[136368]

Ballet need not be for women only. I actually found that element of the film to be oddly hypnotising! I must say, the film struck me as classic Aronofsky - dark, twisted and harsh on the main characters.

Requiem for a Dream is probably his best work and my favourite.

 

[hulagirl87]

I read this title to DH and he said "there's no way it's worse than Me, Myself and Irene"

While he didn't watch all of Black Swan with me, the parts that he did see, though he said they were creepy, he thought it was good. I loved it. I thought that Natalie Portman was absolutely fantastic! It was dark and at points disturbing, but nothing that I was really freaked out about. Ok, maybe the part with her legs. Not a spoiler! I would definitely watch it again. Just for Natalie Portman's performance alone. Outstanding.