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Mark-W

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John-
I will be renting that title from netflix,
and will post my review in this thread after I
see it.
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...ahhh... IRON LADIES - my first DVD of a Thai movie (got it, together with SHIRI, my second DVD of a Korean movie)...
BTW: are there such things as Malaysian movies? I know there are Indonesian movies and movies from the Philippines (but not on DVD)...
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Just a quick follow-up to note that while Bishonen is an all-region DVD and will play on American DVD players, Iron Ladies will not. I have the Apex AD-600 so I am able to play Iron Ladies on that.
 

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A few more gay-centric films are coming to DVD soon:
Chuck and Buck is out now.
Kiss Me, Guido :SE is due January 9th
So is Survivor: Season 1 with Richard.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye is coming January 30th.
The Broken Hearts Club is due on
March 6th, as are Rope and Ben-Hur.
(If you don't know why Ben-Hur is "gay-friendly" film,
rent The Celluloid Closet on dreaded vhs.)
And a film that has been a favorite of mine:
Drag diva Divine stars with Lainie Kazan
and (openly gay) Tab Hunter in
(openly gay) Paul Bartel's Lust In The Dust.
It is due on March 27th!
(I cannot wait!)
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Any reviews/opinions about the newly released DVD Don't Tell Anyone? (I've instituted a new policy of not blindly buying a DVD just because it's "gay friendly"...I've become more careful to consider both DVD quality and movie quality before investing the bucks!)
 

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I'm with you, Thane. Too many disappointments...like blind dates! Lots of promise, no substance when the, um, package arrives.
As for Chuck and Buck, which I picked up based on interview with director at PlanetOut...
Is it saying that all homos are locked in perpetual adolescence, i.e. immature?
Is it saying that gays are amusing but sick and possibly even dangerous?
Or - - - is it that same sex desires are innate and natural, suppressed by society as we grow up with its expectations of reproduction, family and career. All the "normal" things.
Is is saying that guys naturally prefer and get along better with guys, gals with gals (by inference). That deep down we guys all prefer to watch all-male sports, hunt, talk tech talk, ogle cars and machines, and be genetically masculine in other ways, including our choice of intimate partners??? (Okay we don't all hunt but we can be predatory: in sport, in our work, in protecting our interests, in politics, etc). That most of us are expected go out and engage with the opposite sex (except us 10 percenters, of course) and do our perpetuation-of-the-species duty but, after all is done, be miserable in mixed company? Is this the director's intent? Based on what I have read, it appears so. Anyway, an interesting picture (shot digital, btw).
To all here: Heartfelt best for a genuinely happy New Year!
 

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After searching the internet I couldn't find much information at all about Don't Tell Anyone, Thane. The fact that it is out on DVD from Picture This video makes me hesitant to order it, though, since I felt really burned after buying their DVD No Ordinary Love. It was just awful, a real stinker put into a pretty package to lure buyers like me. As the saying goes "Fool me once, shame on you - fool me twice, shame on me."
 

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Don't Tell Anyone is available for
rent throught NetFlix, and yeah, I don't buy
sight unseen anymore either.
Cheers to all!
Mark
 

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www.thedigitalbits.com
has posted in their Rumor Mill that
ABsolutely FABulous is coming to DVD
in a boxed set, and as individual DVDs
(I assume with 3-4 episodes each, like the VHS was.)
on March 13th.
This show is so gay-friendly, that when the
daughter says she is a lesbian, Edina actually
shouts, "Hooray!"
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The Baron was played like he acts in the book, of course, the REST of the first 2 parts were blasphemy, but we won't get into that one
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I always wondered if this was a manifestation of some sort of homophobia in Herbert, making the bad guy gay, or just a coincidence
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I read all of the Herbert Dune books,
and it is clear the Baron has homosexual desires.
I do wonder if Herbert was homophobic, but
he also, per the other books, seems a bit mysogonistic,
making men literally sexual "slaves."
I don't mind villians being gay too-too often.
And, ANYONE calling Matt Keeslar "beautifu" is
just stating a fact. (I love that we actually
get a butt shot of Matt in the show!)
Mark
 

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Buzz- YOU are too dang cute!
To all-
About netflix.com:
I have requested that they carry the following
gay-themed DVDs:

The Trio
Surrender Dorothy
Sex/Life in L.A.
The Journey of Jared Price
and
Skin & Bone.
None of these titles are "porn," but many are
distributed through TLAVideo.com , and I don't
think Netflix has any relationship with them..yet.
So if any of you would like to rent those titles
from netflix ('cause ya' know buying them is risky,
sight unseen) then you might want to let their customer
service department know as well.
Regards,
Mark
 

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Wait a minute.
Are you telling me Mark, that The Baron is in the subsequent books? I've only read the first one. I thought he died when that snotty/precocious little sister of Paul's stuck him with the Gom Jabbar.
I didn't notice The Baron's bad dye job in the mini. I was too busy staring at those big hooters of his, with those silver dollar nips. Morbid fascination is what I'd call it, like watching a gruesome train wreck. I just couldn't take my eyes off of them. They were an evil power unto themselves. I kept saying "GET THOSE THINGS OFF OF MY SCREEN! DEMONIC NIPPLES, I REBUKE YOU!", but kept looking.
 

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I just got done watching two DVDs,
and thought I would share my thoughts.
Lola and Billy The Kid
DVD Specs:
Region 1, (possibly Region Free), NTSC
Widescreen (approximately 1.85:1)
NOT enhanced for widescreen televisions
In German (maybe also Turkish) with English Subtitles
Extras: Gallery,
Trailers for Don’t Tell Anyone, Party Monster,
Short Shorts, Sacred Silence, No Ordinary Love,
and Boys Briefs
Distributed by Picture This!
Rented through www.netflix.com
This film was both better and worse then I expected.
Like the gay films Happy Together and Head On
this film deals with strangers in a strange land.
(Both Head On and Happy Together dealt with gay men living in countries not native to them and/or their cultures.)
In Lola and Billy the Kid we have Turks living in Germany. So, not only are the gay men in the film subjected to their own culture’s homophobia (internalized and otherwise), but they are subject to racial-hatred from some Germans, who frequently call them “camel fuckers” during the film.
Lola is man, who performs in a drag act with two other Turk female impersonators. Billy is Lola’s hyper-macho, hustler boyfriend. He is loves Lola, but has so many issues with homosexuality that he wants Lola to have a sex change operation so they can get married and be “normal.” Lola doesn’t want the operation, and fully comprehends Billy’s issues, which is apparent in one heart-breaking monologue.
THIS IS NOT THE PRIMARY PLOT.
The plot really revolves around a series of interconnected relationships: Lola to her younger brother, Marat (I think that was his name). Another hustler and his older, high-society German John (and his mother), Marat, Lola, and their biological family, and three anti-Turk German youths.
They all clash and react to each other. The film is beautifully shot, and the acting seems solid all the way through. The story lines interconnect really really well, with only parts of the overall plot feeling a bit forced in a Romeo & Juliet sort of way. One relationship seemed a bit rushed and oversimplified. (It seems like a large chunk of the relationship between the high-society guy his hustler ended up on the cutting room floor.)
The film took some surprising turns, but in the end, wove together really well. My one complaint was the film seemed to just stop more than actually ending.
“Rewatchability factor”: in spite of its merits,
I doubt I would have the urge to see it over and over.
I do want to strongly encourage anyone who liked either
Head On or Happy Together to AT LEAST rent it.
ON TO THE SECOND DVD:
Beefcake
DVD Specs:
Region 1, (possibly Region Free), NTSC
Widescreen (barely...it looked like 1.55:1)
NOT enhanced for widescreen televisions
Extras:
Trailers for Edge of Seventeen,
Psycho Beach Party, Head On,
and Love is The Devil.
Featurettes: Several AMG shorts, (including a fully nude Joey Dallesandro) and others titled,
Kangaroo Court, Strip Poker, Talent for Sale, Ganymede and the Space Aliens,
and ______ as Narcissus.
Also there is a commentary track with the writer/director,
Thom Fitzgerald.
Distributed by Strand Releasing
Purchased through 800.com
Someone else mentioned seeing this film in an early version of this thread. I bought the DVD based on that review and I am glad I did. While the film does not cry out for an Oscar nomination, it is fun enough as light, fluffy, fictionalized docu-drama.
Calling this film a drama is not quite right, since the film never takes itself too seriously. (And it is full of comedy, primarily trhough Mizer's mother.)
I guess we are supposed to feel serious during
the courtroom scenes, but really,
I was just waiting to get back to the flashbacks...
The film is a fictionalized version of the story
of the American Muscle Guild and Bob Mizer,
who did most of the photography. It is peppered
with interviews from former models and photographers.
The film bounces back and forth from several
different styles: hyper-colored 50's kitch-colored
narrative of the boys in Mizer’s stable,
black and white for the courtroom scene, which
was the decisive moment for Mizer and company,
and the aforementioned interviews with models and
photographers.
If the film has a weakness, it is that it seems to suffer
from not focussing on any one person.
Mizer is not on the screen that often,
and the only other narrative thread follows a new model
as he rises to success. Neither of these stories
have much “meat” on them. (NO pun intended.)
It seems like AMG and the birth of “muscle mags”
is the central character, but no particular individual.
Also I was left feeling like the writer/director
took no stand on whether or not Mizer was a good
or bad gay. If anything, Mizer comes off as a man who, while comfortable shooting naked men,
still found himself locked in the prudery of the 50’s.
(There is an actual featurette of models spontaneously playing with each other’s penises, and this upsets
the real-life Mizer, who says, ”We don’t do that here!”).
Maybe the director, Thom Fitzgerald, wants us to glimpse
back at the world of AMG and form our own opinions
via his camera lens. Even Jack Lalane, who offers
the societal background of Muscle Beach and
body beautiful boys, says it best:
“There is good and bad in everything.”
That is how I feel about this film.
“Rewatchability” factor: not too high,
but enough that I am glad I purchased this DVD.
Warm Regards,
Mark
 

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Trace-
While the Baron does die in the first book,
that is not the last you hear from him.
But, that isn't the mysogny I was talking about.
In a few books from now, there are women,
that when men have sex with them, they literally
become overwhelm with lust for the women, and under
complete control of the women. (They are like
the Bene Gesserit, only much more physical...)
Anyway, to end your sexual savery, you have to
kill the women. Doesn't that sound a tad bitter
anti-female, and Freudian to you all?
I would guess that Mr Herbert was making a comment,
either deliberately or unconciously about how women
tend to control the quantity of sex straight men
get. (Don't straight men always beg?)
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Two new must-AVOID clunkers from Strand Releasing:
Sex/Life in L.A. (I give it a D)
Skin and Bone (F-minus)
 

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Thanks, Alan.
I am starting to notice that relatively unknown
films with overly "sensationalized" titles
tend to SUCK.
:)
Mark
 

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Any word on the DVD release of Boys Life 3?
The last two were great. Didn't get a chance to see it when it came out in Limited Run. (Did it come out?)
 

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