Talk:Natural Born Killers

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I cant think of any place to put this, so: Trivia vs Fact. Woody's father is a killer. Well documented in Texas papers and Texas Monthly Magazine. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.179.22.36 (talk) 07:37, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

In France a couple went on killing spree and police linked movie posters as having influenced the behaviour.

I could not find references to that on Google. If anybody can confirm it, just add it back to the nbk page. MikeCapone Jan 21, 2004, 17:14 (UTC)

I found this on imdb though: [1]. BloodyLoony 00:05, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Redirect 2 Plot Summary 3 Altering bit about Kevin 4 Missing information 5 CLEANUP 6 relations to X files episode. 7 Needs more screenshots 8 Cannibal Holocaust? 9 Categories 10 Fair use rationale for Image:W.Harrelson.JPG

[edit] Redirect

Could we create a disambiguous page for the article "NBK" and "nbk"? there are other words out there with those letters, including the National Bank of Kuwait. Zer0fighta 01:18, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Plot Summary

The plot summary section is, forgive me, ridiculous. Phrases like "gets his butt kicked" are hardly encyclopedia-worthy, and who really cares if the bullet slowdown was "shot five years before The Matrix. Could someone who knows the movie and knows to to write in Wikipedia format rewrite or at least tweak this section? Escheffel 21:24, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Altering bit about Kevin

I've changed several things in the plot summary, but thought I should mention this one.

This part is incorrect:

After the titles, there is a flashback sequence to how the murderous pair met up. Mickey was a delivery man who turned up at the house where Mallory lived with her abusive father (Rodney Dangerfield), her mother, and Kevin, who lives the role of her younger brother, but is actually her child with her father.

When Mallory's mother complains about her husbands lack of sexual appetite, he asks "How about him?" She then responds "You were drunk and you thought you were in Mallory's room, that's why we have Kevin!", indicating that Kevin is their child, but was conceived as an accident when Rodney Dangerfeild's character thought he was raping Mallory.

Kevin then exclaims "What, you mean Mallory is my mom?!" This is intended as a joke, and not as an actual indication that Kevin was born of incest.

At any rate, the age difference between Kevin and Mallory is far too small for this to be a feasible notion anyway. Rodeosmurf 03:53, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missing information

This article doesn't mention anything to do with how successful the film was. The sort of financial assesment that comes with many of the other film-related articles on here seems non-existant. I think it would be nice to know, if anyone can help. 88.107.239.216 04:55, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

I've added a section about its box office receipts... could only find North American and not worldwide and what some of the major critics thought of it at the time. Count Ringworm 20:20, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

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The Ebert quote given is extremely misleading. On the tv show Siskel and Ebert he went on to say "I guess it's *some* kind of masterpiece." PD

[edit] CLEANUP

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/Style guidelines. Cbrown1023 20:29, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] relations to X files episode.

this ([2]) 1993 x-files episode features a couple who robs places together. Quotes:

he: no matter what happens, whenever I look up at the stars, I know you could be looking up at the same ones.
she: the same ones baby.

he: even ugliness is beautiful, because of her.

The guy in the episode also tells how when they married he cut open their hands and put them together, and the blood dripped down to the water, so it would make them married in all the oceans in the world.

I couldn't find any relations between the writers of the episode and the movie. does anyone knows if there is any? or maybe those two are references to another, earlier source? I'd be happy to find any explanation which will show it's not a Tarantino rip off. 1ooooo3 13:07, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Needs more screenshots

I can't think of any other film article that needs images to illustrate its unique visual techniques than this one. --SeizureDog 23:42, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cannibal Holocaust?

Hi, no one thinks NBK is connected in some way with Cannibal Holocaust? The main plot feature (violence caused by media) is the same...

[edit] Categories

Somehow, this film wound up in the category "Films Directed by Quentin Tarantino". I can't figure out how to remove it, but somebody ought to. ThatGuamGuy 21:25, 28 September 2007 (UTC)sean

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:W.Harrelson.JPG

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:22, 12 February 2008 (UTC)