Daydream Obsession

From the description of the DVD box I thought this would be an interesting movie to watch: closeted young man falls in love with one of his roommates(on the cover there's a photo of the roommate tied to a chair and blindfolded).

It's starts off with the roommate "Brian" tied to the chair and after a couple of minutes goes back 2 weeks with the main character "Clayton" making an entry into his video diary about how he think he might be gay and how he has intense feelings for Brian.

Next, Clayton goes to brush his teeth in the bathroom where one of his other roommates is taking a shower (in a clear glass shower stall so nothing is left to the imagination). This is where the movie turns to softcore pornville as the camera makes love to the guy in the shower for about 5 minutes while cheesy electronic music plays in the background. These sort of interludes happen a few more times as his spies on his other roommates while they're naked. They're nice to look at but after a while it get kind of tedious. At one point he orders up a hustler (for $300.00!!) to come over; he does a strip tease but Clayton has him leave through the window when he roommates come home. Not too much happens. The ending is sort of ho hum (and there's an alternate ending on the DVD that just like the original except for some fancy footware).

So if you like looking at naked men rent porn and just pass on the odd hybrid.

Why do we stand for this kind of thing? Why don't people who pay good money to buy a movie rise up in spontaneous rebellion when they find they've been swindled? It's one of those mysteries of modern life. This is certainly the case of Daydream Obessions.

The film did not aspire to be much. Just a soft core gay romp going from one sex scene to another. This film even failed to make that uninteresting This is particularly sad because the film has better production value then a lot of the these low budget films. But not since Paul Vorhoevens Showgirls has so much sex been so boring.

I must say that I'm a big fan of this type of low budget gay fare but even in this genera there are really good films and really bad ones. I usually have nothing to say about the bad ones, I figured I wasted my time watching it why spend another moment writing about it. I felt the need to unload on this one because this film had potential that all went to waste. I give this a generous 2 stars only for the overall look of the production. Warning. Even if you're just looking for cheap thrills. Look elsewhere.

I found it really funny. In this movie there's about 5 minutes of dialog. The rest is just scenes of guys naked very badly done, with no taste and don't even feel erotic. The funny thing is that the 5 minutes of dialogue are performed by actually quite decent actors who can perform!!

This was obviously meant to be softcore porn? The problem was that it wasn't even "good" porn. If they wanted to make a gay porn movie, they should've actually had some sex! On the flip side, they could've easily made a really decent independent movie. The main character I thought did a great acting stint during his little video monologues. There's one right before the climax of the movie that I especially enjoyed ... perhaps that alone is worth the price of admission... Overall, though, this movie is probably a pass. It could've been much more, but they went the softcore route instead. I can't stand to see good possibilities get squandered. If you're bored, though (and you'd probably need to either be gay or have an appreciation for the male form), the movie will keep you awake for 90 minutes. I guess that's something??