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List Price: $28.99 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 6806
Released: October 13, 2009 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 08/25/2009 Rating: Nr
Description of Natural Born Killers (Unrated Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]:
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
Natural Born Killers (Unrated Director's Cut) [Blu-ray] Reviews:
BLU-RAY not perfect! 
2009-12-03 - This comment is about the new Director's Cut on BLU-ray. This could have been the PERFECT release of Natural Born Killers. It is one of my favorite films. I returned this Blu-ray once thinking it was defective only to received another exactly the same. Someone messed up this transfer. If you look at the edged, there is a "shake" on the film from beginning to the end. It is not always as noticeable, but in some scenes it's distracting. The films "shakes" or moves up and down. It seems like that's the way it was transfered. I checked out my ancient DVD of the same Director's Cut and the movement is not there. Oh well. I guess if I was going to watch one version of this film this would be it because of the great sound and sharpness. If it didn't wiggle like it does, I would have been %100 happy. I guess I'll wait until they "restore" it again. :(
Disappointment
2009-11-21 - 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.
Great movie 
2009-11-12 - 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
GOOD MOVIE TO HAVE 
2009-11-04 - GREAT FILM!!!
SOMETHING YOU WILL ENJOY WATCHING OVER AND OVER
GOOD ACTING, POWERFUL STORY, JUST GREAT FILM!!!
Frenzy of a movie
2009-10-18 - 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.
