From: Kong
Date: 28 Mar 2009
Time: 06:36:43
Remote Name: 63.239.248.1
I can't even begin to describe how much I hated this film. Maybe it's because I expected so much more from John Cameron Mitchell, my personal hero for creating my favorite movie of all time, Hedwig and the Angry Inch. I guess he worked on Shortbus for a long time, it was a collaborative thing with people in acting workshops. I just don't know what the hell he was thinking with this, it just sucked, sucked, sucked, in black hole proportions. As an artist, this is the kind of film that makes me glad I never went to New York, it just oozes with that pretentious NYC artist attitude I hate, and I use the term "artist" loosely because NYC is full of ego-fevered trust fund babies who like to don an "artist" or "musician" persona. I get the feeling that this is the case with most of the "actors" in this film because I found myself wanting to punch all their shallow, poorly-acted characters in the face. And it might sound bold and avante garde to some to use real sex and cum shots in a serious film, I found it unnecessary and pretty revolting. There's a reason beyond puritanical censorship that people don't put that in movies, filming a guy ejaculate into his own mouth is about as artistic as filming a turd come out someone's ass. Most people don't want to see that kind of thing in a non-porn movie and it doesn't do anything to help the plot advance either. It's just a novelty, different for the sake of being different, not progressive at all. Can't we accept that some things are just better left to the imagination? Seeing the reality on film really can make you want to vomit. I guess like everything else it needs to be offered to the public to be tried and rejected by the public. I'm not anti-porn, it has it's place in the world, I just don't want to see it when I'm not looking for it, and I definitely don't want to see the variety-pak of straight, gay, young old, skinny and fat porn that's going on in Shortbus. I think the only good thing about Cameron including these shocking, hard-core sex scenes is that without them this movie would be all but totally forgettable, it's just a lame, ridiculous story, difficult to believe and not in an entertaining way. I'll file this movie under "insomnia remedies and ipecac syrup alternatives."
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