This is How the World Ends/Doom Generation - 2000/1995- NTSC - [Gregg Araki] (USA)

THIS IS HOW THE WORLD ENDS – 2000 – GREG ARAKI)

Ever feel like some of the people who make tv shows
were smoking crack while making it? Well then your in
for a treat with Greg Araki’s newest pilot!

Casper is an unnamed character living the big life. His gas money consists of crisp hundreds and he has friends of all shapes and sizes. His love appears in his dreams similar to a pseudo-Nowhere James Duval masturbation fantasy.

Justin Pierce plays Zombie, a dread locked narcoleptic who finds himself in ridiculous situations. 2 years after the pilot, Pierce hung himself in a Las Vegas hotel. You will know Pierce from his role as Casper in Kids. Funny how the name Casper is shared in this film.

Araki labeled TIHTWE as “A Twin Peaks for MTV” I cannot agree with this statement anymore. Dancing midget Sugar-Ray fans turn into gun wielding robbers. Things that aren’t, are. A youthful acid trip for the new generation. I would like to imagine this series getting green lighted, but somehow, I think that it just passes over MTV’s head. Pure genius is always denied. You won’t forget these characters anytime soon.

VHS Source

Full Screen (OAR)

English Audio

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Free with this Purchase (The Doom Generation – Uncut Widescreen Remastered DVD)

Superior to both Kids and Natural Born Killers, Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation is a snarling satire that has the emotional range to prompt rage, fear, laughter, and grief in a viewer. Three L.A.-based, almost-+596. -+0*639 1
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4.twentysomethings–an incredibly foul-mouthed Valley Girl (Rose McGowan), her puppyish boyfriend (James Duval), and a sexy bad boy (Johnathon Schaech)–take to the road after a series of comic collisions with skinheads and gun-toting convenience-store clerks. While secret lawmen and voyeuristic TV cameras follow their movements, the fugitives gradually warm up to a three-way sexual relationship that wraps them in a profound, renewing innocence–an innocence then stolen by a wrathful America. Araki skewers the usual villains: the media, homophobes, gun nuts, Gen-X stereotypes. But there is so much more at stake here than meets the eye, an extraordinary anger and fear about predatory intolerance and purposelessness about the young.

Uncut Anamorphic Widescreen

English Audio