Goodbye Seventies

I really want to rate this 1.3"!

I read the other reviews and I wish I had laundry to fold as well. On the other hand, I should like to pick up that award for watching the whole movie. I thought the only awful things to come out of Bangor were in Stephen King Stories. I can't imagine who bankrolled this!

While the film is obviously independent and lacks in so many aspects of itself, I don't think the flaws warrant one and two stars with nasty reviews to accompany.

I knew within the first 10 to 15 minutes what I was getting into. For me, the bar was almost admittedly set low on purpose. I rolled my eyes at dialogue. I laughed at plot. I questioned casting choices.

But about 30 minutes into the film, when the main character is forced to begin a new career, I thought the film actually became entertaining. I was already expecting something partially campy, so I just relaxed and let myself have fun with it.

Surprisingly, this movie really grew on me. The "third act" when the movie's "conflict" is revealed, I actually found myself wanting to finish watching it. And I was glad I did.

Look, it's definitely not great, but I think it's unfair to trash it as garbage. It's somewhere in between...average. I gave it a 6, one star above average for effort.

I have to admit that I read the other reviews before actively choosing to finish watching this train wreck of a movie, just to prove that I could make it.

If you do likewise, challenge yourself to see how many shots or bong hits it takes to make this movie approach anything tolerable.

Script, plot development, music and acting are all equally embarrassing. And, as another reviewer described, the manner in which the director mis-represents the dates of the onset of the AIDS crisis really is a slap in the face to the gay community. And a final note to the director: if you're going to make a cameo, try not to embarrass yourself as well.

I thought the film was really good. It felt like a true life history event of old films saved from the 70's. It reflected on trauma of past gay history and scenes that could have been real in that time. So funny to see shots of straight cinema showing "arty films". A great step back in time. Thank you.

If someone decided to create an extremely low-budget movie about waiting in line at the DMV that ran for an hour and a half, it would still be less painful to watch than this. To call it self-indulgent would be a drastic understatement. There are so many stories about the excesses of the seventies in New York City and the consequences that came after, and this is probably the most boringly tedious of them all. Bad acting, horrible script, hideous cast and even worse editing made this a film to miss at all cost.