The Doom Generation
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Full Screen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 27 October, 1995
DVD Release : 05 August, 1998 |
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The Doom Generation Customer Reviews
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Natural Born Killer's / Y Tu' Mama Tambien (except not as 1/2 as good as either)
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Well I bought the VHS version of this film for three bucks at half price books because while I was glancing over the back I noticed that it was directed by Gregg Araki. I am not what you would call an Araki fan just because I had only seen one mof his other films before this one, Mysterious Skin. I happened to absolutly love that film, I really didnt know of Araki's other works so when I saw that Araki made "The Doom Generation" I was excited to see how this film compared to "Mysterious Skin" ...
After veiwing "The Doom Generation" I can conclude that this film is in no where near as good as "Mysterious Skin".
I thought that the way the this film was shot was kind of cool and unique but I also thought that the camera angles and all-around visuals were somewhat hard to see, the lack of lighting made some of the shots so dark that you could only see the make-up on the girls face.
The acting was substantial at most. All three of the main charactors did OKAY during the sex scenes but seemed somewhat lacking during the scenes where they were just driving around or talking.
The screenplay was very unique and could have been pretty good but I think that the movie put in so much of the run time into the sex scenes and focused on them so much that the short film (about 80 mins) did not have enough time to develop a plot and explain in more detail why the girl was known as "Sunshine" as well as a few other important details. In the end the screenplay just seemed like a jumbled and very confusing mess.
Though everything in the film was either unexplained or just plain dumb I found myself pretty involved in what was happening as well as what was going to happen.
I think that if the film ran about 2 hours, had three times the budget and had a script that explained things a bit better than it did, then it would have been a pretty good flick ...
If you want to see a good Araki flick than you should see "Mysterious Skin". It had some outstanding acting, A well thought out and memorable screenplay & some stand out directoral efforts ... I also know that Araki made another film called "Totally Fu*ked up!" that I have not yet seen.
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