1. What kind of ending was that?? *HUGE spoilers* | MovieChat
A brief series of scenes reveal the secret a few minutes before all the main characters simply take a header off of a frickin' cliff.
Seemed pretty cheap to me! Although it was relatively interesting, what mostly held my attention throughout the movie was wondering how everything was going to play out in the end. I couldn't wait for the sci-fi stuff!
The payoff? A brief series of scenes reveal the secret a few minutes before all the main characters simply take a header off of a frickin' cliff. Cut to world exploding -The End, exit to the left please.
BUT WAIT! Add a little salt by immediately cut to giant graphic: "Why Not? Productions", which invokes a nonchalant passivity that seems in line with the amount of effort they seemed to put into said ending.
All that build-up just to have the movie end abruptly enough to make it seem as if the screenwriter(s) just threw in the towel. "Frick it, the world explodes, let's go grab a beer.".
"Yeah, why not?"
So the plot seemed like more of a simple conduit for showing much homosexuality (was there accidentally a 'straight' character in there somewhere?) rather than much else. Except for the hetero sex which later turns out to have been unintentional incest.
Was this just kind of a homosexual promotion (homo-promo (sorry!)) type movie?
Still a decent movie, I suppose. Just seems like they could have done a lot more with the ending. Anyone else get that impression?
K, I can't stop. Here's my take on the movie:
Masturbate, Party, Sex, k...
2. Film review – Kaboom | The Kim Newman Web Site
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My 2011 notes on Gregg Araki’s Kaboom. Also, an excuse to run a picture of Juno Temple in a fez.
3. Review: Kaboom (2010) - A Complete Waste of Time - Movie Forums
Jul 7, 2020 · How did this movie turn out so bad? To be fair Haley Bennett and Juno Temple were pretty good in it, but Thomas Dekker didn't thrive in the lead ...
Review: Kaboom (2010) - A Complete Waste of Time Movie Reviews
4. Indie Flashback: Gregg Araki on “Kaboom”
Nov 27, 2020 · Smith's best friend, Stella (Haley Bennett), has problems of her own when she discovers that her sexy girlfriend has dabbled in witchcraft.
The following interview was originally published at HollywoodChicago.com on February 17th, 2011. Perhaps no one but Gregg Araki could make a hallucinogenic, doom-laden mystery as playful and curiou…
5. Kaboom – review | Comedy films - The Guardian
Jun 9, 2011 · Director Gregg Araki's latest offering is a fun, Lynchian tale of quirky comedy and inconsequential sexual hook-ups, but Peter Bradshaw wants more flesh, ...
Director Gregg Araki's latest offering is a fun, Lynchian tale of quirky comedy and inconsequential sexual hook-ups, but Peter Bradshaw wants more flesh, please
6. Ending Supposed To Be Funny? - Kaboom (2010) Discussion ...
I couldn't stop laughing. Especially at the really high pitched screaming from the guys and everyone "What the *beep* and "What the Jesus!" the whole time.
I couldn't stop laughing. Especially at the really high pitched screaming from the guys and everyone "What the *beep* and "What the Jesus!" the whole time. I think I was guffawing at the end.
Then the end came and I'm thinking "Wtf did I just watch?"
Anyone else have a similar reaction?
7. Kaboom (2010) - Mr. Movie's Film Blog
Jul 20, 2019 · ... has employed apocalyptic themes, but never so overtly. Still, the end of all things is no reason to take the focus off oneself, and Smith is ...
Kaboom (2010) Blow Your Mind Cult director Gregg Araki gets conspiratorial in this minor but enjoyable effort from 2010, which puts sexually fluid university student Smith (Thomas Dekker) on the tr…
8. A pastime for idle hands and genitals movie review (2011) - Roger Ebert
Feb 16, 2011 · There's one thing that confuses me. "Kaboom" is as indulgent as a film school exercise. I thought Gregg Araki had outgrown messing about like ...
"Kaboom" exists entirely in and for the moment. It brings some intriguing college students onscreen, watches them have sex with one another and involves them
9. Kaboom – Review - MovieGeekBlog
Apr 18, 2011 · ... has no beginning and no end (literally no end!)… And actually, come to think of it, no middle either! The film tries to be anarchic, dark ...
Kaboom (2010) Directed by Gregg Araki. Starring Haley Bennett, Thomas Dekker, James Duva After the complex, challenging, touching and definitely mature “Mysterious Skin” (2004) I was really l…
10. Kaboom: Interview with Gregg Araki - Electric Sheep Magazine
Jun 6, 2011 · When we had the world premiere at Cannes and the movie ended, the whole audience started to cheer. To me it's the only ending possible for a ...
Gregg Araki talks about teenage apocalypse, American attitudes to sexuality and David Lynch’s influence. Interview by Virginie Sélavy
11. Film review: Kaboom (2010) - Sight & Sound - BFI
Dec 20, 2011 · Since helping to define the New Queer Cinema with his nihilism-for-dummies breakthrough hit The Living End (1992), he has knocked out a day-glo ...
The British Film Institute
12. Kaboom (2010) | Cinemorgue Wiki - Fandom
Smith (Thomas Dekker), a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting ...
Kaboom (2010) Directed by Gregg Araki Smith (Thomas Dekker), a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei (Roxane Mesquida) looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl (Nicole LaLiberte) being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it al
13. Kaboom (2010) | Rotten Tomatoes
Smith (Thomas Dekker), a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some ...
See AlsoDirector Our Unwinding EthosSmith (Thomas Dekker), a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei (Roxane Mesquida) looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl (Nicole LaLiberte) being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?
14. Film review – Kaboom (2010) - Cinema Autopsy
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Filmmaker John Waters (Pink Flamingo’s, Hairspray, Cry Baby) is apparently partially responsible for Gregg Araki’s decision to make Kaboom. After seeing and loving Mysterious Skin, Araki’s beautifu…
15. Review: Kaboom - Slant Magazine
Jan 24, 2011 · Does Stella's new squeeze (Roxane Mesquida) really have supernatural powers? And why is the resident pothead (longtime Araki axiom James Duval) ...
Strange is the new normal in Gregg Araki’s splashy and squishy Kaboom.
16. Movie Review: Kaboom (2010) - The Critical Movie Critics
Kaboom is a celluloid pastry, an instrument of ... film and gladly stayed through to the end). In ... I have to ask: did you work on the film? I'm ...
Movie review of Kaboom (2010) by The Critical Movie Critics
17. Thoughts I Had... While Watching "Kaboom" - Blog
Aug 9, 2011 · Until, that is, they all intertwine at the end at which point you don't care anymore since it all feels sloppily made up as it goes along like a ...
This past week I finally caught up with Gregg Araki's Kaboom which is now available on DVD and Bl...
18. Kaboom | Museum of Arts and Design
Oct 26, 2013 · Unapologetically libidinous and hilarious, Kaboom (2010) is perhaps the first great paranoiac-dystopian sex comedy in the history of cinema.
Dir. Gregg ArakiStarring Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, and Chris Zylka86 min.
19. Cannes 2010: 'Kaboom' - Digital Spy
May 18, 2010 · ... end of the world. A sentence hardly does justice to Kaboom's insanity, mind - it has to be seen to be believed. A bonkers mash-up of style ...
Kaboom's relentless sex, masked monsters and supernatural cults bring a manic energy to the Croisette.
20. The Somewhere of Gregg Araki's Kaboom - Seattle Film Blog
Feb 24, 2011 · Duval), Smith's RA, who claims that the end of the world is nigh (and dresses like Adam Brody's dealer in Smiley Face). Then Smith starts to ...
KABOOM ( Gregg Araki , US, 2010, 35- mm, 86 mins.) "I don't really be- lieve in standardized sexual pigeonholes." --Smith (Thomas Dekker...
21. Kaboom - Rolling Stone
Jan 28, 2011 · Kaboom is an erotic blast of sinful flesh, fun and fantasy that you don't want to stop. Gallery: Getting Naked on the Cover of Rolling Stone.
The new queer Cinema would be way less fun without Gregg Araki. This tale of polysexual college life threatened by cults and world annihilation falls into the category of old-school Araki (Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation) rather than the maturity of Mysterious Skin. Kaboom is an erotic blast of sinful flesh, fun and fantasy […]
22. Kaboom (2010) - Transcripts - Forever Dreaming
Jan 31, 2024 · What do you think it means? It's a well-known fact that dreams are just. Your brain taking a dump at the end of the day. It ...
It's always the same dream I'm wandering Naked In this strange Maze of hallways And I feel this creeping sense Of impending doom Like something terrible's About
23. Kaboom (2010) directed by Gregg Araki • Reviews, film + cast
but still more interesting than most movies and proves yet again that he is probably my favorite film editor! ... ends. <3 nathaxnne. Paul. Review by Paul ...
Smith, a typical young college student who likes partying and engaging in acts of random sex and debauchery, has been having some interesting dreams revolving around two gorgeous women -- and is shocked when he meets the dream girls in real life. Lorelei looks just like his fantasy brunette, while a mysterious red-haired girl being chased by assassins draws him into an international conspiracy. Or is it all just a drug-induced hallucination?
24. View topic - Kaboom - World of KJ
Jun 14, 2011 · Kaboom is a 2010 film, written and directed by Gregg Araki. The film stars Roxane Mesquida, Thomas Dekker, Juno Temple, Haley Bennett, ...
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