The Doom Generation
April. 14,2023 NRJordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
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This is one of those great, special movies that came from the 90's wasteland. The script is insane, the cast are sexy, and it just feels like the perfect slice of late 90's desolation.If you're not into edgy, confronting subject matter, It's definitely not for you, but i like my films a little bit dangerous and out of control, and that's exactly what The Doom Generation is; out of control.Sure, there are plot points that don't quite fit, but they don't have to. The movie perfectly complements the emotional landscape of the characters. It's crazy, over sexed self absorbed angst with a side serving of nihilism. Accept it for what it is and enjoy it. Not enough films take the risks they used to, and i applaud The Doom Generation for being what it needs to be, the same way Natural Born Killers did.
Worth a look if you absolutely positively must see Rose McGowan naked in various degrading situations, but not worth watching otherwise. This movie is not merely bad, but bad AND pretentious. The kind of movie that would have gotten the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment, if they could have cleaned the profanity from the soundtrack. The symbolism is laid on with a trowel; Araki must have learned that directors sometimes use color as a motif, so he saturates every frame with reds and blues and yellows. The number 666 appears numerous times - whoa! Symbol! Various sets have pithy signs on the wall - whoa! Symbol! The movie has its fans, but I simply cannot see why. Maybe Araki isn't the Ed Wood of our time, but then again, maybe he is.
The Doom Generation is a stunning, gripping, gut-wrenching movie. It's easy to see why reactions are so strongly polarized, with almost everybody either loving it or hating it. It's scary to imagine what kind of mind would react with genuine indifference.I admit I didn't read all the reviews already posted for it, but in the ones I did read I was surprised to find so few that mentioned how funny and how charming this movie is. Like it or not, it's primarily a romantic comedy, and if you miss that you've missed what holds it all together. It's extremely intelligent, very dark, very sweet, profoundly erotic, and shockingly bloody. But most of all it's very, very funny. If I'd missed the humor, I'd still like the freewheeling sexiness, but I'd be appalled by the violence. But I didn't miss the humor, so I loved it all.Everything about it is brilliant: the writing, the direction, even the gory special effects, and every single member of the large cast is perfect, especially the three leads. For a "heterosexual" movie, as Araki labeled it (with some irony, I have to think), with plenty of sex between the girl and both guys, the most powerfully erotic scenes are between the two men alone. There's no sex acted out between them at all, not even a kiss, but the heat is intense and stunning, much more powerful than the explicit sex between either of them and the girl. It's the best proof I've ever seen that eroticism and sex are completely different, and in a movie eroticism is much more entertaining. The sex acts in this movie may be all hetero, but the real heat is as gay as it gets. That's quite a coup.I for one am glad it's not in widescreen on the DVD. If a movie that's filmed widescreen is shown at 4:3, you do lose information. But a lot of independent movies from that period were filmed at 4:3, so that a "widescreen" version just crops off the top and bottom of the picture, and you actually get less information. (The widescreen version of Gus Van Sant's brilliant Elephant is like that, but fortunately that DVD includes both versions.)
I bought this film when I was going through my "douchebag hipster" phase which occurred around my sophomore year of college. I was into anything that was considered subversive or artsy and involved happening young people smoking and delivering profanity-laced dialogue. At the time, I loved this film--it was flashy, violent and angst-ridden, basically everything I wanted to be. After I quit smoking, stopped dressing like a techno-druggie and stopped worrying about who had weed I could buy, I decided to view this film again. Man, this film is pretty flipping retarded. First off--I know that the director was trying to make a surreal road movie and that many of the elements of the film were subject to deus ex machina. However, I kind of had a problem with the fact that these kids were on the road for like two weeks, never really changed their clothes, never exercised, smoked like fiends and ate quick-stop chili dogs for breakfast lunch and dinner yet they all still looked like they just stepped out of a Hot Topic fashion shoot. White teeth, blowed dried hair and great skin adorned all of the "teenagers" in this film. Now, maybe I'm just being a movie snob I don't know. But if this film had been any good, I think I could forgive incongruencies such as the aforemntioned hygiene issues. However, the film itself was pretty much self-indulgent crap that I'm sure symbolized the fleeting nature of youth and innocence and hope or some other goofy avant-garde bull. However, if you can somehow accept this film for what it is--over the top, overly artsy-fartsy and trying to make a myriad of nonsensical "statements," then at least the crap becomes somewhat beautiful. In fact, I think I can only recommend this movie to people who are fans of the stars--it features a pre-Donnie Darko James Duvall and a pre-fame Rose McGowan (both actors are featured in pretty hot sex scenes, for those of you wondering). Jonathon Schaech I couldn't really give a crap about since he was the worst actor in the film He was pretty good in "That Thing You Do" but after that he fell off my radar. The cameos are kind of cool, early ones include Margaret Cho and Perry Farrel of Jane's Addiction. The best however come from Nicky Katt who plays a mentally unstable Burger joint employee who mistakes Rose McGowan's character for his ex-girlfriend.