Requiem For a Dream Making Of: There truly is nothing special about the making of portion of the DVD except how they did some of the amazing camera work for the movie. What made the movie was the genius of the director and the performance of the cast. I especially like when they showed the camera they used for the filming of Ellen Burstyn during the apartment cleaning scene. There where also a couple of neat facts to pick up along the way as well but truly nothing special. The reason I think it is nothing special is because there was not much to explain about the making of the movie other than just showing the different equipment used to do the filming.
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Aronofsky's commentary adds some limited value but really this is barely worth watching
bob the moo10 October 2004
With plenty of footage shot during the making of the film, Aronofsky takes us through stages in the making of the film starting with the first day, the stop motion footage of Burstyn cleaning, the gory scenes and the score mixing at Skywalker Ranch. Despite being billed as a 'making of' documentary, this is far from being what the film itself deserves in fact it is so thin that it barely deserves to be called a documentary. Rather this is about 35 minutes of amateur-shot footage from the set of Requiem that appears to be wholly random in regards what it is focusing on at any one time.
Aronofsky tries to put a brave face on it but even he is struggling to really have much to say about what he is watching from his commentary position. One or two times I was interested in the technology involved or the process involved but mainly the film was just pretty dull. The footage is not structured in any way and there seems to be no real reason why we are shown things such as Skywalker or people just milling around if it had had a series of talking heads through it and over it then maybe, but with just the commentary as an afterthought it really doesn't work. I can only assume from this that they were looking for stuff to put on the DVD and found they had loads of background footage and decided to just use it because they could however I really question whether or not they should.
I love Requiem and it deserved a really good 'making of' that covers the writing, the concepts, the feelings of the actors, the stories, the little memories and valid, interest comments on the main aspects of the film. What it didn't deserve was just hand-held footage of the cast & crew working and hanging around while a slightly embarrassed and unsure of himself Aronofsky tries the best he can to add narration to scenes that he sees everyday (it would like be trying to narrate footage of my day at work!). Two or three things of value in the whole 'documentary' a really pointless film that is barely worth watching.
Aronofsky tries to put a brave face on it but even he is struggling to really have much to say about what he is watching from his commentary position. One or two times I was interested in the technology involved or the process involved but mainly the film was just pretty dull. The footage is not structured in any way and there seems to be no real reason why we are shown things such as Skywalker or people just milling around if it had had a series of talking heads through it and over it then maybe, but with just the commentary as an afterthought it really doesn't work. I can only assume from this that they were looking for stuff to put on the DVD and found they had loads of background footage and decided to just use it because they could however I really question whether or not they should.
I love Requiem and it deserved a really good 'making of' that covers the writing, the concepts, the feelings of the actors, the stories, the little memories and valid, interest comments on the main aspects of the film. What it didn't deserve was just hand-held footage of the cast & crew working and hanging around while a slightly embarrassed and unsure of himself Aronofsky tries the best he can to add narration to scenes that he sees everyday (it would like be trying to narrate footage of my day at work!). Two or three things of value in the whole 'documentary' a really pointless film that is barely worth watching.
I understand if they were busy making it, but...
TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews13 June 2009
This is a documentary, the subject of which is, well, right there in the title. It consists of behind-the-scenes footage, with a clearly unprepared Aronofsky giving varied, if occasionally worthwhile, commentary(just don't expect anything that isn't technical, and even that, there could have been more of). No talking heads, clips of the film, or real point. You do get to see rehearsal and shooting of effects and such, and a couple of the methods utilized(camera types, shutter speeds) are featured, and still this doesn't amount to much. For 35 minutes, there's absolutely minimal information. The editing comes off as them using all that was recorded that wasn't too blurry or otherwise messed up. Apart from that... well, they appear to have put it in chronological order. The pacing is all over the place. There is one brief bit that may upset some... let me put it this way, notice when Darren says he is doing the voice-over. While the language is quite infrequent, it is also rather strong. The violence is all fake, and there isn't any sexuality in this. I recommend this solely to those who feel they *must* watch any "making of" production. 1/10
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