Takeshi-K 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.

videorama-759-859391 Araki has now plummeted into an abyss of frustration with his pics, where his best one, Mysterious Skin brought him back up. This movie mess is too crazy to be taken seriously. The three performers perform, notably the hate driven female, with a soft side. Her and her best friend (Duvall) pick up sexy hitchhiker, Schaech, and what begins is a crazed journey of debauchery, and violence which escalates into a sickeningly shocking and memorably scene of violence in it's finale, leaving one less traveler. Yes the movie is entertaining as f..k, with a few instances (666 and "I'll find her and her kill her") plus a cameo by Christopher Knight, aka: Peter Brady and Lauren Tewes from The Love Boat as news anchors. The dialogue is juicy and originally cutting and informative, one line of dialogue, referring to Dickie Gere's butthole. The last scene and dreary ending song, has always stayed with me, prefore a experimental film of madness, which Araki shows you again, how the gay are wronged, and the independence of their characters living in a world of angst. They suffer insult, day to day, but paying no heed to those ignoramas's out there, where of course this subject is always gonna be frowned upon. Of course, compared to his other two films before hand, this one has much little reference to it. And what points he's trying to get through in this film, have got lost in this mire of a film, yet carried well by it's three mains.

Tromafreak Now, here's a fine example of hard-hitting, 90's Exploitation. Brought to you by Gregg Araki. The Doom Generation is a gritty, super-dismal, often hilarious tale of murder, betrayal, and sleaziness. We begin with a young couple, hanging out at a club, Amy Blue (meth-head), and Jordan White (pot-head). Amy is a vindictive little nightmare, who's just looking for an argument. And Jordan, well, Jordan doesn't do a whole lot of thinking, but is a good guy, who loves Amy, despite her personality issues. Amy and Jordan take it to the car, so they can lose their virginity, but are soon interrupted...Meet Xavier Red (killer), X for short.Xavier rudely enters Amy's car, rudely demanding she start driving so that he may live, rudely insulting her, subtly insulting Jordan, but he doesn't mind. Amy on the other hand, is about to blow her top, but at least she has someone to argue with now... no wait, he just went too far. Alright guy!! Out of the car.Later in the evening, the teenage, odd couple are rescued by their new pal, X from a trigger-happy, convenience store clerk. after X literally blows the mans head off. They all 3, right then and there, decide to take a road trip together, leaving behind everything. The night sure is going to hell, but at least Amy has someone to argue with again, that's what's important. It doesn't take Xavier long to make his intentions clear, with Amy, and despite the fact that she despises him, she's all for it. They don't try all that hard to hide this from Jordan, but it's cool, Jordan doesn't mind, "X seems like a nice guy". Amy doesn't mind Xavier's insults, Jordan doesn't mind that the man is sleeping with his girlfriend, and no one seems to be all that bothered by the fact that X kills someone every time they stop somewhere.The Doom Generation is harsh, and mean-spirited, and can be ugly, at times, just a swell movie, probably Araki's best. The religious, and apocalyptic metaphors won't go unnoticed, and neither will Rose McGowan, as a foul-mouthed teenager, with a chip on her shoulder, with James Duval's performance making her seem even worse. Some things occur, seemingly with the intention of confusing us, but that's OK, confusion only makes this seem more like exploitation from decades past. For something slightly similar, check out Nowhere... which reminds me, if you ever see both these movies, you might notice that it would be a much better fit if they switched the titles, just a thought. Although, The Doom Generation is deeper than it may seem, it's still a grim good time, with no redeeming qualities, Generation-X-ploitation. 9/10

dilbertsuperman Unless your girlfriend is cool, this is not a date movie- weird relationship situations and totally random bloody violence abound. Our main plot is centered around Amy- a hot goth-looking chick who is generally annoyed at the world and out of place- her two sidekicks are a sweet but pathetic boyfriend and a new dangerous man Xavier who is rude but knows the ropes better than his two unlikely partners.Something pulp fictionish happens at a store and the trio hit the road and continually encounter people that have a strange desire to be very close to Amy. Everything they buy costs the same amount- it's quite dreamlike at points.This nudges some gay sexual boundaries here and there but it's usually tastefully shot scenes so we don't have to see explicit details- but you still get that potentially uncomfortable idea thrown at you since they are continually co-habitating as a trio. If you have a lot of gay rage you are going to be annoyed and probably would make a good drinking buddy of the guys showcased at the end of the flick.All in all this is like a teenagers Dali painting on film with a gloomy kinda goth vibe to our lead character. This is pulp all the way- a violent decadent indulgent confection of letting the story wander right into the depths of insanity without blinking. My kind of flick. It would have been nice to have about eleven times more female nudity since our lead is quite the cutie with a nice chest.This movie has no point- and that was the point.