Saturday, May 15, 2010
CHEAP DATE
Today's movie was the gaysploitation, direct to DVD
This is of a class of cheap films made for a gay audience that panders, panders, panders. It is soap opera. With some skin thrown in for titillation but not much.
I don't know why I rent them. In hope of finding a good one? Maybe.
If I wanted porn, it is right here on my computer downloaded and ready to go. And some of it is quite dramatically satisfying. Not that plot is the point in porn.
If I want erotica, there is more in yesterday's Frears' film or the one the day before with the hets doing their thing very sexily. With grace, dignity and good acting.
This genré movie adds in the East Side of LA story of gay gentrification in the Latino section of town. So it is a culture clash film on top of a coming out film.
There is a hero and a round of defective friends, relatives and boyfriends.
Dreary and totally unrealistic.
We get to view other people's racism, homophobia, eating disorders, alcoholism and what not. There is even "underachieving" to say nothing of mother fixation.
And, sadly, very little love or, for that matter, sex. At least not any that is attractive.
I am going to take the pledge and quit ordering this kind of thing.
The review said "better than average for this kind of thing". That is not "better" enough.
What astounds me is that the movie business is made up of at least 50% gay people. You would think that a few of them could come up with a decent queer B film.
I ran it ahead with FF so it is a 1 out of Netflix5. I didn't even look for the faux sex. It was so faux it wasn't worth calibrating the remote.
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