Customer Reviews

What Matters Most

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

 

 

I was looking at gay films when this movie appeared along with other gay movies as a suggested film of interest to me. Naturally thinking it was a gay film I read the Amazon description and thought the struggle of 2 teens relationship to be gay and happy in a small town would be interesting. Wrong.

I watched the film wanting to turn it off so many times because the story line was extremely boring but I was waiting for a gay teen to appear. The movie is about 2 straight teens. I was very dissapointed but so frustrated that the movie lacked any kind of intelligent writing or acting. The ending is quite laughable.

This movie is as flat as the Texas landscape that they mention. I cannot find any redeeming quality to recommend this to anyone. I see the other reviewers gave this movie 5 stars and I wonder if they saw the same movie I did. I would actually give it -2 stars for wasting my time and money.

This is a typical straight love story that can be seen in any other movieor tv program, don't know why you have it in your gay movies section, went ahead and ordered and I didn't find anything gay on it and the movie is not even worth the price that I paid for it. Skip it.

The only "gay" relevance to this film is the real life orientation of out star Chad Allen.
Moving on from there one can only say that the lead characters did justice to the roles they played and lines they spoke far above what they deserved.
Kudos to Chad Allen, Marshall R Teague, Polly Cole, Tamara Clatterbuck, Shandra Farr, all of whom had at least one moment during this weepy trite epic of cliche riddled, breast beating, teeth gnashing melodrama.
I'd rather slit my wrists than recount the events in this baby gets you married into the "good" family tumbleweed Babylon.

I enjoyed this movie the first time I saw it and I'm glad that I was able to find a copy to purchase. When it first aired, I admit I was skeptical, but as the movie progressed I became intrigued. The twist in this movie wasn't what I would've expected and it was rather interesting as to how the characters grew due to the accident and were fleshed out in a way that they weren't two dimensional sterotypes like several romantic movies are. Check it out.

Browsing through my local library, I stumbled across this DVD and on a whim, decided to borrow it. Of the 5 DVDs I borrowed, I watched this lastly, and I was pleasantly surprised. There are no rotten tomatoes reveiws, no significant clips on youtube; this is an independent film with very limited publication.

Were I to sum this movie in one word, I would state that it is poignant. Always take reviews with a grain of salt, and read the other reviews on Amazon: I detect a gripe more about some confusion about whether or not this is an LGBTQ centered film. It is not. That stated, I believe the other reviewers had different expectations about this film and have shared their negative reviews because of their misinformation.

Acting is on par, nothing special or riveting, but with a budget of $750,000 the makers did not appropriate too badly. Cinematography's actually disappointing, I found that the movie appeared as if it had been filmed several decades ago to reflect the setting of the film without capturing any sort of rustic beauty. The score was average and forgettable, simple piano and strings can be effective, as Alan Silvestri demonstrated in Forrest Gump. In What Matters Most, the soundtrack is plain and forgettable.

Now that I've written what I disliked about it, I will confess just how much this film moved me. I am a 22 year old male Army National Guardsman. I am in the law enforcement field, love to play football, and I love to devour meat. And I cried more than once while watching this.

Before this movie was over, I walked to my computer and deleted every single megabyte of pornography on it.

My lady's name is Heather, and this movie, for all its unlikely..."corniness", reminded me of the youthful dedication of love against difficulty, the love I had for my lady. I have renewed my dedication to her, and in a frankly cheesy way, this movie helped inspire me. This ends my confession.

It is one of my favorite Love Stories all time. I would recommend it if you love "Love Story" type of movies. It is Sad that the writer/director died because I would have loved to have seen more from her!