The Doom Generation
Dir: Gregg Araki
1995
*
Never has a film been so undeserving of the 'Modern Classic' tag that it has been awarded. Even people who declare it a 'cult' film probably only do so because they've seen very few films. It's amateurish, it's cheap, it's devoid of anything new or intelligent. Nowhere was a crap film but the ending was so brilliant I gave it a much better rating than it deserved, this time I'll give it the low rating it actually deserves. Gregg Araki is and was better than this in my opinion, I'm glad he realised this and made Mysterious Skin and will continue to make good films and stops listening to John Waters who was recently quoted asking him to make 'Old school Gregg Araki films again' - another lost director.

Kaboom
Dir: Gregg Araki
2010
**
Gregg Araki parodies himself and goes back to his bi-curious sci-fi roots. Such a shame really as Mysterious Skin was so clever. It's middle-American teenage angst nonsense really, about as deep as a puddle and just as interesting. At least Nowhere takes the piss out of itself. Gregg Araki needs to stop hanging around with John Waters, I blame him for this silliness.