"The world sucks."
Two attractive twenty-something year old teenage lovers (Blue and White)
accidentally pick up a third attractive twenty-something year old teenager (Red)
in their crappy old car and then set out on an aimless road trip around Los
Angeles. Occasionally stopping along the way for some good ol’ American robbery,
dismemberment and cock mutilation. Sounds cool, but it’s nowhere near as
exciting as you would imagine. Not even close. Oh yeah, you did catch on that
the three main characters, Red White and Blue, all have names that coincide with
the colours of the American flag, right? Okay, cool. Just making sure. Cuz
man…that’s fucking deep.
Featuring a cameo by Heidi Fleiss (among other forgotten celebrities), a joke
about "Richard Gere's butthole", a Ministry shirt and music by everybody
from Nine Inch Nails to MC 900 Ft Jesus, THE DOOM GENERATION is definitely a
product of its times. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing, but it
is an interesting historical (and low budget) look back to the mid-1990’s
America.
I remember seeing THE DOOM GENERATION when it first came out on home video
(probably 1996) and being disappointed that it paled to
NATURAL BORN KILLERS. Revisiting it now, the whole thing just looks cheap. And the dialogue
is cringier than I remember. Also, the whole gay thing (two dudes) is so
lightweight that is almost doesn’t exist. Lame. And the ending sucked.
Worth watching if you’re curious and / or interested in 1990’s independent
cinema. Others would probably just find it boring. Writer, Director, Editor and
Producer Gregg Araki would later go on to make the devastating
MYSTERIOUS SKIN
in 2004.
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MIDNIGHT COWBOY (1969)
A young man with severe mental issues, Joe Buck (Jon Voight), leaves Texas and
travels to New York City in hopes of being a long-legged mack daddy. He soon
finds out, mainly thanks to his brain having the computing power of 14 Fig
Newtons superglued to a half-dead AAA battery, that although he has long legs,
he damn sure ain’t no mack daddy! Things happen and before you can say “I should
write a YA novel called ‘Donner Party Slumber Party Massacre’ about teens
playing a slumber party game where whoever falls asleep first gets eaten.” Ol’
Joe Buck is homeless and starving to death. At the same time, he befriends a
predatory street hustler with the confidence building name of Ratso (Dustin
Hoffman). Together these two champions go into business capitalizing on Buck’s
supposed ability to satisfy women. Things go about as well as you would
expect.
MIDNIGHT COWBOY won three Oscars at the 42nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Looking back on it meow, was MC really the best movie of 1969? I have no clue. I haven't seen every movie released in 1969, but I am curious (and will probably update this review in the future) because while it is a good film...I cannot imagine that it was really the absolute best movie of the year. Then again 1969 was like three or four hundred years ago, so who knows what the fuck was going on back then. One thing I do know is MIDNIGHT COWBOY is a very interesting time capsule back to a time that looks absolutely foreign as fuck compared to [insert the year you're reading this]. Another interesting tidbit is MIDNIGHT COWBOY is the only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture. Being "rated X" you're probably expecting to see wall-to-wall big floppy juicy dongs and titties bouncing all over the place, but sadly what little nudity there is was extremely non-erotic and honestly depressing as hell due to (most of) it being in rape flashback nightmares. Instead, I'm guessing, the X rating was due to overall depressing tone of the film, the homosexual subject matter and the strongly implied sexual abuse Joe suffered as a young child at the hands of his grandmother.
Should you watch MIDNIGHT COWBOY? Definitely. 100%. It's still a good film with strong acting, amazing NYC locations and wildly influential on movies and TV shows even still today. Especially the "I'm walking here!" quote. That shits been used in everything from FORREST GUMP to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Check it out.
[Update 03/02/2022: This has absolutely nothing to do with the review, but I was just looking through some old newspapers and found a few ads for something called "Midnight Plowboy". I can only assume it's some kind of adult parody of MIDNIGHT COWBOY (or maybe not). Either way I just wanted to share. Link to newspaper ads.]
MIDNIGHT COWBOY won three Oscars at the 42nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Looking back on it meow, was MC really the best movie of 1969? I have no clue. I haven't seen every movie released in 1969, but I am curious (and will probably update this review in the future) because while it is a good film...I cannot imagine that it was really the absolute best movie of the year. Then again 1969 was like three or four hundred years ago, so who knows what the fuck was going on back then. One thing I do know is MIDNIGHT COWBOY is a very interesting time capsule back to a time that looks absolutely foreign as fuck compared to [insert the year you're reading this]. Another interesting tidbit is MIDNIGHT COWBOY is the only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture. Being "rated X" you're probably expecting to see wall-to-wall big floppy juicy dongs and titties bouncing all over the place, but sadly what little nudity there is was extremely non-erotic and honestly depressing as hell due to (most of) it being in rape flashback nightmares. Instead, I'm guessing, the X rating was due to overall depressing tone of the film, the homosexual subject matter and the strongly implied sexual abuse Joe suffered as a young child at the hands of his grandmother.
Should you watch MIDNIGHT COWBOY? Definitely. 100%. It's still a good film with strong acting, amazing NYC locations and wildly influential on movies and TV shows even still today. Especially the "I'm walking here!" quote. That shits been used in everything from FORREST GUMP to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Check it out.
[Update 03/02/2022: This has absolutely nothing to do with the review, but I was just looking through some old newspapers and found a few ads for something called "Midnight Plowboy". I can only assume it's some kind of adult parody of MIDNIGHT COWBOY (or maybe not). Either way I just wanted to share. Link to newspaper ads.]
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