Gay Indy at Its Best (No, It's Not Sex and the City),
Added 4/15/2009
After reading some of the other reviews I felt I just had to write my own. Apparently we saw different movies...
This is a low-cost indy comedy - there is no big money, no big names, no special effects etc. The cast is limited in numbers and you are more likely to see on the screen real people who play actors than actors who play real people (and really know what they are doing). You wanted a gay blockbuster? Well, watch "Brokeback Mountain" again. And again.
One more warning - this is an indy gay comedy. Not gay porn. There is basically no nudity and sex is rather vaguely suggested than presented. I can't believe you don't know where to look if you need your porn, guys...
"Slutty Summer" tells the story of a young gay writer who found his boyfriend cheating on him and left him. As he has not much to do during a long NY summer he takes to waiting on tables in a restaurant where his fag hag friend also works. Although one of his new colleagues Luke suggests that the best way to get back on his feet is to sleep around (and he practices exactly as he preaches) Marcus soon falls for yet another colleague, sexy model Tyler and after some ups and downs obligatory happy end follows.
The adventures of the gay pack (we get here four fairly different types, each of them getting what they ask for) are mixed with that of Marylin, their best female friend who also dreams of happy relationship but apparently connects too well with a stiff drink every now and then to keep a man by her side.
All in all - a not too deep slice of gay life in the big city. Nothing special but if you can keep your expectations on a reasonable level it works OK especially with the decent soundtrack.
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Cinema So Bad It'll Make You Cry
Added 2/20/2009
This film is so awful it will make you doubt the existence of God. I'm surprised I managed to watch the whole thing. The acting, the script, and the cinematography all have the feel of a bad film student project or a really horrible soap opera. When the characters aren't stupid and annoying they're doing things that betray their personality just for the sake of dragging the storyline out a little bit longer.
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simple gay movie
Added 1/7/2009
*Slutty Summer* is bound to be a hit-or-miss film for some viewers. Some will be turned off by the low budget background of this film. However, if you can stick around...you'll see that there is a story going on...albeit simplistic.
After catching his lover in bed with another man, Marcus moves on by getting a new waitressing job in a small restaurant, filled with stereotypical gay waiters and a ditzy "faghag". Anxious to get back into the dating game, Marcus is told to just "sleep around" to remedy his recent break-up. The problem is that sleeping around, for Marcus, doesn't bring productive results which has ignited several debates about sex and relationships. Therefore, viewers see how other waiters and the ditzy faghag go about through their journey for love or lust.
However, does one need to sleep around in order to find "the one"? Marcus, and the others, must decide how they'll proceed when it comes to sex and love. Will they sleep around for instant gratification? Will they find "the one" and settle down? Or will they just get their heart broken and start all over again?
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Very "Reel" to Life
Added 2/12/2008
Never has an intelligent, thoughtful, warm and funny film been so badly served by its title. This is a wonderful, low-key character study/coming of age story/romantic comedy about Marcus, fresh from a recent and painful break-up, who gets work waiting tables at a NYC restaurant. The story follows Marcus and the small waitstaff over the course of one summer as they spend their time off looking for true love (or at the very least, great sex). The characters and dialogue in this one are the selling points. Every character was completely well defined - even where I expected to find a stereotype, I was always pleasantly surprised when he/she turned out to be a fully realized human being instead.
And, after watching it, I finally figured out what it is that distinguishes that overused stereotype - "the fag hag" - from merely a woman with a gay male friend or friends. In virtually EVERY gay film I've ever seen, there is a woman (often overweight and usually loveless) who is entirely focused on advancing the love life of her gay friend and has, for all intents and purposes, utterly no life of her own. Marilyn, the token female in this film, might be a pretty pathetic alcoholic (and to the filmmaker's credit this condition is, ultimately, not played for laughs), but she is totally, selfishly, focused on her own quest for romance. No matter what anyone may say about this character - fag hag, she ain't. There is also Luke, the flamboyant and promiscuous bar-hopping friend - another cliché, perhaps, but so well-played by Jesse Archer, that you forgive the stereotype. And he too reveals a tender side in the end. Rounding out the quintet are Tyler, the hottie Welsh male model, and Peter, the chaste romantic holding out for the real thing.
The dialogue is sensational - natural sounding and intelligent. The actors are attractive and deliver naturalistic, low-key performances that are very believable. There's no preaching. No good guys vs. bad guys. It's really just a slice of life. I cannot recommend this film highly enough. The only warning is that it offers little in the way of plot. It's mostly a character study, with a love story thrown in almost as an afterthought.
This is a thoroughly winning film that deserves a wider audience...and a more fitting name.
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WASTE OF MONEY/ WASTE OF TIME...
Added 12/18/2006
...fresh out of junior high type movie with a bunch of bad acting queens, but if you liked "But I'm a Cheerleader" enjoy the show.
2 out of 5 people found this helpful.
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A Four Letter Word
Added 6/8/2009
The acting in A Four Letter Word is not the best, but it is okay. The story line is familiar, but than again audience's usually expect the familiar. The end is a little unexpected, but it works. Over all it is a good movie.A Four Letter Word
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Just so hilarious
Added 6/3/2009
Four Letter Word is a laugh from start to finish. I enjoyed it so much that I was hoping that a series could have been made. Maybe in time there will be.
All the actors are great and Jesse Archer is such a likable guy and his part in the movie is so lively that you feel as if you are there with him in all his escapades in gay clubs and his little touch up with the lip gloss is so unique to him and then you feel for him when he falls for this louse of a guy played by Charlie David. I never like to give the plot away when writing about movies and I always say go and see the movie and form your own opinion on it but for me Casper Andreas and Jesse Archer get it right every time and I have yet to see one of their movies that I have had negative thoughts about.
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Excellent Film
Added 2/16/2009
This is an excellent film with just enough superbly acted story, balanced with titillating eroticism. I never watch a movie twice. This is the exception to my rule and I enjoy it each time see it. Jesse Archer is absolutely delightful and Charlie David, whom I love in Dante's Cove, is equally as engaging. The superb supporting cast gives this comedic romantic comedy an additional boost.
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