Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Sexylocher Masterful Movie

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

Bodo I love this movie to death. It's replete with colorful imagery and shockful of witty dialogue and intriguing characters. It's campy, daring and borderline nonsensical. But somehow it all comes together in an apocalyptic vision of masonic cults, witches, gay sex, and the end of the world.Gregg Araki is known for making strange movies and this is perhaps his strangest. But there's a certain warmth that transpires it all, a deep love for the characters, all of which feel a certain emptiness about life, a certain longing for something more meaningful and ultimate. This longing is fulfilled as the movie spirals into utter madness.You gotta be in the right mood for this one and enjoy movies with a B-movie-esque feel. Watch KABOOM with an open mind. Watch it on a big screen. Turn up the volume. Cherish the weirdness.

chaos-rampant If you want image and attitude this can be fun. If depth of vision, on the other hand, it will seem small.I'll have you imagine this as a guy with a bunch of comic-books and magazines on his floor, he cuts up strips and glues them together, now something about sex and college relationships, then a strip off Scooby- Do, another resembles Lynch, a third is about life on campus, then back to sex, more sex and obsession. He is from that 90s crop of makers (Tarantino, Smith) who thought that life had no business being seen as deeper than the way stuff just hang together, the fun in having so much stuff to pick from: movies, comic- books, TV. He briefly tried something more coherent in Mysterious Skin, here he's back to a collage.Two main thrusts here. One is the college journey of discovery, here he tries to paint a picture of sexual life, the confusion and reluctance - Nowhere was angsty, this is more relaxed in its skin, there's a sweetness around discovery. The second thrust is about mysterious happenings around campus, there are figures in animal masks who come out at night, a witch, a girl found dead. This is the more endearing part, all about how confusion in his mind around sexual identity manifests around campus as some inscrutable power of rearrange. It's all in the opening scene, a recurring dream where he walks down a corridor lined with girls and comes up against a mysterious door marked 18, his age: sex, dreams, locked mystery.It's fun for a while to see him do it, the fun all in the imaginative jumps from one strip to the next, in that it all loosely hangs together around a dream. But then it's as if he gets bored or can't see any point to it so he just keeps throwing stuff. A cult, the end of the world, a discovery about the father, more trysts, a car chase. None of it sticks, too much paper weight so it all just tumbles down in a heap of scraps. This is its own insight then on craft, if the patching doesn't begin to rise up into shape that guides the eye from forms to the possible thing they give rise to, it remains artless patchwork.Lynch also takes a lot of care in picking out cinematic wallpaper so it's seductive when you enter, but that's after he has mulled long and hard about where the walls are going to be and what kind of space they will define.

joelefave This movie literally has zero redeeming qualities. It's an hour and a half that would be better spent doing pretty much anything else besides watching this movie. The acting is terrible. It's like they got a bunch of kids from a high school drama class and some B-list movie extras, tossed them a script, and told them to have at it. And the plot is virtually nonexistent. Like a bunch of random events tossed together as filler, with little bits here and there of content that is actually pertinent to the story. And when plot does make an appearance, it's almost comically stupid. Imagine an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, make it 3 times longer, and then throw in some tits. About a third of the way through I had to force myself to not turn the movie off in hopes that it would somehow get better. It only got worse. I haven't seen a movie this bad in a very long time. I rated it 1 out of ten only because zero wasn't an available option.

Greenzombidog This is quite clearly the work of someone going through a midlife crisis. Part remembering those long lost college days but mostly creating a past that they'd wished they'd lived. This movie is basically Roger Avery's Rules of attraction processed through the mind of a drag queen. The masturbation fantasy of a frustrated old man.Most of us remember our college days and the ridiculous rubbish we used to say but this movie takes that to another level with the characters talking some real cringe inducing shite. Line upon line of paltry faux-intelectualism, enough to make a little bit of your soul die just by hearing it. Cheap ass set design like you'd see on any Australian soap opera, horrible wardrobe everything about this movie looks cheap.The cast are all attractive young people just going around posing, preening and having sex with each other. Then you get some awful weak scifi garbage going on then the whole film just disappears up it's own arse.I got sick of seeing Thomas Dekker pouting and gurning into the camera. It started to feel like I was watching the directors own voyeuristic desire for the young actor as his face seemed to constantly be filling the screen. I'm sure there was probably more of this footage in the dailys that made it's way into his personal collection.This film is a total waste of anyones time.