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Bug You go into Bug
thinking it
is going to be some scary, action packed horror movie, but, by the end,
you
realize they are just going to keep talking and talking and talking for
THE
WHOLE MOVIE, when you wish they would SHUT UP! Ashley Judd stars as Agnes
–
a troubled woman living in a dumpy Is Peter telling the truth
about who he is and what has happened to him?
Is he nuts? Is
Agnes nuts? It turns out this movie was
written by your Mom as a way to scare you from ever going home alone
with a
stranger you met in a bar. However,
you
might fall asleep before learning that lesson.
When you look at the talent
in this movie, you kind of wonder how their careers have taken such
wrong turns. Director
William Friedkin (who helmed some of
the best movies EVER, like The French
Connection and The
Exorcist) has resorted
to making a very simple, unchallenging movie where 99% of the action
takes
place in that dumpy motel room, so he mostly has to point the camera at
the
actors and get out of the way. Even
Uwe
Boll can do that. Sadly, writer Tracy Letts
(who wrote the play this movie is based on) is the victim of a
marketing
campaign that makes you think Bug is more of a traditional horror
movie instead
of the psychological thriller or mystery it really is.
The commercials and trailers matter, and set
a certain expectation for audience members.
When you betray those expectations, the audience
ends up hating what
they have seen. Then,
Judd is forced to
do something actresses only do on the way up, or the way down. She gets naked, nude, in
the buff, wearing
her birthday suit, as she makes her way down, down, down. Judd and Shannon are both
extremely good as their characters spiral out of control and make you
question
every decision and thought. Bug
is boring, no matter how
crazy people on the screen act. 1 Waffle
(Out of 4) Bug is rated R for some strong violence, sexuality, nudity, language and drug use.
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