Spun is undoubtedly a film that will get a lot of attention. Fast cuts, plenty of sex and drugs, outrageous characters, and good music. Unfortunately most of the attention it will receive is from people with very short attention spans. The fact that it took two people to write a film where no one says anything relevent is enough to make me long for the days of a drug movie with some substance and wit (ie: Trainspotting). Mickey Rourke is the lone savior of this film from getting a rating of zero. Why couldn't he get more roles like this in the eighties? What a vile, loathesome character. The thing that most people won't understand is that Spun is a comedy, most of the characters are designed to make you laugh out loud, unfortunately, there is nothing funny about most of the subject matter. It is ugly and pathetic, which wouldn't be a problem if it only knew what it was trying to tell you. Spun suffers from the toocoolsyndrome (ie: The Doom Generation), in which the filmmaker is obviously trying to make you think his film is really hip and cutting edge in an attempt to mask its shortcomings in the script and the subject matter, how many rock star cameos do you really need, ("Dude it's Billy Corgan!"). This film makes no intelligent attempt at an anti-drug message,(ie:Requiem for a Dream, which Spun blatantly steals from with no shame), therefore much like Alex Cox's Sid & Nancy, it glorifies its subject matter which is kind of irresponsible, sure the characters may have really bad acne or relationship problems or bad teeth, but so do most non drug using teens. Jason Shwartzman and Patrick Fugit once had some Hollywood promise, after Rushmore, Shwartzman made the awful Slackers and now this, Fugit whose innocence was so charming in the otherwise awful Almost Famous, takes the cake as the most annoying character in the history of film, truly an embarrassment and a pox on his career, I just kept wishing someone would shoot him, along with co star Brittany (TheLatterDayMelanieGriffith) Murphy. There is one scene in which Deborah Harry,(Cool Dude! Blondie!) assaults an abusive male character after he abuses his girlfriend, after which, in what I assume is supposed to be a compliment, Mickey Rourke's character calls her a tough "Dyke". Cloudy message indeed, after standing up for the plight of abused women, the script turns on them by insulting a gay woman's sexuality. Hip post 90s directors need to ease up on all the fast editing and hip factor to attempt to create a film in which style and substance work together to create the desired effect (ie: McCabe & Mrs. Miller). The problem with music video director Jonas Akerlund is that he doesn't seem to know what effect he wants to spin, resulting in a film that is all dressed up but has no place to go but down. One of the worst films I have ever seen. 1 out of 10