VHS : The Doom Generation
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Superior to both Kids and Natural Born Killers, Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation is a snarling satire that has the emotional range to prompt rage, fear, laughter, and grief in a viewer. Three L.A.-based, almost-twentysomethings--an incredibly foul-mouthed Valley Girl (Rose McGowan), her puppyish boyfriend (James Duval), and a sexy bad boy (Johnathon Schaech)--take to the road after a series of comic collisions with skinheads and gun-toting convenience-store clerks. While secret lawmen and voyeuristic TV cameras follow their movements, the fugitives gradually warm up to a three-way sexual relationship that wraps them in a profound, renewing innocence--an innocence then stolen by a wrathful America. Araki skewers the usual villains: the media, homophobes, gun nuts, Gen-X stereotypes. But there is so much more at stake here than meets the eye, an extraordinary anger and fear about predatory intolerance and purposelessness about the young. The DVD release includes the original theatrical trailer and production notes. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - DON'T WATCH THIS
This is on my short list of movies never to see. It is not only horrible; it is disturbing. It will bother you. You will wish you never saw it. Also on the list: U Turn
Rating:  - I understand it, but still can't find a way to like it.
The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995)
There are two types of people who have seen The Doom Generation: those who loved it and those who hated it. (Interestingly, the two groups, according to IMDB, who rate it highest? Males under 18 and females 18-29. Figure that one out, armchair Freudians.) While I definitely come down on the "hated it" side of the line, I can at least understand what it was Araki was trying to do with this movie. I just can't tell whether he utterly failed to do ... Read More
Rating:  - The Most Popular of the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy
If you don't enjoy surrealism, you're not going to enjoy this movie. If you are not in touch with gay or goth culture, you're not going to connect with this movie. If you every said, "Mel Gibson was great in Lethal Weapon," your not going to understand this movie.
This was one of the greatest movies ever. Watch it just for the Ogre cameo...if you even know who that is...
Rating: - Very homoerotic!!!
I loved this movie from start to finish. It is a mixture of male nudity and homoeroticitism and a "very different" story of "serial killers" all in one. It is a story of a "het" couple traveling and picking up a hitchhiker that pushes them to their limits emotionally and physically. If you are a James Duvall fan, you will love this movie. It does cast him in a "very different light" and some "nice views" than most of his roles. The acting was very solid and very believable!!! See this movie for yourself. ... Read More
Rating: - The weakest of the Teen Angst Trilogy by Araki
This is the second part in Araki's "Teen Angst Trilogy", and by far the least watchable. Check out "Totally F***ed Up" and "Nowhere" for a better time.
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