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daddytodd ([personal profile] daddytodd) wrote2010-11-21 08:10 pm

"Bear City"

I really wanted to like this movie more than I did. In one sense it was like "Avatar" -- the dialog wasn't very good.

In another sense, it reminded of me a little too much of "the Boys in the Band." These guys were pretty damn bitchy and melodramatic. At one point Ron turned to me and said "It should be called 'The Boys and the Lap-Band.'" Ba-dum!

And it was a little too meticulous about having several nude scenes but no peen. Plus, the most "explicit" nude scene was of the skinny twink's ass. Not really interesting to us bear-lovers.

I enjoyed picking out songs from some of the "Bear Music" performers I love -- I spotted Freddy Freeman over the opening credits, a Bobbleheads classic, a couple by Elijah Black, and some guitar playing that I thought sounded like Jeffrey Altergott (he plays like Lindsey Buckingham, which is meant as a HUGE compliment) but I didn't see his name in the credits. They should've found a place for a Kendall song, but then nothing's perfect.

Some will probably like it better than I did. I'm sick with the death cold, so that might be influencing my critical awareness -- and I've been reading Marion Zimmer Bradley all weekend, so I'm in a bit of a "Darkover" head-space.

Think I'll go read the new "Tales of the City" book that just came out. I liked the last one, and this one has a promising start.

[identity profile] bigbear4xl.livejournal.com 2010-11-22 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
The trailer for it turned me off pretty seriously. I have zero interest in seeing it.

[identity profile] bluebear2.livejournal.com 2010-11-22 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I've seen the trailer and the movie and the trailer turned me off too. It's very misleading. The movie itself is well done for the genre that it is. The humour is still kind of non-advanced though.

[identity profile] daddytodd.livejournal.com 2010-11-23 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Non-advanced" is a very polite way of saying the jokes just aren't very funny.

[identity profile] growler-south.livejournal.com 2010-11-23 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I quite enjoyed it, but had trouble with suspension of disbelief: the hottest bear in the city is a scrawny silver wolf (nothing against, but there was far tastier candy in the background) and everyone falls head over heels to hit on the twink.

Definitely fiction.