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Summary: With a title like Beefcake...
Review: ...you don't expect Shakespeare! But what you do get is an incredibly entertaining look at the birth of gay society's fascination with the male form. If the viewer can tear his attention away from the bountiful eye-candy he/she will also get a glimpse into the hardships and very real dangers that these seemingly cheesey photographers and publishers went through just to give us a glimpse of the body beautiful. Part movie, part documentary...all delightfully delicious!
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Summary: Just OK.
Review: An interesting film, respectful and with a touch of humour. Not a "must see" material but nothing I felt sorry after buying it.
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Summary: Just OK.
Review: An interesting film, respectful and with a touch of humour. Not a "must see" material but nothing I felt sorry after buying it.
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Summary: Just OK.
Review: An interesting film, respectful and with a touch of humour. Not a "must see" material but nothing I felt sorry after buying it.
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Summary: A Good "documentary" Film.
Review: As a photographer, I find this movie more educational than entertaining. I understand how censorship was before. As time goes by, the standard goes extreme for that given period but becomes tame as viewed by the next generations. Maplethorpe's photography, for example, became controversial few years ago but somehow became an accepted norm of art. What's next? Beefcake gives us the opportunity to visualize the future generations of photography by giving us an idea what it was before.
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Summary: Gimme a piece of BEEFCAKE!!
Review: Beefcake is a documentary and a gem of a movie all rolled into one. Its focal point is the physique magazines of the 40's and 50's. The director shows the steamier and more homoerotic side (as if it needed more of one) of these magazines. It also covers how they came to be and why they dissappeared off of magazine shelves. Before watching the movie i knew very little about it except that it was gay themed and discussed muscle boys. Even though i really couldnt care less for muscle boys, i still watched the movie and i am glad i did.. It's colors are very visually stimulating and the images are great.. The documentary moments are amusing and the film moments are even funnier. I would reccomend this movie to anyone who wants to laugh and just enjoy a good movie.
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Summary: Nudity galore!
Review: Beefcake is a light-hearted, semi-documentary about the life and times of a muscle-magazine, Physique pictorial. Published during the puritanical 1950ies, it made quite a stir. PP was the original hunk-o-rama, with hundreds of smiling, tanned and muscled young men flashing their goods at you. Of course, it was not strictly a nude-mag (the models wore small pouches in front of you know what..) but the gay readers had a field time anyway! The publishers also made short films featuring their hunky stars. It was all marketed as "promoting health and physical fitness in young minds" Looking back at those "innocent" times from this liberal day and age, we can only smile at the cunning and bravery that went into it. The brains behind PP, Bob Mizer, was actually jailed and fined several times on charges of renting out his models as escorts to rich men. Still, the mag continued into the 60's and 70's. Watching Beefcake is like flipping through those pages of PP, stopping occasionally for some reconstructed dramatic scenes. But the best parts are watching the guys modelling, doing some amateur acting in front of Mizer's camera and generally horsing around. Great fun! There are several interviews with the guys who posed for the mag, one of them, Joe Dallesandro, apparently did his posing mostly nude! There is, in fact, copious nudity in Beefcake, and the men are all fabulous looking.
There are some great contemporary songs on the soundtrack, as well. A good time movie for the (mostly) gay crowd.
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Summary: Not just beefcake!
Review: Countless people will watch this DVD just for the...well, beefcake. And they'll find an abundance of that. But Beefcake is surprisingly funny. It also provides an interesting study into human desire, as well as attempts to destroy those desires, or disguise them as something else.
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Summary: not as good as the book
Review: do not see beefcake, the book was better.
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Summary: Please Pass the Beef
Review: First of all, for those of you out who like straight-forward plot lines with twists and turns throughout, object to male nudity and get bored if something doesn't blow up in the first 15 minutes - then do not watch this movie. As for the rest of us, who can appreciate intelligent mock-u-mentory styled films, "BeefCake" is a fabulous way to spend a Sunday evening. Through flashback sequences, photo clips and interiews with ex-hustlers/models from the 1950's, we receive the story of Robert Henry Mizer and his Athletic Model Guild. The movie jumps around a bit between Mizer's history with his pulp art magazine, his legal troubles for running escorts as well as the interviews, which makes one wonder how scatterbrained director Thom Fitzgerald really is. But the acting is good, the scenes are funny/interesting and there's plenty of male nudity to go around. Where can you go wrong?
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