Review of The Doom Generation (1995) by Dulce S — 21 Oct 2007

I'll admit, I was up for watching this purely because it suggested it might have some serious sexual deviance going on. I know, it's crap to watch a non-porn movie for that reason, but whatever, I'm not proud, I'm not ashamed.

I guess Iearned my lesson. Nothing that thinks it's sexy ever is. Nothing that thinks it's dangerous or subversive ever is. And nothing that TELLS you it's any of those things ever ever ever is.

What we're treated to is a few disjointed scenes of a retard's dream of alternative culture, complete with completely pointless Satanic numerology and the aforementioned sexual deviance - good grief, would you believe people maybe had sex in a bath once?!?!?!?!? The ending is as unfulfilling as it's possible to be given how severely diminished your expectations are by this point, and the only emotional reaction left to the audience is annoyance that anyone survived. If this was a Republican propaganda movie designed to make Generation X look like psychotics, it would at least have comedy appeal, but unfortunately it's quite likely that someone actually thought this would be "cool". They were very very wrong. There is not a single likeable character, not one scene that sparks interest, and everything about it screams "walk out of the movie, demand your money back, wait a couple of years til Lost Highway, and watch that instead".

If there's an upside, it's the soundtrack, which is pretty okay.