gregkae This stunning piece elicits emotions that in my case were so intense that I submitted myself to the harrowing experience of the registration process just to be able to share with the world that I throw up more colourful ideas after a bad paella and a bottle of cheap lambrusco. I white-knuckled it on fast forward and it still dragged like a 45 minute tooth extraction; waxing your armpits hurts less. Whoever participated in churning out this steaming pile of manure should be sent to a pig farm for a lifetime of unpaid work. Pointless, clueless, plot less. No script, no dialogue, no direction. It makes you think though - who stole the money to finance it, who blackmailed the actors to take part in it, who browbeat a family member to shoot it, so yeah, it is thought provoking. My neighbour's cat suffering from chronic diarrhoea excretes stuff that has more substance to it. To top it off this drivel looks like it has been recorded on a point-and-shoot pocket camera bought at a country fair in eastern Europe. IMDb really has to introduce new ratings system, maybe minus points, so that pieces like the doom generation can get its undeniable praise.

Reaper 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.

zoeisdead2002 The first gregg araki film I ever watched was "Nowhere". I first thought it was trying to be too weird like David Lynch. Later on I took an interest in Araki cause this is a filmmaker that wants to be different and this is the kind of guy that knew what kind of music kids actually listened to and what their thoughts were.Its hard not to miss all the metaphors and symbolisms in the film. Of course these interpretations are what makes a movie stand out. I could'nt say what strikes me the most about this film, I only watched it for the violence and nude scenes. I just saw it also as a satire on the teen genre and road movies. They cuss like sailors and have very little empathy for just about everything (with a little exception for the dog they ran over.)The movie has three characters:Amy blue Jordan white Xavier redTheir last names obviously references the American flag so I guess they represent todays American youth.I've read about metaphors about Xavier being a devil and Jordan as an angel fighting over Amy blue who is in interpretation of the human race. I'll admit I didn't look at it that way when I first viewed the film. I just saw it as a straight forward indie film. With exaggerations of American pop culture and a 90's soundtrack. Of course I do like it that the film has layers of meaning and what araki wanted to convey in his messages.Themes:Every stranger they bumped into seem to know who Amy blue is and they call her by different names. They also have violent tendencies towards her.666. I don't need to tell you what that symbol is about, it is used numerous times.The feds who are after Amy blue for the murder of a store clerk. the men sitting across from each other are twins. This is a pun about them being a uniformed society.Billboard signs messaging them about the rapture. Of course araki is satirizing Americas obsession with the end of the world. The world hasn't ended yet *knock on wood* but the perfect world Amy and Jordan created does end with his death. So the human race might not end anytime soon but each person has their own end that will eventually come.In the end after Jordans death Amy and Xavier keep riding in spite of their traumatic event. Moving on is the only thing they can do. Xavier breaks the ice by offering her a bag of doritos.

johnhomicidal 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.