This film, so far, is a genre all it's own. The genre it wants you to believe it fits into, would be the college comedy, the T&A, gross-out, bodily function type of film, minus the T&A, it has all that, but with a twist, a big gay twist. There was a point fairly early in this film when the characters go to a strip club, and I said, after seeing what had come before,if there is no female nudity in THIS scene, the director is completely gay. Now of course, he said back-pedaling, I don't know the director, or his sexual orientation, but it sure seems if he's not gay, he intended to make, as I said, the first "Gay college comedy" Now there's nothing wrong with making a gay college comedy, but hey, market it that way, let people know up front that there will be lots of male nudity, jokes about a dogs testicles, and jokes about men ingesting the issue of said testicles, men pulling down their pants and having explosive diarea into waste paper baskets. In my belief there are certain ingredients present to one degree or another in these types of films, and one you can't get away from is female nudity. See Road Trip to see this formula at it's modern (okay...90's) apex, Amy Smart goes topless, while in Van Wilder Tara Reid, decided not to show what many who watched assumed they'd see. There should be, in my opinion, a law, or at least a contract rider that says if you want to appear in a college comedy, (Miss Reid) you've got to show off what the public wants, and expects, and if not, well, hire another actress, but as I said, that's just my opinion. Now nudity, male or female won't make an unfunny movie funny, or worth sitting through, but at least it might feel like a reward for sitting through something at horrible, and unfunny as this movie. But if you feel like conducting your own experiment in terror, watch this, but get a copy of Road Trip as a palate cleanser for afterwards, it's not Citizen Kane, but it's amusing and the man who directed it finds new and interesting ways to expose the female form, the thing that many will be expecting to see when they watch this type of movie. And as a last note, I'm not gay bashing, I'm Van Wilder bashing!
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Let's Talk About Sex
(1998)
Oh my god, don't waste your time!
10 March 2001
What a horrible piece of "profanity". This movie is tolerable only as a comedy about how to make a bad movie. While there are some beautiful women in this movie, this fact alone does not make it worth the time investment to watch this badly acted, badly written over-wrought movie. Watch only a tape of this movie , so that you may fast forward through the horribly set up plot points that pay off in predictable and laughable ways. When things go wrong for a character that you see coming in the scene before, it is truly a gut buster, they could not be funnier if they tried. Back to the women in this movie, there are some attractive women in this movie, of the main three, there is one who is attractive in a plastic way, but that is as good as it gets, the next semi-attractive one spends the entire movie with some horrible gel-crap in her hair making her look like she's perpetually running late, and just ran a wet comb through her flattened greasy looking locks, is this a look anyone would want to look at for two hours ? Answer: No! The last of the main trio of women is short in stature with an unfortunate short hair cut, and really short on natural acting talent, maybe classes would help, certainly a better script would. Why comment on the looks and hair of the various women? Well, there is so little else of real substance in this movie that one finds other things to look at as a distraction. The truly sad thing about this movie is that it represents a whole lot of effort by a lot of well intentioned people, and that it purports to be about women talking about sex, real women have real thoughts, and they don't deliver them perfectly the first time they attempt to express them, or if they do, they are at least believably expressed.
Legmen
(1984)
Short lived series
10 March 2001
This show was on NBC friday nights along with the another new show "the Master" staring Lee VanCleef and "a" VanPatten, and "The New Show" from SNL producer Lorne Michaels. The series starred Bruce greenwood, and J.T. Terlesky (now going by John Terlesky). They were a couple of college guys getting some extra cash by doing the dirty work, the running around (I.E. "Legmen"), for a private investigator, and getting into trouble and adventures along the way. Overall a fun little show, but it didn't do well enough in the ratings to last very long (maybe a half-dozen aired episodes).
The same can be said for it's partners in that NBC friday night slate, none of which lasted very long. I don't think this show has seen the light of day since it's cancellation, unlike "The Master" which gained infamy as the target of jokes on a segment of "Mystery Science Theater" when it was cut into a feature length object of ridicule. It was probably a good thing for Greenwood this series didn't fly, since he would later show up in more serious roles such as a series regular on St. Elsewhere, and has recently been featured in a few high profile motion pictures, such a s "Double jeapordy", and "Thirteen Days"
The same can be said for it's partners in that NBC friday night slate, none of which lasted very long. I don't think this show has seen the light of day since it's cancellation, unlike "The Master" which gained infamy as the target of jokes on a segment of "Mystery Science Theater" when it was cut into a feature length object of ridicule. It was probably a good thing for Greenwood this series didn't fly, since he would later show up in more serious roles such as a series regular on St. Elsewhere, and has recently been featured in a few high profile motion pictures, such a s "Double jeapordy", and "Thirteen Days"
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