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Natural Born Killers

  • 08-10-2003 9:12am
    #1
    BLITZ_Molloy
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    I'd seen bits of this on a few occasions but it wasn't till last night I got to see it properly.

    What a class movie. All the trippy stylised imagery is really fun to watch. The visuals kind of remind me alot of U-Turn.

    The sit com style sketch about Mallory's deprived childhood had me laughing out loud. ****ing brilliant satire of ****ty american television.


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  • #2
    lodgepole
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭lodgepole


    Last nights screening was very heavily cut. Even more so than the one that TV3 showed a couple of years back. Most of the cuts were in the final segment in the prison.

    The fully uncut version isn't actually the best version, imo, the best one is the original R rated American version. For some reason, all recent screenings (and the new uncut DVD) have had a Nine Inch Nails song at the end (Burn) replaced with a much slower reworking of the drums from the song.

    But yeah, it's a class film.


  • #3
    spooiirt!!
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    i saw it awhile ago. i didnt really get the general message it tried to convey. maybe it was just weird for the sake of weird?


  • #4
    Giblet
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    The media, I thought it was kinda obvious.


  • #5
    lodgepole
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    Originally posted by spooiirt!!
    i saw it awhile ago. i didnt really get the general message it tried to convey. maybe it was just weird for the sake of weird?

    It was mainly to do with the American media, but there's a lot more in it. It's an incredibly complex film thematically.

    But the main reason I like it is for the riot at the end. Tarantino's original script had none of the media related satire, it was purely a thriller.


  • #6
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,004 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    Personally I thought the film was a load of crap. Sort of like they went: Wouldn't it be clever to satirise violence in the media by using an uber-saturation of violence? Maybe, but in this case it was pointless drivel. The whole satirising the cult-of-celbrity was far too heavy handed and even the use of different modes of film and styles was done with the panache of dropping a truckload of anvils on top of your head. Definetely worth not seeing.


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  • #7
    spooiirt!!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 482 ✭✭spooiirt!!


    well i got the bit about the media, but i think thats a bit too small of a topic to make a film about


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