Very Bad Things [DVD]

Best movie, ever! Christian Slater kills it!

Blu-Ray looks amazing & price was more than fair !Exactly as described.

Watch this movie for a great time at the movies

Shocking, Dark funny. I liked it.

Good movie

Love the movie!

In general I approve of black comedy. "Theatre of Blood" is a favourite of mine, for example. I thought "Fargo" was great. VBT, however, does not work for me as entertainment; I think this is for one very simple reason: the plot centers around the murder (or manslaughter) of a prostitute by a hopped-up John, and this -- wake up folks -- is not fantasy but something that happens every goddamn day all over the world. I have heard that the cops in LA and NYC don't even start investigating the deaths of hookers till they reach double digits per month.So, umm, a bunch of rich white guys killing a hooker and then a black security guard just doesn't strike me as unrealistic enough to be funny.This is a fantastically misanthropic film; the only person with a conscience gets killed off only half way through, and though in the end the bad guys get what's coming to them, it hardly qualifies as a morality play. There is no one you can like in this cast of characters. The writing and directing has a cold and depressing quality; the general mode is one of deep contempt for humanity, a sort of vicious post-Swiftian accidie.The only bright points for me were its uncompromising illumination of just how stupidly grown men behave when in packs, and (here I'll give it four stars) its cruelly accurate dissection of the selfish amorality behind most popular "self-help" pseudo-philosophies. Slater makes a truly demonic villain, but again he is just a bit too real to be comfortably hilarious -- I get the feeling that there are people just like him running many major corporations :-)It's true one can have more than enough of trad Hollywood feel-good fare, but I think VBT is not the right antidote. It has the Tarantino disease, a kind of cold creeping nastiness that offers sadism in place of wit and blood-n-guts shock value in place of any real originality. See it for Slater's virtuoso performance -- it's a classic, right up there with Peter Lorre at his scariest and funniest -- but don't expect to feel cheerful afterwards. I felt like I wanted to wash my face and hands after it was over.

Ok. I'd Like to start this off by asking, "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?" If leaving the comfort of your sheltered daily lives for 2 hours to experience something new and different, albeit dark and twisted, then by all means avoid this flick. The movie is a little over the top but, unfortunately stuff like this really does happen! Maybe not to the same extent with the funny little twists of this plot but, believe it or not, there are bad people in the real world. This movie only treis to make a crack at humanity's darker side. Every one of us, like it or not, has the ability to get caught up in a "good time gone bad". I'd say this is one of those little gems that comes along and slips it's way into mainstream media somehow and shocks the general public into the realization that they ARE human and this is why flicks like this get bashed. People don't want to be human, they just want to live in their bubbles. To experience life outside the bubble, go ahead and give this one a shot. The acting is superb and the plot is ridiculous.