Bad Roomies (2015) Reviews

• Annie Monroe Shines

  jtbradyl-421102015-12-09

  I thought this movie was well put together. At first given its premise I was going to flick through stopping here and there if something caught my attention however I actually found the movie interesting and watched it all. In truth I found Annie Monroe's performance captivating. Her co-stars gave strong performances as well. And the ending: dark comedy to perfection. The movie is not pretentious in any way but rather draws the viewer in at the start with comedy which gradually gets darker and darker with surprising twists and turns. They keep your interest for sure and I found myself drawn to the characters and empathizing with them. I mean the movie had just the right balance between acting and plot so you could suspend disbelief and enjoy the movie for what it was: a darkly funny rendering of roommates desperately unbalanced.

• unexpectedly hilarious dark comedy!

  frankboltzmann2015-12-13

  Bad Roomies is the most unexpectedly hilarious comedy I've seen! I was expecting an easy comedy just for smiling and the occasional laugh, specially from what seemed like a low budget indie movie, however, it turned out to have some great breakthrough performances from Tommy Savas and Annie Monroe who were unknown to me. I kept laughing out loud throughout the whole movie! It really makes use of intelligent comedy of situation, through some brilliantly placed comic interruptions. One moment in specific reminded me of Family Guy's exaggerated fights. What is impressive is that this was Jason Schnell's first feature film! Great job with the direction and script-writing. I specially liked the seldom switch to a more emotional side of each character, letting the characters develop a bit more in an attempt to establishing some empathy from the viewers, which is rare in outrageous comedies like this one. I recommend this one to anyone that wants to have a laugh!

• Loved It!

  lisamariewilberg2015-12-29

  Loved it. Loved the twist at the end. Quite funny in many parts too. Very entertaining. Always been a fan of Indie movies and it's always refreshing to see a dark comedy that can not only make you laugh, but cringe at the same time. The characters were great. Of course the one guy could be a total dog, yet you find out that he has human feelings too - and a heart. It's a really great written script that has you wondering, "What's next?" A lot going on here with a lot of depth. It totally grabs you and pulls you in. I loved how the beginning all ties into the ending of the movie. It is all one, great big circle. It was a really fun movie to watch on a rainy day. I would highly recommend it to all Indie fans.

• Not a fun comedy and kind of a mess.

  almosalami2016-04-09

  If you're looking for a light-hearted fun comedy that you won't have to think too much about, this is not it. It's not Neighbors or an Adam Sandler film or something like that. It's more of a clever dark comedy. The film makers wanted to make more than just a mindless film, and I really appreciate the attempt. Now each scene separate to me is actually well written and well acted, and if I had seen them like that instead of as one continuous film, I would have laughed my butt off and been pretty entertained. But that's the thing. The movie feels like the writers wrote each scene separate and then strung them all together without much thought to how the pieces fit, leaving a lot of things (like the way the characters acted, the random things that happened, etc.) very inconsistent and sacrificing a potentially solid story. And by the end, I'm left thinking, "Oh this could have been so awesome man!" But nope :/. Aside from how the scenes are put together, there are things about the premise of the film really don't make sense, like how the roommates own the beautiful house without either of them seeming like they earn enough $$ (and I think this film would've worked even better if it was in a normal apartment), how they are even best friends (the crazy psycho paranoiac entitled brat guy vs the normal nice chill guy - to me, in the real world, the only way that would work is if the nice guy had amnesia every minute or felt sorry for the guy and was friends with him out of pity, neither of which the film puts him out to be), why the girl attempted to seduce both of them when she clearly just liked one of them, etc. And then there's the twisted moral code of the film that makes it seem like the girl roommate (Chloe) was actually in the wrong when she didn't really do anything wrong, and that what the guys were doing back at her was totally fine in this harmless game of playing fire with fire when really, it was incredibly childish and pretty sick sh*t. All in all, this film had such awesome potential but wasn't given enough time to reach that potential, so yeah. I wish it did. It's not a good clever comedy nor is it a fun mindless film, which makes it kind of pointless to watch. But anyways, it's not horrible, and I think everybody deserves some credit, and I don't think you'd regret it too much if you watched it, and I'm actually looking forward to seeing all the people involved grow to make better films.

• Another Tedious Exercise in Men Behaving like little boys

  robtaday2016-04-06

  I am so sick and tired of movies like this. The kind where you have 20-something or 30-something or 40 something or 50 something men who have never progressed past puberty even though they can have great houses and cars and careers, etc. which one would think proved some sort of maturity. Wrong. Once again, as in nearly every single depiction of males these days, the guys are brainless and think with the wrong "head." How any get girlfriends is a mystery too; girlfriends who are bossy and aggressive and really have no respect for their men at all - they are living dildos and that is it - not that any of these girls would give up their actual sex toys. The idea that these two would abstain from hitting on their new roomie and then going back on it is typical and rings true. How they ended up in this gorgeous house in the first place is a mystery since only one of them seems to work. Is it THEIR house or are they renting too? How is it that they cannot get this girl to move out? The whole scene with the girlfriend and the roommate is dumb too. I mean, come on, is this really a depiction of todays' young people? frighteningly, I think it might be. No one seems to really care about anyone else. The point where some terrible images are sent to the roommie's father is unbelievable too since she claimed earlier that she had no contact with her family for years but her father's e-mail was right there to be hacked? The drunken three-way was silly too. Are we to assume they were all so drunk that "all the rules" went out the window? Did the boys get together too? Speaking of which, all of their guy friends are little boys too obsessed with porn, give me the details etc. and have no problem telling their buds what they would get into sexually whether straight, bi or whatever - it's all good bro!!! The ending was total bs. The bogus "murder" for which they get a could of years in jail? And the boys get to "room together" in the joint too and they STILL keep up good relationships with their female roommate who send them gifts from the female prison? Just stupid. Stupid boy/men --- again