Why the low rating? You people are effing morons
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franzkabuki — 12 years ago(October 05, 2013 12:59 PM)
"You don
t know what good comedy is". But I do - which is why I think Very Bad Things is well overrated on IMDb. To be honest, it did have a few scenes that were actually funny (like the Stern guy bumbling in the gas station and Slater declaring the vans full of love or that other guy wailing and howling at the funeral), but mostly the jokes fell totally flat. Not to mention the most basic failing of the writer(s), the inability to comprehend that certain things simply are too far gone on the grisly side to be funny, no matter how you spin them - like, for instance, mutilation, or re-composing of corpses. Generally speaking, Im very f-cking far from being an advocate for good taste in movies, but this little fillum here really does cluelessly cross the line and I doubt even a truly gifted filmmaker could have made it work much better. So, for once I actually do agree with Roger Eberts moral judgement - this movie is indeed pretty reprehensible stuff. It plays sort of like a very crass and stupid mans The Hangover - and that film itself wasnt exactly your highbrow entertainment to begin with. Peter Berg should stick to acting - after all, he was hilarious in The Last Seduction.
Also, Rene Russo did bite down on Slater`s balls hard (in a desperately unfunny scene), so the "hit in the balls" department is also pretty much covered.
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Rena_Mahone — 11 years ago(May 22, 2014 05:46 PM)
Agree, this film managed to be both funny and violent - a real dark comedy, very underappreciated.
and no one got hit in the balls
Someone got bitten in there though
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perniciouspen@hotmail.com — 10 years ago(August 04, 2015 02:51 AM)
It's a VERY black comedy and a bloody brilliant film. And it wasn't Rene Russo who bit Christian Slater in the nuts..it was Jeanne Tripplehorn.
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CptHowdy87 — 10 years ago(October 02, 2015 06:41 AM)
Well just over 5 years ago this had a 4.7 on IMDB and now it's at 6.3.
I'm glad this movie has finally been finding it's audience over the years. I guess it was somewhat ahead of it's time. The sort of black humor in Very Bad Things is much more prevalent these days.
I first saw this movie when I was far too young to see it back when it first came out and I was only 11 but for some reason I loved it and have watched it so many times over the years and love it more and more each time I watch it. -
crooky-3 — 10 years ago(November 01, 2015 07:29 PM)
One of Boyd's best quotes in the movie sums up exactly why it's brilliant and why most people can't get into it: "If you take away the horror of the scene, take away the tragedy of the death, take away all the moral and ethical implications that have been drilled into your head since grade one, do you know what you're left with? A 105-pound problem that needs to be moved from point A to point B."
It's really an underappreciated masterpiece, and Christian Slater and Daniel Stern both had pretty hilarious performances in this, with Slater making a hell of a bad guy, and kind of hilarious he'd be done in by Diaz who was just as much a bad woman when it came down to it. Had a perfect karma-tic ending to it too, which is what pisses me off when people say there's no redeeming qualities to it. Not that there needs to be redeeming qualities in a movie, but what actually happens to the characters based on the horrible actions they've all taken is perfectly redeeming.
Dianna Agron!