1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Very fun movie based on a stage play, November 7, 2007
This review is from: Naked Producers - Blue Frost, Kansas (DVD)
What a very fun movie based on a stage play. It was campy, it was a spoof, it had all sorts of fun naked guys. I like this kind of nudity on film.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Silly and artsy aren't exactly a good mix, July 6, 2008
This review is from: Naked Producers - Blue Frost, Kansas (DVD)
While "Naked Producers" sounded somewhat intriguing, I can't recommend this title to even the most devoted collector of lightweight videos featuring male nudity. A bunch of dudes show up at a Baptist church (what?!) hoping to wear togas (I'm sure they only had one toga for everybody to share) and be cast in a Shakespearian production. Each guy was filmed separately for the video, after which the footage was choppily spliced together as though they are actually interacting with one another. While the guys are attractive and seem to be having fun with the ridiculous storyline, this is just too bizarre to be entertaining.
It's one thing to make a "silly" feature with a bunch of guys taking off their clothes for the camera. Campfire Video churned out tons of videos back in the 90's doing exactly that, with decent results (like their "America's Hunkiest Home Videos" series, now available as "Guys Next Door"). But this production attempts to get a little too artsy (even "deep" at times!), and doesn't come close to pulling it off. Why is the creepy director and/or producer playing "Scrabble"? What's up with the fiery explosions (really lame visual effects)? Why does the wardrobe guy keep sniffing the toga? Who is the bearded "older" actor bathed in green lighting (who supposedly played Dracula and various James Dean-type roles?) and why are his privates covered up in his one full-frontal shot? And the real question is...why did I buy this dvd?
Needless to say, the dvd has no extras (a "making of" featurette might've proven to be enlightening and mildly entertaining).
If you want to make a video with some young dudes showing off their stuff as they repeatedly lift up their togas, that's fine. Just don't try to pass it off as anything more than that. Who knows, "Naked Producers" might be considered a campy classic years from now...but I REALLY doubt it.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
That Stone Reviewer needs to get out of the house, August 24, 2008
This review is from: Naked Producers - Blue Frost, Kansas (DVD)
Jon A Stone Jr is way off base.
The story is set in a theater building. The standup comedienne doing his analysis is after the show was over, is set in the Church coffee house. How stupid to say the play is set in a Church. Any dummy watching it knows that! Or, maybe he didn't watch it?!
The shoot and edit style he describes pretty falsely, has been used since the advent of motion pictures. Big deal. That's how Hollywood works, for film and TV, either with single camera shoots, or when actors can't or won't be in the same room at the same time. What kind of professional "reviewer" doesn't know film technique? It still came off better than the jerky camera work of CSI.
All of the questions in the second paragraph of his review are simply part of the story - had he not watched it in fast forward, just to get to the naked guys. The Scrabble scene was an inventive way to unscramble the mystery of the accidents.
"Why does the wardrobe guy keep sniffing the toga?" I didn't see any sniffing, just HUGGING, like Heath Ledger did in Brokeback. Someone needs to get out of the house - and get contemporary.
References to Campfire Video?!? Really, how dated, If you're soooooo old that 1990s Campfire is your reference to gay interest soft core video, then too much Alzheimer's has set in.
It was a great way to see these guys naked, guys who I've never seen on any porn site, and probably never will. I'm glad they took off their clothes for us... beats porn stars who can't even "you're Hot" without looking at a script. I'll take this kind of soft core, thank you.
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