I was told this movie is great and I finally got around to watching it. I don't know what happened! I couldn't make it past the half hour mark. I really wanted to give it a chance but it just wasn't working at all for me. I was expecting to witness some kind of gay classic but it felt totally odd and wrong to me. Now that I think about it, I shouldn't be surprised that my ex enjoyed a film like this - given his questionable taste in cinema.
The main thing for me was that the two lead actors just look WAY too old to be playing high school boys. Combine that fact with incredibly awful hairstyles and mediocre acting and the whole thing just comes off as ridiculous and comical. I honestly think this was miscast from the get go. I couldn't stop thinking that Tim comes across as a kind of perverse Willy Wonka figure with John as the innocent child being lured into the factory for candy.
The film probably develops into something more but I'm afraid the characters just were not established well enough for me to be invested in their arcs. Such a shame and I'm honestly shocked! I'll give it a 4 just based on the assumption that it gets better in the second half of the film.
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