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Summary: The Castro scene
Review: All of the characters in this film are young gay males. One is a highly imaginative sort who ventures - too frequently - into imagining his life in short fantasy vignettes. Another one, the best-looking, is the resident "slut" who is narcissistic and not at all inclined towards settling down with the long suffering artist who loves him and who he partially resides with. They have an arrangement of openness in their relationship which the artist is growing increasingly dissatisfied with. In another scenario of interlinking stories, one young Cuban is in love with a bald-headed gent who loves him, but is not in love with him as he is instead in love with the Englishman whom he plans to move to London with. The unfortunate aspect to this is the English lover is hardly the faithful type, though the center of this romantic triangle doesn't realize this. Back to the writer's search for his "knight in shining armor," there is a tall, professional model type who is the object of his fantasies, and those fantasies become increasingly lengthy and more and more annoying. The club scene in the Castro District of San Francisco features brightly in this film as you are dizzyingly introduced to a mutlitude - too many - characters, stereotypes and scenarios. As with any ensemble cast and multiple plotlines, there are times you want to freeze on one couple, following their story, while instead the film yanks you in a different direction entirely. The entire story plays out in one weekend, all heavy-socializing from one Friday night to Sunday night. This movie makes a good companion piece to BROKEN HEARTS CLUB which is also an ensemble with all-gay characters, and also taking place in California, only that group of friends resides in the southern contingent of West Hollywood.
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Summary: Better than I thought...
Review: Depsite the harsh reviews, I think this is a pretty good movie. I suggest you first watch it and then draw your own conclusions.
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Summary: Better than I thought...
Review: Depsite the harsh reviews, I think this is a pretty good movie. I suggest you first watch it and then draw your own conclusions.
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Summary: If Robert Altman ever did alternative alternative cinema...
Review: GYPSY BOYS is a pleasant surprise, starting with it's sold-out screening at the DGA. Director Brian Shepp keeps things at a brisk clip, rotating in and out of the lives of several friends on one fateful weekend. His ingeniously simplified structure -- Act 1: Bar, Act 2: Party, Act 3: Bar -- drags only slightly in the first half hour, when witticisms and banter (often, often cheered by the attending audience on wink-wink been-there-done-that sidenotes) are the first priority. But it is when Shepp & Company leave the bar and settle into conventional scenes and stylings that GYPSY BOYS truly hits its momentum. This is a good film, akin to one of those long-car rides between friends: for a few miles, it's human beings connecting, but mostly, it's pedal-to-the-metal crank-it-up.
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Summary: Great movie!
Review: I really liked this movie. The film is very honest and gives a different view of the gay community. It's very real. I really enjoyed the fantasy scenes that they show along the movie. They are really good! The 'comedy/humor' part of the movie is very well done. It also have some touching moments. And has really cute actors! I recommend this movie.
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Summary: This movie is a real piece of crap.
Review: Infantile, sophmoric and just plain dull, Gypsy Boys tries to match wits with Queer As Folk but comes off as a very bad high school filmmaking piece. Never taking flight, the movie remains as moribund as director/writer Brian Shepp's imagination. Terribly written, horribly acted, and directed without even a glimmer of moviemaking knowledge, the unattractive cast has nowhere to go without a story and without dialogue that makes you anticipate the next scene. The characters that never grow, never change, and really have nothing to say. All I heard through the whole film was "Blah, blah, blah". I'm amazed this movie got made. It's a complete mess and removes any credibility that gay filmmaking has achieved.
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Summary: Avoid this film.
Review: Lacks professionalism in every area - story, direction, dialogue, casting, acting and sound mix. The film wants to be fresh, romantic and hopeful, but its actually superficial pap. Just a rehash of other, better, material. In fact, you can see every plot turn coming miles ahead. If you want a look at the gay club scene, watch the American and/or British versions of "Queer As Folk." They treat the same subjects with wit and style. "Gypsy Boys" is just plain tired.
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Summary: Bad 'B' movie!
Review: Oh my gosh, this movie was BAD!!!! It was forced in it's acting and empty in it's plot! I have a LOT of gay movies, and I realize lots of them are made on shoestring budgets, but this movie was A COMPLETE WASTE OF MONEY!
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Summary: Wish I could give it half a star.
Review: The Gypsy Boys need to get back in the wagon and go back to wherever they came from.Unrealistic, stupid, poorly acted, cheaply filmed, God where do I end? Only the cute Cuban boy (Manny?) pulled off a credible performance; and due to this they had him kiss two of the most unattractive men in the American film industry's history! Not to sound superficial, but the men that he was attracted to (the Nazi and the Grandpa) were so unrealistically under his league that you cringe when watching (literally!) The cheap dream sequences, the really bad jokes, I wish I did not buy this DVD and instead spent the money on envelopes and stamps to write hate-mail to the cast. Please save your money! No disrespect to Amazon, but don't spend your money on this, they have MANY fantastic films you can buy: go look for them!
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Summary: Minimal Plot, Minimal Script, Minimal Acting
Review: This movie has virtually no plot and what it has seems like a ripoff of "Queer as Folk". With one exception, the acting is at a high-school level as is the cinematography. It looks like an amateur film done with poor home video equipment and a self-indulgent script with corney lines from the 70's. Spend your money on better stuff.
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