Very Bad Things

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Summary: This Movie Was Great
Review: it has an independant film feel like that of Payback... and the writing style is not that unlike Donald E. Westlake (aka Richard Stark). The film was dark, yet i laughed the whole time. So who's opinion would you rather read? That of a film student who has a knack for great cinematography, or that of someone who doesn't respect art at all??

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Summary: There are advantages to watching this movie
Review: The best advantage to watching Very Bad Things is that every movie watched afterwards will look good by comparison. While watching it, I kept on wanting to push the FF button to see if I could find a good part. It wouldn't have mattered. Berg should have given the actors the dignity of wearing paper bags over their heads while being in this movie. In fact, they should do a gimmick movie out of this, remake it, using the exact same script (like the new Psycho), call it Very Bad Movie, and give out written apologies to everyone who buys a ticket, signed by the director.

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Summary: Cinematic Trash
Review: Cameron Diaz and Christian Slater must have had some bills to pay, Its a shame that drive-ins are going the way of the do-do because this would be a great B-movie feature. No plot, No engaging story, Kind of like 8 heads in a Duffle Bag meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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Summary: Hilarious !!
Review: I liked this movie because it takes REAL life situations and puts a twist that makes the outcome both unlikely, but so god dam funny that I watched this movie 2X in one day. Face the reality here: bachelor parties, gambling, alcohol, male bonding, prostitutio, drugs, and prayers are things that we can relate to in our lives , even if it is experienced minimally. Poor ending though, but where else could it have gone? I really like the music and the actors.

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Summary: Makes Showgirls look like Citizen Kane
Review: This does for the movies what Mad Cow Disease did for beef consumption in the U.K. Never funny, never engaging, but very loud & irritating. Slater reprises the role he did in the far, FAR superior Heathers. I saw this for free on video & I still wanted my money back. The kindest thing to be said for this movie is that every movie seen after it is good by comparison. A Simple Plan, for example, covers the same theme but is infinitely superior. One thing that Director Berg didn't realise in VBT is that in order for this to work, the audience must be able to relate to the characters, all of whom, with the exception of Slater & Cameron Diaz (both of whose characters are essentially the same) have less personality than a potted plant. The plot holes that litter the story are large & frequent. The security gaurd, for example, would have been carrying a cellular phone, so he wouldn't have sent the characters to make the call about the dead hooker. He also would have reported to an office that he was investigating a disturbance in their hotel room. These details alone would have resulted in the characters being caught very quickly. When a horror, drama or adventure movie is bad, it often becomes an unintended comedy and therefore may gain a measure of success. When a comedy is bad, the failure is complete, and the result is a movie very much like Very Bad Things.

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Summary: Sick, Slick & Very Funny!
Review: Maybe I have the strange and famous "British Sense Of Humour", or maybe I'm just plain sick. I thought VBT was the darkest and funniest film I've seen in ages. I long for more political correctness bashing like this - and excuse me if I'm missing the point here, but Robert Boyd (Slater) wasn't all bad. His heart was in the right place, what with wanting to protect his friends from the consequences of what was quintessentially, an accident.

The chainsaw scene was a little too much, even for me, but the ending was fabulous. Diaz' character severely got on my nerves throughout the film with her miniature seating plans and hysterical bride-to-be tantrums etc. but she certainly got her just desserts at the end. Slater's done a few "on the edge" roles now and should do a few more - he plays a psycho SO well.

I haven't laughed so much for ages, but I must apologise to the other people in the cinema who probably thought they were sat with a maniac in the midst.

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Summary: Let's hear it for the girl!
Review: I think Cameron Díaz is about to become the female Malcolm McDowell! She's not afraid to appear in darker-than-dark comedies, or to mock her angelic image and cherubic smile.

In this day and age when every celebrity wants to be seen politically-correct, nice-to-all-humankind and compassionate-to-the-less-fortunate, it takes a lot of guts to swim against the current current in Hollywood and play questionable roles like this.

My only complaint is... she hasn't danced since The Mask, and she's one helluva sexy dancer! Cameron, if you're reading this ...wanna dance? I'm no Cuban, but hey, nobody's perfect! (Well, maybe you are)

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Summary: Pornos are more wholesome than this movie.
Review: Murdering people and then cutting up their bodies with power saws isn't funny.

The cast was good and Daniel Stern's performance was outrageous (in the good sense of the word). It's too bad he played such an annoying character.

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Summary: It's torture to sit through this film
Review: I was under the impression that this was supposed to be a comedy. Don't make that mistake yourself, because you won't laugh once during this film unless your name is Ted Bundy. This movie has no other point than "if someone disagrees with you, kill them". To make matters worse, none of the characters are even likeable. They are all just cardboard cutouts who stand around and swear at each other. It's a waste of quite a few good actors. Don't write me off now as being a softy who wouldn't like this kind of movie, because I do enjoy dark comedies when they are handled correctly (i.e. Pulp Fiction, Fargo). The bottom line is that nothing about this movie is worth watching. It's not funny unless you like watching 2 hours of poorly written characters screaming at each other, and settling the argument by murder. Now tell me, does that really sound that funny to you?

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Summary: NOTHING HILARIOUS ABOUT MURDERING PEOPLE
Review: This movie would have been better if from the beginning they were not trying to make the situations they were in funny. There is nothing funny at all about murdering people whether it be prostitutes, security guards that take bribes, or your best friends. THe time I guess I was supposed to laugh I was more appaled by the moral aspects, then even find it a little funny. I was dissipointed to see Cameron Diaz in that rather bitchy role that was preety stupid if one thinks about it.