Anyone seen Darren Aronofsky's Pi (1998)?

blueranger13 said:the soundtrack is killer... pretty sure some guy from PWEI picked the tracks

Not sure who handled the curation, but whenever I see names like Aphex Twin, Orbital, and Massive Attack on a list, I know it’s gonna be good😁

swiftsurfer27 said:The movie is cool, but I just don't get why people are so obsessed with money, the stock market, and finance.

...and they're saying this right in the middle of the Great Depression, so it’s honestly a miracle anyone still cares about money at all...

Basically, it's an interesting film packed with fascinating themes—chaos theory, Icarus, Faust, even Prometheus... and it manages to cover it all in just 80 minutes, whereas that crazy Ridley won't even find two more Prometheus sequels enough to actually say something meaningful besides a bunch of trivialities.

The idea that a number can be self-aware is pretty neat.

Finally got around to watching it, mostly because I saw a few guys on here hyping it up, plus I just finished Black Swan.

Honestly? All I’m getting from this is some pretentious, mediocre, pseudo-religious lecture about how material things don't matter. Total fluff.
It’s really nothing as groundbreaking or "genius" as 🤷
claims
And that whole experimental industrial vibe? Please. We've seen it all before, so spare me the theatrics.
Seriously, give me a break.

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Patrick Martin said:All I’m sensing from this is some sort of pretentious, mediocre, pseudo-religious anti-materialist posturing.

That is merely one of three or four different subthemes at play here.

goldenscout14 said:Look, that's just one tiny slice of the pie. It's maybe three or four sub-topics at most.

Nah, man, that's the whole damn point.

The theory is they're the smartest people on the planet running everything behind the scenes, but hey, there’s always a catch, right?
So now they're out here playing the victim card and suffering through it all.🙂

Saw him yesterday over by Central Park, and I gotta say... Is it just me, or did he look exactly like a character from one of those old Hollywood classics? 😉