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Summary: very bad things indeed
Review: What a horrible mess! Despite a great cast, a great premise and a first-time, promising director, the movie fails miserably to succeed. It's like a terrible, missguided experiment in black humor. Those in search for a true black comedy should try Todd Soldonz's "Happiness". Those who think that Christian Slater's role was a good "Jack Nicholson" imitation, should take a look at "Heathers", and those who think Cameron Diaz was truly wicked, should watch "The Last Supper". 'Nuff said.
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Summary: This movie pushes you to your ethical limits!
Review: Kyle (Jon Favreau of Swingers) is escorted off to Vegas by hisbuddies for a bachelor party that will have him in therapy for therest of his life. When the drinking, drugs, and overall debauchery of Sin City kick in, a hooker and a security guard wind up dead. The downward spiral rapidly increases and their troubles follow them back to Los Angeles, where more havoc ensues. Leave your morals at the door for this one, folks. This is a belligerent, modern-day Woody Allen-on-crack movie, a comedy version of Reservoir Dogs that your parents would probably shut off in disgust after 15 minutes. But those of us with a seriously sick sense of humor will find the good in this blacker-than-black comedy. This movie pushes you to your ethical limits until you just give in to the badness. Don't fall too much in love with any of these characters-there's a good chance they'll be pushin' up daisies by the time the credits roll ...
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Summary: LOVED IT TO DEATH
Review: It would seem that in Australia we have more relaxed censorship laws. I was sixteen when I saw this movie and loved it. And I was not alone. There is a very large teenage market for black comedies (American teens are deprived). Some sexy women can act, and Diaz is one of the best. This is not to detract from the rest of the cast, there is nothing but good things in this movie. My only criticism is that the ending could have used some extra thought. Other than that it is so funny, so original, and so deserves four stars.
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Summary: Violence can be funny.....and it is here....and else where..
Review: What a good experience this film has been to me. Not only did it make me laugh more than any other movie in a long time, it also made my girlfriend's stomach feel better after seeing the carnage. Yes, this film would be funnier if it had more gore like Re-Animator but it works anyhow. And yes Mr. Moral Majority it is funny when the two victims are cut up and then reassorted for a Jewish burial..and I wouldn't be ashamed taking my 16 year old child if I had one to this movie, I saw it with my 16 year old girlfriend and got lucky.........anyway..The acting, as every rational person already stated, is great; as Slater does what he does best being a psycho, kind of like Mr. Brad Dourif..and Cameron Diaz rules, nice to see an actress do risky and daring films like this and Malkovich, but I don't mean do do Malkovich.. This film is best if you found any of the following films funny: Clockwork Orange, Dead Alive, Re-Animator, Silence of the Lambs, Natural Born Killers, Bambi, The Little Mermaid, Lion King (When Mufasa dies of course, hehehehe oh sorry), Monty Python, etc. If you find any of those funny you will love this movie if you don't, then you won't like the movie But beware of the chair people and their wrath.
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Summary: If I could give this, six stars I would.
Review: Just kidding. It is a good movie though. Maybe a little gory in parts. And then a gain maybe it was supposed to be. Any way it kept my attention. What was so weird was they kept it in the realm of this could really happen. I have run into a few people like the part that Cameron played. I could see this years from now on something like Mystery science theater 3000, with lines like she got hung up and he was stuck for the drinks. For real this was a chance for the people like Christian Slater to be their selves. If you don't think this is a good movie try "8 Heads in a Duffel Bag" with (Joe Pesci, Andy Comeau, Kristy Swanson, Dyan Cannon, George Hamilton). Or maybe "Eating Raoul" directed by Paul Bartel.
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Summary: If I could give this movie NEGATIVE stars, I would!
Review: I am in disbelief as I read some of these reviews. COMEDY? Puh-LEEZE! Any so-called comedy is far superseded by the mindless violence and utter stupidity and duplicity of both the plot and the characters. At best, this movie would be a morality play (subtitle: "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Spineless, Soulless, Duplicitous, Murderous A*******"). What scares me is that the movie tries to make these guys look like they could be the average Joe next door. God, I hope not!
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Summary: Very good things
Review: A lot of people might call this movie dumb, yet this is very different from your There's Something About Marys. The comedy is as black as you can get, and even though at times it is incredibly stupid, it's at the same time enjoyable. This is silly humour, but silly humour aimed at adults, unlike Farrelly Brothers movies and the like, where teenagers are the target. Oh, and it's VERY funny, but only if you have a twisted sense of humour. Some people will no doubt find it deeply offensive, but it's nothing more than a hilariously over the top movie with some wonderfully inventive scenes, including a human jigsaw puzzle (very funny...) Also, Christian Slater is fantastic in his role, and the direction is nice and fast, perfect for this type of film. It's nice to see a film that doesn't discriminate in its absolute hate for everything - it's not against women, black people or homosexuals. Just the human race. Brings a tear to the eye...
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Summary: Very bad movie.
Review: Let's see...a black male and a woman get killed by...guess who?...a group of soul-less white men who like to cut up bodies and shop for "burial" supplies like they're going to the market for some applesauce. Avoid this racist and sexist tripe if you're sane. If you like this sort of thing, this sort of tacky, subtle yet contradictingly blatant racism/sexism, For SHAME!
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Summary: I can see both sides.
Review: This is one of those rare occaisions where I can read both the extremely good and extremely bad reviews for a film and understand where both parties are coming from. Very bad things is, on one hand, a poor movie because it breaks one of the commandments of plotting a film: Thou plot shall not derive entirely from characters illogic and duplicity. In other words, Siskel and Ebert used the term "idiot plot" to describe a scenario where the story would end in two minutes if the characters just told the truth, which 99% of the audience would normally do. Suspencion of belief is something to be excepted in an exteralized conflict (even in something as stupid as Independence Day) but in a situation where everything hinges on an internal decision, that decision must be a reasonable thing to do. As I sat there watching Christian Slater reason that they should hide the corpse in a desert, I knew that the reasoning offered was not that of a believable character but a contriving screenwriter who decided to make a character forty times stupider than himself as a launch pad for the plot. Everything that happens afterwards is corrupted by the idiocy of the character reasoning in this scene. On the other hands, Very Bad Things, once the characters are out of the hotel room is a hilarious send up of something though it is often very heavy handed - a character throws himself in front of a moving car to protect his minivan (why do minivans take so much abuse in today's anti-suburban propaganda?).
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Summary: Dark and loving it
Review: What a wonderful ocassion it is when one can stumble upon an underated movie and get a chance to share it with others ( I played it to my friends and they loved it). Very bad things is a dark satire that has no cliche whatsoever and keeps the audience on their toes as to the next adventure or even scene. It moves with a rapid pace through the events of a messed up bachelor party and its severe consequences. I loved the way the characters each percived the event and the way each reacted to it. Terribly wicked and dark, I love it !
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