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Movie Reviews of Bug (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Fire Meets Gasoline...
Summary: 5 Stars
Agnes White (Ashley Judd) is a shattered wreck of a human being. She is a drug-addicted alcoholic w/ absolutely nothing on the horizon to interupt her slow self-annihilation. Agnes lost her 6yo son in a grocery store 10 years ago, and most of her soul appears to have disappeared with him. Now, she drifts through her half-life, waking just long enough to drain another bottle of oblivion-inducer, or fire up another bowl of extreme pain-reliever. Enter Peter Evans (Michael Shannon), a nice, quiet young man who captures Agnes' devastated heart almost immediately. It's love at first sight, or something like that. Meanwhile, Agnes' total loser of an ex-con / ex-husband, Goss (Harry Connick, jr.) begins creeping around, threatening to move in on Agnes to help her to re-live the bad old days of his violence and control. Peter represents paradise by contrast. All seems fine until soon after Agnes and Peter consumate their relationship. Peter finds a small insect in the bed. Agnes can't see it, but Peter is very convincing! This leads to a downwardly spiralling binge of paranoid conspiracy theories, delusions, self-mutilation, and murder. These are two sick people. Two disturbed minds that have found their match. Two empty souls that have gravitated toward each other's deadness in a hopeless attempt at fulfillment. This is insanity squared, as the two become one shrill voice of un-reason. This can only end one way, and... it does... BUG is a tale of terror with the most hideous psychological monsters unleashed. William Friedkin has captured schizophrenia on film. He's shown what true "demonic" possession is all about, and it ain't pretty...Movie Review: REALLY thought-provoking
Summary: 5 Stars
If you're a fan of cinema that challenges the viewer and gets the mind working, "Bug" is for you. It is extremely suspenseful, and recalls the best work of Kubrick, Lynch, and Aronofsky. But after seeing it, I'm not sure that it's about insects at all. Although it's often quite gross and horrific, it is not actually a horror movie at all, which will probably disappoint those expecting something more superficial. It's one of those rare gems that be seen from several completely different perspectives, and create a lot of arguments within yourself and with others. The plot and occurances are outrageous. You're instant reaction is "This could not possibly happen". In my opinion, "Bug" is totally about paranoid-schizophrenia and its ablity to spread from one person to another. But watching "Bug" carefully on another level, one is given no evidence why the terrifying scenario could not be real. Are Aggie and Peter nuts? Or is there an evil government experiment going dreadfully wrong? It's all up to you.
As always, Ashley Judd is beyond amazing as an actress, as is Michael Shannon, who is alternately attractive and terrifyingly loony. Director William "The Exorcist" Friedkin deserves a big accolade for finding this wildly original material and not cheapening it by trying to turn it into a crowd-pleaser.
Warning: "Bug" is a downer. There were moments that I found it unbearable. But ultimately, its purging creative energy left me feeling strangely exhilarized. Enjoy at your own risk!
Movie Review: This movie was awsome!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I really enjoyed this film! If you didnt like it its prolly because you were expecting something else or you just didnt undestand it, therefore you couldnt get into it. When my brother first mentioned this movie i didnt really put any thought into trying to see it...dunno why but it just didnt catch me at first. He kept mentioning it and saying he wanted to get the dvd but couldnt find it (i always tell him to go to amazon cause you can find pretty much any flick here for cheap) He eventually ended up catching it on movies on demand and started talking about it again so i said ok im gonna put it on my netflix.
After doing so he kept asking if i had seen it yet so i decided to put it at the top of my list & Im glad i did! There are a few scenes that had me laughing my arse off and rewinding "HE'S A MACHINE!!!! A MACHINE!!!!" stab! stab! and when ashley judd starts going over what prolly happed to her kid and how the bugs arrives, and that leads to "IM THE SUPER MOTHER BUG!!!" GREAT MOVIE & HALARIOUS! Like i said in the intro, If you didnt like it its prolly because you were expecting something else or you just didnt undestand it, therefore you couldnt get into it. I got it in the mail last night and will be watching again before sending back. Then ordering it for the dvd collection.
& now back to work I go!
Movie Review: FRIEDKIN MAKES A DISTURBING STUDY OF HUMAN PARANOIA
Summary: 5 Stars
Of all people, William Friedkin, director of "The Exorcist", has come back with a vengeance with a terrific thriller based on the popular anti-establishment play by Tracy Letts of the same name, "Bug", a profoundly disturbing film on the nature of paranoia and vulnerability in love.
It is a true chamber film, with only two main characters: a lonely Oklahoma waitress named Agnes (played stunningly by Ashley Judd as a tour-de-force) and a somewhat unhinged war veteran named Peter (Michael Shannon powerfully recreating his original stage role), a man with delusions (perhaps) to whom she becomes attracted. Agnes is being harassed by her ex-husband (Harry Connick, Jr.), but what eventually happens as Agnes and Peter descend through various stage of (apparent) madness, is something you need to see for yourself to truly believe.
This is a magnificent achievement in cinema by master Friedkin who again shows that he still knows how to construct a sequence to elicit the darkest and most intense viewer response, but the fact the film also has many levels of meaning -- political, philosophical and spiritual - is what gives the viewer an experience to debate about with friends, and to keep thinking about for days afterwards.
Movie Review: Ashley Judd's Virgina Wolf
Summary: 5 Stars
Ashley Judd follows film legends Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor down that path of glamor be damned I'm looking right for this role. Then she delivers her best screen work to date. Her intensity very well be attributed to her keeping up with co-star Michael Shannon who in recreating his stage role had the dialogue down before setting foot on set.
William Friedkin doing some of his best work in years brilliantly sets the mood early on. He then plays with the audience's expectations of what's to come until an explosive finale.
Sadly, due to Lionsgate's marketing many in the theater expected everything but the film they saw.
The five minute preview of Hostel II was inappropriate.
This is not an FX driven remake of William Castle's Bug 1975 based on the novel The Hephaestus Plague by Thomas Page.
It is not a horror film.
Like Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf it's basically a one room character driven play transfered to the screen.
If you enjoy bringing your brain to the theater and leaving the popcorn at the counter this is for you.