I am excited that the new Gregg Araki movie looks like his older shit.
'mysterious skin' is clearly his BEST film (and a masterful adaptation of the very powerful Scott Heim novel of the same name), and 'smiley face' is probably my all time favorite pot-oriented movie (although my stoner friends are kind of luke-warm about it, i thought it was extremely funny), but my FAVORITE Gregg Araki films are definitely 'The Doom Generation' and 'Nowhere.' 'Totally Fucked Up' is also very good, and it is a solid precursor to DG and Nowhere, and the first in the 'Teenaged Apocalypse Trilogy.' not really into 'the Living End,' and 'Splendor' was ok, but i didn't like to see him compromising or even bothering to make concessions to the mainstream, but it still had it's moments. they can't all be winners.
so yeah. Gregg Araki is fucking rad. 'KABOOM' looks awesome.
Just watched Kaboom. Awesome. It felt like his older movies (DG, Nowhere) but more polished. And the ending? Very Araki.
ReplyDeletehaven't seen it yet myself, but counting the FUCKING SECONDS. i wanted to be x so bad when i was a teenager... ok, up until about 23 or so. that's a solid 8 years of using araki as a source material for behavior and personality. somebody stop me, that CAN'T be a good thing, lol.
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