Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Takeshi-K Doom Generation is a pretentious brain dead road movie that takes style over substance to a whole new level. Amy and Jordan are young losers whose lives are a destructive blur of junk food, swearing and killing. These two losers are joined by hipster drifter Xavier whose appearance in the film seems to be an attempt to prove that being bisexual is somehow automatically cool. He isn't. He is boring and so is this film. There are much better 1990s road movies like Natural Born Killers, Kalifornia and Flirting With Disaster to name a few.

spaceheater2187-120-985197 No mature person could call this film a beautiful, artful, deep movie without bursting into laughter. I'm not even sure where to start. The writing is excessively puerile. Insults such as "anus face" and "get your head out of your rectum" are among a plethora of childlike comebacks thrown around in this film. In what universe does this qualify as "clever, witty writing"? This thing claims to be a comedy. Comedy?! The only time I laughed was at the acting. James Duval delivered his lines in a manner that makes Keanu Reeves look like a ten-time Oscar winner.The plot is virtually nonexistent. They drive, they stop somewhere for greasy food (and the total price of everything they buy totals to $6.66), they accidentally kill someone, they check in at a sleazy motel, have erotic sex, and wake up the next morning and do it all over again. It gets old very quickly. The only reason I kept watching was to see if the plot eventually went anywhere. But no, the film continues in its circular manner until the totally out-of-place climax, and it just ends. I'm sure that's frustrated more people besides just me.Even the technical aspects are sub-standard. The lighting is so horrible at times that I had to turn the brightness to its max on my screen and still couldn't quite tell what was going on. I really would like to keep going, but I'm afraid this diatribe would never end.I'm giving this movie a 2/10. I can think of only two positives about this film, which is why I'm giving it a 2: the first is the soundtrack. Several 90s songs are played in the background during the pointless dialogue. Thank God those songs were there because they were the only things making those scenes tolerable. I also heard some late 80s tunes from time to time. However, if you're not a fan of this type of music, then this positive aspect won't appeal to you. The second positive I can think of was when there was about ten seconds of meaningful dialogue near the end of the film. James Duval's character asks Xavier what the meaning of existence is. Although the answer is rather banal and empty, at least there was an attempt to broach a deeper, more philosophical topic. That one line isn't probably worth a whole star, but I'm feeling particularly magnanimous today. But in no way do these two positives make up for the other 83 minutes of dreck.Avoid this film. The only people drawn to this movie have to be confused teenage emo goths who hate their parents.

tom van de Bospoort Totally brilliant psychedelic film by the director of Mysterious skin and Nowhere, Gregg Araki(one of my favourite directors).He managed to create another brilliant sexual film with that bit of weirdness that I love in films, with brilliant acting by the cast (especially James Duval), with brilliant shots that could only come from a brilliant director like himself.I don't understand why the overall rating is so low, maybe this film is just too far for most peoples stretch, a bit to arty and deranged, a bit to creative.To be seen to be believedA clear 8 out of ten.

johnhomicidal I bought this film when I was going through my "douchebag hipster" phase which occurred around my sophomore year of college. I was into anything that was considered subversive or artsy and involved happening young people smoking and delivering profanity-laced dialogue. At the time, I loved this film--it was flashy, violent and angst-ridden, basically everything I wanted to be. After I quit smoking, stopped dressing like a techno-druggie and stopped worrying about who had weed I could buy, I decided to view this film again. Man, this film is pretty flipping retarded. First off--I know that the director was trying to make a surreal road movie and that many of the elements of the film were subject to deus ex machina. However, I kind of had a problem with the fact that these kids were on the road for like two weeks, never really changed their clothes, never exercised, smoked like fiends and ate quick-stop chili dogs for breakfast lunch and dinner yet they all still looked like they just stepped out of a Hot Topic fashion shoot. White teeth, blowed dried hair and great skin adorned all of the "teenagers" in this film. Now, maybe I'm just being a movie snob I don't know. But if this film had been any good, I think I could forgive incongruencies such as the aforemntioned hygiene issues. However, the film itself was pretty much self-indulgent crap that I'm sure symbolized the fleeting nature of youth and innocence and hope or some other goofy avant-garde bull. However, if you can somehow accept this film for what it is--over the top, overly artsy-fartsy and trying to make a myriad of nonsensical "statements," then at least the crap becomes somewhat beautiful. In fact, I think I can only recommend this movie to people who are fans of the stars--it features a pre-Donnie Darko James Duvall and a pre-fame Rose McGowan (both actors are featured in pretty hot sex scenes, for those of you wondering). Jonathon Schaech I couldn't really give a crap about since he was the worst actor in the film He was pretty good in "That Thing You Do" but after that he fell off my radar. The cameos are kind of cool, early ones include Margaret Cho and Perry Farrel of Jane's Addiction. The best however come from Nicky Katt who plays a mentally unstable Burger joint employee who mistakes Rose McGowan's character for his ex-girlfriend.