Customer Reviews

Be Mine

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Mayson (Dan Selon) is a twenty-something gay man who is waiting for his first kiss (Yes, really!) His BFF, Robyn (Kendra Thomas) is pushing Mayson to be more aggressive about meeting other guys, and be open to whatever might happen, such as speaking to the cute guy they saw at the library and again at a coffee shop. At a party thrown by a mutual friend, Mayson encounters Reilly (his crush) again, and learns he had recently broken up with a girlfriend (Uh, oh). Of course, since this takes place in the Los Angeles area, where all cute guys are gay, Mayson and Reilly find a common interest in each other, and it goes from there.

The story is told in flashbacks with quick cuts to scenes with different characters, making it a bit confusing. While the concept is sweet and charming, and the attractive, inexperienced cast does the best with what they were given, the story (such as it is) suffers from rather cartoonish situations and some of the most inane dialogue I have ever heard in a film. There are also problems with the sound, and I had to constantly lower and raise the volume to hear one bit of dialogue, only to be blasted out of my seat at the next scene. Not rated, but would be a PG-13 at worst. DVD has no extras besides trailers and chapter stops. Best I can do on this one is give it three stars out of five.

Just finished watching this movie. Overall, I enjoyed the story. Very sweet and romantic. But I agree with another reviewer, it was a little confusing with the flashbacks, and the sound was terrible at times. The actors are all very cute, and the dialogue is fun and catchy. Not alot of depth, but then, it isn't intended to be that kind of movie. If you want a low budget, feel good romantic movie, I think you'll like this one.

I've seen a lot of gay films (around 250 or so) and this one is not high on my list. I will first focus on the strengths. This tells a simple story of an innocent and idealistic young man looking for Mr. Right. He finds him in another man who is only beginning to explore the possibility that he might be gay. For both of them, they share their "first kiss" with each other and then the film is over. Prior to that touching moment, we meet a lot of odd friends who like to drink and smoke pot and behave in silly, goofy ways. The acting comes across as insincere. At thirty minutes, I thought, "I hope this film gets better," but they almost never do after thirty minutes and this one didn't either. I recommend this film only if you have few other choices. My recommendations of tremendous gay films, awesome writing, insightful stories are: Priest, A Home at the End of the World, The Journey of Jared Price, Locked Up: Love Behind Bars, Milk, The Sum of Us, Making Love, Latter Days, Long-Term Relationship, Regarding Billy, and Touch of Pink, You'll Get Over It, All Over the Guy, Another Country, Back Soon, Beautiful Boxer (transgender theme), Beautiful Thing, Get Real, Big Eden, Boy Culture, Brokeback Moutain, Chris and Don - A Love Story, Coffee Date, C.R.A.Z.Y., An Englishman in New York, Fighting Tommy Riley, Gay Sex in the 70s, Gone, But Not Forgotten, Guide to Better Gay Sex (hot!), In and Out (hilarious), Just a Question of Love, A Love to Hide, Ma Vie En Rose (My Life in Pink) [transgender theme], Make the Yuletide Gay, and too many more to list.

As I was watching this movie, I almost came here to write a review saying how bad it is. But by the time it ended I had gotten past all of its many flaws, the worst of which is that it is completely - and I do mean completely - unbelievable. But it's sweet, and it's innocent, so sweet and so innocent that it's like the daydream of the most romantic, nerdiest kid in the seventh grade who finds himself longing to kiss the star quarterback. I much prefer gritty, gutsy, handheld movies with bad sound, no stereotypes, and lots of rough edges, loose ends and unanswered questions - like Mala Noche, Denied, and Blue Citrus Hearts; but the world needs gay tween dream movies like Be Mine too, and I'm very glad it was made and I stuck with it till the end.

All right, this is a romantic comedy, a romance, so it gains points with me, but I have also to be sincere, it's not exactly the best gay romance I have seen. It's quite clear that it's a small budget movie, setting, sound, scenography, photography, all have the hints of a small budget, and sometime I had the feeling that the director wanted to tell me something, but I didn't understand it (the ball on the beach?). And truth be told, it was difficult to link the main characters with college students, they seemed a bit too old for the role. BUT, again, this is a romance, the story of a young boy who wants his first kiss to be special, and there is a wonderful prince charming waiting for him, so, if you want to see, for once, a gay-themed movie without angst, well, this is definitely it.

Sweet, silly comedy about naive, romantic young man (Dan Selon) looking for his first kiss and maybe the man of his dream. Little more than an extended sitcom, it is nonetheless cute and funny, with likeable characters. Selon makes an endearing hero, awkward and bumbling and very charming.

I liked this one much more than I expected. It's nice to see something without lots of nudity and explicit sex and profanity for a change. Great movie-making, no. But it is a pleasant way to spend an hour or so.

For me, the movie is pretty much like a fairy tale for adult without the complicated plot. Some really dorky guy met his prince charming. Both happens to be each others' first. They falls in love, gets married and live happily ever after. It is super unrealistic. The whole plots and the characters are all pushed to the extreme but I am in a good mood for a simple fairy tales so 4 stars it is. The actors are not that good but they are charming and cute so that kinda made up for it.

We at Film Masters really enjoyed reviewing this film. It is very simple,
non-complex romance story, and revolves around 2 time periods (before they met, and
after they have married). We liked it mainly beacause it is simple, has no
deep mysteries or mind boggling special effects. People who see this film
might view it has having no substance, but this film was not created as a hollywood
block buster or a must-see world event film. Two guys who never met before
meet in an awkward moment, then meet again later at a party where they slowly
take off. Another thing we liked about it is this is not a boy-meets-girl, breaks-up
-with-girl, and gets-girl-back boring type of film that is so old its not worth to renting.
Its slightly different where no one breaks up and keeps you thinking how
these guys ended up like they did.


Daniel J. Tyler (The WJ Group)