How can it NOT be compared to Kalifornia or Natural Born Killers?
Frankly, we "dumb, ignorant kunts" get it fully. It's a stupid, over-the-top, tasteless, terrible film that relies on shock value and obvious social commentary (OMG every time they buy something it comes out as $6.66! ooh how SYMBOLIC! Oh, and the Red, White and Blue of their last names, how CLEVER!! Not to mention the lame-ass message of "Oh, today's teenagers are soooo precious and the world is soo terrible and they're the real victims here") to make up for the complete lack of substance to be found. Rarely have I found a movie that fails on every single level, but the direction, acting (I have never found a worse performance in cinema history than James Duval's "performance" here), and writing are all equally terrible. Frankly, the only people who do claim to like this movie are pretentious, snobby little "kunts" like you who claim to like certain movies to make yourself look smarter. Please, tell me what we all didn't get, because I'd love to know.
NOTE: Despite how utterly horrible this movie is, I do think Gregg Araki is a decent filmmaker otherwise, Mysterious Skin is one of my favorite movies.
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peeweee
18 years ago
eh, I would never pick this movie as way to make me look smarter.
I'll tell you what you didn't get and the underlying message that I got. It's very simple and a very basic fact of life that we tend to forget and that fact +is that sex is god, good sex is the only thing to really live for, that's all we first and foremost truly want, is to fuhck...
...I liked Mysterious Skin but how could you ever watch that again, unless you really like little boys.
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thekillersrule
17 years ago
There is no need to slag off people for liking this film. Regarded the symbolism is overtly obvious and much of it could be viewed as pretentious but so are many other films. Just because you don't like a film there is no need to judge others for liking it, voice your opinions on why you think it's bad but don't criticise people like me for enjoying it. I think majority of films use other films influences to build on their own ideas and in many ways this film is original. I have never heard such a prentious comment before or someone that contradicts themselves so much. Mysterious skin takes many ideas from the doom generation and builds on them. I think before you start calling people "snobby little kunts" you should research the films in greater depth and not just voice your aggressive behaviour to us all.
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