Review of Humpday

Humpday (2009)
6/10
Bromance and saving face
15 February 2010
It's been a decade since Ben(Duplass) and Andrew(Leonard) were college bad boys. Ben is living contently with a good job and a great wife, until his old buddy Andrew shows up on his doorstep late one night. Andrew, who lives as a vagabond artist, invites Ben out to a wild party. Excessive drinking combined with the irrational need to one up each other, leads to a mutual dare that locks them into entering an amateur porn contest together. prove how macho and free one another is. So the main part of this movie is about two guys not trying to lose face by backing down on a bet. And it basically tries to portray how straight males attitudes towards gay people. And it's understandable how some straight male viewers would give this film a higher rating compared to gay male viewers. Despite all that, this film was still intriguing and well executed, it just seemed real. I guess because they had minimal gear, location and budget to make this film and they needed to improvise some scenes, especially the last 20 min, it seemed like they didn't really have script of dialogue so they improvised. And they improvised actually quite well thus making the film seem real. It's a interesting film, but when it all ends there really doesn't seem to be any payoff and wasn't that satisfying, but it was a decent effort.

6/10
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