review

Saw this fucking HILARIOUS movie last night. Nobody told me it was going to be so funny! I liked it … but honestly, the things I liked about it were all things I liked better about Natural Born Killers. Maybe it’s just that I saw NBK at sixteen, and maybe it’s that I had spent the previous semester studying all the source materials referenced in the movie, and maybe it was just the thrill of riding to that movie on a schoolbus in the middle of the day. In any case, that movie is imprinted into my mind in a way that few others have managed. Yes, obviously Oliver Stone and Rob Zombie are pretty much different in every GD way. However, (IMHO), their takes on the fascinating characters behind all the violence are pretty similar. You end up really feeling for these assholes by the end of the film. Of course, that’s exactly why Mass Murder was such an incredible experience way back when. It’s fucking amazing getting inside the heads of people like this, even a little. In any case, if you like ridiculous death scenes or self-referential gore, go see this movie. If you get squicked out by cruel/unusual violence or DISGUSTING teeth, stay home.

ETA: Just watched the Mass Murder trailer for the first time in a long time. Man, I looked like a completely different person. (Creepy.)