Natural Born Killers - Oliver Stone Collection

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Summary: What's all the fuss about?
Review: I'm so glad I - or rather my Dad - got this DVD so cheap, otherwise I would have mighty disappointed. I wasn't particularly that fussed about watching it - I mentioned it, because one of the Tru Calling episodes was similar in a way. (I can't see HOW, my Dad pointed that out) And then my Dad ended up picking it up dirt cheap for me.

I lasted 46 minutes, before finally giving up.

I've seen worse films than this (Halloween, Last Broadcast, Lost Highway *cough*), and managed to last through them, but this film was bad. Worse than bad. Even worse than Lost Highway, and that's saying something! I lasted through that!!! I couldn't understand it, and it was severely disjointed, and made no sense to me whatever. I didn't like either Juliette or Woody Harrelson in this.

I don't know what I was expecting from this, but certainly not what I got. Is it even worth wasting my words on? Well, here's my review ... !

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Summary: my favortie movie ever
Review: watch, or don't watch it I could care less.

It's the best movie I have ever seen. With the greatest soundtrack I have ever heard. ( the Downward spiral and NIN.. are also my favorite album/band .. with out question)

I love even the tiny little details and even the cinimatic mess ups in this movie. ..

I grew up in oklahoma city when this movie came out, and it really captures this feeling or rage and contempt you get growing up surrounded by all those corrupt bible hugging freaks that in reality are the scum of the earth. They plague your life constantly with the Candy Coated hate-mongering and close minded view of life. Don't know if it was intended or just a part of the great choas of life, but this movie just really speaks to me. I really don't care if it speaks to anybody else anymore.

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Summary: A so-so black comedy,Not for all tastes.2 and a half stars
Review: When Oliver Stone gets down to work he can produce some amazing things, it shows with Natural Born Killers. This film has gained quite a reputation for being an influentially violent films, it apparently makes crime and murder look innocent and was therefore said to be responsible for a rise in crime - this even resulted in it being banned in the UK, until recent years where it has been developed into a director's cut and a cut version (although I think potential criminals would buy the ultraviolent copy.
Yet this copy actually does not glorify violence in any way, it merely tries to convey the media's obsession with it. Mickey and Mallory Knox are presented as two
hard-assed, lovey-dovey, stonecold serial killers. With acting talents such as Woody Harrellson and Juliette Lewis, with a brief appearence from Tommy Lee Jones, this film was destined for cult status and deserves it, from the pen of acclaimed director/writer Quentin Tarantino it is no wonder this film is so good and no wonder I love it so much - The only let down is that terrible reputation.

Rating:
Summary: Trully Excellent
Review: Can i just say this movie is excellent!!. Everybody thinks it just evolves around violence but their is the whole issue of the love relationship that Mickey and Malory have.yes it does glorify violence to a certain exsistant but it make good viewing,Also just one last thing i think the animation and real movie work well together as it draws imagination to your eyes of what the characters are like and how they interact within their environment.
This movie is well worth the watch and money EXCELLENT


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Summary: *Get Your Kicks on Route 666!*
Review: Oliver Stone is one of the greatest filmmakers of modern times, carrying with him an in-your-face style and revolutionary attitude towards the American landscape. This film encompasses most of Stone's fears, anxieties, and bitter commentaries on the state of America in our 'modern age'. This film was misunderstood by many, understandably as it paints a very lurid and menacing portrait of American family life as Mallory (played smolderingly by Juliette Lewis) is mistreated by her abusive father and ignored by her brainwashed mother. Into this picture walks the unstable and animalistic felon Mickey (a tour-de-force performance by Woody Harrelson, probably his best acting role to date). After a vengeful and liberating killing of Mallory's parents and a symbolic, snake ring marriage over an archetypal bridge, Mickey and Mallory become a Gen-X Bonnie and Clyde in their nonstop barrage of death and destruction down a lonely wasteland desert highway.

What gives the most food for thought in this film, however, is Stone's cynical and biting (and diabolically dark) satire of the Media's power and influence in the minds of the American public, as Mickey and Mallory become an almost deified, heroic couple whom 'audiences' everywhere are enamored by and fascinated with, teenagers especially, whose fixations on Mickey and Mallory are inspired by the materialist propaganda marketing by manipulative media hounds like Wayne Gale (played hilariously over-the-top by Robert Downey, Jr.) However, Stone does not stop there as he also deconstructs the prison system, law enforcement, and morality itself in the characters, such as fame-feeding, tyrannical warden Tommy Lee Jones or Tom Sizemore's portrayal of the equally sadistic and troubled detective, just as obsessed with the death and capture of Mickey and Mallory, as he is obsessed by their 'image'.

Incorporating a literal blitzkrieg of cinematographic techniques and camerawork (from handheld Super 8 to animation to garish, filtered-color psychedelia hallucinations to gritty, grainy black and white) and bookended by a microcosmic, stylized drive through America's past and present in the beginning of the film to a macrocosmic, philosophical, and ultimately bleak (yet strangely adrenaline rushing) ending: a montage of the 'future' marked by Leonard Cohen's urgent, plaintive song of the same title.

In the end, Natural Born Killers is one of the most unique (and some would say disturbing films) ever made, one of the few to truly touch on the issue of violence and human nature so unwaveringly since those such as A Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs. Except this one goes one further, as it stares US in the eyes and asks us some piercing and burning questions that we may or may not want to answer about ourselves or the world we live in. Although Stone's paranoid outlook on life may not be everyone's cup of tea, it is presented undiluted in this (his most enigmatic and maverick of films) and Natural Born Killers is (whether one likes it or not), when all is said and done, an intensely visceral experience of the greatest kind.

Highly Recommended.