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I really liked this movie.

posted 16 years ago by justinemac
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I find it really cute and refreshing. Several people have posted about the acting being bad. It's not Academy award-winning performances, for sure, but I actually really liked all five of the leads (Max, Ely, Kia, Evy, Daria) -- some of them were more skilled than others but they all worked together and made it entertaining to watch. (Kia especially was a great character -- she just seemed like a friend you would have in real life)

The romance between Max & Ely is sweet and engaging. I like the way it develops. One of my favorite scenes is the "tea" scene -- when Ely invites Max to have tea and then they go sit on the couch and start swapping animal stories. It unfolds very naturally, IMO.

Anyway just wanted to post since there are several negative reviews here - I really liked it! Also like some of the poetry -- especially the first one Max reads this, about wanting to meet her dreamgirl on a bus and then it doesn't quite work out.

[–] elizabethveldon 16 years ago

I'd have to agree: it's an engaging movie.

Sure there's some dross here (the awfull acting, the rather obtrusive inserts) but watching this again recently without the pain of battling out the positions the movie discusses I found it rather charming.

That at this time a film could be arguing in favor of Sex-Posisitivism, be saying that it's aceptable for a Lesbian to sleep with a man, be questioning the deamonisation of the Butch/ Femme dialectic and still manage to have genuinly charming and funny scenes is great. Favorate joke? Flirting by discusing the politics of hair.

[–] a3168atkins 16 years ago

I like it too. When I first fsaw it (about 8 years ago) I used to watch it over and over.

To the beanpoles in the magazines, you ain't it Miss Thing! -sir mix-a-lot

[–] elizabethveldon 16 years ago

I only started watching it again and again recently. It's got flaws but it's still a great movie

[–] wlburns-1 14 years ago

I watched this movie when it came out at an independent film theater in Northampton, MA where as I was told it was playing because Guin Turner knew the owner and begged them to show it. Seen in that context, as a film done by a friend of a friend of a friend kinda thing, it's not bad. You can excuse the bad acting and the weird camera angles. It's got some great scenes--the opening poem and the I-got-laid-musical-scene stick in my memory, and a lot of good lines even if they are delivered woodenly. It opens up some interesting issues as well.

I can see where people would be disappointed if they paid $10 to see it in a theater or bought it as a DVD and expected it to compare to a bigger budget, more professional movie. Or if someone expected it to represent some long lost classic lesbian/gay rights movie that would have changed the world if only it had gotten big budget funding. And note that the movie itself addresses that last issue itself, that queer films don't have to represent all of queerdom.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

I enjoyed it too.