Things Like This

The guy who wrote it and directed it also cast himself. Its like a gay remake of "The Room". The acting from the cast and more seasoned avtors is OK. The pacing and writing its completely contrived and moves too fast making no sense. The worst part about the movie is the lead...somebody should have told the writer/director to take a step back and hire a real actor for the main role. Hard not to feel a more charming plus size actor could have made this movie work like Tyler Labine or Salvatore Esposito but we're stuck with this absolutely obnoxious person who shouted his way through the movie. Absolutely awful.

I'm sitting in a living room with 8 other homosexuals, and we can't stop laughing at how bad this is. The dialogue is so contrived and immediate that it almost feels like it was written by AI. The second-hand embarrassment from the dialogue is some of the most intense I've ever felt. Anyone that sees this movie and think that it's AT MOST a 1/10 is being way too nice. The boss lady in it is so hilariously bad. It was like if a rural high school drama club wrote and directed their own play after discussing how they wanted to "change the world and perceptions."

Max Talisman playing Zack Anthony the struggling writer is all this is wrong about this movie. The Feel of the movie is well crafted for a small romantic comedy, Zack Mandel played by Joey Pollari really carries the movie all by himself. And the other roles in the movie are generally decent acting too. Joey pollari in his character feels like he is genuine, the emotional, frustrated, sad, and the way he carries himself in the movie feels like the right cast, he feels real. As opposed to Max Talisman who lacks to provide any kind of genuine emotion. Let me say right away that it's not because he is overweight, he just has no charisma, the way he delivers his lines are not believable, he kinda feels like a stand up comedian trying to hit his line one after another (which are not funny or genuine). There's absolutely NO CHEMISTRY between him and Joey Pollari which in the movie Joey is charismatic and his lines feels like he is living in this movie for real. This was bad casting, it sure would have been easy to find any other actor to play Zack Anthony. Whenever Max Talisman tries to act and be emotional it just all feels flat. It's a one sided well acted character by Joey Pollari, but I'm having a difficult time to get through the movie because of the hollowness of Max Talisman's Actiing. Such a shame with a different actor where Joey could have chemistry with the character of Zack Anthony, this could have been a really sweet rom-com. I gave it 2 stars for Joey's well acting and good story line. But the Director should have seen the problem with Max Talisman not belonging into this movie and have a recast for the character of Zack Anthony.

Okay... so the premise was promising but this just really missed the mark. The writing was bad at times and the pacing of the movie felt so rushed and the "obstacles" or lake there of was hard to understand why they were in the positions they were in. Max's Zach is such a horrible person to everyone around him. Max did write and direct the film so making him own character this unlikable was a bold choice. His acting was very middle school theater performance. However, can we talk about joeys performance? He was brilliant and was the standout of the film and did an amazing job with the horrible script he was given. I won't say much more to not spoil anything but I do have to ask why someone didn't ask for a rewrite on some scenes.

Look, I like a gay rom-com featuring a plus-size guy in the lead as much as anyone, but why, oh, why does that character have to be so annoying?

What's even more annoying than the character is the fact that the guy who plays him also wrote and directed the movie. I guess if you're gonna write a movie to star yourself, it might as well be a fantasy in which you land the hot guy no matter how much of a loser you are.

Writer-director-actor Max Talisman plays Zach, who after being dumped by one hottie, immediately meets-cute with another (well as cute as ordering and downing a drink you know you can't pay for can be) - coincidentally also named Zach (Joey Pollari) - and, despite many complications, ends landing him after serenading him at his sister's high school prom.

Don't ask.

While the script has a few nice moments, and some veteran actors have a few nice moments, too (Eric Roberts, Barbara Barrie), it's tough to get past the protagonist being a wastrel/jerk.

It's not that wastrels don't deserve to find love (I still hope to some day), it's just that I don't need to sit in a theater and watch it.

Neither do you.