Mister rabbit says, "A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers."

Well Mr. Rabbit please for the love of God tell me what is happening in this movie? This was the second time watching this film and i'll be honest I do not care for this movie, I remember last semester we talked about this film in movie censorship class for pretty much a whole class period and how controversial it was and how edgy and thought provoking... and then I watched it and was like um that's it? Rather then write an essay about how bad this movie is i'm going to try the list format, so shall we begin?

Why I Do Not Like NBK:

1. The 90s liked to do this thing where they threw 50 images at you at once mixed with cartoons, old tv footage, nature images, etc. Maybe people thought this was really intense and awesome, i found it to make the movie look like garabage and headache provoking. It was very similar to alot of shall we say "reality" shows on MTV right now (they are obviously scripted, cheesed up, and meant to appeal to people with short memory spans)

2. The media is bad! Ah holy crap the media is horrible ... but guess what we keep using it and relying on it, and a lot of it use it as a bible for their own lives. Man we better stop the media before it controls everything oh wait 6 major corportations basically own everything in our nation's economy too late. Also these people are praising Mickey and Mallory for mass killing 50 fifty people ... I'm pretty sure no praised the Virgina Tech guy for what he did so this film is kinda off on that note, although I will say there was an odd support by college kids for Bucky when he escaped. I think sometimes people like to see that criminals can beat the police system in our country thanks to the general distaste for police. Regardless media sucks yeah we know, no ones gonna do much about it.

3. Random cartoons? What was with that? Is it because both characters have childhood issues? Maybe... or maybe graphic cartoons were really in at the time (Aeon Flux for example). This helps to prove this movie is exactly what is tries to make fun of, it's a pop culture movie filled with whatever people in the 1990s liked with ridiculous characters.

4. The characters are ridiculous! Can you say over the top? Holy Canoly! Mickey is super cool he talks like a poet and tells jokes and he loves his wife... oh and he rapes women, kills people and makes very little sense. 

5. Mallory is even better she likes to talk about Angels, hit on men then beat the crap out of them, has father issues so she goes a little nuts pretty much every scene and proceeds to yell "you stupid bitch" about 50 times, oh and randomly dances likes shes trippin on some hallucinogenic. 

6. Dwayne is Australian. He likes to show this by pushing his accent way way over the top. He like the past two characters is bi-polar or at least is strung out on speed cause that dude is all over the place. He yells at convicted criminals who have killed 50 people and then later on shoots at cops then tries to join the Mickey and Mallory bandwagon. That makes sense since he hunts down and loathes criminals... wait no it doesn't.

7. Scafetti ... is a psycho killer too! Wow even the cops are getting in on the fun of mass and brutual killings, this movies is a great depiction of American life. Him and the rest of the cops also enjoy in eating alot of doughnuts cause thats what cops love (hello stereotype).

8. My absolute favorite thing I hate about this movie... the Music! I don't know if that was Oliver's chosing or what but man is it horrible. I personally hate the low voiced singer at the beginning it reminded me of pulp fiction which also came out that year and the song where Uma Thurman dances around and does coke, it creeps me out and sounds like crap and i disliked both songs. As for the rest of the music the only song I kinda liked was the Rage Against the Machine song towards the end which that even seemed out of place and not that loud or epic. But alas it was the 90s so pretty much all the movies had to have Heavy Intense Rock music right? dumb.

9. The writing. I think if anyone picked up this script today and read it there would be no way they would ever make this movie, the dialogue sucks! It's just a mix of some deep stoner thoughts mixed with pop culture and swear words aka crap. 

10. What is the point of this film? Can someone tell me please? That killing people is ok if your crazy? You can get away with murder in the US, or at least be idolized for it? Everyone in our society is messed up? Stay away from Indians and rattlesnakes?

I did like a couple things in this film though, the green lighting is very rarely used in films that are not horror pictures and helped to emphasize the trippyness of a snake bite. I also like the green neon lights in the jail which were unnessicary but looked neat none the less. The I Love Lucy mock segment was awesome it is so horrible and disturbing I feel like they should have just made that part into a whole movie. The laughtracks are awesome, which I have commented on in other previous posts, they can help to mess up the viewer's prespective on a situation. The horrible part about that scene is that Rodney Dangerfield is a comedian and the mom was from Ferris Bueller both of whom we are use to laughing and add the laughing people you almost wanna laugh but then your like wait no this girl is getting molested and thus you feel really bad. Any movie that messes with your emotions is pretty good in my book, if the whole rest of the movie didn't totally miss I would have praised it for it shockingness.