25 years later, four former college buddies rent a place, get together and do an outrageous amounts of alcohol and drugs. They remember about other times they got together and partied and then about their personal failures, although I would have swapped places with at least two of them. Then PLOT SPOILER they start to kill themselves based on some old nearly forgotten 25 year old pact they signed when they were all stoned. It really did seem stupid. Some dark comedy moments.The whole film was miscast. This should have been a Tarantino production with a neat sound track and James Franco, Gary Busey, Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi, and /or Samuel L. Jackson. Then add some dark decent dialogue with biting flashbacks. This was an opportunity missed for a cult classic.Guide: F-word and nudity.

I watched this film with my dad (who is 44) in the theater when it came out. I am a huge Mark Pellington fan, and this movie was every bit as genius as Mark's other features. My dad is right now going through many of the issues facing the 4 stars of this picture. I have cried along side my dad through divorce, financial dilemmas, and other middle age male situations that this film brings to the big screen. I felt the same way watching this movie as I do when I watch the Alice In Chains music video called the the " Rooster", also by Mark Pellington. The realism tears right through my heart and soul. When the movie pulp fiction first came out it was bad mouthed by many that did not understand Quentin Tarrantinos out of sequence scenes, Now Pulp Fiction is considered Epic, and Quentin a one name fabulous director. As with most geniuses, they never get the praise at first they deserve. As time goes by, this movie will get its just sub title, Epic Masterpiece!!!

That's right ... this movie is two hours plus of nothing but trying to push pulp through a sieve and all you get in the end is ... nothing.Not one of the four actors offer anything but sad faces and frustration! Then it's party time with everything up the nose, lots of booze, some easy women, and pills, pills, pills. Then more sad faces and frustration! At one point the viewer will actually hope the boat sinks in that choppy water.Then as the story continues each one drops off to their end one way or another - actually by the end of this nonsense the viewer is damn glad these guys are gone, forever!And I have no doubt the actors were glad to go home after the director gave the final cut.

This film is typical American typecast, the aspiring people, anyone can be President bull that seems to be at the core of all things Americans say and do. Four teenagers aspire to be great men, not great Presidentially maybe, but nevertheless great. They come up short, one cheats people ones a failed dad etc, the same normal things that become us all, American or not. So they decide to summarily commit suicide because they've turned out to be nothing like who they swore they would become. There is nothing dark going on here, this is twisted ideology turned into something way more sinister, taking your own life because you thought you'd be a better person?. I honestly thought there would be something on the note along the lines of we killed someone and now we cant take the guilt anymore. Imagine my surprise when you find out what was written? All utter nonsense, there is nothing at all to recommend this film, really nothing at all. It is even more perplexing to read some of these reviews to find that people can find apathy with these four idiots. Wait hang on a sec isn't that what I'm trying to say, Americans seem to aspire to greatness at all costs, even if it means topping yourself for coming up short.