Please don't spend money on this.
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... View MoreGreat movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
... View MoreI love this movie to death. It's replete with colorful imagery and shockful of witty dialogue and intriguing characters. It's campy, daring and borderline nonsensical. But somehow it all comes together in an apocalyptic vision of masonic cults, witches, gay sex, and the end of the world.Gregg Araki is known for making strange movies and this is perhaps his strangest. But there's a certain warmth that transpires it all, a deep love for the characters, all of which feel a certain emptiness about life, a certain longing for something more meaningful and ultimate. This longing is fulfilled as the movie spirals into utter madness.You gotta be in the right mood for this one and enjoy movies with a B-movie-esque feel. Watch KABOOM with an open mind. Watch it on a big screen. Turn up the volume. Cherish the weirdness.
... View MoreGregg Araki continues his daring sojourn into the arena that other filmmakers avoid - frank sexual adventures of every kind, characters whose placement in the story is often like window dressing for effect, and yet out of it all comes a fascinating if at time discombobulating tale that appeals to a certain audience - and doesn't mind if the rest of the folks who don't approve of his antics even attend!The film follows the life of one Smith (Thomas Dekker) and his everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella (Haley Bennett), hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London (Juno Temple), lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor (Chris Zylka). Smith parties, sleeps around with both men (Jason Olive, Andy Fischer-Price) and women in various combinations. He's bisexual, is about to turn 19 and is having strange dreams which seem to work their way into his life. There's gay sex, lesbian sex, witchcraft, men in animal masks, murder and some secret organization - it all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night when all the signs of Smith's dreams seem to come together in a apocalyptic fusion that involves Smith's father (Michael James Spall), Smith's hedonistic mother (Kelly Lynch), and visits from the Messiah! It is a sci-fi story centered on the sexual awakening of a group of college students.Dekker somehow carries this film due to his skills as an actor but also his complete involvement in what is obviously Araki's secondary persona. It is a crazy film, rich in color, at many times ludicrous, and at other times very sexy - you know, the way Gregg Araki continues to make these solid little art house movies. It would be silly to fault KABOOM for being shallow or unserious; its whole mode of being is profoundly antiserious, playfully assaulting any form of earnestness other than Smith's emo melancholy. Grady Harp
... View MoreThe underlying theme of this quirky movie is sex, and there is lots of it. We are not talking porno sex here but there is more than enough semi naked, bouncing booby, girl on girl, boy on girl, boy on boy action to go around. Definitely not one to watch with granny.Take the sex out and there really isn't an awful lot left. The plot is a bit zany and all the exposition is jammed into the last eight minutes.But saying that I did find the film entertaining and the characters (although totally off-the-wall) interesting.The story has very little cohesion, but the acting and stylised characters carry it through.
... View MoreOMG this is what i call bad movie. I can't believe that it actually have solid rate at 5.8. Acting is very lame, screenplay is awful. I planned to watch some Gregg Araki movies soon, but now i think i won't. Thomas Dekker and Haley Bennet had some solid acting in this movie, but rest of cast is very very bad. Well at least i was watching Haley, she is so beautifu. Only good thing about movie. In first 20 minutes story was solid and interesting. Rest of film is simply rubbish. I don't know, maybe they didn't had enough money to film it like they wanted. Anyway this film is definitely the worst of my life, so guys if you wanna lose 80 minutes of your life this is right film to do such a thing.
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