Tuesday, July 03, 2012
QUEENS
Today's gay film was the adaptation of Terrence McNally's play
Love! Valor! Compassion! (1997)
with all the Broadway cast except for Jason Alexander who replaces Nathan Lane. OK with me. Equally annoying.
I had trouble with this one. Like many play conversions this reeks of the theater which is OK in its way but closeups make a lot of it over the top seeming.
The other thing is that these are gay people but seriously, chronically and absolutely New York gay people. Often more neurotic than the rest of us.
Parts of it are nice. Some not. It is not the boys in the band kind of behavior but it is that all too condescending know it all kind of shit that guys off the Island of Manhattan are noted for.
Everyone here is troubled. Not every one is friendly in what is supposed to be a group of friends meeting for a weekend at a nice house of one of the group. Three holiday weekends, three acts.
I wouldn't want to see it again.
It is interesting that for a sophisticated bunch that this is supposed to be, there is a lot of corny shit in it. Even a good and an evil twin. Spare me.
The more I type about it the less I like it.
But I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5 as there is the "gay point" added which would not be supported in another similar film about any other niche of people.
