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It was intriguing. It would have been better with a Pink Floyd score. It wasn't so much a movie as a Twilight Zone without Rod Serling to make it seeem important. I think I would have understood it better if I'd watched it again, but I somehow feel that understanding it is missing the point. This movie is dada revivalism. Also, why would I want to sit through it a second time? It was hard enough to sit through it once.

I'm giving this movie three stars, because I've seen movies that are much, muich worse, and more than two because the bartender was quirky, but really, some movies invite speculation and others invite somnabulism.

Scorcese tries desperately hard to mimic the Italian masters he worshiped as a youth. Alas, he settles on Antonionio's L'Aventurra and succeeds in making the most boring movie of the last 30 years.

Perhaps if any of the characters in this movie weren't so incredibly despicable and obnoxious it might be possible to work up some feelings towards them, but since they are all people I would never want to meet in real life I had a hard time working up any sympathy for them. I just wish that they had all suffered a lot more than they did.

I hope that Scorcese and DeNiro suffer for making this wretched piece of crud.

Truly a waste of an evening. A terrible movie on every level.

First of all, the theatrical packaging for this movie totally misrepresents it as a romantic gay comedy. A third of the way into the film it turns into an AIDS tragedy. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not what I was expecting when I rented it.

The previous posters seem to think this movie is a comedy. I must have seen a different movie from them. I agree it's a good film, but I didn't find anything comic about it. I was crying throughout the last half hour or so.

Well, it's an interesting film and I think it's worth seeing. I just wonder why all gay movies have to be about AIDS.

That said, I think it's a good portrayal of a presumably straight man falling for a gay man and embracing gay sex. The actor playing Lucas does an excellent job as the confused straight boy who finds himself falling in love with Martin no matter how hard he tries to fight it.

I just wish someone would write a gay movie where nobody has AIDS.

Ken