Trailer better than the Movie

Rating: 1/10 (5 January 2011)

I went into this only having seen the trailer. I was excited about it. It looked dark, creepy, and intriguing with the ballet aspect. I was going into it not knowing much but the trailer.
From the beginning I saw the scene from the trailer of Natalie portman dancing with a black swan. Within the first 10 minutes I had seen and heard everything else from the trailer. Natalie portman obviously did not do most of her footwork, as the cameras OBVIOUSLY never showed her feet except in closeups, the plot was obvious and direct and PREDICTABLE, and the acting was terribly contrived. There was a moment where when the teacher told her to touch herself, it was funny in its awkwardness. It lost the humor when she actually did in fact go home and not only touch herself, but masturbate herself and lucky us, we got to see the whole thing. It was disgusting. The cameras were ALL off-balance and made me SICK, and I got so sick of seeing the back of her neck for minutes at a time. I would not have minded the IMPLICATION of masturbation if she hadn't done it at least 3 times and we didn't have to see it in great detail. Come on, we get it. If we wanted to see porn we would have done something else besides go to THIS MOVIE.
What dumb asses wrote this? It TOLD you what was going to happen from the very first two sentences of the movie. That's not foreshadowing, that's bullshit.
And we left mid-movie during the lesbian make out/oral scene. I'm sorry, but it did NOTHING for the plot and it made us very uncomfortable. I don't care if it was a guy and a woman, something that explicit should be left out of a freaking SWAN LAKE movie about BALLERINAS. What the hell, people? I guess they were going for intense but instead went for pornographic.
The "horror" scenes were just gross and unnecessary, and the people were so one-dimensional it hurt me. So she was crazy, who cares? I surely didn't. I just wanted to get the hell out so I wouldn't be subjected to the nonsense of this movie anymore. I didn't see the ending and I could care less to know it. That is how bad this movie is.