Good movie but grossly overrated

An Exercise In Nonsense

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Doom Generation is a pretentious brain dead road movie that takes style over substance to a whole new level. Amy and Jordan are young losers whose lives are a destructive blur of junk food, swearing and killing. These two losers are joined by hipster drifter Xavier whose appearance in the film seems to be an attempt to prove that being bisexual is somehow automatically cool. He isn't. He is boring and so is this film. There are much better 1990s road movies like Natural Born Killers, Kalifornia and Flirting With Disaster to name a few.

Famous underground road movie from the 90s, The Doom Generation is part of the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy whose controversial side helped to build the director's career. Mixture of psychedelic colours and every sort of insults come one after another along with a shoegazy soundtrack (Slowdive, Lush, Ride…) and scenes from an off the wall world. And if we have trouble in guessing where Araki wants to take us and the message he wants to deliver, the viewer, as a real rubberneck, takes great delight in enjoying those gore, crazy and sexual scenes. This doomed generation is perfectly represented by Rose McGowan (her debut and best performance), James Duval (the director's all time favourite actor) and the loony Johnathon Schaech. This marginal trio rises like an opposite, shocking and attractive stance against the conservative and puritanical America that Araki condemns. If the reviews were lukewarm upon its release, the movie never stopped to raise its profile, especially thanks to his odd atmosphere, and finally became a cult movie. Full review on our blog : https://losindiscretos.org/English/the-doom-generation- 1995-gregg-araki-en

-You could find a minimal spoiler-It is a cool movie full of memorable quotes and phrases. It has a strange topic and it makes no sense, but it also has that special ingredient to make it interesting. The three main characters are very special and they make connections through the lighter which is a curious detail. It is a teenage movie, a cult of messed up teens and dark comedy with edgy hotel rooms and rude language. It is the kind of movie that makes you wish you meet people like that and have almost the same adventures Another thing that makes it special is the details, it is full of them!We can call it a 'cult' movie.

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.