Are there any Grek Araki fans out there. This movie was released on May 6th. The only thing is that I don't know where it was released. I've been looking forward to this movie for a while.



Here's the gist of it:

Based on a novel by Scott Heim, Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin" tells the parallel stories of two boys growing up in a small town in Kansas in the 1980's and early 90's. One, Brian Lackey (played first by George Webster and then in his late teenage years by Brady Corbet), believes that the nightmares and nosebleeds that afflict him throughout adolescence are results of an alien abduction that occurred in the summer of 1981, when he was a shy, frail 8-year-old. That same summer, Neil McCormick (Chase Ellison, and later, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) was molested by his Little League coach (Bill Sage). Its subject matter may be grim — Mr. Araki addresses Neil's early and later sexual experiences with unflinching candor — but "Mysterious Skin" is infused with remarkable tenderness and beauty. It is the work of a onetime bad boy who has grown up without losing his ardent sympathy for the wildness of youth. It's also one of the best movies so far this year. — A. O. Scott, The New York Times

Generally speaking, I do try not to say anything unless I have something nice to say. However, The Doom Generation was absolutely the most painfully awful movie I've ever sat through. I'm willing to give anybody a second chance, and a positive review in the NYT certainly makes me open to giving Mysterious Skin a try, but Doom Generation was so meticulously incompetent and appalling on every level that I can't help but be dubious.

i read scott heim's novel waaaay back in the day when it first came out, and i was interested to hear it was being made into a movie waaay back when it was first being talked about. i've never been a big gregg araki fan, and i cooled on heim after his second book was kinda so-so and he didn't seem to be up to much in the years after...still and all, it would be interesting to revisit that story again by watching the movie. i'll probably rent it when it comes out on DVD.

Thank God, it's finally coming out tomorrow in San Jose.


M

Saw the movie tonight. It was difficult to watch. Just when you think the director/writer is going to go there with the difficult subject of molestation he, THANK GOD, pulls back. It was really gut wrenching for me to watch. It has it's funny moments though. I could tell that there were new Araki fans there because they were the ones who didn't laugh at the uncomfortable jokes.

One thing bugged me. It happens in all of Araki's films. YOU CAN SEE THE BOOM MIC IN SOME OF HIS SCENES. This one had about 10 scenes.

I don't want to say to much unless someone else is going to go see it.


M

MIGUELGOMEZ said:

blame boom mics on the projectionist..this is per roger ebert....the way films are framed they are pretty much present in most movies but if the projectionist doesnt set the lense up correctly it will be visible by the audience...