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What You Need To Know:
VERY BAD THINGS is filled with excessive, gruesome acts of violence, disturbing scenes of extreme foul language, sexual situations, and extensive nudity. The movie takes a sarcastic, moralizing tone toward its out-of-control, vicious, disturbed, often angry characters. It is ultimately a soul-numbing, pointless exercise ending in a self-righteous, condescending, unfeeling, and hopeless shot of one of the distraught newlyweds, squirming helplessly in the street amid row upon row of sterile, middle-class homes in a California suburb. Although all of the murderers suffer for their crimes, that does not justify the almost pornographic nature of this movie
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(PaPaPa, B, LLL, VVV, SSS, NNN, AAA, DDD, B, MMM) Sarcastic, pagan worldview with moralistic overtones of the narcissistic materialism of young adults; 206 obscenities & 41 profanities; extreme, excessive violence including man high on drugs & alcohol falls through glass table, another man high on cocaine & alcohol accidentally & fatally kills woman during fornication, man brutally stabs security guard after which he & his four buddies block door so guard bleeds to death, five men cut up bodies, clean blood-soaked room & bury body parts in desert, man kills brother while ramming brother’s minivan, man attacks woman who fights back, two implied murders, woman bashes man’s head with post, & he later bleeds to death, & head-on collision leaves two men in wheelchairs; extreme, excessive sex including half-naked prostitute flirts with three men at bachelor party, including one married man, then fornicates with unmarried man; extensive upper female nudity during early sex scenes & brief rear nudity; two extensive scenes of alcohol use & abuse; smoking & one extensive scene of cocaine & marijuana use; one long prayer to God for help, guidance & forgiveness & one silent plea to God; and, strong miscellaneous immorality such as lying, blackmail, falsifying evidence, bearing false witness against dead people who can’t respond, & hiring a prostitute.
More Detail:
A wild bachelor party goes terribly awry in VERY BAD THINGS. This movie is a nihilistic black comedy written and directed by actor Peter Berg, who played Christian football player Dennis Byrd in a TV movie about Byrd’s recovery from paralysis, RISE AND WALK.
Berg definitely goes slumming in his first directorial effort. VERY BAD THINGS focuses on the crimes of six vicious, foul-mouthed young murderers. Although all of the murderers suffer for their crimes – three are murdered by one of the others, two become handicapped after a car crash and one goes mad – the violence, sex, nudity, and foul language is so strong and prevalent that one questions the sanity of Jack Valenti’s Motion Picture Association of America, which gave this movie an R-rating instead of an NC-17 (no one under 17 admitted).
In the movie, Jon Faveau plays Kyle Fisher, a man who is getting married to a beautiful but completely materialistic young woman named Laura, played by Cameron Diaz, who also appeared recently in the despicable but successful THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY. Kyle’s friend Robert Boyd, played by Christian Slater, organizes a bachelor party in Las Vegas with three of Kyle’s other friends, played by Daniel Stern (HOME ALONE), Jeremy Piven (TV’s ELLEN and CUPID) and Leland Orser. Boyd arranges for a prostitute to visit their hotel room, where the boys, especially Piven’s character, Michael, are already high on alcohol and cocaine.
When Michael accidentally kills the half-naked prostitute during a vile and crazy sex scene in the bathroom, Boyd convinces the other four men to cut up the body and bury it in the desert. Boyd, however, is a psychopath who spouts self-help platitudes about courage under fire (“Let me be the success coach,” he says). Soon, Boyd is involving the others in more murders until Laura herself impulsively murders Boyd so he won’t spoil her wedding day.
VERY BAD THINGS takes a sarcastic, moralizing tone toward these out-of-control, vicious, disturbed, often angry characters. It is ultimately a soul-numbing, pointless exercise ending in a self-righteous, condescending, unfeeling, and hopeless shot of an insane, distraught Laura squirming helplessly in the street amid row upon row of sterile, middle-class homes in a California suburb. Like Laura, this uneven movie seems to have lost all sense of reality. Only the director’s anger at the world survives.
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