10 Movies That Hated You For Watching
8. Natural Born Killers
Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers was marketed as an edgier-than-edgy riff on the classic Bonnie and Clyde formula, luring bloodthirsty audiences in with the promise of a brutally violent crime yarn, only to force-feed them one of the most sensorily disorientating experiences ever committed to film.
Stone goes out of his way to make every scene in the movie abhorrent to mainstream taste - edited with all the chaotic verse of a music video, intentionally garish, confrontingly vulgar, and frequently surreal.
None of the violence here is entertaining, as Stone shoots it to be as unpleasant and "un-sexy" as possible, focusing instead on human suffering through as ugly a lens as one can imagine. And even audiences eager to see protagonists Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis) blown away at the end are spared that catharsis, given that it concludes with them getting away.
Natural Born Killers is a film with a loud disdain for the media's glorification of violence and our own complicity in it as viewers, amping said violence up to almost unbearably nasty levels to make its point.