GoldLyrics.com - Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut) [VHS]

List Price: $19.99 Our Price: $1.99 Your Save: $ 18.00 ( 90% ) Availability: N/A Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark Starring: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Rodney Dangerfield, Everett Quinton Directed By: Oliver Stone Average Customer Rating: Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786304118399 Format: Closed-captioned ISBN: 6304118392 Label: Vidmark / Trimark Manufacturer: Vidmark / Trimark Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Vidmark / Trimark Release Date: 1996-07-30 Running Time: 182 Studio: Vidmark / Trimark Theatrical Release Date: 1994-08-26 Related Items True Romance [Blu-ray] Kalifornia Requiem for a Dream (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] Misery [Blu-ray/DVD] [Blu-ray] Reservoir Dogs (15th Anniversary) [Blu-ray] Editorial Reviews: Oliver Stone would like to have the last word on America's media culture of voyeurism and violence, but whatever he's trying to say in this grisly, unconventional movie comes across terribly garbled. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play traveling serial killers who become television celebrities when a Geraldo-like personality (Robert Downey Jr.) turns their madness into the biggest story in the country. Stone extensively rewrote an original script by Quentin Tarantino, and he employs a mosaic of different film stocks, video, and pop pastiches to create a sense of blurred lines between visual phenomena. (The background on Lewis's character's life as an abused child, for instance, is presented as a sitcom starring Rodney Dangerfield.) But the result of these experiments is a pompous, even amateurish effort at grasping the reins of a real-life national debate. One almost wants to tell Stone to sit down and raise his hand next time if he thinks he has something to say. The controversial director would like Natural Born Killers to be nothing less than a monumental achievement, but it's one of the emptier entries in his filmography. --Tom Keogh Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Disappointment Comment: This movie was a real letdown. Not at all as described at Wikipedia. :-( Only good point was when they decapitated Tommy Lee Jones' character. LOL Not nearly violent enough. Customer Rating: Summary: Great movie Comment: A very twisted look at how the media plays a role in violence in America. In my opinion this is a great film that depicts just that. Oliver Stone has made many great films and this is just one more Customer Rating: Summary: GOOD MOVIE TO HAVE Comment: GREAT FILM!!! SOMETHING YOU WILL ENJOY WATCHING OVER AND OVER GOOD ACTING, POWERFUL STORY, JUST GREAT FILM!!! Customer Rating: Summary: Frenzy of a movie Comment: What can I say about this movie that hundreds have all ready said? Here's my own personal thoughts on Oliver Stone's under appreciated violent opus. One, from what I heard Oliver Stone and Don Murphy made some changes to Quentin Tarantino's original script, and Tarantino never really liked this movie, from what I have read. Over all, this movie assaults the senses, some nice cinema photography, music was cool from opening credits to ending. We all know what Stone was trying to convey, Media glorifying violence, violence sells, violence in media brings in viewers, people like Mickey and Mallory are socially violent miscreants, exploited by a one savy, weasel reporter portrayed nicely by Robert Downey Jr. I enjoy this movie because of the performances, especially by one Tommy Lee Jones, WOW when I saw this when I was 15 and watching Lee's performance as the warden I was blown away, just so unhinged and over the top I loved it! I felt along the way Stone's message get's muddled, because us as the viewers get assaulted with all this imagery, we forget what he is trying to convey, what he is trying to get across to the viewer. Correct me if I am wrong, this has to be one of the first movies to mix an animated sequence in it, I know there is Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Cool World and some others but as a medium in the film shot as a dream sequence, having Comic book look for that one particular scene to heighten the imagery and style i thought was very cool when i had first seen it, then fast forward, Kill Bill, Tarantino does a whole scene in Anime to show O- Ren Ishi's past. Over all a nice packaged Blu Ray edition with new intro by Stone, new featurette to go along with this edition. If you're a Stone fan, or Woody, Tommy Lee Jones, check out this movie. Customer Rating: Summary: One of Stone's BEST !!! Comment: NBK's is one of Oliver Stone's BEST movies ever - and that is saying a lot ! People who HATE this film just don't get the message and shouldn't be posting ratings negatively influencing others. However, everyone IS welcome to comment - its just a shame some might be influenced , but I guess those people shouldn't buy this anyways ! ;-) If you have an ounce of intelligence (and can take gore..) and appreciate the dry humor and sarcasm of film - this is a must buy !!!! More Reviews