The Doom Generation

Starring:James Duval, Rose McGowan, Johnathon Schaech, Cress Williams, Nivek Ogre, Cevin Key, Dwayne R. Goettel, Dustin Nguyen, Margaret Cho, Lauren Tewes, Christopher Knight, Nicky Katt, Johanna Went, Perry Farrell, Amanda Bearse, Parker Posey, Salvator Xuereb, Heidi Fleiss, Don Galloway, Dewey Weber
Director: Gregg Araki
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

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Made for a fraction of the cost of Oliver Stone's similarly themed Natural Born Killers, Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation is more persuasively outragous in its cultural satire, scarier in its violence, and more profound in its vision of a hate-fueled, media-drunk America seemingly determined to eat its young and dwell stupidly on their vengeance. Rose McGowan (Scream), James Duval (Nowhere), and Johnathon Schaech (That Thing You Do!) star as a trio of friends (Schaech's character actually being a complete stranger who steps into their car and into their lives one club-hopping night) who end up on a sex-and-crime spree that draws the fixed stare of television coverage. Araki makes a case for their continuing innocence in a society whose anti-outsider malevolence is barely disguised in the media but is quite naked out in the heartland, where a punishing level of bigotry is not unknown. Araki's jokes and techniques are crude yet forceful, and his anger is absolutely clear where Stone's was obscured and overreaching. The climax is among the most shattering and enraged scenes of '90s cinema. The DVD includes cast information, a theatrical trailer, and French and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

surprise ending.......2007-06-18

didn't like it, blood didn't look real, i'd pass

I love this film.......2007-05-16

I must first admit that I picked up this film because James Duval is a total stud, but it turned out to be a really good and interesting film.

good cult flick.......2007-05-16

This was a good film although a bit disturbing with the nature of the actors in the movie. I did enjoy the somewhat constant "fear" of the main character being caught and the loss of innocense.

Yup, its a crazy one allright........2007-03-24

Yeah, I saw this movie when it came out NC-17. Yeah, I was like 17, I was disturbed, it was a cold February night downtown, my key broke off in my door and I had to pay a tow truck driver to tow me 55 mile home. The part with Perry at the counter and Skinny Puppy in the warehouse will live with me forever, as that night that I originally saw it will. It is simply a good example of nouveau avant garde filmaking. Kind of experimental. There were many art house films in the early to mid ninties that would definitly make your stomach turn, but that was the beauty of these movies, the total, unmistakable catharsis.

loved it!.......2006-11-07

If you are a fan of Gregg Arraki, watch this movie! Roce McGowan and James Duval did a great job. Not to be watched by those that can't expand their minds beyond the box...

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The Doom Generation
Starring: Amanda Bearse , Billy Bullet , Don Galloway , Nicky Katt , and Christopher Knight
Director: Gregg Araki
Manufacturer: Lionsgate
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Release Date: 2007-08-07

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Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickie marts.

The Doom Generation [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]

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The Doom Generation [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
Director: Gregg Araki
Manufacturer: Palace Films
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
ASIN: B000C4RCYQ

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Australia released, PAL/Region 4 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada. Languages: o English (Dolby Digital 2.0) Synopsis: Billed as "a heterosexual movie by Gregg Araki," The Doom Generation is the the director's self-styled bad taste teen film. Amy Blue (Rose McGowan) is an obnoxious teenage speed freak and her boyfriend Jordan White (James Duval) is a passive, slow-witted poseur who won't have sex with her because he's terrified of AIDS (even though they both claim to be virgins). One day, they run across Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech), a charming but enigmatic drifter who has a bad habit of killing people. Joining the young couple on a seemingly endless road trip, Xavier (or "X,"as the verbally challenged Jordan insists on calling him), proves a threatening and repulsive yet strangely alluring companion whose very presence raises issues of loyalty and sexual identity. The Doom Generation is dotted with a variety of eccentric cameo appearances, including comic Margaret Cho, actress Parker Posey, musician Perry Farrell, "Hollywood Madame" Heidi Fleiss, and onetime Brady Bunch star Christopher Knight. This is the middle installment in Araki's "teen apocalypse trilogy," which also includes 1993's Totally F***ed Up and 1997's Nowhere. Special Features: o Filmographies o Interactive Menu o Photo Gallery o Scene Access o Uncut

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surprise ending
I love this film
good cult flick
Yup, its a crazy one allright.
loved it!

The Doom Generation [Region 2]
Starring: James Duval , Rose McGowan , Johnathon Schaech , Cress Williams , and Nivek Ogre
Director: Gregg Araki
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Superior to both Kids and Natural Born Killers, Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation is a snarling satire that has the emotional range to prompt rage, fear, laughter, and grief in a viewer. Three L.A.-based, almost-twentysomethings--an incredibly foul-mouthed Valley Girl (Rose McGowan), her puppyish boyfriend (James Duval), and a sexy bad boy (Johnathon Schaech)--take to the road after a series of comic collisions with skinheads and gun-toting convenience-store clerks. While secret lawmen and voyeuristic TV cameras follow their movements, the fugitives gradually warm up to a three-way sexual relationship that wraps them in a profound, renewing innocence--an innocence then stolen by a wrathful America. Araki skewers the usual villains: the media, homophobes, gun nuts, Gen-X stereotypes. But there is so much more at stake here than meets the eye, an extraordinary anger and fear about predatory intolerance and purposelessness about the young. The DVD release includes the original theatrical trailer and production notes. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

surprise ending.......2007-06-18

didn't like it, blood didn't look real, i'd pass

I love this film.......2007-05-16

I must first admit that I picked up this film because James Duval is a total stud, but it turned out to be a really good and interesting film.

good cult flick.......2007-05-16

This was a good film although a bit disturbing with the nature of the actors in the movie. I did enjoy the somewhat constant "fear" of the main character being caught and the loss of innocense.

Yup, its a crazy one allright........2007-03-24

loved it!.......2006-11-07

If you are a fan of Gregg Arraki, watch this movie! Roce McGowan and James Duval did a great job. Not to be watched by those that can't expand their minds beyond the box...

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