YMMV / Very Bad Things

• Accidental Aesop: Don't obsess over perfection.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: The results of the accidental murder of the prostitute have caused Boyd to snap into an Ax-Crazy frenzy, which leads to the question on if he was always a potential sociopath or if he truly thought Murder Is the Best Solution.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Arguably many different moments for many different characters, but one notable 'Point of No Return' for Boyd is sometime between killing Lois despite being told not to, and framing her death on Michael whom he shoots off screen. From that point on, he is no longer the temperamental yet kooky friend who knows a little too much about Murder, and is now a full blown Sociopath and a threat to any of the other characters.
  • For what minor role she has, Laura manages to pass this when she demands Kyle to kill Charles for being a loose end, and the dog for no particular reason. There's also the fact that she puts her wedding as a priority above all else, even when things go for the worse.
• The Scrappy:
  • No one likes Adam's bratty kids, in-universe or out.
  • Laura, if not for her Bridezilla tendencies, then definitely for her casually telling Kyle to kill Charles for being a loose end, and the dog for no particular reason. Her being confined to having to deal with her now handicapped husband, the now handicapped Charles, the now handicapped dog, and Adam's two bratty children (one of whom is also handicapped) at the end of the film, which drives her into a total psychotic meltdown, almost comes off like a case of Take That, Scrappy! rather than tragic.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The Security Guard was a nice guy who was just doing his job, he dies begging for his life with a corkscrew in his chest and gets buried in the desert. We later find out (via a newspaper article on his disappearance) that he left behind a wife and kids.
  • The ending. While it's played for Black Comedy, the final absolute rock bottom moment of the film has almost everyone still alive having ended up totally miserable and/or crippled. And while she may have had it coming, seeing Laura Driven to Madness over taking in how horribly her life has crumbled apart (basically the total opposite of the married suburban life she'd been dreaming of) to the point of wandering out into the street and collapsing while wailing and screaming like a toddler is not a pleasant sight to end things on at all.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Practically none of the characters have any likable traits and the entire plot is just one big long downward spiral into absolute rock bottom. The result is that it's incredibly difficult to sympathize with anybody or care about the actual story.

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