Word: dooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sometimes when I stay up till three in the morning, I'll start playing Nintendo or Doom. That way I get into the game and your brain works faster because of the adrenaline," said Engstrom. After playing these games, the rush usually carries him for another hour or two, he said...
...Vehicular Manslaughter: The usual planes, trains, automobiles crash and burn with noisy, deadening regularity, sending many a nameless extra to his unmourned, uninvolving and unimaginative doom...
...gone from gloom and doom to pleasant surprise," said CCA President Geneva T. Malenfant...
...comedy Clerks. Now these twentysomething phenoms are flouting the sophomore slump--the Hugheses with the epic-size Dead Presidents, Smith with the loosey-goosey comedy Mallrats. Joining them in the ambition to reach a wider audience is gay cult fave Gregg Araki, who gives his new tragi-comedy, The Doom Generation, the cunning subtitle "a heterosexual movie." The director of the homo-erratic dramas The Living End and Totally F***ed Up is itching to break out, on his own terms. But straight or gay, black or white, these directors are defining the rage and wild wit of their peers...
Araki is the latest to emerge from the underground of gay filmmakers, after Todd Haynes (Safe) and Gus Van Sant (To Die For). But Hollywood will find it hard to assimilate him. The Doom Generation is Araki's fifth feature, and his way of maturing is to get more ferocious, with a twisted smile on his face. The road-movie plot is similar to The Living End's: a dishy, disturbed guy hitches a ride and raises hell with guns and other toys. The troublemaker is Xavier Red (Johnathon Schaech)--call him X, as in sex--and when he hooks...