I give it a 4 out of 10 rating. (I originally wanted to go with a 2, but that's about the point where I would stop watching a movie if it was that bad.) So, I watched the whole darn thing. But I have mixed emotions about it.
First of all, you've got Harry Connick, Jr in it and he's pretty much great in everything. Then you've got Ashley Judd in it, and no matter how wound up/strung out/down on her luck she is, she still looks amazing; her acting, albeit over-the-top at several points, is the best part of the movie (and admittedly some nudity). Then you've got weird-dude/creepy-guy extraordinaire Michael Shannon. That's about all for the characters, except for an occasional luscious Lynn Collins (where has she been all my life?) in girl-girl kissing action with Ashley Judd...*tingle*
***SPOILERS!!!*** Yeah, I wish I had known ahead of time it wasn't about "real" bugs, although I knew from pretty early on (say 5 minutes after I saw the Peter Evans character, played by Michael Shannon, that he was "THE BUG" the movie title referred to; didn't take long). Anyway, I think I would have enjoyed this movie a whole lot more if I had known it was about cranked-out drug users instead. Some of the ridiculously insane crazy-rants the two main characters went on would have made a whole lot more sense. The director tricked me into watching (wasting!) about an hour and forty minutes' worth of suck-time that left me wondering where the heck the freakin' bugs were!! Even enjoying it a "whole lot more" would only have pushed my rating up to maybe a 5.5. And all those stars come from getting to see Ashley's awesome body for a little while.
Hate to say it, but this movie had no real re-watch or lasting value of any kind for me. It was just plain too-weird, and not in a good way at all. Even if I had watched it knowing it for what it really was, about the only improvement would be that I could laugh (more) at the characters and maybe sympathize with them (a little). As it was, I wanted them to kill themselves by the end, and I probably would have wanted to join them if I had paid more than $3 to see it!!
First of all, you've got Harry Connick, Jr in it and he's pretty much great in everything. Then you've got Ashley Judd in it, and no matter how wound up/strung out/down on her luck she is, she still looks amazing; her acting, albeit over-the-top at several points, is the best part of the movie (and admittedly some nudity). Then you've got weird-dude/creepy-guy extraordinaire Michael Shannon. That's about all for the characters, except for an occasional luscious Lynn Collins (where has she been all my life?) in girl-girl kissing action with Ashley Judd...*tingle*
***SPOILERS!!!*** Yeah, I wish I had known ahead of time it wasn't about "real" bugs, although I knew from pretty early on (say 5 minutes after I saw the Peter Evans character, played by Michael Shannon, that he was "THE BUG" the movie title referred to; didn't take long). Anyway, I think I would have enjoyed this movie a whole lot more if I had known it was about cranked-out drug users instead. Some of the ridiculously insane crazy-rants the two main characters went on would have made a whole lot more sense. The director tricked me into watching (wasting!) about an hour and forty minutes' worth of suck-time that left me wondering where the heck the freakin' bugs were!! Even enjoying it a "whole lot more" would only have pushed my rating up to maybe a 5.5. And all those stars come from getting to see Ashley's awesome body for a little while.
Hate to say it, but this movie had no real re-watch or lasting value of any kind for me. It was just plain too-weird, and not in a good way at all. Even if I had watched it knowing it for what it really was, about the only improvement would be that I could laugh (more) at the characters and maybe sympathize with them (a little). As it was, I wanted them to kill themselves by the end, and I probably would have wanted to join them if I had paid more than $3 to see it!!