Bug
Saw William Friedkin's "Bug" today.
Great movie, unnerving and creepy from the first frame. I really didn't know what to expect when I went in--or rather, I thought I did, I was expecting something like "Slither", a modest and decent special effects monster/horror movie. What I got was something entirely different--to discuss it much at all would be to give too much away, really.
Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon both really delivered, they made me care about their strange, lonely characters and their sad little lives. Friedkin let the actors shine, using a lot of long takes and not cutting too much. The camera placement, the lighting and the sets made Ashley Judd's dirty motel room feel real, feel lived in, and made it feel subtly menacing throughout. Very well done.
The one thing I could NOT believe was that a couple was sitting right behind me with a child who couldn't have been more than six or seven years old. This movie is a dark, demented film with cursing, nudity, drug use, blood, horror, sex scenes, and all kinds of things that a six-year-old kid should not be watching yet. It was hard to pay attention during some scenes because the kid was clearly really uncomfortable and disturbed by this shit he was seeing. I'm all in favor of showing kids kung fu movies and stuff, but this was just wrong.
Great movie, unnerving and creepy from the first frame. I really didn't know what to expect when I went in--or rather, I thought I did, I was expecting something like "Slither", a modest and decent special effects monster/horror movie. What I got was something entirely different--to discuss it much at all would be to give too much away, really.
Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon both really delivered, they made me care about their strange, lonely characters and their sad little lives. Friedkin let the actors shine, using a lot of long takes and not cutting too much. The camera placement, the lighting and the sets made Ashley Judd's dirty motel room feel real, feel lived in, and made it feel subtly menacing throughout. Very well done.
The one thing I could NOT believe was that a couple was sitting right behind me with a child who couldn't have been more than six or seven years old. This movie is a dark, demented film with cursing, nudity, drug use, blood, horror, sex scenes, and all kinds of things that a six-year-old kid should not be watching yet. It was hard to pay attention during some scenes because the kid was clearly really uncomfortable and disturbed by this shit he was seeing. I'm all in favor of showing kids kung fu movies and stuff, but this was just wrong.
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