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Summary: A Masterpiece. Brilliantly Nightmarish And Thought-Provoking
Review: Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" is not just a movie, it is an experience. It is a wild, dark ride that serves as a study of today's culture and it's fascination with violence. This movie is not so much about the killers, but about how the killers capture the public. The screenplay is masterfully structured with moments of vicious rage, deepness, dark comedy and powerful visual images. The film is hypnotically watchable due to the great mixing of different film formats, camera angles, colors and the breathtaking cinematography of Robert Richardson. "Natural Born Killers" is a great study of where our culture is going. Stone is a genius of cinema, one of the greatest directors there has ever been. This movie is effective, provocative, feverish and driven. It's electrifying. In fact, it's not as violent as you may think it is. It's the break neck speed it goes at and it's intense feeling. "Natural Born Killers" is both intense and brilliantly nightmarish. It's disturbing, as it should be. This serves as a slap on America's face, to wake it up. "Natural Born Killers" is a masterpiece, as Roger Ebert said: "Seeing this movie once is not enough."
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Summary: PEOPLE! It's satire, don't take it literally
Review: After seeing the reviews Natural Born Killers received from many critics, I was more or less dissuaded to watch it, but I gave it a shot anyway and could not understand why the movie received such horrible reviews. Natural Born Killers is about two bloodthirsty young lovers who go on a 3 week rampage all over the country, making them instant celebrities. These two mass murderers, Mickey and Mallory, are completely dillusional and desensitized from all of the violence they have witnessed on T.V. their entire lives. The movie is directed by Oliver Stone, who stylizes the movie from Mickey and Mallory's point of view. The flashback to when Mickey and Mallory met is represented as a cheesy sitcom, even when Mallory's father, played by Rodney Dangerfield, talks of raping his daughter, the canned audience laughter in the background illustrates how Mickey and Mallory picture every aspect of their lives. Much like the horror novel, Frankenstein, Natural Born Killers is about the creation of a monster, two monsters actually, except their creator is not a doctor, but the media and T.V., which is represented by Robert Downey Jr., who gives a brilliant performance as a news anchorman who only cares about himself. Natural Born Killers is not a light movie to watch, much like A Clockwork Orange, the beginning is all about random violence and mayhem. The main reason this movie received bad reviews was because many critics thought it glorified murder; Natural Born Killers is not a mindless movie meant to make homicide seem "cool", it is meant to open everyone's eyes to the eventual outcome of showing too much violence on T.V.
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Summary: Oliver Stone more like Oliver Stoned
Review: Stone extensively rewrote an original script by Quentin Tarantino .Both Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino should have been shot for this Mish Mash of a Pathetic Movie ,Stone for making it like he did and Tarantino for not making it like He Should.
Flash Backs,Flash Ups,Flash Dreams make for the Viewer thinking "With these Actors like this it Gotta get Better than this" Unfortuantly it does not.
This is the Movie that caused such Contrevesy when it came out ,I thought it was for its content but alas it was for the way it was Directed .
If you want a Movie by Tarantino ,Buy one that he Directed.
What a waste of $25
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Summary: A Natural Born Classic!
Review: A chilling , scary , disturbing , suspensful , good , Tarantino scripited , extremley violent gore fest directed by Oliver Stone. The story is about two modern day Bonnie and Clyde's Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis) Knox going on a killing spree around the country , and how the media glorfies mass murderers for television ratings and entertainment , like english reporter Wayne Gale (Robert Downey ,Jr.) trying to get a tv special about them. A good film if you have a strong stomach , don't eat while watching. Starring: Woody Harrleson , Juliete Lewis , Robert Downey , Jr. ,
Tommy Lee Jones , Rodney Dangerfield , Tom Sizemore and Baltazar Getty.
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Summary: Greatest Movie of the Nineties
Review: Natural Born Killers is easily the best movie to come out of this decade. It is surreal, highly intelligent, sarcastic, and like the Exorcist, seems to have some kind of power beneath the simple plot. The actors and actresses all perform perfectly as their characters, Tommy Lee Jones rightly over-the-top, and Woody Harrelson a subtle, evil Mickey Knox. The cinematography is simply amazing, pure amped beauty, the psychological screens behind the action, the desert, and my god, the violence of the riot... perfect. There's something going on in every sceen of the movie, like Owen at the beginning in the diner, or pictures of Mallory's father when she's with the gas station attendant. The movie was deep (sorry about the cliche) like in the whole Native American sceen where the word "demon" and "too much t.v." flash on the muderers chests. Later in the movie we hear more explictily about the demon in Mickey's amazing television interview with Wayne Gayle. But the main reason about why is movie is what it is and somehow more, is its message. It isn't subtle about it either. The media has gotten way too important, fed itself fat on society's rich blood, and yet we scream for more, we want our blood sucked. Every day our lives are permeated with violence, violence in movies, television, the news, and we crave it. Natural Born Killers was a wake up call, and a choatic brilliant one at that, turning a warped mirror around and pointing it at the audience. You see those people worshipping Mickey and Mallory at the outside the court sceen, that is us, that is who we are, and this movie tries to get us to wake up and see that.
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Summary: A Cult Classic from the 90`s.
Review: A Hedonistic Couple (Woody Harrelson & Juliette Lewis), who murder more that fifty people, while they got married. They Kill for the thrill of it. But when the American Public and the Whole World starts a infatuation with these Outlaws. They become Stars by the Media and they become Anti-Heroes. Directed by Two Time Oscar-Winner:Oliver Stone (Any Given Sunday, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors) made a strange, unusual, unique, hyperkinetic style, satire film with wild performances by the two leads. Supporting Cast are Terrific also:Robert Downey Jr., Oscar-Winner:Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield & more. It`s the Cast that highlighted this Compelling, Powerful, Black Comedy & Extremely Violent Film. Downey Jr. gives the Best Overacting Performance in the film (Which he steals the Show). DVD has an sharp non-anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer & an strong-Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD has an Interesting Commentary by the Director, Six Deleted Scenes with an Altertive Edting with a Introduction by the Director & more. This is the Unrated Version added Two Minutes of Additional Footage. This Fascination Premise was Originally Written by Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol.1 & Vol.2, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs), despite the disowned the film. When the director, the screenwriters & the producers made changes to Tarantino`s Original Screenplay. Which now Tarantino only recieves Story Credit. Still, the movie is Increasingly Challenge, Ingenious, Acclaimed Film but it`s also notorious ugly, disgusting film for some, which is not for all tastes. A disturbing film that become a Cult Classic. Screenplay by David Veloz, Richard Rutowski & Oliver Stone. Intoxicating Cinematoghaphy Work by Oscar-Winner:Robert Richardson (Oliver Stone`s JFK). Grade:A+.
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Summary: A Film That Had More Potential
Review: I remember reading Quentin Tarantino's great script for NATURAL BORN KILLERS before seeing the film. He wrote it in the late 80's and kept it until the early 90's when he sold it to director Oliver Stone (who wrote SCARFACE and directed PLATOON). At the time, Quentin Tarantino was not well-known, his only noticable work being a film that he wrote and directed in his debut, RESERVOIR DOGS in 1992. Therefore, Stone had his own vision for NATURAL BORN KILLERS, and practically re-wrote the script, only crediting Quentin Tarantino for the original story. After reading the original script, it was disappointing to see how the movie steered so far from it. The film plays out a few different styles: it feels like a commercial, cartoon, video game, and music video all at the same time. The opening scene of the film plays well, it's definitely my favorite scene of the entire film, but the "creative" styles grow old fast. The techniques used put distance between the audience and the characters and make it hard for it to present that gripping quality Quentin Tarantino originally intended for. Although, at times the colored flashing lights and black and white picture seem charming, they get in the way of the real film, preventing me from strongly reccomending this film. It's an unusual and interesting film, and made by a director who knows what he's doing, but it just doesn't hold up overall.
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Summary: A MONUMENTAL MASTERWORK!
Review: NATURAL BORN KILLERS is an aggressive, in-your-face, timeless bloodsoaked masterpiece. Man, this movie NEVER gets old! The power it has the first time you see it is EXACTLY the same power you'll feel when you see it for the eight or ninth time. This is one of those movies like REQUIEM FOR A DREAM that is just ridiculously AMAZING! It's hard to believe a filmmaker who's just a regular human being like everyone else could succeed so perfectly and astonishingly in capturing and showing every single message and critique he wanted to put in the forefront. Though it's sharp, audacious, angry, unapologetic, eye-opening satirical attack on the greedy and souless disgrace that is mainstream media, and the awe-striking way in which it constantly shows in so many different ways why the media is such a lying fear-promoting monster, is what makes it such a MONUMENTALLY important film, it would be brilliant filmmaking even without it. Stone has always been one of the most energetic, ambitious, and visually creative filmmakers in America, and he uses those skills to the max in this, the standout of his amazing career. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis couldn't have nailed the psycho persona, and all the different emotional and psychological wreckage that comes with it, more DEAD-ON! But the real acting standout of this film is the wonderful Robert Downey Jr.'s remarkable, raw, unforgiving, explosively hysterical turn as media scumbag Wayne Gale. He may have a Robin Leach-like accent, but don't be fooled: There is no doubt that this is motherf**king Geraldo Rivera IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY! I'm surprised Rivera wasn't throwing the same disgraceful, disgusting, and shamefully self-righteous hizzy fit that the pathetic John Grisham threw, since the film captures (with a depressingly small amount of exaggeration) everything that makes Geraldo such reprehensible media vermin. To all the people who said this film was responsible for inciting violence: SHAME ON YOU! Isn't it funny that the vicious and dangerous moral and PC police always targets the best films? Like DOGMA, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, this is one of the most socially conscious AND socially valuable films of it's time. And, like REQUIEM, it is a film that puts most filmmaking to shame and transcends the power of it's medium, thus becoming not just a great film but a terrific human achievment.
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Summary: A Cult Classic from the 90`s.
Review: A Hedonistic Couple (Woody Harrelson & Juliette Lewis), who murder more that fifty people, while they got married. They Kill for the thrill of it. But when the American Public and the Whole World starts a infatuation with these Outlaws. They become Stars by the Media and they become Anti-Heroes. Directed by Two Time Oscar-Winner:Oliver Stone (Any Given Sunday, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors) made a strange, unusual, unique, hyperkinetic style, satire film with wild performances by the two leads. Supporting Cast are Terrific also:Robert Downey Jr., Oscar-Winner:Tommy Lee Jones, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield & more. It`s the Cast that highlighted this Compelling, Powerful, Black Comedy & Extremely Violent Film. Downey Jr. gives the Best Overacting Performance in the film (Which he steals the Show). DVD has an sharp non-anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) transfer & an strong-Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD has an Interesting Commentary by the Director, Six Deleted Scenes with an Altertive Edting with a Introduction by the Director & more. This is the Unrated Version added Two Minutes of Additional Footage. This Fascination Premise was Originally Written by Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill Vol.1 & Vol.2, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs), despite the disowned the film. When the director, the screenwriters & the producers made changes to Tarantino`s Original Screenplay. Which now Tarantino only recieves Story Credit. Still, the movie is Increasingly Challenge, Ingenious, Acclaimed Film but it`s also notorious ugly, disgusting film for some, which is not for all tastes. A disturbing film that become a Cult Classic. Screenplay by David Veloz, Richard Rutowski & Oliver Stone. Intoxicating Cinematoghaphy Work by Oscar-Winner:Robert Richardson (Oliver Stone`s JFK). Grade:A+.
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Summary: boil it down....a great love story!
Review: this movie was fantastic. it has a little bit of each genre in it. woody harrelson gives an amazing performance along side a great cast of talented actors. every character in the movie was depicted perfectly by that who played it. most people who have seen this movie don't truly get what it was about. the core of it was a love story. a love story surrounded by chaos and mass murder and some psychedelics. this movie definitely gets 5 stars from me.
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