Very Bad Things

1998 "They've been bad. Very bad."
6.3| 1h40m| R| en
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Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle...

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RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
rioplaydrum My, oh, my.I first received a copy of this film on VHS back when that was still the industry standard at the time and watched it multiple times.Absolutely horrific and an illustration of just how bad an average middle-class life can turn on a dime for no good reason what-so-ever.At the time I had a Lady Friend from work who wanted to borrow it. She had a young child at home and I warned her this was some rough stuff and explicitly told her that her kid definitely didn't need to see it.She thanked me later.This film has not lost it's impact over the years. It is a terrible story to behold and is a testament to the sometimes vapid themes otherwise normal people will overlook just to appear as respectable human beings to the rest of the world.No one has a happy ending in this story.
gavin6942 A prostitute (Kobe Tai) is killed during a bachelor party and the attendees turn on each other as the wedding approaches.This film came to my attention off a list of horror and thriller films. There is really nothing horror about it. But the thriller aspect? I can see that. The first twenty minutes or so I thought I had been duped because it seems like any other comedy, but it takes a dark turn. And that is a good thing! Not surprisingly, the evil member of the group of friends is Christian Slater. If he really killed a prostitute and hacked up the body in real life, I would not even be surprised. The film could do without Cameron Diaz, but at least her role is very secondary (or tertiary).
Claudio Carvalho A couple of days before his wedding with Laura Garrety (Cameron Diaz), Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) travels to Las Vegas for a bachelor party with his friends Charles Moore (Leland Orser), Robert Boyd (Christian Slater), Michael Berkow (Jeremy Piven) and his brother Adam Berkow (Daniel Stern) in his minivan. They go to an apartment in the hotel and get crazy drinking booze and using cocaine. When the stripper Tina (Carla Scott, a.k.a. Kobe Tai) comes to their room, she teases the friends and Michael goes with her to the bathroom to have sex. The prostitute hits the hanger for towel with her nape and she dies. The group panics, but Boyd convinces his friends to bury the woman in the desert. However one security guard comes to the room because of the noise and he glances at the dead body. He wants to call the police and Boyd stabs him to death. Then they clean the room and bury the bodies in the desert. They return home and Adam freaks out with the situation, causing an accident with his wife Lois Berkow (Jeanne Tripplehorn) and children. Meanwhile Laura organizes the wedding party and during the rehearsal, Michael and Adam have a serious argument and Michael decides to hit the minivan of his brother. Adam tries to protect his minivan and is accidentally murdered by his brother. Soon Lois finds a note written by Adam and presses the group to know what happened in Vegas. What will happen to them?"Very Bad Things" is one of the darkest comedies ever. The storyline of a group of friends that accidentally kills a woman is not original and has been used many times (for example, the 1997 low-budget "Stag"). However, "Very Bad Things" by Peter Berg has improved the story and is little gem of black humor. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Uma Loucura de Casamento" ("A Crazzy Wedding")
Bene Cumb The idea is okay and at least two performances are very good (Christian Slater as Robert Boyd, a vicious real estate agent, and Cameron Diaz as Laura Garrety-Fisher, Kyle's determined fiancée and later wife), but the plot is hectic and uneven; at times nice thrilling moments are replaced by long and nervous reasoning on issues like remorse and moral. However, black humor is in place and the pre-wedding events are more or less realistic; later ones I was not so fond of and the ending were not up to my expectations either. But it is true that a small thing going out of control could trigger serious consecutive incidents where there is no way back... But do not reckon on remaining "totally clean"!