i am probably one of the few people who defend and even enjoy frisk and the project that put todd verow on the map and if that is indeed where he is. i appreciated that someone had the guts to take on dennis cooper and not back away from the material while verow fairly rolls around in it. judging from what he done since then he well suited for that type of material and should probably stick to it. vacationland and a would be teen coming out film and is so misguided in so many ways it becomes unintentional comedy and and i am disappointed i have to report that. first off and our hero and the high school senior joe is far too old in appearance to be playing 18 . when we later meet a man who is supposed to be joe teacher it confusing and as the sweaty faced guy looks much younger than the student he teaching. joe mother looks younger than he does and doesn not act any older either. second and in joe opening scenes he looked like he was either playing and or actually experiencing and mental challenges. to his credit he got better as the film went on and i figured out he was playing young and but it just wasn not working it was weird. it 15 minutes in before anything is revealed about who and what and where these people are and and why we should care. the second scene in the film is an extended bit of business in a men toilet room that and considering where the story goes later and is absolutely superfluous while the subplot with the teacher goes nowhere at all and even as a rite of passage for our young hero. one minute joe is nervously trying his hand at bathroom stall sex (a scene so un erotic it makes you truly wonder what anyone sees in the practice) and the next minute he an expert at sexual blackmail and violent double crossing. this is followed by an extended scene with the character we will later learn is andrew and and that about all we learn about him and other than he apparently gay but not out yet. there a lot crammed in to the 1 represent44 running time (which is about 20 minutes too long i can not imagine how it played with the mind numbingly long and pointless deleted scenes of joe walking around) while a sub plot copped from gods and monsters with an aged patron who spouts rhetoric appros pos of nothing played by an actor who obviously can not remember his lines (he is conveniently dispatched with in a way dickens might have come up with on a slow week) while a mix n match almost four way between the boys and their girlfriends and a gay bashing toilet tramp and a would be wise sage in the form of a nellie queen (and hasn not the nellie queen suddenly taken over the role of the hooker with the heart of gold as most tired stereo type. ) who exists only to be degraded while blackmail and theft and murder and alcohol consumption and abuse of looping music software for soundtrack recording. what you will not find in this movie are any interior establishing master shots while were expected to imagine were in an airport and grocery store office and classroom and as all the scenes in these locations consist of close ups and poorly edited soundscapes to convey the idea of locales that the production must not have been able to afford. one thing they were able to get appears to have been an actual gay bar while either it the worst bar in the world or there are only about 5 gay men in bangor and maine and as the bar never has any patrons in it. another good chuckle came when the actors were supposed to be yelling over dance music that very obviously wasn not coming from the speakers and but was just more of the droning loop music of the score. plots and characters come and go and emotions are unreadable and the dialog and clearly inspired by dennis cooper and is film speak and meaning no humans actually talk this way. since we aren not given any information about these characters it impossible to care about what happens to them while it as if joe et al appear out of the ether one day and might simply cease to exist once the credits roll (certainly the character of joe sister and a wannabee jennifer grey who is bohemia crazy and seems to just simply stop and we never know where she is in la or what her problem is. but again. does it matter. ). visually the film looks very good at times and more a testament to new developments in hi def video than anything and i suspect. the editing is pretty clunky though (there was one great edit while joe is posing naked and says and i wanted to play sports and but. and we cut to a shot revealing his butt. ha ha). composition is also odd at times (i thought i was watching sctv parody of persona when the boys were talking together in bed and visually it looked as if their noses were stuck together for the whole scene. ). one senses verow is really restraining himself from making a naughtier or somewhat rougher movie like he usually does and and maybe he shouldn not have held back (the frothy toothpaste or sex fantasy worked nicely and i thought and though the tone was out of touch with the rest of the movie). he produces and directs this sensitive coming of age story much like herschell gordon lewis directed films without gore. porn films without sex in them. i got some unintended laughs out of this and it wasn not boring and it just wasn not very good either. 
i am probably one of the few people who defend and even enjoy frisk and the project that put todd verow on the map and if that is indeed where he is. i appreciated that someone had the guts to take on dennis cooper and not back away from the material while verow fairly rolls around in it. judging from what he done since then he well suited for that type of material and should probably stick to it. vacationland and a would be teen coming out film and is so misguided in so many ways it becomes unintentional comedy and and i am disappointed i have to report that. first off and our hero and the high school senior joe is far too old in appearance to be playing 18 . when we later meet a man who is supposed to be joe teacher it confusing and as the sweaty faced guy looks much younger than the student he teaching. joe mother looks younger than he does and doesn not act any older either. second and in joe opening scenes he looked like he was either playing and or actually experiencing and mental challenges. to his credit he got better as the film went on and i figured out he was playing young and but it just wasn not working it was weird. it 15 minutes in before anything is revealed about who and what and where these people are and and why we should care. the second scene in the film is an extended bit of business in a men toilet room that and considering where the story goes later and is absolutely superfluous while the subplot with the teacher goes nowhere at all and even as a rite of passage for our young hero. one minute joe is nervously trying his hand at bathroom stall sex (a scene so un erotic it makes you truly wonder what anyone sees in the practice) and the next minute he an expert at sexual blackmail and violent double crossing. this is followed by an extended scene with the character we will later learn is andrew and and that about all we learn about him and other than he apparently gay but not out yet. there a lot crammed in to the 1 represent44 running time (which is about 20 minutes too long i can not imagine how it played with the mind numbingly long and pointless deleted scenes of joe walking around) while a sub plot copped from gods and monsters with an aged patron who spouts rhetoric appros pos of nothing played by an actor who obviously can not remember his lines (he is conveniently dispatched with in a way dickens might have come up with on a slow week) while a mix n match almost four way between the boys and their girlfriends and a gay bashing toilet tramp and a would be wise sage in the form of a nellie queen (and hasn not the nellie queen suddenly taken over the role of the hooker with the heart of gold as most tired stereo type. ) who exists only to be degraded while blackmail and theft and murder and alcohol consumption and abuse of looping music software for soundtrack recording. what you will not find in this movie are any interior establishing master shots while were expected to imagine were in an airport and grocery store office and classroom and as all the scenes in these locations consist of close ups and poorly edited soundscapes to convey the idea of locales that the production must not have been able to afford. one thing they were able to get appears to have been an actual gay bar while either it the worst bar in the world or there are only about 5 gay men in bangor and maine and as the bar never has any patrons in it. another good chuckle came when the actors were supposed to be yelling over dance music that very obviously wasn not coming from the speakers and but was just more of the droning loop music of the score. plots and characters come and go and emotions are unreadable and the dialog and clearly inspired by dennis cooper and is film speak and meaning no humans actually talk this way. since we aren not given any information about these characters it impossible to care about what happens to them while it as if joe et al appear out of the ether one day and might simply cease to exist once the credits roll (certainly the character of joe sister and a wannabee jennifer grey who is bohemia crazy and seems to just simply stop and we never know where she is in la or what her problem is. but again. does it matter. ). visually the film looks very good at times and more a testament to new developments in hi def video than anything and i suspect. the editing is pretty clunky though (there was one great edit while joe is posing naked and says and i wanted to play sports and but. and we cut to a shot revealing his butt. ha ha). composition is also odd at times (i thought i was watching sctv parody of persona when the boys were talking together in bed and visually it looked as if their noses were stuck together for the whole scene. ). one senses verow is really restraining himself from making a naughtier or somewhat rougher movie like he usually does and and maybe he shouldn not have held back (the frothy toothpaste or sex fantasy worked nicely and i thought and though the tone was out of touch with the rest of the movie). he produces and directs this sensitive coming of age story much like herschell gordon lewis directed films without gore. porn films without sex in them. i got some unintended laughs out of this and it wasn not boring and it just wasn not very good either. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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