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Back Soon
by TLA
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DVD
TLA RELEASING
Publisher: TLA
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Actors: Matthew Montgomery, Artie O'Daly, Windham Beacham, Bret Wolfe, Maggie Eilertson
Reuniting the actors from his hit film Long Term Relationship, director Rob Williams Back Soon is a tender, sexy drama that explores the depths of love, loss, identity and hope. Still grieving his wife's death, aspiring actor Logan (Windham Beacham) is inexplicably drawn to reformed drug dealer Guillermo (Matthew Montgomery, Gone, But Not Forgotten). While neither are gay, the pair are baffled when their friendship blossoms into more. But as their relationship deepens Guillermo's mysterious past erupts and a startling revelation about the true nature of their connection threatens to destroy it and change their lives forever.
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| Matthew Montgomery is hot. Well, that's about it... |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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Being gay, I always want to like gay movies. And I probably rate higher on a gay movie on its straight counterpart. So I was thinking I should give this one a 3-star just for the effort. Somehow I just couldn't bring myself to it.
You read my review title, so you know how I feel about the movie. At times I felt I couldn't decide whether the director meant for it to be funny, or it's just so bad that it's becoming funny. One advice for the director: Take a lesson from Jonah Markowitz, the director of "Shelter", a movie that in my opinion is everything how a gay movie should be.
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| tak, talk, talk. |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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too much talk - empty talk; and that's it. That's what you'll get from this movie. Disappointing. Boring.
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| The Guest House Boys Strike Again |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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A big fan of "Long-Term Relationship", "Back Soon" was a must see for me. Windham Beacham and Matthew Montgomery once again displayed that magic chemistry. And Rob Williams' writing is indeed versatile....combining gay, straight and the supernatural. If you're a sentimental romantic, your eyes will mist on this one.
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| Interesting film |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Since I liked "Long-term Relationship" so much, I bought "Back Soon" because I knew it has the same cast and director. I am very glad I did.
This movie has some compelling acting performances and some very original and interesting plot lines. Matthew Montgomery and Windham Beacham once again sizzle together on screen and Maggie Eilertson as Beacham's dead wife does a marvelous job in her role. As independent films go, this one is excellent, add in the gay romance and this one enters my top twenty favorite indie films of all times.
(I don't want to give away the plot, but think "Ghost" meets "Return to Me" and somwhere in-between you get "Back Soon.")
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| Good, but a couple of wrong turns |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I hesitated over seeing this film, even though I loved LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP, by the same filmmaker and leads. The cover art is unattractive and the plot seemed without nuance, as you know already what's going on without having seen the film. In fact, the first scene of the movie gives it away.
Now, having seen the film and liked it enough to want it in my collection, I can say the cover art is still bad. And I would suggest the third lead, the female actor, should be the figure looming over the two lead males.
I like the leads, both good actors, and I'm sure their contrasting physical appeal will have the audience member favoring one or the other - Montgomery is very angular, sharp-featured, while Beacham is lush, and has a more timeless appeal. There are a few kisses, but nothing more overt in any male-to-male physical interaction on-screen.
The plot has to do with how two straight guys find themselves in love with each other, and how they deal with that. The conclusion to the film will be a surprise.
There are a couple of bad missteps from the filmmaker: for one, there was no mystery, hence no surprise, as to the motifications behind the brother-in-law's behavior, and it seemed the performance by the actor should have been reined in, as well. Some of the smaller roles are well-filled, but there are bad dialogue scenes. Overall, the screenplay needed some finetuning, mainly to eliminate so much of the stereotyping of both male and female. The screenplay, at times, is unintentionally laughable, and not in a good way, more in a "this is camp" way. When there is too much of that, fortunately the performances of the two leads - both separately and together - saves the day.
The worst bit, merely because it's so inappropriate, is when one character ends up brandishing a gun. I won't go into details, but for some reason the actor points the weapon like the short-lived Hollywood fantasy of gun-slinging that involved shooting sideways. It was short-lived, because it was laughed at by virtually anyone who's ever handled a gun. If you hold a gun the way the character did in this film, basically you could be three steps from a barn and still miss it. So that was a big unintentional eye-popping laughfest during an otherwise tense scene, so the diector blew the big one, so to speak.
The director has interesting ideas - his LTR was great in exploring an aspect of being in love I can't recall another filmmaker delving into - but doesn't do some of the basic practical work behind the scenes to ensure a great product before he starts pointing his camera and saying "Action." Hopefully he will have evolved by the time his third offering is set in motion.
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