Natural Born Killers - Oliver Stone Collection (1994)

What could Oliver Stone have possibly seen in this piece of garbage?

The strange part is, that I actually tried to like this movie. I'm a big fan of Oliver Stone's work. He picks the most exciting and intelligent subject matters to tackle. You don't have to agree with the man's politics or artistic psychology to like his movies. His movies have helped to open the hearts and minds of audiences to events,subjects, and themes that would normally go unnoticed or unheard of. Even if you don't agree with his opinions on those things, if he made you want to find out about those things for yourself, mission accomplished. So I tried my best to see what he saw in this absurd and excessively violent script. I watched the movie like five times (twice with Oliver Stone's commentary), and I still failed to see his fascination with it. The characters and events in this movie are as unpleasant and offensive as hell! There's not even a real political,social, or moral message to justify all this sadism and carnage. What was Stone trying to say? That deep down everyone is just as violent and depraved as Mickey and Mallorey? The fact that I hated this movie proves that theory false. I took no pleasure in the movie's savage violence. It was tasteless and completely pointless. What else could he be trying to say? That the media is responsible for creating and glorifying mass-murderers? Well if it does, then this movie is no better than the media it attacks. Oliver Stone practically makes Mickey and Mallorey out to be heroes! He even gives them a happily ever after ending! I think someone should tell Mr. Stone to not go pointing the finger of accusation at anyone or anything until he reflects on his own actions to see if he is really any better than the people and institutions he's attacking. He really fumbled the ball with this artistic disaster. All the more sad, because the guy that made JFK,Nixon,Alexander Revisited,Born on the Fourth of July,Wall Street,Talk Radio,Any Given Sunday,Platoon, and World Trade Center should have known better! January 7, 2009

Tries too hard

Too many movies today lack effort and make up with special effects. Natural Born Killers is the opposite it tries too hard to be the perfect movie that it tends to be over the top. Just like a book there are the classics that you are forced to read and books that are shallow you want to read. Natural Born Killers feels like it is forced on you and for overall art and effort it is worth 5 stars but for enjoyment and a movie that you want to keep turning to it is a 3 star movie. I felt the movie had a tendency to drag on and in the end it was just too overbearing. December 6, 2008

blu ray release

I love this movie, however amazon's site says the blu ray release here is unrated. It's not. The box has it rated R. This is not the Director's Cut. Don't waste your money on this edited release. November 4, 2008

In all honesty...

...this is turning into one of my favorite movies...
At first, i didn't enjoy it, but then i GOT it...and am falling in love with its style and characters, even though there really is NO good guy in the entire movie. But, in my opinion, this is Woody's BEST PERFORMANCE...
He, and Juliette Lewis were made for these roles...
The only "downer" is for true Tarantino fans...the "story" is from the original script Natural Born Killers by Quentin Tarantino...and to ture fans of his work, you can almost tell what lines and scenes Stoone tried to keep from the script, but put his own style into...
Don't get me wrong, I think this is a very important film that was easily overlooked that shows the world what TV and the Media really does for some peoples psyche...but I still want to see what Tarantino had visioned... October 6, 2008

NBK review

Movie itself: 5 stars
Video Quality: 3.5 stars
Audio Quality: 4 stars
Extras: 3 stars September 25, 2008

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