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The Doom Generation (1995)

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Reviews Counted:11

Fresh:7

Rotten:4

Average Rating:5.6/10

Runtime: 83 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Synopsis: Three aimless teenagers -- pampered, amoral Amy Blue, her naive boyfriend Jordan White, and hot-headed, mysterious hunk Xavier Red -- embark on a road trip after Xavier kills a store clerk. During... Three aimless teenagers -- pampered, amoral Amy Blue, her naive boyfriend Jordan White, and hot-headed, mysterious hunk Xavier Red -- embark on a road trip after Xavier kills a store clerk. During their trek, the teens engage in outrageous, remorseless violent acts, and explore their sexuality. But as their journey progresses, it grows darker and increasingly nihilistic... finally climaxing in a moment of shock and horror. [More]

Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Rose McGowan, James Duval, Margaret Cho

Starring: Johnathon Schaech, Rose McGowan, James Duval, Margaret Cho, Christopher Knight, Lauren Tewes, Heidi Fleiss, Amanda Bearse, Parker Posey

Director: Gregg Araki

Director: Gregg Araki

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Inspired by Godard's classic Band Apart, Araki's fifth feature is his most audacious and most technically accomplished film to date, reflecting the larger than usual budget and gained experience.

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It's a savagely funny ride fueled by Araki's insight and blunt compassion.

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Peter Travers
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Plays like a low-budget Natural Born Killers -- and that is not intended as a compliment.

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The violence becomes commonplace. The crudities never end. But there are hip benefits for staying to watch.

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Desson Thomson
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Amy's a screaming, speed-addled banshee, and not the sort of chick you'd want to run into late at night (or spend 85 minutes with in a darkened theater).

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Edward Guthmann
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An arty atrocity for thugs and sub-literates that makes Natural Born Killers look like The Sound of Music.

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Hal Hinson
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More like Natural Born Killers than any other film that comes to mind, but it's ultimately sexier, funnier, and much more 'alternative' (in every sense of the word).

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Not every kid may be as mad and morose as Araki's lost boys... But a lot are, and in this fevered fantasy of Armageddon, he's got their number.

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Richard Corliss
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This is the kind of movie where the filmmaker hopes to shock you with sickening carnage and violent amorality, while at the same time holding himself carefully aloof from it with his style.

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You sense that there is so much more at stake here than meets the eye, an extraordinary anger about and fear of 90s purposelessness and predatory intolerance.

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