In the last few years there has been a huge surge in documentaries being released for the cinema. Films like "The Yes Men", "Bowling For Columbine", "Super Size Me" have all come out to an ever more hungry audience.
Selling Queer is part of this trend and not the best the bunch. I did enjoy this film more then I enjoyed the unrelated precursor, "When Boys Fly", but neither of these films really got me going.
Technically I'd consider the film on par with any other shoot from the hip documentary, so I have no real complaints in that department, but where I take issue is with the handling of the subject matter. I wanted to see more of evil people doing evil things. I didn't get that. I wanted to see all the terrible conspiracies at work on how big business is taking advantage of the little guy, but it didn't give that to me.
In a way I broke my cardinal rule of making up my mind over a trailer. I've learned not to get sucked in to the marketing of a picture, but I let my guard down. For that I can't fault the film or the director. As a matter of taste I thought the director did a smashing job with a project like this. I think gay pride is kind of obsolete in this day and age and he managed to make a movie that was at least somewhat interesting. I'd like to see what he does on his next film.
As I said before, it's kind of forced like When Boys Fly, but without the heavy-handedness. This film let's you make up your own mind about it without apologizing for that. Unlike colombine and some others who spoon feed you one sided muck. But as a stand-alone piece it could have been better. Kudos to the director for keeping me from walking out, but I've yet to see anyone tackle a subject matter like this and blow me away.
Selling Queer is part of this trend and not the best the bunch. I did enjoy this film more then I enjoyed the unrelated precursor, "When Boys Fly", but neither of these films really got me going.
Technically I'd consider the film on par with any other shoot from the hip documentary, so I have no real complaints in that department, but where I take issue is with the handling of the subject matter. I wanted to see more of evil people doing evil things. I didn't get that. I wanted to see all the terrible conspiracies at work on how big business is taking advantage of the little guy, but it didn't give that to me.
In a way I broke my cardinal rule of making up my mind over a trailer. I've learned not to get sucked in to the marketing of a picture, but I let my guard down. For that I can't fault the film or the director. As a matter of taste I thought the director did a smashing job with a project like this. I think gay pride is kind of obsolete in this day and age and he managed to make a movie that was at least somewhat interesting. I'd like to see what he does on his next film.
As I said before, it's kind of forced like When Boys Fly, but without the heavy-handedness. This film let's you make up your own mind about it without apologizing for that. Unlike colombine and some others who spoon feed you one sided muck. But as a stand-alone piece it could have been better. Kudos to the director for keeping me from walking out, but I've yet to see anyone tackle a subject matter like this and blow me away.