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Heard some great things about this movie. This movie just yells white trash to me. The 2 main chacaters really bugged me (pun intended)and its just too depressing and not in the good dreadful way but just plain depressing and you know where the story is going but you just want to slap the bitch and tell her to snap out of it and ditch the loser she found at the bar. I actually wanted there to be bugs in the movie and when I realized what I was watching was in there heads I was just let down. I can't relate to these chacters because of the fact that they are insane, but maybe Judd's chacter isn't insane and just wants to be so she can be with the loser. I respect the movie for what it wants to do but i will never watch it again.
Posted By: CountOrlok at 12:36am, October 24, 2009
This is nowhere near The Exorcist or The French Connection..
Basically it starts off quite interesting then it devolves into something totally stupid and capped off with one of the lamet endings I've ever seen.
Loved it. I thought the acting was some of the best ive seen in YEARS... as another reviewer sayd, the scene toward the end where Judd goes on that insane insane insane rant is jaw-droppingly amazing to behold. The woman deserved an oscar and the fact the movie was generally bashed by the public when it first came out is such a HUGE insult to fantastic movie making. I'm SO glad I decided to pick this up for $4 from the bargain bin at the grocery store!!!
Posted By: caseynight88 at 12:06am, September 22, 2009
Ashley Judd just found a spot on my top 10 Remember-all-the-lines-in-a-5-minute-shot list. Damn u gotta recognize, that woman can memorize. 'sides that, Bug is an asylum of paranoia and delusions. Or is it? Watch it and judge for yourself, it's one of those answer it yourself films, that gives u 2 sets of puzzle pieces, and lets u build the one you choose. Great guessing flick.
Terrible. This movie is the worst of the worst. Bug is just a stupid, corny American movie, not scary and full of horrible dialogue and terrible acting. Bug is a poor mans excuse of film greats, and it trys to hard to fix things that have already gone wrong with movies like these. The only good thing here is the title, Bug sounds awesome. But honestly, this movie is horrible, don't even bother buying it, or renting it for that matter.
WOW, I was very disappointed when I saw the credits coming up the screen, what complete waste of dvd space. Expected a lot more from the director of Exorcist.
bug was a very disturbing yet powerful film.
it definitely crawls under your skin.
even though this movie was a psychological film, i found it to be quite frightening. the atmoshere of the film was very claustrophobic which was also really scary.
Oscar worthy performances in this film.
check it out.
I would expect nothing more than William Friedkin to make another great film that was equal to that of The Exorcist or the French Connection and sure enough, he did! Bug, which is a different kind of horror, tells the paranoid story about a girl who meets a mysterious stranger who claims that tiny insects are controlling him and that they are infesting the hotel slowly. Unlike supernatural or monstrous horror movies that many directors have done, this one is realistic in the sense that it can happen to anybody and that there are people out there that are like Pete Evens. This movie is also based on the play by Tracy Letts.
To get started, since it is based off of a play I hope to one day see, there is one major set piece that gets transformed into three stages. The motel that Agnes (Ashley Judd), Peter (Michael Shannon) and R.C. (Lynn Collins) occupy throughout the movie starts off as a typical motel room. When Pete joins the party it quickly turns into a motel room with a lot of flycatchers hanging from the ceilings, draped over furniture and all over the lamps and pictures. When things begin to get even buggier and at the climax of the story the room gets covered in tin foil and bug zapping lights. I want to give a huge shout out to how the set designers made a hotel room look creepy in three stages. Even without the characters, the room itself has it's own personality that reflects the paranoia of its occupants and to see something like that can only mean: worse things are to come.
Ashley Judd, who is in some bombs like Twisted, De-Lovely and Natural Born Killers, does an astounding job of acting. Honestly, you could barley tell that it was here. Granted, in the beginning of the movie she acts like she did on her last films but once those bugs start crawling, she skyrockets. Her emotions and her sheer fear of the unseen drove the complexity of character and she carried that sense with her throughout the entire film. Hopefully a movie like this can inspire her to pursue a career in suspense and or horror films because she was just awesome. Michael Shannon, who is in Dead Birds, Vanilla Sky, 8 Mile and Pearl Harbor, steals the entire show. Not only is he convincing enough to be a paranoid schizophrenic, but also he scares you when he has these outbursts, his conspiracy theories and when he goes to extreme lengths to prove that there are bugs. What is even scarier is that he acts, in the beginning, like an average guy, a guy that you might walk by on the street and in the coarse of a few days he plummets downward.
What I really like about the movie is the movie was that it was NOT your typical slasher movie, or a stalker movie or even a monster movie. This is a horror that infects the mind, that slowly eats away at it like a disease and there is no way out of it. It's a hard-core psychological horror drama and it lives up to its reputations or perhaps more. The fact that this movie is based upon a fear that all of us had at one point or another is the scariest element. I'm sure all of us had that fear of creepy crawlies, maybe not to the extreme, but that extra mile makes this movie extra spine tingling.
The only thing that I did not like about this movie was that there was not as much involvement R.C. or Jerry Gross and I hoped. Oh, and when we meet the psychiatrist. Besides those two points, this movie was the best horror movie I saw that year. It's a movie with it's own genre, that plays with you head a lot, it demonstrates the purity of paranoia and it is by far one of the best realistic horror movies made. I would strongly recommend this movie to any horror fan as well as drama fans.
powerful like whoa..it stays with you afterwards.
you really gotta give it some thought to enjoy it, no blood, and guts but who gives a fuck, a good movie dosen't need those things.
Wasnt as good as people hyped it up to be. Sure it was a little disturbing but come on it wasnt that bad. Pretty good plot and story which made it entertaining.
I was looking forward to seeing this movie, on tv and the redio, they were saying that this is one of the most disturbing horror films of all time. When I left the theater I was like "What the fuck was that shit" I didnt know if i saw a really good movie, or one of the worst tricks to get me to spent 10 bucks. I went on for about 2 years not being able to ask anyone elses opinion because nobody else i knew saw it. Then a month ago i saw it for the 2nd time with a friend and he was like "what the fuck" as well. Now with seeing it a second time I think that it was well done, but ultimately not too good. I did really like how they never showed any of the bugs, but anyone with half a brain could tell right away that this was about a paranoid schitzo, and knew how it would end. Ohh, and talk about a gross fuckin nasty mess of a sex scene. Why did they have to make sex look so fuckin gross? I do have to say the end made me laugh my ass off, damn that was sooo funny. The asshole husband is outside like "whats goin on" and that dude gets stabbed up and the main guys like " look its synthetic. see hes synthetic" when hes CLEARLY not. Then they get naked and burn themselves, then its over. Everyone in the theater was speechless and didnt know what to think. I think it was false advertising. I think it was bullshit.
Holy crap, I could not wait for a movie to end more. Two people locked in an apartment going crazy just isn't that appealing for a full length movie, I'm sorry.
Posted By: Dead_Scream at 4:26am, February 27, 2009
I really liked this movie. Some parts were hard to watch because of the insanity setting in (such as the guy ripping his own teeth out believing there were government bugs in there). And how it all ended. Ashley Judd let out that gasp and she had that look on her face... as if she realized too late what she had done. Moral of the story is to not let other people influence you with their beliefs and opinions.
This movie was called bug which the only thing it did was bug me.....this is a movie mental issues more then anything else....maybe it should of been called madness or going bugs.
I was truly disapointed with this movie. I just couldn't get into the story or even really care what also thought that the acting left a little to be desired. I really had hoped for it to be a much better film considering William Friedkin(The Exorcist), was behind the camera. It was an absolute letdown from start to finish.
After reading Mr. Disgusting's review, whom I've come to trust as far as movies go (thanks again), I noticed that this movie was on and decided to give it a go. I think that the movie really delves deep into insanity and the willingness of the desperate to cling to something blindly and completely. Ashley does a great job of sliding into the pit of madness after she meets her crazy new friend, who does a good job of being strange and creepie. I'll not go into details and spoil the movie for you whom have not seen it, but I recommend this movie to anyone interested in a psycho, mind-fuck thriller, if you are looking for a movie about bugs and creatures, pass this one up.
Posted By: mikethademon at 10:16am, January 10, 2009
Ok. Pretty boring to me. The whole movie is in the house. Kind of pointless. Stupid ending too.
When i first seen it I thought that there would be bugs crawling around in people skin, so i was dissappointed at first. They I reflected on it and thought about how good the characters were with their paranoia and craziness. Then i liked it
I'm absolutely sick of "horror" (emphasis on the quotes) movies that end up being nothing but a lame, geek joke in the end. I have better use of my time than to sit and watch a movie that is advertised as being disturbing, then ends up unintentionally funnier than any comedy I've seen. It's movies like this—and the praise they get from the critics—that makes me wonder if a truly disturbing horror movie is just too much to ask for. There are two main reasons Bug ends up as a joke, and it seems no one, on any site I've seen, even in negative reviews, has even mentioned them. Saddening, really.
Bug opens up with one of the least interesting, boring first hours in cinema history. This is partly due to the director trying to be clever and immersing us in "realism" by having no music and only moving the camera when absolutely necessary, otherwise keeping the camera fixed on a wall or a face for insane amounts of time. The other reason the first hour is ridiculously boring is because (who would have guessed in a movie like this?) nothing happens. At all. I literally timed it. In the first hour of Bug, you get no plot details, you get no characterization, you get nothing except Ashly Judd standing by the wall and looking helpless. Oh, and Michael Shannon trying to act like Forest Gump on severe depressants. As I said, this is an attempt to immerse the viewer in realism, but fails because in real life, people actually, you know, do SOMETHING. Why would I want to sit there and watch two fictional characters I can absolutely care less about stare at things for an hour? I have a life. I don't have time for this. This is something modern directors are doing in more and more movies lately. They just don't get it. Their movies aren't Alien, where the slow-burn open was necessary, their films are sub-par, cliché thrillers (that aren't thrilling) with no cinematic importance whatsoever. People aren't going to sit and watch two people stare at walls. That's why this movie flopped.
When the plot is finally explained after one of the cheesiest sex scenes ever filmed, Bug descends into an all-out cliché-fest. It does exactly what is expected in a paranoia thriller, never once stepping outside the trite, cute, safe path countless movies just like it have tread before its director was even born. Cliché explanations for the bugs their seeing. There are so many clichés, they might have as well said "the devil made me do it!"
By the time the credits rolled, I realized Bug had become the one thing I wished it wasn't when I rented it yesterday morning: a giant cliché. The last act of the film, where everyone (again: who would have guessed?) goes insane, is one of the absolute funniest final acts in horror history. If I hadn't seen the exact same scene play out in A Beutiful Mind and One Flew Over the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and 12 Monkeys and A Scanner Darkly, I might have at least slightly taken it seriously. There is simply no excuse for a movie this unoriginal. A vision this unoriginal. The people-going-insane thriller sub-genre is really starting to annoy me more than any other. Why? Because we've seen it thousands of times, and people still act as if it's a fresh concept. The unoriginality ruins anything that had the potential to be disturbing about Bug. The most disturbing movie of all time? Excuse me as I roll on the floor laughing my head off.
The acting is as solid in the first hour of the film as it should be for a movie that happens in one room with less action than the average soap opera. The acting in the last thirty minutes is so cheesy anything even remotely disturbing about the scene is gone. Not to mention the director, who apparently has the maturity level of a horny pre-teen, decides it's the best thing to have all the characters take their clothes off. Just because. Again, that made the scene even more laughable.
There is nothing more I can say. It's saddening to me that a movie like this would even be made in 2007, much less get released. I just wish that some director/writer would think of an original, truly disturbing view of the psychological horror genre. Not another trip through Disney clichés like Bug.
Thank you William Friedkin! Disturbingly awesome. And he never released the tension, that ballsy bastard! Reminded me of early Polanski (Tenant, Repulsion, Rosemary's Baby) Different story, same sense of dread.
God, I never hated a movie more than when I finished this one. And trust me, I've seen too many movies. If I could give a negative rating number I would, because not only did this movie suck, everything I did for the next week and a half sucked.
Posted By: alienfetus at 3:30am, November 10, 2008
Ever get up late at night and swtich on the TV half asleep and barely paying attention to what's on only to find yourself an hour later wide awake, scratching your head, and wondering just what the fuck you're watching? "Bug" is something like that. The words "mind fuck" don't quite cut it. It's one of my personal favorites as movies go, full of paranoia and bugs...well maybe they're bugs. The acting is so fucking great. In fact about everything about this movie is great: the set, the story, the cast. All of it. Rent it and watch it on a sleepless night.
Posted By: Protecious at 1:40pm, September 30, 2008
what a tough movie this was to try and market to the public, obviously having the director of the exorcist would get attention, and having a bug on the poster cover would probably lay some confusion on people when they watch the actual film itself, i loved the film for it's originality and I havent seen a good oscar worthy performance in to many horror films but i felt ashley judd gave a performance that is underated to people and because of what it's called and targeted to, alot of people will ignore this movie or pay no attention to the true genius acting skills of judd's in this film, this is the best acting ive ever seen her do, and im sure this movie probably didnt succeed well financially, but i feel it's one of the best thrillers in years, the dialogue, plot, conspiracy theories, and communication between characters were all very intense, believable, unpredictable and interesting.
Posted By: roostergore at 7:46pm, September 28, 2008
Yes this is an original concept. Yes the acting was decent. Yes the drama was intense at times. No this movie is not for you to see at this exact minute. Watch on a rainy day.
Posted By: summer_nights at 11:41pm, August 17, 2008
This movie is TERRIBLE. I won't even waste your time writing about it. Don't even rent it! Don't even LOOK at it on store shelves! And if you do... Well you've been warned.
One of the best movies ever made on the terms of bending the genre. Its all about what you can think up as scary. Its up to the audience. i thought this movie was better then The Exorcist(did I just say that). Yep, I did. Its that good. Its horror, drama, romance, blue collar and suprisingly liberal. Its just extremely smart and just...just...great.
Ok I didn't like the misrepresentation of this movie. The trailers make you think you are going in to watch a horror movie seriously about bugs. So therefore I was excited to see it. Boy was I disappointed!
I hated it! If I wasn't expecting a true horror film I don't think I would've disliked it so much.
It had really good acting and it was definitely thought-provoking almost a sad film in a way. But because of my utter disappointment in the misleading trailers I'm giving this a bad review!
Well i saw bug thinking i was gonna watch a insect invasion movie.....and i was wrong and not on a bad way...bug blew my mind i loved it, the acting , the story and the directing... those who are lonely (like me) will love it... this is a movie that u will either wanna watch again or will want to forget about it....
As much as it did a GREAT job in turning the plot completely around from what you expected, it also soured it just a tad for me. No enough character info either. Good, but far from great.
Oh the multiple layers this film had (single paranoia, induced social paranoia, the basic need for love and what you will do when you are a broken human, etc).
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