Umm, this movie is terrible. I saw it after hearing all the great things on here. I love Dark Comedies, but where was the humor. The first half of the film was just Ashely Judd and the other guy giving awkward looks to each other, and the other half was just a lame atttempt at trying to gross and wierd out the audience. Which it did, I'll give it that. Though it blatantly ripped off 12 monkeys, with its silly tooth scene.

And PS: it was all in their mind. It's pretty obvious, every time Ashley Judd would realize it, Pete would give him some absurd explanation, which wasn't even funny. Just laughable. Sorry to say but he was not in the military, the Dr. knew about Lloyd because Gauss told him to say that, which was probably the only way for her to leave, and the bugs were certainly not real. Did anyone even see the last scene of the movie? With everything going apeshit inside and nothing outside. I was actually into it somewhat for the first half hour, but it just fucking blew after that. I love Dark comedies, horror films, and out-there independant films. And yes its original and I got to see that Ashely Judd despite looking old still had a gorgeous body, I was just sitting there with the old guy 10 rows behind me thinking, WTF is this garbage. It wasn't too weird for me, and its not like the humor missed me, I saw the humor, but it wasn't funny, and their is no depth in this movie after the first 30 minutes. Bleh

F You read it here, the first F I ever gave a film on KJ. I was about to leave and give Shrek 3 another try. Thank God I saw this for free.

Man what a trippy movie! My fav of 07 so far. I liked how it went from a quiet movie about two lonely people finding someone and quickly snowballed into total insanity. Ashley Judd is phenomenal in it...and I love when a movie can pretty much stay in one location the entire time with the same few characters and hold my interest. The performances are great all-around, and I lurved the script and how natural the dialogue and interactions were. There were little touches throughout that kept the realism intact. I didn't find any part of it boring, I thought it was paced really well (slow-burning type of film) and enjoyed the whole thing. There are some standout scenes (Agnes screaming out her rationale, RC confronting Peter) but I don't think the last half was miles better than the rest, I think it was all pretty much even. And I love consistency.

I'm with those who thought they left the existence of the bugs ambiguous...I thought they were going the route of it clearly all being in their mind but then the doctor guy at the end starting saying all the business about her missing son, and etc. so then I was confused.

I don't really see it as a dark comedy so much. There were humorous parts to it, yes but I wasn't dying of laughter towards the end or anything. I'm not sure if it really fits into a specific genre of film...it has dramatic, romantic, horror, thriller, aspects but doesn't really fall into any of the categories. Which in this case I think is a good thing.

^Interesting contrast between the two previous reviews above.^

(But Bug is just that kind of movie -- some people are going to get it and groove with it, and others are going to be alienated by it's message of just how freakin' crazy love really is...)

I agree with that message, but I don't think I would even consider what they had was love, more about the torture of being alone, and they'll latch onto anyone who will listen.

Sounds like regular, old-fashioned, garden variety love in TRW to me -- perhaps your thinking of fairy tale love?

hmm, what does TRW mean (The Real World?)

Total Relationship Warfare...

Okay...

This fucking sucked.

F

So, I'm really one of the very few people here who believes this is one of the best movies of the year, huh? What a trip! Still in my mind since I saw it months ago.

Well, it's a hard movie to take, I'll give you that. And it's supposed to make you laugh at a certain point...?


Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon are being soooo robbed right now.