I made an account just to review the film cause I cant sleep until I vent this frustration.
I don't even know where to begin. The thing that hit you first and one of the most jarring thing through out the film is sound design. All dialogs sounds like they were recorded on a phone, and not a good one. The music wasn't good or very fitting, it goes on for way too long and at times you can actually hear it ends, cuts out then played from the beginning.
Next is the editing, I've seen YouTube high school projects sub 500 views with better editing than this. Even though the scenes were static there were multiple cuts. Usually you cut a static scene then goes to another angle to make it flow. They just didn't do that and in the end it looks like you just accidentally pressed the skip forward button. All in all you can tell me a 6 grader edited this and I would have believed it.
To their credit the camerawork and lighting is at least barely decent for a film with seemingly zero budget.
Now the technical part aside, we get to the acting. Keith Roenke looks like the only one who put in some effort, like he's too good that it's kind of jarring. The other main seems like he wanted to be anywhere but. He is so lifeless and bored for the whole film and I don't blame him. I would have ditched the gig right after reading the script because the story is an absolute mess. A mess and a half. (The fact that if you go on the actors social none of them posted anything about this film it's like they tried so hard to sweep this under the rug it's kinda funny)
And where do I begin with the abhorrent storyline. The whole time I was like "what?", "no!", "why?", "this is not happening..." and I paused the film 5 times to take breaks before I lost my sanity
I guess the fact that I mustered enough energy to sit through this instead of tapping out after 10 minutes shows that maybe it crossed the line of being too bad that it's good to make fun of. But really save yourself an hour and a half and watch one of the other hundreds of good gay films.
I don't even know where to begin. The thing that hit you first and one of the most jarring thing through out the film is sound design. All dialogs sounds like they were recorded on a phone, and not a good one. The music wasn't good or very fitting, it goes on for way too long and at times you can actually hear it ends, cuts out then played from the beginning.
Next is the editing, I've seen YouTube high school projects sub 500 views with better editing than this. Even though the scenes were static there were multiple cuts. Usually you cut a static scene then goes to another angle to make it flow. They just didn't do that and in the end it looks like you just accidentally pressed the skip forward button. All in all you can tell me a 6 grader edited this and I would have believed it.
To their credit the camerawork and lighting is at least barely decent for a film with seemingly zero budget.
Now the technical part aside, we get to the acting. Keith Roenke looks like the only one who put in some effort, like he's too good that it's kind of jarring. The other main seems like he wanted to be anywhere but. He is so lifeless and bored for the whole film and I don't blame him. I would have ditched the gig right after reading the script because the story is an absolute mess. A mess and a half. (The fact that if you go on the actors social none of them posted anything about this film it's like they tried so hard to sweep this under the rug it's kinda funny)
And where do I begin with the abhorrent storyline. The whole time I was like "what?", "no!", "why?", "this is not happening..." and I paused the film 5 times to take breaks before I lost my sanity
- A gay man fell in love with a homeless straight man in the first 10 cringey minutes
- Straight man got hit and is in a coma but instead of taking him to the hospital the gay guy just left him on his bed for 2 DAYS.
- Straight man wakes up after 2 DAYS like he was taking a nap for 2 hours. If I were him i would be mortified but meh, film logic.
- We find out the straight guy is undocumented so like any sane person in real life the gay guy proposed to him the next day. After knowing each other for about less than a day max. Fully knowing the straight guy is... well.. straight.
- Then they got married in 5 minutes, came home, have sex. Straight guy thanks gay guy and telling him how kind he is. (No he is not kind, he is nuts.)
- Well straight guy wakes up, tell gay guy he's still straight and the sex is just a thank you, gay guy is like oh ok of course this is fine and normal.
- Days later straight guy fell in love with gay guy's friend then propose to her, came back to gay guy like oh I just proposed to your friend we're done bye. Mind you the whole plot until now has been happening over probably A WEEK.
- Then after that broken mess of a rollercoaster they jumped 1 year ahead. The straight couple is happily married, Gay guy is still sad and single. The straight guy is infertile so they asked the gay one for his sperm. I was like no no please don't but gay guy is mentally challenged so of course he said yes.
- Then I thought it they're going to go through doctors and everything but nothing makes sense anymore so naturally right after he said yes they immediately went the organic route, I'm gay and this is absolutely offensive.
- Time skip again, woman went into labor, straight guy panicked on the road and just dies. Woman had complications, also dies. So now this gay sad single man is left with a child. And the film ends implicating the straight guy is now a ghost and watching over him and the child.
I guess the fact that I mustered enough energy to sit through this instead of tapping out after 10 minutes shows that maybe it crossed the line of being too bad that it's good to make fun of. But really save yourself an hour and a half and watch one of the other hundreds of good gay films.