Very Bad Things

Pros: Great humor, intense acting - accurate depiction of weddings
Cons: may be too intense for lighter tastes, very dark

A Celebration of the Sociopath…this was perhaps a strange choice for a movie on a romantic weekend. And this will be the third in a five part series chronicling a very surreal, fluid and fascinatingly perfect four-day weekend with my dear friend....

Pros: Very Bad Things That Are Funny
Cons: Very, Very Bad Things That Are HORRIBLE AND SAD AND CRUEL AND HORRIBLE!

This review will be about a movie that I have just finished watching on DVD. I’ll definitely warn you ahead of time – this review will tell practically everything about the movie, because I don’t know how else to review it.

This movie is about...

Pros: So disturbing and outrageous it's actually hilarious.
Cons: Needed a different ending for my taste.

A friend of mine came over, and as we drank Corona Extra Gold with lime we thumbed through the channels looking for something to watch. Not finding anything truly interesting we decided to watch Very Bad Things, listed on Comedy Central to get us...

Pros: Acting, premise, dialogue
Cons: Lack of broad appeal to audiences

The Plot Days before he's to marry his fiancée Laura (Cameron Diaz), Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) and his friends Moore (Leland Orser), Boyd (Christian Slater), Michael (Jeremy Piven) and Adam (Daniel Stern) head to Vegas for a debaucherous ...

Pros: Wicked script, hilarious scenes, black comedy
Cons: may be too gross for some

1998’s black comedy, ‘Very Bad Things,’ marked the directorial debut of actor, Peter Berg, the goofily good-looking tall actor from ‘Chicago Hope’ as well as a number of films like ‘A Midnight Clear’ and ‘The Last Seduction.’ Berg has done what very few ...

Pros: Bizarre premise, supported by top-notch acting.
Cons: Touchy subject, violent scenes

"Very Bad Things", Peter Berg's black and bloody comedy about a Las Vegas bachelor party gone awry, is a movie I went to see against every instinct in my body. I shun graphic violence in films, not on any particular moral grounds, but because...

Pros: A look into friendship, loyalty, and how deep a lie can take you.
Cons: Little to no comedy, even though it's supposed to be a comedy.

First of all, this is the second time I've had to write this review. The first time I wrote it I accidentally hit "back" on my browser and POOF! everything that I had written was gone. Don't you hate that? This time I am writing it in Wordpad first,...

Pros: Very funny, very well paced
Cons: No real characters

The movie "Very Bad Things" is full of steam and not boring for a second. We follow some American guys before a wedding, and on the surface they are the typical successful, just grown up Americans with nice jobs, houses and women to be by their sides. B ...

Pros: DIAZ WAS HYSTERICAL
Cons: ......

Ranking right up there with Fargo (hmmm, how did I miss reviewing that?), Wild Things and Julian Po, Very Bad Things is a trip into the dark but slightly funny side of life.

Christian Slater is just a little...

Pros: All the players are riveting, Berg summons enough thunder, Slater, Diaz and Tripplehorn scorch.
Cons: Sometimes Berg doesn't have the right touch for the scene and they feel awkward.

by Dane Youssef Well, now here's one that feels like doesn't just feel like another machine-made piece from off the assembly line. Here is a movie that feels like it has it's own ideas, thoughts, edges and all. The studio execuives ...

Pros: very real dialog, funny, original: well made overall
Cons: one too many plot twists (the ending's a bit too much)

"Very Bad Things" is a dark movie about dark subjects that most people simply won’t allow themselves to like. It’s filled with despicable, (very bad) behavior that goes against every moral taught to us as children. At times, it even...

Pros: None that I can think of... it tries to be hip and funny... sometimes...
Cons: It tries to be hip and funny.. but the movie just SUCKS!!!

"Very Bad Things" is a very bad movie. The acting's fine, the visual style of the movie is fine, but the plot is pointless. I squirmed and squeemed my way through this movie and was tempted a few times to get up and head across the street for the extra...

Pros: A couple of laughs.
Cons: In very bad taste, brutal and completely pointless.

Very Bad Things (1998)

* 1/2 out of * * * * *

I like black comedy. Some of my favorite movies are in this genre. But it's a genre that I like only when it shows intelligence. If there's a point,...

Pros: None!
Cons: The Acting, The Stunts, and the Whole Movie!

The length to which movie producers are willing to go these days is out of this world. They are not content to produce good movies, but they seem to have to cross every emotional, every moral, and every other line they can. Perhaps they really do...

Pros: Brutally dark, exquisitely performed, evil evil evil.
Cons: Too dark for many, but they take it all too seriously.

A lot of people miss the subtlety of this fine film, and I just don't understand it. Sure, it's not the kind of film that 'announces' it's comedy, or endeavors to keep you laughing throughout. Very Bad Things is more like a car wreck rolling across the...