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Summary: What were they thinking???
Review: All of those actors have such great reputations... How can they do this to themselves? I just got done watching the movie (we rented it) and I was so disgusted that I had to come straight here and warn the world
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Summary: Here's a really good one
Review: This movie would probably only appeal to those who enjoyed movies such as Pulp Fiction. It is a very well done dark comedy with a few twists and surprises. I imagine the people who don't like it, don't understand it. I think they are looking for real life reactions to outrageous circumstances. If you want real life, watch PBS. Otherwise, get Very Bad Things and plan on spending about 1 1/2 hours with your eyes glued to the TV and a smile on your face.
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Summary: "Comedy" at its worst!
Review: I am an educated, openminded person, who loves to watch movies, but this one took the cake! I have never seen anything so morbid in my whole entire life! It makes the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, look like a sunday walk in the park!
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Summary: Very Bad Things = Even Worse Movie
Review: About as much comedy here as you'll find in an ingrown toe nail. The film relies on guts, gore, stupidity and a lot of shouting between the characters rather than an intelligent script. I can't help but compare this with the somewhat similar "good plan goes awry" plot of A Simple Plan. The latter film develops emotion for the characters - even the not so nice ones. There's not a single main character in VBT that causes one to even care what happens to them. VBT does not work as a comedy - even black comedy (try Fargo if you want to see a textbook example). It doesn't work as drama. There's practically no character development. This thing just plain does not work! The only saving grace to this movie is the incredibly gorgeous young Asian lady who plays the prostitute! The director should have kept her character alive and killed off all the rest!
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Summary: Complete idiocy.
Review: This is the worst kind of movie; It wants us to think that it is deep and philisophical, but it is complete garbage. Peter Berg has no understanding of the human thought process and needs to stick to directing (i'll say why later). There was nothing funny about this so-called "black comedy." If you think I am saying this because I can't handle violence and such, you are mistaken (I can be pretty twisted). If this was played out as a suspense, and the script revised a bit to fit normal people, it could have been a cool movie. On the positive side, the acting was almost great (besides Cameron Diaz's generic psyco) and the shots and angles were near perfect. Christian Slater scared the **** out of me! Without a grasp of reality and an ability to find *real* funny material, Peter Berg will be reduced to making well acted pieces of trash. P.S. Two seperate times people who should be dead were kept alive longer than humanly possible. This made the movie even more of a joke.
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Summary: Why not call it "A Very Bad Movie"
Review: I rented this movie beacuse the preveiws made the movie look at least slightly comedic. I didn't laugh once or giggle anywhere though this movie. They call this a black comedy, well it's way too black to be a comedy, I'm very suprised this movie did as well as it did. I do give this movie some credit for the good cast.
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Summary: An imaginative dark comedy, full of plot twists!!
Review: This movie did not do well at the boxoffice, but is a delightful and insightful dark comedy in the vein of "Heathers". Cameron Diaz's character is a woman hell-bent on a perfect wedding. She has spent 27 years planning for perfection. Her fiance and his brain-dead friends head off to Vegas for the bachelor party. A prositute ends up dead and all kinds of insanity ensue. Christian Slater gives the performance of a lifetime, although I think it is fairly close to his real personality. Fueled with a new-agey kind of personal empowerment techniques, he guides the horrified group through the "105 pound problem". The resulting pychological meltdown is both right-on and hilarious. But definetely not for the faint-hearted. Cameron Diaz's character has her wedding, but not the life she imagined and the end is simply the most fun I've had at the movies in a long time!! Check this one out if you like Heathers, the Coen brothers, or David Lynch. You know, the kinky, funky weird side of life. I'd give it a B+.
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Summary: technically excellent, but left a bad taste
Review: In general I approve of black comedy. "Theatre of Blood" is a favourite of mine, for example. I thought "Fargo" was great. VBT, however, does not work for me as entertainment; I think this is for one very simple reason: the plot centers around the murder (or manslaughter) of a prostitute by a hopped-up John, and this -- wake up folks -- is not fantasy but something that happens every goddamn day all over the world. I have heard that the cops in LA and NYC don't even start investigating the deaths of hookers till they reach double digits per month.So, umm, a bunch of rich white guys killing a hooker and then a black security guard just doesn't strike me as unrealistic enough to be funny. This is a fantastically misanthropic film; the only person with a conscience gets killed off only half way through, and though in the end the bad guys get what's coming to them, it hardly qualifies as a morality play. There is no one you can like in this cast of characters. The writing and directing has a cold and depressing quality; the general mode is one of deep contempt for humanity, a sort of vicious post-Swiftian accidie. The only bright points for me were its uncompromising illumination of just how stupidly grown men behave when in packs, and (here I'll give it four stars) its cruelly accurate dissection of the selfish amorality behind most popular "self-help" pseudo-philosophies. Slater makes a truly demonic villain, but again he is just a bit too real to be comfortably hilarious -- I get the feeling that there are people just like him running many major corporations :-) It's true one can have more than enough of trad Hollywood feel-good fare, but I think VBT is not the right antidote. It has the Tarantino disease, a kind of cold creeping nastiness that offers sadism in place of wit and blood-n-guts shock value in place of any real originality. See it for Slater's virtuoso performance -- it's a classic, right up there with Peter Lorre at his scariest and funniest -- but don't expect to feel cheerful afterwards. I felt like I wanted to wash my face and hands after it was over.
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Summary: sick and twisted
Review: I am amazed at how many people liked this movie. But then again the movie review in the papers were all "must see." Also surprising is the fact that it got released at all. It is demeaning to the intelligent and sophisticated mind, and demoralizing to view. With movies like this out there it is not a wonder at all that we have the problems in this world that we do. Forgo this movie for almost anything else.
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Summary: sweet
Review: I think its funny how everyone either loves or hates this movie. I liked it. I don't recomend it for stupid people, or people without a sense of humor (aren't they the same thing though?). I think it makes (the 1-star) people feel uncomfortable because they know they would have donne the same thing if the situation comes, and they don't enjoy knowing the truth about themselves. Ha-ha.
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