A concise synopsis of gay-themed movies and gay interest films. Click on the photos to enlarge.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Get a Life (2006)
"All I want is a straight guy who will be gay just for me," says Jaime (Brian Campbell) to his abusive psychiatrist. This is a statement that propels the plot of a disenfranchised homosexual looking for himself. Jaime desperately searches his hometown of Chicago looking for love, acceptance, and happiness in some interesting and surprising places. Along the way, Jaime meets some fascinating and colorful people, in addition to many hot and sexy guys, both straight and gay, all leading to surprising insights into his own life.
In the seedy Ram Bookstore he meets student Monty (Michael Gonring), a troll-loving bisexual with a girl friend in Boston who says, "I thought I'd take a walk on the wild side for a few months and then go back to her and all this will become a distant memory." Monty becomes Jaime's guide and conscience in a journey through the maze of his broken life. After the bookstore gets busted Jaime ends up in the same cell with his enemy Hal Stevens (Peter Marinelli). The two hate each other because Hal used to steal all his tricks in the bookstore. But they become the closest of friends and decide that there is an alternative to gay life. Hal says somewhere there is a twilight zone of the sexual fringe and that's where they belong.
After a visit to Miss Galena Chanel (Tina Stefano), an expert in making gays popular, they try a variety of gimmicks. From circuit parties decked in zoot suits, to dressing up in drag and trying to pick up gas station attendants, and all the way to a classic betrayal by his new found friend, Jaime is left twice as vulnerable and lonely. Vulnerable enough for Ray Milano (Matt Edwards), a coworker and homophobe, to step in and ruin his life completely. Jaime gets what he wants, including a lover, but not before a spectacular revenge climaxing in a fight in which he beats up Ray in front of all the coworkers. "I am a lowdown c***sucker who just beat the crap out of you! What does it make you Ray?" he asks him, his voice trembling while pinning him down. In the end, Jaime discovers the one person he never thought he would: himself.
Viewers unanimously hate this film. One comments, "There is nothing at all believable or coherent about the narrative of this video...I suppose the tone is supposed to be comic, but most of the humor is so over-the-top as to be unfunny. The only exception is a brief jaunt as desperate drag queens that manages some humor. The acting is mostly poor, the script worse." Another wrote, "It's so bad it's not even campy or laughable. It's just lame. And the acting is awful! And the direction is terrible! Don't waste your time. Or money." Another: "It's not even worth the time to watch the movie. Cheap production. Bad script. Something that one won't even watch if you get paid for it." Here are two more: "This movie is like one of the worst B movies with amateurs trying to act which they can't if their life's depends on it," and "It's just a lame movie with really overly bad acting. I mean, bad acting is actually a compliment for this because the acting is so awful. And no one wants to watch trolls in sex clubs hitting on young boys. No one! So really...don't waste your time with this one." Nick Monson composed the original music, and Toby Ross wrote the screenplay and directed.