Synopsis
Let the love feast begin.
Described as "90210 on acid", the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids in Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead.
1997 Directed by Gregg Araki
Described as "90210 on acid", the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids in Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead.
James Duval Rachel True Nathan Bexton Chiara Mastroianni Debi Mazar Kathleen Robertson Jordan Ladd Christina Applegate Sarah Lassez Guillermo Díaz Alan Boyce Jaason Simmons Ryan Phillippe Heather Graham Scott Caan Thyme Lewis Mena Suvari Beverly D'Angelo Denise Richards Traci Lords Shannen Doherty Rose McGowan John Ritter Christopher Knight Eve Plumb Lauren Tewes Gibby Haynes Joshua Gibran Mayweather
Nowhere - Eine Reise am Abgrund
the ~aesthetic~ of this movie is basically just WHAT IF TUMBLR WAS ACTUALLY COOL and i know that sounds lame but get this: it’s actually cool??
One day, people are gonna look back and be like "yooooooooo, we should have liked Gregg Araki so much more than we did!"
like a really fucked up dazed and confused, laced with constant bursts of acid induced adrenaline and nihilistic black humour, saw this twice in three days, one of the best films ever?
makes me think about a lot of people that want queer stories to follow more heteronormative plots so they can be easily consumed and capitalized off to the masses. and to that i say: i hope gregg araki fucking eats all of you.
greatest movie ever. the only time im allowing the phrase “acid trip” is when referred to this film. literally every single element is queer coded in some way or another and i am grinning from ear to ear :)
FUCK this is so good I almost got a computer virus trying to watch but I feel like it’s the way Araki intended
The production designer on this movie should be given a medal. Each new bedroom made my jaw drop a little bit further. Love the pansexual apocalypse.
This is just a movie about attractive people fucking while cool music plays and it's a masterpiece.
it always comes back to this, then...one of the movies i'd call truly perfect. every impulse of a countercultural moment of absolute sexual fluidity swept up into araki's most outre sensibilities, a terrified, loving, dissatisfied, and ecstatic attempt to preserve the sense an era by acknowledging its imminent demise. certainly not utopian, for all its surface pleasures (and they are many). self-harm and self-obsession are coequal partners in the denial of the outside world (the windows of these characters' rooms are not windows: they offer the vistas of other worlds entirely than our own), whose impositions (more-or-less metaphorical) in the form of Roscoe the Alien, televangelism, and Jaason Simmons, signal apocalypse.
"it's armageddon day....have you ever heard of the rapture?"
"like the siouxsie and the banshees album?"
When I was 12-14 years old in the mid-90s I'd occasionally buy a Spin or Rolling Stone magazine. In the back there'd be what were essentially classified ads for third parties that sold Generation-X baiting t-shirts and ephemera. The dumbest of these was an illustration of Alice from The Brady Bunch wrapped in chains with the clever caption "Alice in Chains" (I hope anyone under the age of 25 does not understand a word of the above). I'd never seen an episode of The Brady Bunch (and still haven't), but the goddamn pop culture nostalgia obsession of the oldest Gen-Xers meant that I was exposed to all kinds of references to it.
So when Greg Araki cast the actors who…
Let the love feast begin.
Thank you to Boys for convincing me to make this my first exposure to the work of Gregg Araki. That being said, what the fuck? Utter bewilderment. I can't tell if what I watched was a film or a fever dream masquerading as a film. Nowhere is a full, wackjob embrace of "queer" as both a sexuality and a synonym for "weird." The names of the characters. (Greatest hits include Dark, Lucifer, Dingbat, and Handjob.) The dialogue. (Greatest hits include "How about you sit on my face and cut a nice, big, juicy fart?" and "Dogs eating people is cool.") The sets. (The main wall of our lead character's living space is a spray painting…
this whole film looks like a very disturbing music video. consider me ENTERTAINED!
Una fantasía no entera adolescente llena de sexo, drogas, gore y mariconeo con una fotografía y un arte maravilloso, acompañada de una banda sonora increíble. No puedo pedir más. Gracias Pinterest por recomendarme esta genialidad un besazo.
Gay movies today are so boring compared to this bisexual teen id hangout film. Why make films about gay people essentially cosplaying as straight (boring) when they could instead be abducted by aliens and turn into bugs (authentic queer experience)
insane. demented. extremely good. i feel so lucky to have seen this. i love the way Dark says the word ballsack. the insults in this movie are top tier of all time. outfits and set design are fucking incredible and next level. the aliens. amazing. the character names too, for example theres 2 muscular blond twins without shirts named "surf" and "ski". literally one of the best endings ive ever seen. this movie fucking rules
one of my favorite moments-
a couple is sitting in a convertible on a cliff.
guy: "did you hear about the guy in brentwood who got his face eaten off by a dog?"
girl: *super wide smile* "dogs eating people is cool"
*they start furiously making out*
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