November 26, 2009
wow! Over the top but needs to be!
Altered States Reviews and Ratings
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November 16, 2009Truly horrifying and beautiful at the same time. This is one of the most bizarre viewing experiences i've ever had. The plot was smart, well planned and nearly plausible. The creators obviously spent a great amount of time researching the topic. William Hurt gave a really hauntin...( read more)
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November 11, 2009this movie was so different from what i was expecting but it was fucking awesome cuz its different. It was like a modern retelling of the wolfman.
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November 10, 2009Cool idea; but the amateurishly executed effects ruin the otherwise darkly disturbing mood. And Blair Brown is really annoying.
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November 10, 2009Amazing. The story is dark but is lightened by well-placed, yet sometimes cheesy, humor.
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November 6, 2009Exhilarating psychological sci-fi about a university professor who encloses himself in a sensory-deprivation chamber and experiments with hallucinogenic drugs with drastic results. Seductively sets up a feeling of anticipation in the first half, then devolves into a rather amusi...( read more)
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August 31, 2009The peak solliquy to the heady and bawdy times of the post-Vietnam War era; "free your mind and your mind will lead you to your past". This is an important film; well-conceived, smart, and boundlessly intriguing. By mixing plausible science with some of the fantastical musings of...( read more)
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August 11, 2009A quasi-Frankenstein tale of how meddling with the natural order of things can go disatrously wrong.
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June 5, 2009William Hurt was crazy in this movie....this is what happens when u mess with nature! Kids..don't try this at home or in the lab either!
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April 9, 2009They were all "la de da, we're so fucking smart professors researchers pretentious blah" and then he's all "I'M AN APE" all of a sudden and he jumps around like a fuck tard. This shit was taxing.
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April 8, 2009Ken Russell LSD Trip type film with William Hurt as the lab rat. Wonderful, delicious images!
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April 5, 2009Very good movie. This was a thrill even though it was filmed almost 30 years ago. Hurt is wonderful as the etherworldly-usurped, drug entranced scholar. Russell did a grand job to keep the focus on the plausibility of the sci-fi aspect and thr storyline does not slacken but keep...( read more)
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March 15, 2009Ok this is one of those movies that is so weird that it makes you want to take drugs so that it may be better.
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February 22, 2009Ok the basic premise is the main character played by William Hurt takes some drugs and jumps into a sensory deprivation chamber and weird shit happens to him afterwards but seriously just watch it and enjoy the ride
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February 10, 2009Somewhat dated special effects made this a difficult watch unfortunately. A cool idea with lots of interesting philosophical dialogue. ... But why did everyone sleep completely naked every time? Nessesary?
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February 9, 2009Extremely strange experiments go on in this movie, by the middle I didn't know what was going on anymore.
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January 12, 2009Wild by Warner Bros standards yet mild by director Ken Russell's, this trippy sci-fi tale of forced transcendence is fairly interesting, often wacky and, despite much scientific gobbeldygook being thrown around left & right, it ends on a surprisingly humanistic note. Impressive, ...( read more)
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December 20, 2008This was totally random. I'm still not overly sure what was going on (I mean, I get it, it just seemed kind of pointless and lame and weird). It was pretty boring but was weird.
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September 8, 2008Ken Russel unleashed his eye for visual flair in this story of a human evolution and madness. There are lots of pros and many cons to this movie. On the one hand, it's actually a fairly intellegent treatment of theories about hullucianagenics, collec...(read more) tive memory, ev...( read more)
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August 9, 2008One of my all time favorites. William Hurts firts film. Blair Brown is pretty good as well.
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August 8, 2008who would have thought getting into a box with water could revert you to your primal self..... with shrooms of course
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July 12, 2008The special effects of 2001: a space odyssey, but with a good storyline to go with it. The William Hurt monkey was awesome. I think it's neat to think about how our bodies are made up of elements that have been other people's bodies and minds since the beginning.
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July 4, 2008It's like, deep, man. At any rate, some of the most striking visuals and special effects ever.
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June 17, 2008This is another one of those great movies that I can't believe that I haven't seen until now.
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June 2, 2008One of the craziest movies I've ever seen. I think its William Hurt's first movie. You couldn't tell.
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February 21, 2008A lot of the sequences in this film do seem outdated, but the whole idea of being able to reverse evolution is just so mind-blowing. Most of the film just features a screen with various swirling colors...like fireworks to represent the psychadelic experiences the main character ...( read more)
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February 6, 2008altered states was somewhat a letdown. i quit watching it out of disappointment. it started out a pretty interesting film with an exciting build up to what you would think would be mind blowing ideas and visuals. sadly you receive your first wake
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January 31, 2008Has one of the biggest trip out scene I have ever witnessed ... it was like you were in the 60's lol. William Hurt does a wonderful job and really bring out how the drug messes with his head.
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January 3, 2008Depravation tank, powerful shrooms from mexico, man VS beast, this movie is a serious trip.
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December 30, 2007This film's fascinating premise makes watching it a thought inducing experience. William Hurt's biblical flashbacks are filled with beautifully disturbing imagery, reminiscent of surrealistic paintings. Having said that, however, the special effects which may have been ahead of t...( read more)
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December 29, 2007A one of a kind, highly original, sci-fi horror film. Based on a Paddy Chayefsky novel, this story is very adult and thought-provoking. Almost a modern-day Jekyll and Hyde. It's not without its flaws but surprisingly influential. Extremely surreal imagery with a dynamite score an...( read more)
