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Kaboom

Kaboom

2010
Comedy, Sci-fi
1h 26m
Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night. (imdb)
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Kaboom

2010
Comedy, Sci-fi
1h 26m
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Rated 12 Apr 2011
63
61st
This movie is a ridiculous, self-indulgent, and inconsequential mess, but -- largely due to its lack of pretension, technical acumen and tonal brinkmanship -- I kind of love it anyway.
Rated 26 Jul 2011
70
69th
"The Gregg Araki Movie" indeed. A nice, absurdly self-referential career summery from a wildly misunderstood auteur. It's very much like Nowhere redux, with a third act thrown in that's like Don Delillo on amyl nitrate, not as fresh as the first time around but still charming and "Araki" in all the right ways. It's all here: the gender-oblivious sex (lots of sex!), the drugs, the colors, the shoegaze soundtrack.
Rated 03 Mar 2011
76
43rd
Gregg Araki may not have a film-making talent which will go down in history as one of the greatest, but his output remains refreshingly original. His most accessible film centres mainly on a set of attractive young people who will have sex with each other without hesitation. Once bored with this scenario, Araki cooks up the biggest, most nonsensical deus ex machina ending I've ever seen, and calls it quits. You have to admire his balls, and on some level forgive the incoherent mess of a story.
Rated 02 Jan 2013
23
17th
Empty, cheap, vacuous nonsense. Its main problems arise from its uninteresting, messy concepts and Thomas Dekker's painfully awful lead performance. Juno Temple's nudity really is the only reason to watch this movie.
Rated 19 Nov 2012
62
14th
It was pretty amusing, until they fucked everything up by explaining it badly in the end
Rated 26 Jan 2011
5
0th
Araki discovers modern morality within the blueeyed ruins of a Hollister model the same way archeologists uncover ancient totems.
Rated 08 Mar 2015
47
40th
Haley Bennett is highly aesthetic.
Rated 04 Mar 2011
2
1st
Juno Temple was the only actor in this completely empty bullshit.
Rated 18 Sep 2011
100
97th
It was erratic on the first viewing, but on the second it's wonderfully hedonistic sci-fi sex comedy which is intentionally unserious about anything in itself, managing to be deeply charming and sincere - with a sexual openness I wish existed in more films - all the while being amusing in how deadpan it is when the sci-fi and fantastical aspects appear unexpectedly. The apocalyptic plot could be argued to be an extension of the main character's burgeoning maturity, and the better for it.
Rated 03 Feb 2013
50
49th
Great cast of beautiful twenty somethings exploring their sexuality. Many titillating and several enticing and interesting scenes. Topless Juno Temple and Haley Bennett are a few of the many highlights. There is also a lot stupid supernatural and strange hokum added in an attempt to inject some tension, but the movie would have been far better without all that nonsense.
Rated 22 Jun 2011
89
97th
Wild, sexy, all over the map. I love this movie's frenetic, unpredictable energy.
Rated 10 Dec 2011
75
79th
I could be gay for this movie...or at least bi... I mean, the plot is as retarded as it is irrelevant, but this movie can actually pull off a pretty weird vibe without trying too hard. Plus, I actually liked the digital look of the movie and even though everyone looks like a fuckin' model and the colors are so flamboyant (neither of which the movie sets out to do subtly), it's kind of sexy. In a weird, bisexual way. kind of a look into Araki's head. fun movie.
Rated 04 Aug 2013
8
80th
Deliciously tacky, colorful, and breezy, with a nice B-movie vibe and a clean digital look. Great watch when you're bored and it's 3am. It's a goofy movie about the exploratory nonsense that can happen in college and the sci-fi bent is corny as hell in a good way. Juno Temple is the standout. Warning: I'm the kind of person that thinks Smiley Face is funny. I need to see more of Araki's movies.
Rated 26 Mar 2011
32
14th
Watch this film if you ever wondered if Richard Kelly's Southland Tales rough cut would have been any better if there was any gay porn in it. Otherwise you can safely skip it, bacause it's a silly mess.
Rated 23 Aug 2012
50
47th
Kaboom is the type of film that you'll watch once, have a decent but not entirely enjoyable experience, and then never think about again. It doesn't manage to find its way into your head like a Doom Generation could, nor is it particularly interested in making much of a point. It's interesting for some of the time that it plays, and if definitely brings some odd elements to the mix, but it doesn't add up to anything of substance, and will likely annoy more frequently than it will excite.
Rated 30 Jul 2012
3
73rd
Trashy pansexual wet-dream; on the bad-side it's slightly spoiled by the rush of explanation at the end.
Rated 15 Oct 2011
30
78th
"Finds Gregg Araki seeking a balance between the gleefully anarchic impulses of his early New Queer Cinema efforts and the newfound technical control of Mysterious Skin." - Fernando F. Croce
Rated 04 Mar 2011
80
77th
This movie is a bizarre romp ... and I mean free-loving, trippy-sound tracking, drug-induced, schizo-psychedelic, world-blowing-up-at-end-of-movie parade through a young man's sexual and spiritual fantasies ... the soundtrack is ultra-cool, the storyline is convoluted, the bodies sexy ... I give up trying to sound intelligent ... the movie is bizarre! watch it! :p
Rated 25 Apr 2012
97
81st
Kaboom is a kaleidoscopic candy-colored psychedelic fantasia of millennial fin de siècle bisexual eroticism, knowing B-movieness, wry humor, and vibratory pop art energy. It also doesn't hurt that Dekker, Temple, Zylka, Mejia, Bennett, Olive, Mendez, and Fischer-Price are all eminently fuckable. This is an endlessly fun, self-assured, and deliciously twisted highwire act from Araki, and I loved every minute of it.
Rated 09 Aug 2013
20
4th
Very poor.
Rated 10 Oct 2010
45
16th
09 ekim 10, filmekimi10, gmall5, 19:00, cansuyla & muhtelif cinselliklerini birbirine karistiran, escinsellik yoktur cinsellik vardir mottosu ile her turlu varyansin komik bir uslupta denendigi universitelile ilgili bir film. korku, komedi, fantastik gibi turleri birbirine karistiran, absurdlestikce abdsurdlesen, kafa iyiyken yazilip cizilmis, yok daha neler derken kaboom. araki'nin en iyisi degil ama 'iyi vakit gecirmek icin neden olmasin' filmi. (eksisozluk, yazar: ride - #20558048)
Rated 21 Jun 2011
20
29th
I didn't get it.
Rated 16 Jun 2012
72
44th
Sloppy but wildly enjoyable. Juno Temples tits.
Rated 23 May 2011
50
27th
A silly and pointless mess that is not without its fair share of entertaining moments.
Rated 26 Jul 2011
18
12th
Trashy. Besides, I really don't like witches, and this movie would have made Proust cry.
Rated 12 Apr 2011
60
77th
Witty/random. Like.
Rated 17 May 2021
5
32nd
Mysterious Skin was seemingly a glorious blip on Araki's otherwise clean sheet of half-baked trippy sci-fi, but this one at least lands its ending. Mediocre acting by a beautiful cast and a film that at under 90 minutes feels too long.
Rated 25 Dec 2021
70
46th
Top badass moment? The ‘safe sex’ message not getting a look in; didn’t want all that goody-goody stuff getting in the way, anyway. By the time you work out this film really is an apocalyptic thriller, there’s only ten minutes left. Up until then, we just see slightly neurotic, young, affluent, beautiful people taking drugs, having sex and doing less schoolwork than even Buffy and the Scooby Gang managed. What 1967 would have been like if it happened in 2010. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.

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