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Summary: A ANTHROPOLOGIST LOOKS AT RAF MOVIES
Review: I have purchased (either previously or through Amazon) every gay DVD/video I have come across on Amazon. I have always loved independant film and gay film and insist on supporting the gay community whenever possible. However, I can not in my wildest dreams imagine anyone truly liking this film, except someone who has a vested interest in the success of this film (director, actors, the guy off-camera feeding lines to the actors who forgot theirs, relatives of the actors, etc).I am always willing to overlook some pretty major faults in independant movies, and applaud effort and try to see through to what a director is trying to accomplish. However, with 'Gods of Olympia', I found myself swimming in a sea of mud. What a mess. Not worth it. The plot and scenes of the movie were all thrown together. Production quality was terrible. Acting was atrocious. Preparation of the actors with their lines was non-existant. Sound editing was surprisingly lacking. There is talk of 'eye candy' in the other reviews, but even that I didn't find in the movies. I purchased all three movies at once, but I don't expect to ever watch the other two movies. (As such, I refrain from reviewing them before watching them. However, I can't imagine there will be much of a jump in professionalism, increase in acting quality, existance of plot, etc...). Trust me, I get no satisfaction in writing a review, which has very little positive to say.... I would just like someone thinking of purchasing this film to ask around first and check with someone who has seen this film. I used to trust these movie reviews, but after mistakenly buying 'Gods of Olympia', I will be much more skeptical and careful of how I judge the reviews before purchasing. Buyer beware!
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Summary: I feel naive that I bought all 3 videos at once
Review: I have purchased (either previously or through Amazon) every gay DVD/video I have come across on Amazon. I have always loved independant film and gay film and insist on supporting the gay community whenever possible. However, I can not in my wildest dreams imagine anyone truly liking this film, except someone who has a vested interest in the success of this film (director, actors, the guy off-camera feeding lines to the actors who forgot theirs, relatives of the actors, etc). I am always willing to overlook some pretty major faults in independant movies, and applaud effort and try to see through to what a director is trying to accomplish. However, with 'Gods of Olympia', I found myself swimming in a sea of mud. What a mess. Not worth it. The plot and scenes of the movie were all thrown together. Production quality was terrible. Acting was atrocious. Preparation of the actors with their lines was non-existant. Sound editing was surprisingly lacking. There is talk of 'eye candy' in the other reviews, but even that I didn't find in the movies. I purchased all three movies at once, but I don't expect to ever watch the other two movies. (As such, I refrain from reviewing them before watching them. However, I can't imagine there will be much of a jump in professionalism, increase in acting quality, existance of plot, etc...). Trust me, I get no satisfaction in writing a review, which has very little positive to say.... I would just like someone thinking of purchasing this film to ask around first and check with someone who has seen this film. I used to trust these movie reviews, but after mistakenly buying 'Gods of Olympia', I will be much more skeptical and careful of how I judge the reviews before purchasing. Buyer beware!
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Summary: Regional gay productions alive and well.
Review: If you want a Hollywood style movie this is not it. What I enjoyed about this movie is that it is local and involves a cast of characters you might expect to find in your own community.
Richard Anthony Films has found a wonderful niche. Bravo for regional production company's and here is a wish for more. I found the leading actors very good looking and the nude scenes well balanced. I look forward to more movies from Richard Anthony Films.
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Summary: A NICE LITTLE FILM
Review: Reviewer: Randy J. White from Browns Point, WA
If you want a Hollywood style movie this is not it. What I enjoyed about this movie is that it is local and involves a cast of characters you might expect to find in your own community.
Richard Anthony Films has found a wonderful niche. Bravo for regional production company's and here is a wish for more. I found the leading actors very good looking and the nude scenes well balanced. I look forward to more movies from Richard Anthony Films.
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Summary: A L MUST SEE FOR ALL GAYS
Review: Reviewer: tadzio69 from Victoria, Australia
I can't give this movie 5 stars overall, because sometimes the production values are not ultra-good (wheezy soundtrack). But if you're young, in the closet, or being hammered by a family in some church or other sort of moral majority, it might show you what to do for release in small-town America (or small minded communities anywhere). Five stars for what the guys in the movie say - how they talk out, and about, - and act out their gay identities. It ain't glitzy - it happens in diners and coffee shops, in the street, not nightclubs or smooth apartments. Amateur but committed actors provide a rich gallery of interesting characters to get family life, identity, work, learning (especially the importance of learning) into a gay perspective you might not have yet, Chuck - Jose - Dean - Jason: whoever you are. Sex is not avoided - it's there on the screen if you haven't tried it yet, but so too is cruising (do you know how to cruise?) Best of all, a diverse model of how to start and maintain gay friendships. See how these guys value each other - how they relate, how important closeness and touch are - and one day you might get going on your gay life, knowing, balancing life and sexuality, and closer to happiness than you are now. Watch them, but above all listen to them - learn from them. Bits of the story you might find wacky (I did) but having written several books on what at-risk youth (including gay boys) need, I'm very impressed by the honesty and clarity of this approach. Forget the production values - LISTEN HARD AND WATCH CLOSELY, and know you are not alone. Maybe there's a gay-friendly diner in your small town - worth looking. Good luck
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Summary: One of the worst I have ever seen.
Review: Somebody's got to be kidding - this is the worst attempt at a movie I have ever seen. How it ever got produced is beyond me. The cast, (I can't bring myself to call them actors,) is uniformly atrocious. These people are either good friends of the producer or they paid him big bucks to cast them. It is inconceivable that any of them were cast after an audition. Technically, the cinematography and sound are so bad that it looks like somebody's first attempt at trying out their new video camera. The script is non-existent. There is no story, just a seemingly endless series of scenes between the untalented non-actors. There is no attempt whatsoever to tell a story or maintain any sense of continuity. I wish I could say something positive about this movie. Unfortunately there is nothing good to say. It's a total zero from start to finish,
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Summary: WE LOVED IT AT THE RANCH
Review: Sorry that the straight man did not like Gods of Olympia. His lose. We have a party everytime a RAF movie comes out. We eat to much drink to much and party to hard. If you like gay eye candy and a great story all of Richard Anthony Films are wonderful.
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Summary: THE BEST OF RAF'S FILMS
Review: The larger one shows Johnny, a slight 19-year old (played by Justin McFarlane), leaving a reform school in Chehalis, Washington, hitchhiking north to Olympia and eventually moving in with a hunky lawyer-lover, Joel (played by Michael Harboush), in Seattle. Assisting are the popcorn king's young son, Chip (played by Donald Allen), and his new lover, Washington State Senator Matthew Bradley (played by Dennis T. Kleinsmith). This is a story of how gay people can help one-another come out and overcome obstacles on the way to true love and social justice. The smaller story is told almost completely in pantomime and music. An unnamed actor (possibly Michael S. Parker) comforts and cleans up a fellow caught up in a hate bombing of a gay youth center. The fellow runs off later with another one, leaving the actor alone. In the next installment, he is able to find someone else and make a successful go of it in an emotionally satifying way. One can criticize the lack of extras on the DVD and the script's demand that so many characters provide their personal and family histories. The characters are more psychological profiles than real people. I would have liked the Jeff character (who was not linked to an actor's name) to have had a bigger role since he had the looks and the ability to deliver lines well. The movie is low budget, the acting is fair, but the movie's heart is in an unusually positive and constructive place, showing people's resiliance well. The movie depicts a variety of normal, but nice-looking people, not just the denizens of the local gym. The many skin shots are well done. Uplifting but not deep.
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Summary: Bad acting & dialogue, below average looking actors!
Review: This movie makes anyone NOT WANT to be gay. I have seen a lot of very artsy, well made gay cinema.... Inserting full on sex scenes in the middle and at the end of the movie only cheapened the movie--cuz the actors are below average looking from head to toe... The acting is so helpless. So, if you're into bad cinematography, sound, music, dubbing, and so forth, this movie's for you. But spare yourself of the agony that I went through!
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Summary: more like " this film is in need of a God"
Review: Though I'm a fan of independent films; GODS OF OLYMPIA cannot even be classed as such, unless you include someone who went to an electronics store and bought a video camera, and along with some of his friends,thought they could make a movie with it. The acting, editing, cimematography, screenplay etc., was all amateurish and subpar. The scenes don't flow naturaly from one into the other, and in one, you hear someone off camera giving one of the actors his lines he forgot say,There are a couple of nude-sex scenes that have nothing in common with the story line; same with several segments of people talking amongst themselves in the gay eatery which the films story is centered around. The story take place in Olympia Washington (only 60 miles from where I live) the characters includes a supreme court justice who dresses up in drag and is running for empress of the local emperal(gay drag gueen)court;and the Lt. govenor who is just comming out; and neither actor is convicing in there respectable roles; a homeless man (who's european accent is so pronounced that it is difficult to understand what he is saying half of the time) who is befriended by the waiter and and a relationship then developes (at least this sex scene makes some sense), a dishwasher who falls in love with the Lt. governor; and the cook who inherits the resturant. I choose not to go into detail more of the story for those of you who have not yet seen this film
I wish I could find some redeeming qualities for this production, but there are few to none. Don't pay full price for this dvd ( you will thank me later) unless you want to know what a bad gay film is like and want to add one to your collection. I'm sure the people involved in this production made an earnest and sincere effort to produce a good movie, they just didn't pull it off
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