The Doom Generation (1995)

Xmodem on 6/4/2016 Reply  ·  Like  ·  (0 likes)

Their are are probably less than 5 movies out of the more than 954 movies I've seen that I have never finished watching The Doom Generation is one of those films.

As a young teenager there are films that you see on the rental shelf that make you desperately want to see a film be it alluring box art, a “cool” description, something that grabs you, that allure is of course made even stronger when you know your parents would never allow you to see that film.

It’s a special breed of films that you conceptually turn into something far greater than it could ever actually be when you see them in adulthood.

The Doom Generation was one of those films for me. I had no Idea how colossally disappointed I would end up being as an Adult when I eventually rented this film.

This film was a nightmare of disappointment. I think it was trying to be a edgier more shocking Natural Born Killers but what it was was the most soulless glorification of sex and violence I had ever seen at the time I tried to watched it.

They only way I can describe what I saw of it was: Empty “characters” go from location to location, kill people, have sex, and repeat. I think the emptiness of it was supposed to be the point, a satirical take on the generation of the time, but when everything is so bleakly unrelatable it’s hard to patiently take in the satire.

This film ground me down to the point where I couldn’t finish. While it may aim for satire it only lands on violence porn in my mind. I don’t think I had ever been more disappointed by a film when I saw it.