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Summary: VERY BAD THINGS...A Very Bad Movie!!
Review: VERY BAD THINGS is the ultimate "Murphy's Law" movie. Meaning it is a "What can go wrong, will go wrong!" movie. Movies like this are usually funny. Unfortunately, VERY BAD THINGS' script, direction, acting and characterizations are all bad. What could have been a very good story turns into a gut wrenching, hard to watch movie. 5 buddies having a bachelor party for one of their own,hire a stripper to come to a hotel room where the party is being celebrated. During the party, the stripper is accidentally killed. From there, everything goes down hill as each guy involved, tries in their own way to conceal the crime and their guilt... This is not fun to watch. Peter Berg's direction is terrible and each character is hard to sympathize with. By film's end, we are hoping everyone involved gets killed. This is one of the worst movies ever made. An embarrassment to all involved. Adult Film Star Kobe Tai (the stripper "Tina" who gets killed in the film) should keep this movie out of her resume.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: You have to have a pretty sick sense of humor to like this movie... which I do. As long as you see it in the context it's only a piece of film, and not real - then it's funny. It's a little less funny though because the storyline is actually partially believable and well acted. Bottom line: it's only a movie!!
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Summary: Only a 3 * average?...
Review: This movie is the funniest thing I have ever seen. See, some guy whacks (kills) a prostitute...Okay, grim start, but wait until you see everything they go through to try to cover it up!
DO NOT let the kids watch it, it contains the sickest humor, blood, gore, sex, nudity, and they use 'the "F-" word' more than they say "a, an" or "the" combined, and kids wouldn't get why 99% of it is so funny anyway. But if you are 18+, this movie is so outrageously hilarious, you'll be laughing well after it's over.
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Summary: Very Bad Movie
Review: I did not think that this was a very good comedy whether Dark Humor or not. For me five guys who try to cover up various murders is not that amusing. Cameron Diaz, who played the persistent bride, was lousy and did not seem to fit well into the overall picture.Granted there were some funny moments in the beginning, but things got out of hand in a hurry. After the first two murders, the killings made no sense and the plot went nowhere. There was alot of shouting and yelling in the picture which only made things worse. I am glad I only rented this film and did not pay full price to see such trash. My advice is don't waste your money on this so-called movie.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: I thought this film was excellent. It makes you think of what you would actually do if you were in the same perdicament. Plus the movie starts conversations. Anytime I ask my friends if they have seen it they say "Oh that movie is so wrong in so many ways, but I like it a lot". I think the director was brilliant for doing this movie. And for the people who do not see the humor in this movie it is too bad for them they need to lighten up a little.
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Summary: Very, very, very bad society we live in
Review: that could condone the production and marketing of a film like this. I'm convinced that eveyone who gave this film 4 stars or above also ordered Time Life Books "Serial Killers" for some reading enjoyment on a rainy day. Lets face it, this movie represents a very sick scenario that when it actually does happen in real life, the perpetrators get the death penalty or life in prison. I would like to see the people who laughed through this movie, or proclaimed it as brilliant do the same after it actually happened to a member of their family. You people have way to much time on your hands.
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Summary: Gleefully nasty
Review: If Quentin Tarantino had somehow commandeered "There's Something About Mary," you might have gotten something very much like "Very Bad Things." Written and directed by Peter Berg, heretofore best known as one of the nicer doctors on TV's "Chicago Hope," this is a gleefully nasty mix of black comedy and bloody mayhem, completely uninhibited by any trace of good taste. You may hate yourself in the morning, but you will find yourself laughing at out loud at its worst excesses. Come to think of it, you may hate yourself even while you're watching the movie. But you'll probably laugh anyway. It helps, of course, if you suspect the worst of Christian Slater after reading tabloid accounts of his off-screen misadventures. As Robert Boyd, the self-appointed leader of a bachelor party that gets horribly out of hand, Slater does everything but wink at the audience to signal his eagerness to live down to our expectations. A prostitute accidentally dies during the riotous get-together in a Las Vegas hotel room. Not surprisingly, Robert is the first to suggest that calling the police wouldn't be such a great idea. On the other hand, he thinks it would be a smart move to silence an intrusive security guard. With the utmost reluctance, the groom-to-be (Jon Favreau), the inadvertent killer (Jeremy Piven) and two not-so-innocent bystanders (Daniel Stern, Leland Orser) agree to help David bury their mistakes. Nothing good comes of this. "Very Bad Things" may seem thoroughly amoral, but don't be fooled: There's actually a twisted sense of justice at work here. Cameron Diaz is splendidly monstrous as Laura, Favreau's fiancee, who seems almost as sociopathic as David while she prepares for her elaborate wedding. She will let nothing -- not even a dead body or two, or three -- spoil her big day. In the end, however, she gets exactly what she deserves. So does just about everyone else.
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Summary: Peter Berg is a genius.
Review: Who would ever expect something so sick, twisted, and downright hilarious from the innocent-looking Peter Berg? Oh my, where do I start? Okay....Here goes, five twenty-something yuppies head off to Vegas for a bachelor party. They are in what appears to be a penthouse suite, living it up with LOTS of alcohol and cocaine when the stripper/hooker shows up. Well, things start to get a little bit out of hand (to say the least). You see, the hooker has a nasty bout with a towel hanger in the bathroom. She sort of, well...dies and the five guys start to do what any other upstanding citizen would do. Dial 911. That is until Robert (Christian Slater) steps up to take control of the "situation". Being one of those "self-help" gurus, his philosophy is simple, "block out every moral that you've had hammered into your head, your entire life and you're left with a 105 pound problem." Solution? Just clean up the mess and bury the body in the desert. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, as it turns out, things don't exactly go as planned. Before everyone even has time to agree, there is ANOTHER body to dispose of. Now, there is no turning back. (A security guard shows up to see what the ruckus is about and Robert kills the poor sap). So, they get things cleaned up, and head back home for the big wedding. This is where the fun REALLY starts. I won't drop any more spoilers, but I will say this: If you do plan on seeing this movie, please be forewarned. It is NOT for the sqeamish and it is not called "Very Bad Things" for nothing. If you like good, nasty humor (with lots of gore) this film is for you. However, If you are easily offended, avoid this one like the plague.
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Summary: A Hilarious comedy!
Review: I found this movie to be hilarious despite the dark plot. Or maybe it was so funny because of the dark plot. It all starts with the boys going to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. All hell breaks lose and from that point on things get worse and worse for everyone involved. This is definitely a movie for those that don't mind laughing at the horrors in life!
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Summary: Pure genius
Review: I was surprised by the majority of the reviews of this movie. I watched it and laughed the whole way through and half the people on this site thought it was disgusting. I'll grant them that it was gruesome at times, but no worse than some of the other movies out there (Braveheart, Gladiator), but to say the acting was bad? This is perhaps one of Christian Slaters best perfomances, and Cameron Diaz was great too. If you can't realize that this is just a movie and just sit back and enjoy it for what it is, then don't bother. But if you're into "Black Comedies" then you owe it to yourself to watch this.
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