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redrockman99
Reviews
Erasable You (1998)
What a stink ball!
I saw this film at the Florida Film Festival and if I may say... it was dreadful. I fell asleep about twenty minutes into it and am not ashamed to say that I heard others snoring before be. This was followed by several chuckles from the audience, not at the movie mind you, but at their wish that they could fall asleep too.
The story could be funny if the film was made better. I'm not going to just say "it wasn't made well" like some other users, I'll gladly back it up. The pyro work looked good, but the acting was sub-par... the color palette made me ill and the framing was at times equally vertigo inducing. This tried to be a comedy and an art film and fell apart at every step of the way. Something can only be funny if the characters have dimension, these were 2D. They represented "concepts" not people and that's never funny unless used in a straight satire. If they were going for that maybe they should've removed the romantic backstory and left the film a pure farce on the rich and powerful and those who ONLY aspire to be rich and powerful.
The ending was equally unsatisfying... the husband and wife make up and decide to going living the life that made them miserable because it was comfortable? There's no real emotion and as far as I'm concerned a comedic feature without some level of reality is nothing more then a comedy sketch gone mad and allowed to ramble for two hours.
Selling Queer (2005)
Superb Documentary
After hearing about this documentary on the right-wing radio show, Steve Brown Etc., I thought that I'd take a look. Was I ever impressed. Essentially, the movie sets out to expose problems within the gay community and their "pride events" in relation to charities. The concept at first glance can make gay people very angry about airing their "dirty laundry" and rightfully so. Robert Labby (one of the main characters) was trying to do a religious activity in the middle of Sadom and Gamora and failed. What I thought was most important was that this seemed to be a continuing theme. In the lesbian wedding segment we see the preacher from the Joy MCC church conducting the ceremony, after himself admitting that he too is gay. I don't know what the filmmaker's intentions were, but inadvertently he's created a wonderful illustration of how lost homosexual culture is, even beyond the typical stereotypes of drug abuse and sex addiction. It shows the culture to be apathetic and having the misplaced arrogance of a petulant child. There is nothing about the movie that reaches for situations where homosexuals illustrate how misguided their lifestyle is, all of it is natural and undoctored.
surprisingly, Robert Labby, the gay promoter documented in the film, was the guest on the Steve Brown Show, not any of the filmmakers. This made me curious to see what the movie was about. How could a gay man fighting for gay rights come down so hard on his own people? The answer is very clear if you see Selling Queer.
I highly recommend this picture.