Things Like This

It's a bummer...this had a lot of the right pieces to be really special.

I feel like I spent the whole movie thinking it was one step away from being good. It was repeatedly close. Started out fine and just went downhill. Felt like it filmed the first draft. Decent production quality but wow did it need a second draft. Or at least another one. And a different director. Ouch. Not everyone should direct their own script. Someone else needs to push the actors to unexpected places...or sometimes rein them in. Create a world and a tone. This didn't manage either.

Will be interesting to see if he's able to make another film.

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."

Such a good opportunity missed. This could have been great, but it felt unbelievable and contrived. I did wonder if it was written by someone with autism because it doesn't really seem aware of any social cues about how life works.

This isn't believable in the slightest. Bit of a fantasy world of some gay teen, with no grounding in reality. Oh look, a sexy man going through some stuff, being vulnerable, falling for someone not conventionally attractive. Always with the tormented gay character. Come on, we really can do better these days. This isn't the 90s any more where we just lap up any old tosh because of 'representation'. Needs a better script, more believable characters and a stronger base. How did this film even get made?

There's a rule in screenwriting that if you're going to have a character who's a bit extra/annoying/difficult, they need to do something unquestionably good early into the script, like saving a cat. That never happens for either of the two romantic leads. One is annoying, the other is slightly less annoying... and while I want more plus-size representation in queer cinema, certainly we can do better than this. Apart from making each other laugh, I never understood why either of them found the other attractive. I only realized that one of the actors who plays the romantic lead also wrote and starred in it when we got to the end. So... was this supposed to be some sort of fantasy about getting the hottie? But the thing is, the supposed "hottie" wasn't that attractive because he's such a jerk to the people around him. We can do better than this...