If you guys were to explain Natural Born Killers in a few brief sentences how would you do it? I had to explain it in a class of mine bc only me and the professor had seen it, and when i explained it he gave me a look like i had really missed something. Im just interested if you had 30 secs to talk about it how would you do it?
"Natural Born Killers" is a grating commentary on how the media and the American public share responsibility in glorifying crime and criminals. Mickey and Mallory Knox (Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis) are a pair of seedy, wrong-side-of-the-tracks lowlifes who, following abusive and dysfunctional childhoods, find each other and fall in love. They set out on a sociopathic spree of mayhem which Oliver Stone presents as solidifying their relationship. The media and the unwashed masses immediately embrace these "anti-heroes" in the same way that they had iconified Bonnie and Clyde decades earlier.
When Mickey and Mallory are finally caught and imprisoned, a tabloid reporter (Robert Downey Jr) sets out to interview them. Mickey and Mallory escape as a subsequent prison riot erupts, and the pair of them run off to live happily ever after. I saw this movie once when it came out, and I've had no desire to see it a second time. It should come as no surprise that Tarantino wanted his name taken off the screenplay credit.
Is that 30 seconds? Maybe if you got John Moschita to say it....
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Maybe your prof just gave you the stinkeye because he's a film snob, and what we said doesn't jibe with the hoity-toity review he read in "The New Yorker".
__________________ Evelle: "Balloons! Hey, these blow up into funny shapes 'n' all?"
Grocer: "Well, no...unless round is funny."
I dunno hes a chill guy, not snobbish at all... he's my creative writting prof so its a different kind of instructor than the standard accounting/ math/science proffessors. I probably didnt explain quite as good as you did, but i hit alot of those points .... i guess i might have just immagined it or something
yeah, the movie ended up being nothing more than a gratuitous exscuse for Oliver Stone to put in about 50 million different effects in the movie and complelty **** a tarantino movie...bastard.
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I am aware that "your" should be "you're," and while I know I should change it as not to offend the grammar fans around the boards, school always said not to bow to peer pressure so it stays as it is
why did you like it, we've all said why we think its bollocks, why do you think its cool?
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I am aware that "your" should be "you're," and while I know I should change it as not to offend the grammar fans around the boards, school always said not to bow to peer pressure so it stays as it is
the bit not to like is the way Oliver Stone ruined it by trying way to hard to be arty. you could have had the best actors and actresses in the world in that movie and it would have been shit still because Olver stone had a hard on for fade, camera pans and swings and hyper color
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I am aware that "your" should be "you're," and while I know I should change it as not to offend the grammar fans around the boards, school always said not to bow to peer pressure so it stays as it is
There is a lot of cool shit that stone does artistically with his cameras though, its a different kind of artistic expression than most movie goers are used to, but i dunno i have talked to a lot of people who love stone movies... personally i enjoy seeing his films, sometimes it is overboard... but overall i think his work is pretty damn cool
My most vivid memory of seeing this movie for the first and only time is when we ("the gang") were walking to our cars in the parking lot at around Midnight. There was a shoebox sitting on the asphalt, and this guy named Chris thought it would be funny to jump up and stomp on it with both feet.
I was walking near him, and, being the paranoid sort, started to yell "Noooo!". I didn't get far enough away; the vomit inside the shoebox exploded and splattered in all directions. As the closest, I got a few droplets hit my left leg, and I immediately wiped my left leg onto Chris. I was pretty upset about the whole experience.
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Ytaker agreed with me once on October 9th, 2004
Sep 27th, 2004 05:42 AM
me too!!
