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Summary: Brilliant
Review: A true masterpiece. This film is truely one of the best if not the best movie I've ever seen. Offering a chilling perspective of the human animal in an inhuman society.
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Summary: An Artistic Masterpiece
Review: Oliver Stones NBK:the directors cut is an excellent film artisticly speaking, although the message of the peoples obsession with serial killers in the media gets lost at times with violence. Creative shooting techniques in various types of film. Overall an outstanding achievement by Stone.
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Summary: Amazing but only buy if you've seen the normal movie
Review: This is worth the money if you are a fan of the movie but if not it's a waste of money.Great acting by a top notch cast including Woody Harrelson as Micky Knox,Juliet Lewis as Malory Knox,Robert Downey jr. as Wayne Gale and a movie stealing proformance by Rodney Dangerfield.It's odd to see Rodney as a abusive dad when you've seen him do comedy all the time.Diffrent endings and cut out versions.and a amazing music video by Nine Inch Nails called "Burn" not for children!!! but if you liked the first version buy this one it's for a true NBK fan and I think Oliver Stone deserved a Oscar for the directing it was well done END
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Summary: The best movie of all time
Review: Natural Born Killers is in my opinion the best movie of all time.It's violent but at the same time makes a great point of how the media glamorizes murders and the ending is a surprise so what are you waiting for buy the movie!!!! (Not for the weak at heart I must warn you) END
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Summary: Great Stuff, a very interesting Movie
Review: Natural Born Killers, IMO is a great movie. Directed by Oliver Stone, Stone has a very unique directing style and he uses it to illustrate this movie extremely well. This movie follows the life of 2 lovers who go on massive killing sprees. It may be a bit confusing to watch, but it really just makes you think more. The Director's Cut includes over an hour of footage that was cut out of the final movie. Some of this extra footage include cut out scenes, an alternate ending, and a music video by Nine Inch Nails called Burn. The extra footage is very interesting to watch after you've seen the movie. Overall, a great movie to watch. END
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Summary: "In the media circus of life, they were the main attraction"
Review: This true masterpiece directed by acclaimed director and writer, Oliver Stone, is avant-garde filmaking at its breaking point. The whole theme of Natural Born Killers is that the media is obsessive over violence and brutality; therefore, the extreme violence in the movie is used as a satire, not as entertainment. Definitely one of the most controversial movies ever released, especially in the 1990s when the Simpson trial, Rodney King, and the Menendez brothers became celebrity darlings because of the mass media and not because of anything credible. The acting by all the leads, especially Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, is amazing. Their true love is another theme that proves vital in Natural Born Killers. It is the one and only thing that can hold people together when faced with such things as violence and a tormented childhood. The actual violence portrayed is not even that graphic after one viewing. It is the break-neck pacing and high-speed cuts that give the movie its violent intensity. If not Woody Harrelson, then definitely Juliette Lewis should have received some sort of Academy nomination, such as an Emmy, if not an Oscar.Oliver Stone beats one in the face with this media spectacle that boasts every type of film style imaginable. Everything from 36 mm to black and white to animation to a video camera to color tinting to fast and slow motion is used in abundance with fascinating success. Roger Ebert said, "Seeing this movie once is not enough," and he is right! A must see. Brilliant Filmaking!
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Summary: Sheer Chaos But An Important Message Within.
Review: A film that didn't turn out as I expected. Ok I knew there was going to be violence just from its title but all the killing, the swearing and the chaos never stopped. I didn't particulary enjoy this film yet it for some reason it kept me interested, I wanted to see if fate played for or against Mickey and Mallory, two of the most twisted characters ever to come to a movie screen. There's nothing gratifying in Natural Born Killers but there is an important message on how the media nowadays glorifies violence, creating cult followers for mass murderers - what Oliver Stone manages to do is portray the negative in the 90's, particularly American pseudo-culture. You have Rodney King, O.J Simpson, Tonya Harding, The Menendez Brothers... and all these things are linked by a single medium - 90's television. Definitely not one of my favourites, but I do appreciate why people respect this movie so much, it's well made, just not to my liking as such. What would have been interesting to see was original script writer Quentin Tarentino's version, apparently much altered from the film. As it is though, its worth a viewing.
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Summary: Violence as a media event
Review: "Natural Born Killers" is not about glorifying violence; it's a chilling parody of the American fascination with violence. The quick changes from color to black and white and back again, interspersed with animated sequences, point up the satiric nature of the movie. Mickey and Mallory, very well played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, are two killing machines without heart or soul or conscience; their only redeeming virtues are their love for each other. They aren't meant to be sympathetic characters and they're not, but Oliver Stone's direction makes them pale in depravity besides some of the other characters -- the sadistic warden, the despicable detective and his morbid fascination with Mallory, Mallory's nauseating, sexually abusive father, and above all, Robert Downey's superb characterization of the media pimp who feeds off blood and gore. The last scene in the movie, of Mickey and Mallory on the road with their two children, and Mallory about to deliver a third at any minute, underscores the whole message of the film; violence feeds on itself and begets yet more violence. Those viewers who were most upset by the movie missed its message. "Natural Born Killers" is a brilliant, disturbing depiction of the shallowness of American culture at the end of the 20th century.
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Summary: Good point badly executed.
Review: I LOVE the message of this film: The media glamorizes criminals and violence. I HATE the way they did the film: Put as much sadistic bloody carnage and brutal beatings as possible in two hours, then add in weird experimental camera work and random bits of animation. I know chastising this film for violence seems silly, but for the most part this film deals with its violence in a far too sadistic manner. I really couldn't tell where Stone was trying to go with this, since some of the violence is presented as an exciting escape from reality, while some was just disgusting for anybody (especially in the Director's Cut). The film would work if the violence had been dealt with in a manner that would make it both limited and evenly portrayed. The outrageous black comedy "Man Bites Dog" is a (ever-so-slightly) less violent and much more compelling film because the violence is presented as being a terrible and anti-human thing to do throughout the film, but gets dashed sparingly with pitch-black humor. In a Hollywood let's-blow-everything-we-can-up huge-budget auctioneer, you can tell the action and violence is fake, so you find it oddly enjoyable. Even in a serious drama like "Requiem for a Dream" or "Fight Club" we see violence as being ugly and wrong. This film can't seem to decide how it wants to portray violence, so it presents it many different ways, which really makes me second guess how well Oliver Stone told the message of the film. The nauseating camera work in the film would have been more compelling if it was used sparingly and viewers weren't simply barraged with it until our eyes hurt. If someone makes another film about how the media glorifies violence, maybe they'll learn that we really don't need to SEE all the violence and that constantly putting gruesome images in front of our eyes isn't effectively getting your point across. Maybe I'm wrong. Before you automatically agree with this, rent it and decide for yourself.
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Summary: really 4.5 stars, but i'd rather give it 5 than 4
Review: a great indictment of a seemingly ubiquitous american pop culture media that glorifies and perpetuates human vice (namely violence). though the focused antagonist is the media, stone isn't too shy about pointing the finger at all of us as well; that we all maintain the "demon". the sybolism is over-catered and pretty thickly blatant (stone, as always, would have done well to use a subtler approach), but his point is no doubt driven home. and perhaps such a conspicuous rendering was intentional and serves more as a mirror of the overwhelming barrage and adornment of violence in this society (maybe not). anyway, watch this movie. hopefully someday it, and others like it, can be taught in schools and america can finally break free of its soul stomping capitalistic love of violence. i doubt it. and i doubt it. stone seems to suggest as the picture comes to a close that the "death" of media will be the death of violence. and though that serves well cinematically, philosophically the problem is deeper and much more ingrained in us (a mere less-than-fortunate-consequence of evolution). anyway and in any case, this is an achievement. visually and artistically.
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