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Summary: Drifting in the Tar Pit of West LA
Review: Although I liked the "Shopping for Fangs" better, I found "Drift" to have tighter production values. I like the way "Drift" explored the complexities of dating and friendship and the boundaries people have for unknowable reasons. The different scenarios explore unrequited love and even unrequited lust in a sexual tar pit of West LA. Each scenario would feel incomplete by itself, yet even together the film has an open ending which for me is a plus because it left me in reflection. The most touching scene for me was the declined proposition from the straight best friend. It was a convincing example of how identities can be blurred when lived out by characters.
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Summary: This is just a so-so gay flick
Review: Aside from the passionate sex scenes, which are good, the rest of the movie is a little lost. The transitions from each ending are abrupt, the acting is just ok, and it looks like it was shot with a video camera. I wouldn't go out of my way to see it, but its not so bad to avoid altogether.
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Summary: Gay life beyond sex
Review: With rare exception, most films and books about gay life and love tend to focus on sexual conquests and sizzling descriptions of man-to-man sex. "Drift" is one of those rare exceptions in that it doesn't confine its subject matter to carnal pursuits and pleasures but actually focuses on the feelings other than lust that one man can feel for another. For an independent film without the Hollywood slick and gloss, "Drift" works (then again, maybe because it's not a Hollywood product) because it gives its characters - Ryan, having a three-year relationship with Joel before he meets Leo - feelings that express just what being gay is and feels. Specifically, the film posits Ryan's conviction that he has found his true love in Leo and takes Ryan on a fantasy trip that makes three stops: what happens if Ryan and Leo fall madly in love, if they have nothing more than a sexual fling, and if Leo doesn't reciprocate Ryan's feelings? It's a pleasant surprise to find a production that deals with gay love in terms of something other than getting some hot man-to-man sex. But while "Drift" offers a refreshingly honest, thoughtful and respectful treatment of what love between men can be, it also has some surpisingly explicit and sizzling sex scenes that alone make the film worth it if the viewer isn't in the mood to think about the feelings of falling in love. Another plus is that the actors - each pretty good-looking with bods that don't come a dime a dozen - come off as real people with real, not scripted, feelings, and they actually manage to make us feel again what falling in love can be like.
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Summary: Hours from my life I'll never get back...
Review: Let me start by saying this film has absolutely no redeeming features and it's long. I'd like to make an open plea to all directors, writers and producers - PLEASE, somebody make a gay film with characters that are not totally emotionally retarded. I mean, Drift features pre-pubescent angst the likes of which no weepy high school short story has ever known. It rambles on endlessly mired in the nobody-understands-me-can't-my-soul-be-free theme until the viewer tunes out from either frustration or sheer boredom. I have to admit, I didn't see the end. Halfway through the film I turned to my partner and stated that if I heard the word "visceral" one more time I was turning off the DVD. Not 45 seconds later, one whiny character or another vomited the aforementioned word and I decided to watch something more realistic, like Friends. Indie films don't have the luxuries that big studio pictures have. They can't throw in spaceships or cars exploding to divert attention from a substandard script. So, getting hit square in the jaw with the kind of masterbatory drivel contained in Drift is a little too jarring for even the most masochistic of moviegoers. If you must watch this film, do it only so that you can appreciate movies you used to think were bad.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: I saw this movie as a part of a gay and lesbian film festival. Now, the film festival had quite a few subpar movies, but this movie is the only one where the entire audience started to vocalize thier discontent. The start of the third ending was followed by audible groans, then laughter as the entire audience realized that everyone there hated the movie. I do NOT recommend this movie.
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Summary: Unconventional
Review: This movie seemed pretty straight forward and simple to start out, but then it began twisting and turning and really gets you involved. There's not a lot of action here, just real situations and plenty of food for thought. The small cast is attractive and sexy in an unconventional way, which is completely refreshing. I really believed these were real people in these situations. I also liked the very intimate, in your face feel of the camera work. Unique.
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Summary: Failed to hold my interest.
Review: Plain English Warning: This movie will be a serious disappointment to you if you are looking for something steamy, thrilling, funny or uplifting. I 'drifted away' during both attempted viewings. First I found myself getting lost in my own thoughts and, second, I just kept falling to sleep. What can I say? I need an interesting plot and an attractive cast. This movie offered neither. It's simply too mundane for my taste.
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Summary: nothing could be worse
Review: I watched this DVD and decided that I'll never will again, it was so bad, I refuse to knowledge I ever bought it. It has no theme what so ever, the actors should be ashamed they were in it... plus they were ugly, I could barely stand to look at them. What were these people thinking who put this film together.... if they could get the booby award... well they got my vote.
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Summary: Painful to sit through
Review: Sounded like an interesting story line, but it wasn't. I would have shut the movie off long before the finish (and I RARELY do that) but a friend wanted to leave it on. Not that she liked it either, she just likes to finish movies she starts watching. I'm all for well done gay movies and/or well done low-budget movies, but this was a poor movie in both cases. The language and story are overdone and just plain stupid.
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Summary: Interesting work
Review: For me, this is truly one of the bigger surprises of 2002. Here we have a film with very real emotions and a very simple breakup story that most everyone should be able to relate to, gay or straight. The superlative cast, a unique storyline, and the realistic documentary-like feel elevates this one from the ranks of other super low budget indies.
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