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Poorly written, poorly directed, poor plot, poorly constructed...

posted 8 years ago by Limeginger
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Not believable characters -- the sign of a poor writer. None of them make sense.

The couple seemed straight-up stupid. Poor dialogue "Do you people partake in the art of marijuana?" "Huh?" "Pot? Do you smoke pot?" "What?" "Pot" "Huh?" "P-O-T." "Um...I don't know, um...honey, do we smoke pot?"

Stupid details like they smoke hash (of all things) and Mike the cop was put on disciplinary probation because he roughed up a ... hash dealer.

All these stupid "old person" verbal affectations that a poor writer would include in a script "That's how I roll! Do people say that? Is that the right expression?"

I love Patrick Stewart and he did his best with the material, but the 2 other actors were not skilled enough to deal with the poor material.

I can imagine the director/writer swearing that he knew people just like Tobias/Toby, but if he did Patrick Stewart was not the right actor for the part -- someone unafraid or better able to be more flamboyantly flaming would match the script as written.

Anyway, immensely disappointing -- awful!

[–] ciocio-2 7 years ago

I don't totally agree with all your assessment of the movie and its qualities, though you're right, the bits with him tentatively using and questioning certain vernacular terms is perhaps kind of overly cutesy or something. But why in the world would you expect or want Patrick Stewart to play Toby as "flamboyantly flaming"? I have no doubt that Mr. Stewart can play that quality, when it's called for (a whiff of it can be found in JEFFREY, where he plays Bryan Batt's life partner, though I'm sure it's nowhere near as far as he could go, when called for). Toby is not someone who should be played flamboyantly flaming. He's someone who has had more than one or two experiences of sex with women, which he enjoyed, and who wholeheartedly professes to love performing cunnilingus, even now that he appears to have settled into a primarily, possibly even exclusively gay self identification. In my experience, I've met numerous men similar in that way to Toby (and, as with Toby, this was mostly within the milieu of professional dance), and, while some had no problem playing flamboyance at times, they weren't primarily "flamboyantly flaming." The guys who were truly and primarily "f. f." just did not have any interest in engaging in sexual activity with women. Toby certainly exhibits more than a little bit of queer sensibility, but, no, he's not shown as (nor should he be) a flamboyantly flaming queen type.

Just make a movie that makes me care, one way or another. I'm open.