William Friedkin's "Bug"

[PeteL]

What a disturbing and uncomfortable movie to watch.

Bravo!

[Garth]

What a disturbing and uncomfortable movie to watch.

Bravo!

I have heard good stuff, I can't wait to get around to watching it.

[Adam Beranek]

Ashley Judd is crazy hot!

[Ginza98]

This movie pissed me off, it sucked so bad. I really don't want to take away from someone's enjoyment of this movie but it left me with absolutely nothing when it was finished. It was an anti-story and what I mean by that is it set up these very interesting premises and then didn't deliver on any of them. The acting was good but it went nowhere and didn't give any kind of reasons for why certain characters did what they did (ie, Harry Connick Jr.'s leaving her with a strange man in the hotel after being locked up 2 years. Wouldn't he have made the strange man leave if he was so controlling of her?).
I see alot of movies and I've seen many movies that weren't entirely clear or had fuzzy resolutions (ie, Asian cinema) but this movie glossed over everything so well that I got absolutely nothing out of it.
Roy

[PeteL]

This movie pissed me off, it sucked so bad. I really don't want to take away from someone's enjoyment of this movie but it left me with absolutely nothing when it was finished. It was an anti-story and what I mean by that is it set up these very interesting premises and then didn't deliver on any of them. The acting was good but it went nowhere and didn't give any kind of reasons for why certain characters did what they did (ie, Harry Connick Jr.'s leaving her with a strange man in the hotel after being locked up 2 years. Wouldn't he have made the strange man leave if he was so controlling of her?).
I see alot of movies and I've seen many movies that weren't entirely clear or had fuzzy resolutions (ie, Asian cinema) but this movie glossed over everything so well that I got absolutely nothing out of it.
Roy

How is it an "anti story"?

The premise of the story is about uncontrolled mental illness and paranoia. And it certainly delivered on that.

[Akira]

I have heard good stuff, I can't wait to get around to watching it.


Ashley Judd is crazy hot!

Agreed with both of ya

[Ginza98]

It didn't illustrate the progression of Ashley Judd's character from lonely woman to paranoid schizophrenic at all, she was lonely one day and then crazy the next. I just couldn't accept that the movie was trying to make me believe that it would happen like that with no other exposition. In other word, it seemed that there were chunks of story left out.
Roy

[ThisSpaceForRent]

This movie was fucking terrible.

I get what it was trying to do, but it pushed too far and just became fucking hysterical.

The worst movie I've seen in a long time.

[Ginza98]

I look forward to other people's opinion on this movie although I feel that the majority's take will be the same as mine and ThisSpaceForRent's. Ashley Judd did look great naked, though.
Roy

[PeteL]

It didn't illustrate the progression of Ashley Judd's character from lonely woman to paranoid schizophrenic at all, she was lonely one day and then crazy the next. I just couldn't accept that the movie was trying to make me believe that it would happen like that with no other exposition. In other word, it seemed that there were chunks of story left out.
Roy

Agnes was obviously badly shaken and damaged when the movie began. Even before Peter became involved. She was a substance abuser, miserable, and alone.

Her affliction, beyond the substance abuse and lonliness, was her fear of loss and abandoment as illustrated by her kidnapped son.

The movie depicted madness and paranoia as an affliction that could be passed along if one person with a strong personality (Peter) can impose his will (even though he claims Agnes' free will) over a damaged person who has weak willpower.

Agnes' final break in her madness was depicted in her deciding that her son's kidnapping was a direct result of Peter's paranoid conspiracy theories - her fear and depression and possible pre-existing mental illness (again, the movie expects the viewer to hypothosize a bit) became full blown schizophrenia because she became obssessed with Peter - it seems she found something in him that allowed her to feed into his madness and paranoia.

As for missing bits, there is a jump in the progression of events, but it can be assumed that the way the movie illustrated Peter and Agnes' madness explains this.

[PeteL]

I look forward to other people's opinion on this movie although I feel that the majority's take will be the same as mine and ThisSpaceForRent's. Ashley Judd did look great naked, though.
Roy

Yeah, she does look great naked.

We can agree on that. :D

[Ginza98]

Good example of movie showing a character spiraling into madness, Requiem for a Dream. Disjointed and not all together clear example, Bug.

[PeteL]

Good example of movie showing a character spiraling into madness, Requiem for a Dream. Disjointed and not all together clear example, Bug.

Requiem is a great example.

[Rosemary's Baby]

Requiem is a great example.

So is Repulsion. Actually, it might be the best example.

[ThisSpaceForRent]

I look forward to other people's opinion on this movie although I feel that the majority's take will be the same as mine and ThisSpaceForRent's. Ashley Judd did look great naked, though.
Roy


What I learned from this movie is that you can catch insanity like you can catch a cold.

[Ginza98]

Exactly, ThisSpaceForRent, so if we are going to be convinced that that is the case then there has to be a better way to illustrate that other than what this movies attempts. But, to mention again something that we can all agree on, Ashley Judd nakedness is the cat's meow.